CFO PE Backed Multisite Professional Services business

Marks Sattin Executive Search; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is advising on the appointment of a Chief Financial Officer in the West Midlands. The role involves leadership in shaping strategy and enhancing performance while ensuring compliance and robust financial controls. Ideal candidates are qualified accountants with extensive experience in PE-backed businesses and a focus on growth and digitisation of financial reporting.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA); ideally chartered.
• Experience as a CFO ideally within the consumer services sector.
• Ability to work with a leveraged balance sheet.
• Lead digitisation initiatives in financial reporting.
• Hands-on experience in implementing financial changes.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy and enhance performance with the Chief Executive.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders including the Board and investors.
• Establish robust financial controls and ensure compliance.
• Provide insight for informed decision-making.
• Lead professionalisation of the finance function.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA)

Experience as a CFO in a PE-Backed business

Ability to manage cashflow constraints

Lead digitisation initiatives

Hands-on, growth-focused approach

Job description

Marks Sattin Executive Search is advising a PE-backed Multisite Professional 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 ideally within the consumer services sector business 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 cashflow 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.