Fractional CFO and Outsourced CFO Services

A real CFO needs depth across eight areas: cash flow modeling and 13-week forecasting; FP&A discipline (annual budget, rolling forecast, variance analysis); financial modeling and scenario analysis (3-statement, base/stress/upside); board and investor reporting; fundraising and capital structure; M&A and valuation; US GAAP and audit-readiness; and stakeholder management.

A CFO strong in two or three of these is a specialist, not a CFO. A CFO covering all eight is a real CFO. EasePro’s fractional CFO services are led by experienced finance professionals from global advisory firms with depth across all eight areas — with a four-eye internal review on every deliverable. More about our team →

Four practical tests: (1) Ask for a sample 13-week cash flow model and have them walk through the logic. (2) Hand them three months of P&Ls and bank statements and ask what they would change in 90 days. (3) Ask them to talk through a real board pack they have built. (4) Give them a scenario question — tariffs up 10%, largest customer delays 60 days — and see if they answer with a model or with hand-waving.

Most fractional CFOs cannot pass all five. EasePro welcomes every one of these tests in the discovery process. Book a free 30-minute call to test us →

EasePro fractional CFO retainers start from $1,250 per month. The exact fee depends on scope, and we confirm it after a short scoping call; there’s no minimum term. As a market reference, NerdWallet’s fractional CFO guide (updated July 2026) puts typical monthly retainers at $3,000 to $10,000 and hourly rates at $150 to $500. Whoever you hire, the same things drive the price: which deliverables you need, how often you need them, how complex the business is (entities, inventory, investors), and whether the books are clean enough to build on. If they aren’t, catch-up bookkeeping comes first.

There’s no fixed number. Hours follow the work, and they usually rise around a board meeting, a lender review, a fundraise or a sale, then fall back. That’s why we scope EasePro engagements by deliverables and cadence rather than by a bank of hours. Before any work starts, we agree what you’ll get — for example, a monthly board pack, regular cash briefs and monthly or bi-weekly strategy sessions — and a fixed fee for it, with no hourly billing. You pay for the outputs your decisions need, not for time logged. Talk through your scope →

Quickly. There’s no long onboarding. We generally try to hold the free 30-minute clarity call within 24 to 48 hours. Once you share access to your books, we typically finish a half-day assessment within the next 24 to 48 hours: a short note on the major issues and the actions we’d take. Then we agree scope, cadence and fee, the engagement letter is signed, and work starts on your first deliverable, which passes our four-eye review before it reaches you. After that it runs on a set rhythm of board pack, cash briefs and strategy sessions. Book a clarity call →

No. A fractional CFO works alongside them. Your bookkeeper keeps recording transactions and reconciling accounts, and your CPA keeps handling tax. The CFO works from the books they keep, using them to forecast, plan and advise on decisions. Most EasePro clients keep their bookkeeper and CPA and add us as the financial leadership layer. Because the CFO’s work is only as reliable as the books underneath it, catching up the books comes first if they’re behind. We can do that through catch-up bookkeeping.