Growing pains
Team, projects and revenue scale before cash visibility, ownership and operating cadence do.
Interim Finance + Systems Build
Interim CFO for growing tech companies
I step into Finance, own the numbers with the CEO and board, and leave behind systems that keep running after I am gone.
Based in Vienna · focused on Zurich, Zug and Vienna · hybrid with on-site blocks
OPERATOR FINANCE STACK LIVE
Cash visibility52rolling weeks
Core MetricsBoardHeadcount
Typical starting point
When growth moves faster than the finance setup
Finance bottleneck
Finance is vacant, overloaded or still a mix of accountant, spreadsheets and instinct.
Fundraising & diligence
Investors, banks or the board need dependable numbers, scenarios and a coherent story.
Mandates
Four mandate situations. One accountable operator.
Build
Core metrics, 52-week cash, budget, headcount plan, ROI checks and clear finance processes.
Take over
Hands-on management of cash, forecast, reporting, people cost, board, bank and fiduciary partners.
Funding / investment
Reporting, diligence, unit economics, pricing and preparation for investor or bank discussions.
Commercial MD / Co-MD
Signing authority and company-register role when a statutory officer is required and the operating fit is right.
Systems Build
The Operator Finance Stack
Not analysis alone. Four operating systems built and used during the mandate, then left with the company.
Core Metrics
The metrics that matter in a CEO-readable view.
52-week cash
Weekly liquidity, scenarios, low point and runway.
Board reporting
Decision-ready numbers, risks and next actions.
Headcount planning
Roles, start dates and people cost against strategy and cash.
Track record
Corporate finance discipline. Builder mentality.
Built an app prototype and sold it to Wiener Stadtwerke / Wiener Linien.
Built finance and operations infrastructure in a software SME; supported investor discussions and major grant funding.
Director of Finance & Business Support across P&L, forecasting, budgeting, IFRS and working capital.
Working model
From bottleneck to a system that lasts
Clarify in 20 minutes
Situation, urgency and mutual fit – without a sales deck.
Take accountability
Set priorities, stabilize data and establish the finance cadence.
Build the systems
Embed dashboards, models, workflows and decision logic in real operations.
Hand over cleanly
Full Mode becomes Run Mode: documented, usable and without permanent dependency.
Insights
Insights from finance and systems build
Selected field notes, published independently of social feeds and without tracking.
Why I manage cash over 52 weeks
A 13-week view warns you about the next problem. A 52-week view shows which decision creates it today.
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Read more Next step
Is Finance becoming the bottleneck?
A 20-minute conversation is enough to establish whether the situation, role and working model fit.