How to cover a CFO or finance director role during leave
Nonprofits and small organizations often lack internal staff to cover high-level financial positions during leave, leaving them without internal controls. While dividing the workload among remaining employees is an option, it forces coworkers to take on extra responsibilities without additional compensation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Hiring temporary, contracted CFOs or controllers
- 2Dividing the workload among remaining employees
- 3Crowdsourcing referrals through professional networks
- 4Bringing back retired colleagues to fill in
- 5Working remotely from home during leave to handle critical tasks like monthly closes
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m the CFO/finance director at a nonprofit and we didn’t have anyone to cover my work and needed another person for internal control.”source ↗
“Temporarily dividing the work among the remaining employees is kind of annoying because all those people have to now work more and take additional responsibilities without any additional compensation.”source ↗
Where this came up
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