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At ECA, we quickly zero in on your business, culture, and needs to connect you with the right Interim & Fractional CFOs and other finance talent

Find Interim & Fractional Finance consultants across a range of functions and project types

Interim or Fractional CFO

Strategic financial experts to advise business leaders

  • Interim CFOs lead the finance function and act as thought partners to company leadership and investors
  • They have well-rounded toolkits, with deep FP&A and accounting experience
  • Companies near or in a transition or exit benefit from high-caliber Interim CFOs leading the finance function
  • Interim CFOs enable your business to thrive with on-point strategic advice during deal valuation and after acquisitions
  • They play a vital role in defining a transformation’s objectives for value creation, and ensuring accountability to those goals
  • They are the company’s primary capital-market communicator, and can convey a clear value creation story to the investment community
  • They can conduct financial due diligence on a target company to assess its financial health, potential risks, and opportunities – they’ll examine historical financial statements, cash flows, and working capital to suss out any red flags
  • They can collaborate with legal and financial advisors to recommend the optimal capital structure for transformation investments
  • Interim CFOs can ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting, working closely with legal teams to obtain necessary approvals
  • Interim CFOs identify profitability opportunities through synergies, pricing, and cost optimization and develop comprehensive integration plans to ensure smooth transitions after deals close

Interim Financial Controller

Accounting SMEs to oversee and analyze financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting

  • Interim Controllers are highly skilled, organized, and technical, with the ability to develop and implement critical financial controls
  • ECA’s clients leverage Interim Controllers to implement new ERP systems, and reduce the time it takes to close the books, prepare a company for a critical transition or transaction
  • They play a critical role in annual audits
  • At public companies, Controllers oversee the process of producing shareholder reports and submitting financial statements to the SEC
  • They can provide deep industry-specific understandings of accounting – for example, a controller working in healthcare would need to understand the specific regulatory environments payers and providers are facing

Interim FP&A Leader

Leaders who integrate financial planning with overarching strategic vision

  • Interim FP&A leaders bring a high level of business sophistication to companies – providing executives with the information they need when making critical decisions
  • They are experts at forecasting, model building, and measuring the value of a potential investment or decision
  • FP&A leaders provide crucial support managing a company’s cash flow
  • They oversee a broad range of financial areas, including income, taxes, capital expenses, investments, and financial statements
  • Interim FP&A leaders solve complex problems and formulate a variety of possible growth scenarios

Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

Actionable strategic insights from data to drive key business decisions

  • BI and advanced analytics consultants are system and data experts – saving leaders time by building processes and dashboards to provide critical information at a moment’s notice
  • They oversee analysis including data mining, trend analysis, and predictive modeling to extract actionable insights to support decision-making
  • They can establish and oversee enterprise-wide data governance policies and ensure data quality and compliance with regulatory requirements

Interim Chief Accounting Officer

Seamless reporting & compliance from accounting experts

  • Interim Chief Accounting Officers are critical to growing organizations. They are tactical and technical with the toolkit needed to keep a company’s financial function organized through critical periods
  • They are true thought partners to CEOs and CFOs
  • They oversee all accounting functions, ensuring reporting and bookkeeping is accurate and in compliance
  • They manage capital assets, develop cost control systems, and evaluate current accounting practices

Finance Transformation Consultant

Consultants who optimize people, process, and technology for impactful change

  • Companies focused on turning around, post-merger integration, or other major changes benefit from retaining interim finance transformation leaders
  • These consultants restructure and optimize a company’s people, processes, and technology to operate with more efficiency, for example accelerating ERP implementations
  • They allow companies to respond more quickly to changing business conditions

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Firms

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us to fill capacity needs

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Privately Owned Companies

Family or privately owned business rely on ECA to support a range of consulting projects

Venture Capital

VC-backed companies move rapidly and ECA supports growth with on-demand consultants

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“ECA has by far the best process. They were transparent upfront that they had never done a VP Engineering search before, but they asked good questions, quickly learned what they needed to, and were great thought partners in the evolution of our thinking on which profiles would be best. We’ll definitely call them for future senior leadership searches and project consultant needs

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ECA is different in the way they manage the entire search process. For our team, this meant a detailed upfront understanding of our business, systematic candidate outreach, interviews, analytical assessments, scheduling support, and offer management. This helped us spend time with only the best candidates.

