A CFO seat, filled for five months
When its CFO left in the middle of an audit, a Series B robotics company asked for cover. Five months later it had a faster close and a new hire.
Client
Ostley Robotics
Function
Finance
Year
2025
Engagement
Interim
Duration
5 months
Situation
Ostley Robotics builds robot arms for warehouses and had sixty people. Its CFO resigned six weeks before the annual audit. The controller was capable but alone, the close took twenty-one days and the board wanted answers.
Work
Linnea took the CFO seat at twelve days a month. She ran the audit, rebuilt the close checklist and sat in the weekly leadership meeting. In month three she wrote the job description and ran the search with the founders.
Result
The audit finished with no findings. The close fell from twenty-one days to nine. A permanent CFO started in month five and received a handover pack with every open item listed.
The numbers
- 5 months Interim cover
- 9 days Close time, down from 21
- 0 Audit findings
For five months the CFO seat was full again. The close went from three weeks to nine days and the auditors had nothing to add.
—
Rafael Oduya
COO, Ostley Robotics