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Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Location: London (with flexibility to work a day a week away)
Salary: £90,000 - £130,000 + LTIP (Long-Term Incentive Plan)
Reporting to: Group CEO / Owner
About the Company
A rapidly expanding, ambitious, and acquisitive service-based business, our client is pursuing a bold growth strategy. Spearheaded by an experienced entrepreneur, the company plans to expand from a few entities to over 25 businesses within the next 3-5 years, through approximately six acquisitions.
The CFO will be pivotal in driving this growth, structuring deals, and ensuring financial discipline across the company. This is a unique opportunity to partner with a seasoned entrepreneur known for scaling businesses, offering the CFO a dynamic, challenging, and rewarding environment.
Key Responsibilities
Acquisitional Growth & Strategic Finance:
- Collaborate with the CEO to shape and execute the company's acquisitional growth strategy.
- Lead financial due diligence for acquisitions, ensuring strategic alignment and risk mitigation.
- Structure acquisition deals, managing debt financing and working with multiple funding partners.
- Develop and maintain financial models, including 5-year P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow forecasts at both entity and group levels.
- Oversee post-acquisition integration, optimizing financial performance and operational synergies.
Financial Leadership & Governance:
- Manage financial planning, forecasting, and reporting across the group.
- Establish and enforce robust financial controls to ensure scalability during growth.
- Lead and mentor a growing finance team, driving a high-performance culture.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, banks, and legal teams.
- Ensure compliance with statutory financial regulations and governance.
Commercial & Operational Finance:
- Provide data-driven insights to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
- Implement group-wide reporting structures for real-time monitoring of business performance.
- Identify and deliver cost-saving initiatives and margin improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with operational teams to ensure finance is a key strategic function.
Key Requirements:
- A seasoned finance leader with extensive experience in acquisitions and M&A.
- Strong strategic mindset with hands-on capability in financial operations.
- Proven expertise in financial modelling, due diligence, and deal structuring.
- Experience working with debt partners, lenders, and external investors.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, able to influence and challenge at all levels.
- Entrepreneurial, proactive, and comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Experience working in a multi-entity business, preferably in the service sector.
If you're a commercially savvy finance professional, who excels in entrepreneurial settings and is eager to be part of a fast-scaling business, this role offers an exciting chance to make a significant impact.
