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Outsourced CFO Services

An outsourced CFO, often called a fractional CFO, gives you executive finance leadership on a part-time, ongoing basis, so the biggest decisions in your business stop waiting for a hire you are not ready to make. Still North provides outsourced CFO services to growing companies across New England and nationwide, backed by a full specialist team.

When You Need This

The signs you have outgrown advice and need leadership

Certain moments make the gap obvious. A lender or investor starts asking questions your reports cannot answer. Pricing feels like guesswork while margins drift. An acquisition is on the table and nobody on your team has run one. Or the business has simply grown past the point where the owner can carry finance strategy alone at night.

None of those moments require a full-time CFO's salary, bonus, and equity.

They require CFO-level judgment and experience, applied consistently. That’s the job.

This is you if...

What Your Fractional CFO Owns

Executive finance leadership, scoped to your business

01

Capital structure and capital raises

How the business is financed, what debt and equity should look like, and how to approach lenders and investors with numbers that hold up.

02

Pricing and margin strategy

Where profit is actually made and lost, and what to change to protect and expand it.

03

Acquisitions

Evaluating targets, modeling the deal, and making sure the numbers behind a purchase are real before you commit.

04

Board and investor communication

Reporting that reads like it came from a full finance function, because it did.

The forward view: working with our FP&A team so forecasts, budgets, and scenarios feed real decisions instead of sitting in a file.

The Still North Difference

A CFO backed by specialists, not stretched across every task

Most firms sell you one senior person and stretch them across strategy, forecasting, and the monthly close. We built Still North the other way. Your fractional CFO stays on executive judgment, while FP&A analysts carry the modeling and a controller owns the close. The CFO you are paying for spends their hours on CFO work.

See how this plays out on the Controller and Bookkeeping pages.

FAQ

Common questions about outsourced CFO services

What is the difference between a fractional CFO and an interim CFO?
An interim CFO is a full-time executive hired temporarily, usually to cover a departure or a transition. A fractional CFO works with your company part-time on an ongoing basis. If you need permanent-level leadership without the permanent cost, fractional is the fit

Engagements are scoped to what your business actually needs, and the total lands well below the salary, bonus, and equity of a full-time hire. We will walk through the model with you on the intro call.

Our best-fit clients run between roughly $3M and $50M in revenue. If you are near that range and finance leadership is the bottleneck, the intro call will tell us both quickly whether it makes sense.

Put CFO-level judgment behind your next decision

A 30-minute intro call with Managing Director Chris Allen. Come with the decision you are wrestling with.