CFO PE Backed Multisite Healthcare Services

Marks Sattin; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Executive Search firm is advising on the appointment of a Chief Financial Officer for a PE-backed healthcare services business in the UK. The role focuses on shaping strategy, ensuring financial compliance, and leading operational excellence. Candidates should be qualified accountants with CFO experience in a PE-backed setting, particularly in services for public-sector partners. This is a full-time executive position, offering a pivotal role in driving growth and value creation.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant, ideally chartered.
• Proven experience as CFO in a consumer services sector.
• Strong cash-flow management skills.
• Experience leading digitisation of financial reporting and data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy and enhance performance.
• Engage effectively with Board and stakeholders.
• Lead digitisation initiatives in financial reporting.
• Support informed decision-making to enable growth and exit readiness.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA)

Experience as a CFO in a PE‑backed business

Ability to manage cash-flow constraints

Experience in digitisation initiatives

Hands-on, growth-focused approach

Education

ACCA/ACA/ACMA Chartered

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Marks Sattin Executive Search is advising a PE‑backed Multisite Healthcare Services business on the appointment of a Chief Financial Officer. This is a critical leadership role, partnering with the Chief Executive and senior team to shape strategy, enhance performance, and prepare the organisation for a successful exit, while ensuring it is well positioned for the next phase of growth.

The CFO will bring credibility and rigour in a complex stakeholder environment, engaging effectively with the Board, investors, lenders, and public sector partners. They will establish robust financial controls, ensure transparency and compliance, and provide the insight needed to support informed decision‑making at pace.

As the business evolves, the CFO will lead the professionalisation of the finance function, embedding digital reporting, disciplined governance, and performance frameworks that enable both operational excellence and long‑term value creation.

The Ideal candidate

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA); ideally chartered.
• Experience as a CFO in a PE‑backed business, ideally within the consumer services sector or a business providing services to public‑sector partners; evidence of value creation and successful exits.
• Ability to work with a leveraged balance sheet and manage cash‑flow constraints.
• Lead digitisation initiatives in financial reporting, streamlining processes and enhancing data accuracy.
• A hands‑on, growth‑focused approach, with practical experience in successfully implementing financial change in regulated environments.

Due to the high level of applications, we can only reply to those candidates with relevant experience.

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Finance; Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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