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Interim Chief Financial Officer
Our client, a private equity-backed business operating across the technical and built environment space, is seeking an Interim Chief Financial Officer to lead the finance function through a period of significant growth and change.
The business is on an active buy-and-build journey. The Interim CFO will be the key financial partner to the CEO, the Board and the investor, setting the finance agenda for the next phase of the investment cycle. This is a hands-on leadership role: stabilising and professionalising reporting, building the M&A integration capability from scratch, sharpening commercial performance and leaving behind a finance team and a clear handover for a permanent successor.
Outside IR35 £1200 to £1500 Per Day
Key responsibilities
Investor and stakeholder partnering
- Act as the primary financial partner to the PE investor, building a relationship of trust, transparency and pace
- Work alongside the CEO and leadership team as a commercial sounding board on strategy, capital allocation and priorities
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Financial reporting, KPIs and standards
- Design and implement a full suite of key metrics covering financial, operational and commercial performance, such as utilisation, contract margin, backlog, cash conversion and working capital
M&A and integration
- Support the buy-and-build strategy, including target evaluation, financial due diligence, deal modelling and completion
- Lead the design and build of a group integration playbook from scratch, covering finance, HR, IT and systems
- Own post-acquisition integration, ensuring acquired businesses move quickly onto group reporting, policies and controls
Pricing
- Assess historical pricing frameworks, rate cards and contract structures across services and customers
- Build pricing governance and commercial review disciplines so improvements are sustained
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Team development
- Put in place succession planning for key finance roles, including a clear pathway and handover for the permanent CFO
Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a track record as CFO or FD in private equity-backed businesses
- Strong experience of partnering with investors and Boards, and comfortable being held to account against a value creation plan
- Hands-on M&A experience across deal execution and, critically, post-acquisition integration, ideally having built an integration approach rather than inherited one
- Proven delivery of finance system selection and implementation, including data migration in a multi-entity environment
- Commercial pricing and margin improvement experience, with a clear link to EBITDA delivery
- Background in technical services, engineering, consultancy, TICC, construction or the wider built environment is highly desirable
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