Light
2 days per month
3 500 €/mo
Board and investor reporting, the cash and runway model, plus a senior view on decisions as they arrive.
The right size for a company with one entity and a controller who is coping.
Transparent pricing
Our CFO Service Pricing
Pricing for fractional and interim CFO service, with packages for common startup growth challenges. Retainers carry a fixed monthly fee. Packages and projects are quoted against scope before the work starts. Prices exclude VAT.
Fractional CFO
Example retainers
Ongoing fractional CFO work, sized by how many days the company genuinely needs each month.
Standard
4 days per month
6 500 €/mo
The above, plus group reporting, the close cycle and active work on whatever is next: a round, an audit, a new entity.
This is the most common shape.
Embedded
7 days per month
10 500 €/mo
A finance function being built, not one being maintained.
Multiple entities, more than one reporting framework, and a transaction or a funding process running.
These are example retainers. The final retainer is built around each client’s needs, scope and demand, and agreed before the work starts. Retainers are invoiced monthly in advance, with a minimum of three months.
Diagnostic packages
A defined piece of work with a defined end, run over three to five days. Each one produces a written findings memo with a ranked remediation list and the euros at risk quantified where they can be. The fee is quoted against scope before the work starts, since the effort behind the same diagnostic differs a great deal from one company to the next.
Diagnostic
Duration
Finance function review
The whole function examined at once: close, reporting, controls, systems and what the structure will not survive.
Three days
Investor and board reporting readiness
The reporting pack, revenue recognition, the cash and runway model and the evidence behind them, tested the way an investor’s accountants will test them.
Three to five days
Public funding compliance review
Business Finland and other public project funding: cost eligibility, allocation logic, hour tracking, plus whether the project accounting would survive a cost audit.
Three to five days
Audit readiness review
Revenue, capitalisation, grant income, intercompany, cut-off and controls, assessed against what an auditor will request.
Three to five days
Group consolidation health check
Consolidation method, intercompany balances, elimination logic, plus whether the structure survives the next entity or the next auditor.
Three to five days
About half of these lead to something larger. Some conclude that the company should hire a controller before it does anything else, and we will say so plainly.
Projects and interim cover
Projects
Defined work with a deliverable and an end date, quoted against scope before the work starts.
Consolidation builds, transfer pricing design, data room preparation and remediation following a diagnostic are all priced this way. New clients pay 50% of a project fee at the start, with the balance on completion.
Interim cover
Interim CFO cover is quoted against scope and expected duration, from a baseline day rate of €1,450. The quote is fixed before the engagement starts.
Where an engagement is clearly a defined project with an end deliverable rather than a seat to hold, it is priced as a project instead. Which of the two it is usually becomes clear during the first call.
Terms
All fees are quoted without tax or VAT.
Retainers are invoiced monthly in advance. Diagnostics and projects are invoiced on the terms above.
Payment terms are 14 days net.
Retainers carry a minimum of three months and one month of notice after that.
Expenses are charged at cost and agreed in advance where they are material.
Contact us for additional packages and pricing
The packages above cover the work we are asked for most often. If your situation sits outside them, or spans several of them at once, the scope and the fee are worked out on a call.
That first call is not billed and is not a pitch. Scoping a diagnostic is not billed. Neither is the conversation where we conclude that you do not need us yet, which happens often enough to be worth saying on the pricing page.
Common questions
Why do retainers have a price when packages are quoted?
A retainer buys a set number of days each month, so it can carry a fixed monthly fee. A diagnostic or a project buys an outcome, and the work behind the same outcome varies widely. Consolidating two entities under one reporting framework is a different job from consolidating six under three. Quoting against scope keeps the fee tied to the company in front of us.
What moves the price?
How many days the work genuinely takes, which follows from how many entities exist and how many reporting frameworks are live. A running transaction moves it further. How busy a particular month turns out to be does not.
Can we start with a diagnostic and decide afterwards?
That is the usual route and it is the one we prefer. A fixed-scope diagnostic gives both sides real information before anybody commits to something ongoing.
How does this compare to hiring?
A full-time CFO in Finland costs roughly €11,800 to €12,300 a month fully loaded, taking the national average CFO salary in Duunitori’s salary data and adding employer contributions. That is before recruitment fees, equity and the months it takes to hire.
Do you work outside Finland?
Yes. Group work routinely involves entities in several countries, and engagements run remotely with meetings in person where they are worth the travel. Pricing does not change by country.