A good finance search takes a quarter. The close, cash visibility, and lender reporting can't sit still that long — and the cost of an empty seat rarely shows up until quarter-end, when it shows up all at once.
The Maeven Office places interim and fractional finance leaders — CFOs, controllers, audit-readiness operators — for exactly that window. Placed by a practitioner who has held the seats: twenty-two years from public-company audit to CFO chairs, not a recruiter working a list.
A resume is an unaudited financial statement. We audit.
An empty finance seat fails quietly. The damage doesn't show up as a recruiting problem — it shows up as a soft close, a surprised auditor, a covenant conversation that starts three weeks late, and a board deck built on stale numbers.
The firms that could fill the seat mostly sell resumes. The people selling them have rarely closed a book, faced an audit committee, or defended a forecast — so the vetting is an interview, and the risk transfers to you.
Gap coverage while you run the search properly — the close kept decision-grade, the audit kept on track, a clean hand-off when your hire arrives.
Operators who fix the close, paper the policies, and hand your auditors a file they can rely on — before fieldwork starts. The same file is most of a data room.
The discipline layer between rounds: a thirteen-week cash view, hiring triggers tied to actuals, and a forecast the board can challenge and you can defend.
The standing version — CFO judgment without the CFO overhead, sized to the company you actually are, with room to grow into more.
Every operator passes a working session with the principal — real ledger, real reconciliation, real model — before they ever meet a client. Vetting to an auditor's evidence standard:
One call scopes it — bring the search, the audit letter, or the runway question. Thirty minutes tells us both whether it fits.
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