Chief Financial Officer

AR Hine Associates; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Client is a PE Backed niche service business with a turnover of c£15m.

The business has now reached the stage where it is seeking a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to help lead the business into its next stage of development. The CFO will be a critical appointment as part of that development.

The Role of CFO

• To play an active role as CFO on the main board and contribute to all aspects of day-to-day and long-term strategy decisions where appropriate.
• Take an active lead in managing the PE House relationship.
• Take full responsibility for reviewing and ensuring the finance team is fit for purpose including mentoring of key reports to ensure their continued development and as part of that ensuring the financial information is prepared in an accurate and timely manner, to ensure that the business maximises its profits and cash through controlled growth.
• Play a lead role in likely M&A activity over the next 2 years (bolt on acquisitions and eventual sale of part or all of the business where appropriate).

The Candidate For CFO

• A qualified accountant with logical career moves and an impressive track record implementing the entire M&A process (both acquisition and sale if possible) and supporting growth within a P/E backed organisation. Please note this M&A experience is a client non negotiable.
• Enjoy getting into the detail required within an SME, whilst also being able to take a strategic leadership position at Board level, evidenced by the design / implementation of strategic goals into objectives.

This is a hybrid role. The nature of the business results in most of the employees working from home and in recent years the business has moved away from local offices. Whilst the candidate will be expected to visit the Manchester finance team (weekly catch up in a shared office environment), attend monthly Operations Boards (normally in Birmingham) and main Board (normally in London or Birmingham) as well as visiting potential and newly acquired businesses, most of the role can be performed from home. The M.D is based in Birmingham so the candidate’s location will be preferably Midlands to North, but this is more a preference than a specific requirement.