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Chief Financial Officer – PE-Backed Manufacturing
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Chief Financial Officer
We're partnering with a private equity-backed manufacturing business (c.£20m revenue) to appoint a hands-on Chief Financial Officer.
The CFO will lead the finance function, partner closely with the CEO and investors, and build the group finance infrastructure to support significant growth organic and through M&A. This is a lean, high-visibility environment: real impact, direct exposure to the board, and the chance to shape the function from the ground up.
The CFO will report to the CEO, with a dotted line to the investor group.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of finance: financial control, management accounts, statutory reporting, cash management
- Own working capital and inventory management across multiple sites, including stock control, WIP and cash conversion cycle
- Own capex planning and investment cases for machinery/plant across the group's manufacturing sites
- Own budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning, with clear insight on performance and outlook
- Build board-quality KPIs and reporting for the CEO, investors and leadership team, including operational metrics such as OEE, scrap/waste and capacity utilisation, in partnership with operations
- Build and develop the finance team as the business scales
- Partner with operations/COO on site performance, margins and manufacturing efficiency
- Support procurement and supply chain exposure supplier risk, raw material costs, and FX on inputs where relevant
- Support commercial activity pricing, contracts, customer profitability across UK and US.
- Partner with the CEO and PE sponsor on the value-creation plan, including bolt-on M&A
- Own governance, risk and compliance: banking, audit, tax
- Sit as a core, visible member of the leadership team
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Candidate Profile
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Manufacturing or industrial background essential; multi-site experience a strong plus
- Comfortable with standard/actual costing, margin bridge analysis, and capex appraisal
- Track record in a mid-market or PE-backed business, or similarly fast-paced growth environment
- CFO, FD, or a strong #2 ready to step up
- Comfortable at c.£20m revenue with the ambition to scale materially further
- Track record building teams, improving processes, and implementing right-sized systems
- Confident working across UK and US stakeholders; willing to travel
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What’s on Offer
- Competitive base salary, bonus and equity package.
- Opportunity to join a PE-backed business at an inflection point and play a central role in the next phase of growth.
- High visibility with the CEO, board and investors, and a clear line of sight to value creation.
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