Interim & Fractional CFO

Leading finance teams across borders – from carve-out to integration.

When finance needs to work across borders – during a carve-out, an integration or a leadership gap – that is where I step in.

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20+years of finance leadership

4countries lived & worked in

10+nationalities in the teams I led

Where I step in

Three situations in which the numbers have to speak one language – across countries, teams and stakeholders.

Carve-outs & integrations

A unit changes hands – or becomes a company of its own.

Entity, team, structures and reporting have to work on day one, built to the standards of the new owner: one set of numbers, one ERP, one way of closing the books – across countries and cultures.

Leadership gaps

The CFO seat is empty at the wrong moment.

Succession, sudden departure, a role that has outgrown its holder. I step in, run the finance function and hand over a working organisation to the successor – whether that takes four months or fourteen.

Transformation & next stage

The finance function has to grow into what the business has become.

ERP change, shared service centre, digitalisation, preparing for investors or an IPO: structures and teams that carry the next stage – without losing the people.

How I work

A fresh and neutral perspective. Human and pragmatic. Keep it simple.

Fresh and neutral perspective

I come from outside, with no history in the building and no stake in yesterday's decisions. That is what makes the numbers, the processes and the team structures transparent again.

Human and pragmatic

I have built and led teams of 10+ nationalities in three countries – hands-on, without politics, and with a clear view of what each team can carry.

Keep it simple

I run the finance function before I improve it. Then I streamline: reports no one reads, approvals no one needs, meetings that decide nothing.

Track record

Selected results from 20+ years in finance leadership.

45mInterim CFO of a EUR 45m IT services group, finance teams in Austria and Romania2025 – 26 · 7 months
10+Nationalities across the finance teams I built, led and developed in three countriesLiberty Global · The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria
200Employees carved out of UPC Austria into a separate legal entity – team, structures and processes built from scratchLiberty Global · Vienna
9 moFinance shared service centre set up in nine months, with yearly savings of EUR 2mLiberty Global · Vienna
IPOIPO readiness (IFRS) and SAP post-merger integrationSunrise · Zurich
50+Legal entities under corporate controlling, compliance and taxLiberty Global · Amsterdam

About

Erik Neutzner

Interim & Fractional CFO, Vienna-based, working across Europe.

20+ years of finance leadership in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands – most of them in a U.S.-listed group. Liberty Global, niceshops, PwC. U.S. CPA.

Industry background: telecom, e-commerce, IT services, software, media, professional services. Born in Salzburg, based near Vienna, working in German and English.

2025 – 26Interim CFO, IT services group (EUR 45m), Austria & Romania – via EDN Consulting
2025Founder & Managing Director, EDN Consulting e.U., Vienna
2023 – 24CFO, niceshops GmbH, Vienna – e-commerce group
2004 – 23Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ: LBTYA) – senior finance positions in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria: Senior Director Accounting & Reporting, Managing Director, VP Finance, Supervisory Board Member
1999 – 04Manager Transaction Services (M&A), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Munich
2000Certified Public Accountant (CPA), State of Maine, USA
1998Master's degree (Mag.) in Business Administration, University of Innsbruck

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Thirty minutes, no slides. You describe the situation; I tell you whether and how I can help.

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E-mail

erik@edn-consulting.com

Phone · LinkedIn

+43 678 123 1007

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