Irina Egorova

Vice President

“...helped us identify and select the best candidate, fast.”

We engaged ECA for a subsidiary company CEO search. We chose ECA because of their experience in private equity and their commitment to both a tight timeframe and options by funneling a large volume of candidates from their network. What surprised me most was how they took the time to truly understand the business and its culture, which is so absolutely critical when it comes to key talent decisions. The search process ended with three superior candidates.

Mike Davies

Principal

“What surprised me most was how they took the time to truly understand the business and its culture”

“ECA’s management consulting style, quality and processes helped us identify and select the best candidate, fast.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

ECA delivers the top 1% of candidates from our curated alumni network from top MC firms. Why do we know Finance consultants from top-tier firms best? Because it’s in the DNA of our company – ECA was founded by Management Consultants and is run by ex-consultants and PhDs who bring deep business expertise and refined research skills to deliver lasting results no matter how niche the need.

ECA has a seamless, tech-enabled 3-step process. We deploy a proprietary data-driven, evidence-based approach to ensure we find the right Finance talent to accelerate your company’s growth.

We excel in rapidly identifying the perfect bespoke candidate profile for every Finance project. If you’re not quite sure what the ideal profile should look like, our team of former consultants will advise you during a project scoping call that gets to the heart of the matter, fast.

At ECA, more than 85% of our clients are investor owned or backed. We understand that executing value creation plans is a critical component of generating returns for private equity, and that mergers, acquisitions, carve outs, and other types of major asset transactions are often core to the value creation playbook.

We know that generating financial stability and growth is about more than just the numbers: the right finance strategy has the potential to change the character of a company, unlock bold new growth, and create a positive impact on both business and society.

With a wealth of insight and expertise, our on-demand and interim Finance experts enhance value for both corporate and private equity investors throughout the deals process and beyond, from conducting financial due diligence on a target to identifying profitability through synergies and ensuring compliance with crucial regulatory and reporting requirements. We bring comprehensive support for the financial health and growth of your business. Our team excels in asking the right questions from the get-go to identify Consultants who will craft innovative visions from your deals.

  • Candidates with both consulting and on-the-ground operating experience
  • Individual SMEs or whole teams to provide on-site or remote support
  • Advisors/thought leaders who can offer spot-on insights in a flash on any aspects of financial regulation and advanced analytics, from assessing acquisitions, to conducting due diligences, and overseeing accounting and cost optimization
  • Targeted expertise to get critical deals across the finish line or help PE firms develop newly acquired companies by navigating post-deal synergies and change management concerns

95% of our projects are successfully staffed in less than a week with Top-Tier Consultants.

  • For On-Demand Consultants, ECA has an average placement time of 5 business days. Due to our deep network of VIP alumni from firms like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and L.E.K., we can often place the Finance support you need within 48 hours of search kickoff
  • For Interim Execs for longer term engagements – for example interim CEOs, CFOs, and CHROs/Chief People Officers for PMO and PMI support – our average placement time is just 1.5 weeks.

You’re not locked into a long-term contract when you hire ECA to find the top 1% of classically trained Interim CFOs, Controllers, and FP&A Consultants for your immediate full spectrum financial and analytics needs.

Our flexible model allows clients to stop, pause, or extend an engagement at any time. For more information on our rates and process, schedule a free consultation now with one of our Managing Directors.

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About Us

ECA is a specialized project staffing and executive search firm that focuses on staffing Management Consultants for private equity and PE portfolio companies.

We know our talent base inside and out. Our leadership team, with backgrounds from McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and other top consulting firms, taps into extensive networks of MBB and Big 4 talent to solve clients’ complex problems.

We add value to clients’ capital allocation goals with comprehensive services, including financial due diligence, transaction execution, Interim Controllers to lead post-merger ERP integrations, and high-caliber Interim CFOs to see companies through the critical exit stage.

Our data-driven, tech-enabled process quickly delivers candidates with the right skills and attitudes for each engagement.

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Successfully executed searches

99%

Search success rate

400+

Clients

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Days average to place an interim consultant

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Days average to place permanent consultants

5,000+

Successfully executed searches

99%

Search success rate

<10

Days average to place in interim consultant

400+

Clients

<85

Days average to place permanant consultants

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