CFO - Infrastructure & Energy (PE Backed Portfolio Company)

Madison Hunt; Sydney; On-site; AUD 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison Hunt is assisting a PE-backed energy business in Sydney with a strategic CFO mandate.

The successful candidate will own the finance function end-to-end, work directly with the CEO and sponsor, and drive capital allocation, funding strategies and deal execution across multi-project portfolios. This is a seat-at-the-table role with significant interaction on investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of finance leadership experience in energy, infrastructure or renewables.
• Experience in PE-backed environments with sponsor reporting and value creation.
• Strong technical accounting, controls, and deal structuring knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Owns finance function end-to-end including budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning.
• Oversees statutory and management reporting, tax, treasury and audit.

Skills

Strategic finance

M&A experience

Capital markets

Education

CA/CPA or equivalent

MBA or CFA a plus

Job description

The opportunity

Our client is a PE-backed energy business with a utility-scale development, construction and operating portfolio moving through an active growth phase. This is a rare CFO mandate offers a seat at the centre of the business's investment and transaction agenda, offering a role that goes beyond a back-office finance function bolted onto a growing balance sheet.

As one of a small number of senior executives shaping the business's next phase, this strategic CFO will own the finance function end-to-end while sitting directly alongside the CEO and engaging directly with the sponsor, working across M&A activity, capital raising and broader investment decisions. You'll build the financial infrastructure of a business and directly influence which deals get done, how they're financed and how capital is deployed across a growing portfolio.

What you'll own

• Financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning across a growing multi-project portfolio.
• Statutory and management reporting, financial controls, tax, treasury and audit: the full finance function, built for scale.
• Project and corporate financing: lender selection, debt structuring, term sheet negotiation and driving transactions to financial close.
• Financial analysis and recommendations feeding directly into investment committee decisions and capital allocation.
• M&A and investment execution: due diligence, valuation and deal structuring, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO from screening through to close.
• Building the finance team itself: this is a build-and-lead mandate, not a maintain-and-report one.
• Acting as a key point of engagement with the PE sponsor on portfolio performance, reporting and value creation initiatives.

What you bring

The successful candidate will have 20+ years of finance leadership in energy, infrastructure or renewables, either as a current CFO or as a Deputy CFO / Head of Finance ready to step into a broader, more commercially exposed mandate. Experience operating in a PE-backed environment is preferred but not a prerequisite but must be comfortable with sponsor reporting and value creation planning within an Energy or complex Infrastructure related business.The successful candidate will pair a strong technical accounting and control foundation with real transaction experience, including due diligence, deal structuring through to financial close, not just reviewing the outputs. CA/CPA or equivalent is expected; MBA or CFA is a plus. Most importantly, our client is looking for someone who wants a seat at the table on the deals themselves.

Why this role

This is a genuine seat at the table on the transactions and capital decisions shaping the business's growth, the kind of broad, commercially exposed CFO mandate that PE-backed businesses are well placed to offer, in a sector still building out its senior leadership.