About This Role
This Chief Financial Officer role is a confidential search for a private equity-backed company, working closely with the CEO, leadership team, and shareholders. The CFO will provide commercial and strategic input, lead the finance function, and be comfortable with both business decisions and detailed financial reporting, consolidation, controlling, and cash flow management. The position involves developing the team and supporting international growth, offering an experienced finance leader the opportunity to influence key decisions and strengthen financial capabilities for further development.
Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and shareholders, providing financial analysis, recommendations, and constructive challenge to support business decisions and long-term value creation
- Lead financial planning, controlling, and performance management, translating budgets, forecasts, and consistent KPIs into clear insight and accountability across business units and countries
- Oversee group consolidation and financial reporting, ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent information across entities and markets, supported by effective accounting processes, systems, and controls
- Drive profitability and cash flow improvement, working with business leaders on margin drivers, working capital, capital expenditure, and commercial opportunities
- Lead and develop the finance team, building trust, encouraging collaboration, and giving people the support and responsibility to deliver solutions
- Communicate effectively with shareholders and investors, translating financial and operational performance into a clear, credible view of the business, its strengths, and future potential
- Support international growth, ensuring that financial processes, reporting, and controls support the business across existing markets and entry into new ones
- Lead the financial workstream of M&A activities, including financial assessment, due diligence, and coordination with external advisers
- Support post-acquisition integration, aligning financial reporting, policies, and processes while working closely with local management teams
Requirements
- A proven track record as a CFO or Finance Director, or in a senior finance role with broad responsibility within an operating business
- Experience working with private equity investors, with a clear understanding of their expectations around performance, governance, and value creation
- International finance leadership experience, including responsibility across multiple countries, group reporting, and consolidation
- Direct involvement in acquisitions, financial due diligence, and integration, with clear personal responsibility for relevant workstreams and outcomes
- Strong technical and operational finance capabilities, spanning reporting, controlling, planning, cash flow, and financial controls, with a willingness to work directly with the detail
