About This Role
This Chief Financial Officer opportunity is with an established professional services business that is entering an important next phase of growth. The role suits an experienced CFO or Finance Director with private equity experience who can combine strategic financial leadership with a genuine understanding of what makes a growing professional services business successful.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Board to shape and deliver the financial strategy and support ambitious growth plans
- Drive commercial performance, profitability, cash generation and sustainable value creation
- Prepare the business for future private equity investment, bringing experience of investor expectations, reporting, governance and financial discipline
- Strengthen financial planning, forecasting, management information and business intelligence to support better commercial decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve performance, pricing, operational efficiency and scalability
- Support potential acquisitions, strategic investment and future shareholder transactions
- Lead and develop the finance function, ensuring it has the capability and infrastructure to support the next stage of growth
- Build strong relationships across the business, influencing senior stakeholders and contributing as a key member of the leadership team
Requirements
- Private equity experience is essential, ideally having worked closely with investors through a period of growth, transformation or value creation
- Experience within professional services, consultancy, partnerships or other people-led businesses
- A successful track record of supporting business growth, improving commercial performance and developing scalable finance operations
- Strong commercial judgement alongside excellent technical finance, reporting and governance capabilities
- Experience of investment, M&A, refinancing or ownership transition would be particularly valuable
- The confidence and credibility to influence at Board level and work effectively with senior stakeholders
- A hands-on, collaborative approach with the energy, enthusiasm and ambition to help drive the business forward
- Availability at short notice would be particularly advantageous
About the Company
Pratap Executive has been exclusively retained to appoint a Chief Financial Officer for an established and highly respected professional services business with a strong market reputation, an entrepreneurial culture and ambitious plans for the future.
