Finance Team Hiring and Systems Plan · Retail
Executive · Fractional CFO · Remote · anywhere in the EU
- Company
- Home-goods retailer with stores in six countries · 1,001–5,000 employeesCL-98915 · based in Cologne
- Where
- Remote · anywhere in the EU
- Format
- Task bundle
- Time needed
- 8–14 h a month
- Start
- Starts within 2 weeks
- Level
- Executive · 15+ years
- When you work
- Flexible hours, async1 h a week overlap with CET
- Language
- English and Polishbusiness level
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About this task
This Home-goods retailer with stores in six countries (1,001–5,000 employees) is looking for an executive Fractional CFO for a monthly bundle of recurring tasks, 8–14 h a month. What the finance function needs next: roles, tools and processes in order of priority.
The same kind of work comes back every month, so the company prefers one person with an hours cap over ad-hoc requests. It is a retailer with stores and an online channel, and the team works to a weekly trading rhythm.
The work is fully remote and open to anyone living in an EU country; the team itself works from Poland. You choose your hours; nothing is scheduled except an occasional short call. About 1 hour a week should overlap with the team's day (CET).
What you deliver
- Assess a 40-person company's finance setup and write a 12-month plan: hires, tools, controls and cost.
- A running log of open questions, reviewed at the start of each week
- A named list of items moved to next month, so nothing is lost
- The monthly list of items completed, each with a link to the result
What a month looks like
- Week 1: intake call and a list of what is due this month
- Weeks 2 and 3: items completed in short sessions
- Week 4: month-end summary and the list for next month
Duration: 12 weeks, with a monthly hours cap. Accepted on the company's written OK. If something is missed, you fix it in the same week at no extra charge to either side.
Tools
Who fits
- 15+ years of hands-on work as a Fractional CFO, or the equivalent mix of roles
- Business-level Polish as well as English: the documents and part of the team work in Polish
- Comfortable working in Notion, Excel and NetSuite
- Your own work history stays private; the company sees a first name, your field and a rate
Nice to have
- Comfortable explaining numbers or decisions to a non-specialist reader
- A habit of asking one clarifying question early rather than five late
Not included
- Work outside the scope written in the brief; extra items are quoted separately
- On-call availability outside the agreed window
- Travel or work at a fixed location
How you get paid
- The company prepays Deftridge before your first hour, so payment does not depend on a late invoice.
- Deftridge pays you in EUR after the company confirms the hours or the deliverable. The payment date is written in your task agreement.
- You work as an independent contractor: you report your own income, and your recruiter sends the statements your accountant needs.
- You never chase the company. Questions about money go to Deftridge.
What happens after you say you're interested
- Within one working dayA recruiter writes to you to confirm your hours and the rate you want.
- You agree the rateYou and the recruiter fix an exact rate inside the company's range. You decide whether to go ahead.
- With your written OKThe company sees the anonymous profile below. Most companies answer within three working days.
- StartYou sign the task agreement and the company's confidentiality terms through Deftridge, and begin on the date above.
What the company sees about you
First name, field, experience, tools and the hours you offer. Not your surname, your employer or your contact details.
- Experience
- 15+ years in finance & accounting
- Tools
- Notion, Excel, NetSuite
- Offers
- 11 hours a month, weekday evenings
- Rate
- €62 an hour, agreed with the recruiter
How this rate compares
The midpoint of this range, €62 an hour, is above the median executive Fractional CFO rate in Poland (€60). The shaded band is the 25th to 75th percentile of the market.
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Questions about pay and privacy
The rules are the same for every task. Pricing explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; How it works covers matching, what the company sees and side work next to a job.
CL-98915 is the Deftridge code for this company. Its name is shared only after you agree to an introduction, and you decide whether to go ahead.