We take on finance leadership for SMEs in Switzerland when tasks cannot wait: covering a vacancy, managing a turnaround or supporting succession and system changes. From cash planning to leading finance projects, we work alongside your team.
Start with an assessment, bring in finance leadership or implement a transformation. We discuss the right scope in an initial consultation.
An assessment of your finance function in 2–4 weeks at a fixed fee. You learn where your finance function stands and where the biggest lever lies – with no further obligation.
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Finance leadership for SMEs in Switzerland: managing the finance team, cash planning, closing and reporting. We cover vacancies as interim CFO; an ongoing fractional assignment can be agreed to suit your needs.
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CFO expertise, process and structure optimisation plus change management: streamlined workflows, clear governance structures and a team that carries the change.
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Your head of finance drops out or leaves at short notice. The gap must be filled immediately so that closings, reporting and payment runs continue.
Succession, restructuring, system migration: situations for which internal experience and capacity are lacking – and which allow no second attempt.
Strategic decisions are made without a solid basis in numbers. A BI-driven finance cockpit would be the answer, but the in-house know-how for implementation is missing.
Earnings and liquidity are under pressure, the bank demands reliable figures. What is needed now is a clear plan – and someone who executes it.
You spend days on manual Excel reports. Your numbers arrive weeks after month-end – too late for sound decisions.
Your company has doubled, but the finance processes date back to the founding years. A full-time CFO is not viable – a makeshift solution is not enough.
“Create value for your business – financial management is good when it creates measurable value. That is what I let every mandate be measured against.”
Manfred Schönberger · Owner, FinanceInterim · Interim CFO
Winikon, canton of Lucerne · Switzerland and DACH
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Reliable numbers instead of approximations: clean closings, clear KPIs and decision papers that stand up to both bank reviews and the annual audit.
Business intelligence and AI applied where they matter in finance: automated reporting, meaningful dashboards and data-driven analysis for faster, well-founded decisions.
Hands-on collaboration instead of mere concepts: results are produced directly in day-to-day operations – measured against agreed targets.
Three types of assignment that rarely announce themselves. Internally, both tend to be missing: the experience and the capacity.
Rebuilding the finance function from the ground up: leaner processes, clear governance, reporting that rests on reliable data rather than hearsay. Change management is part of it. Without the team, no change holds.
Finance transformation detailsTwo organisations become one. After an acquisition, merger or carve-out, the chart of accounts, closing processes and consolidation have to come together, and with them the systems: ERP landscapes, interfaces, the link to a shared finance cockpit.
Integration after an acquisition or merger detailsEarnings and liquidity are under pressure and the bank wants reliable figures. Speed matters now. That calls for short-term liquidity planning, an action plan with named owners, and someone who sees it through against resistance.
Turnaround and cash flow detailsEvery mandate starts with a baseline and an agreed target – the result is measured against it, not against the number of consulting days.
Deliverables are working cockpits, processes and decision papers – not concept papers for the drawer.
Your financial data stays protected: exclusively compliant setups in line with Swiss law (FADP) and EU law (GDPR).
At a fixed fee for the entry point, a flexible retainer for the mandate – agreed transparently, with no hidden costs.
An interim CFO takes responsibility for finance leadership for an agreed period. Depending on the assignment, this includes leading the finance team, cash planning, budgeting, reporting and coordinating closing. FinanceInterim supports Swiss SMEs during vacancies and change, as well as through ongoing part-time assignments.
An interim CFO can cover a vacancy or lead finance during a period of change. A fractional CFO works regularly at an agreed part-time capacity. FinanceInterim offers both models, with tasks, responsibilities and duration agreed together.
Fees depend on tasks, workload and duration. FinanceInterim agrees a flexible retainer based on effort. The Finance & Performance Check offers an initial assessment at a fixed fee; the proposal sets out the specific terms.
At short notice. After a free initial consultation we define goal and scope; the engagement usually starts within a few days – on site in Switzerland and the DACH region, or remotely.
SMEs and mid-sized companies that need professional financial management without filling a full-time position: during vacancies, growth, turnaround, succession, or system and BI implementations.
FinanceInterim is based in Winikon in the canton of Lucerne. Assignments are possible in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. On-site, hybrid or remote working arrangements depend on the assignment and collaboration with your team.
Bringing the finance organisations together: a single chart of accounts, aligned closing processes, consolidation, shared reporting. Then the technical side. ERP landscapes and interfaces have to work together, and in the end both houses run on the same finance cockpit.
Short-term liquidity planning comes first. It shows how much room for manoeuvre is actually left. Then an action plan with named owners and deadlines, agreed with the bank and the owners, and we stay operationally involved until the figures hold up again.
With a free initial consultation. This is followed by the Finance & BI Check as a fixed-fee assessment. After each step, you decide whether and how to continue.
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