Interim Cfo - Business Services

Page Personnel; Manchester; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive daily rate

Potential for permanent role

Exposure to PE investor

Job summary

Page Personnel is handling an Interim CFO role for a PE-backed services business in Manchester. The role requires office presence and will steer the finance team through a critical period of change, delivering accurate reporting, cashflow management and an aligned financial plan in partnership with the board.

You will lead a small finance team, build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and hand over to the permanent CFO when the transition occurs.

Qualifications

• Ability to quickly build relationships with board-level internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven financial leadership experience in environments of change.
• Strategic and commercial skills to appraise a new strategic plan.
• Hands-on approach with a small finance team.
• Thrives in a busy interim role with clear deliverables.
• Experience in investor-backed businesses helpful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Providing a stabilising presence to a business and finance team in a key period of change.
• Quickly gaining control of financial performance including timely and accurate financial reporting and cashflow management.
• Supporting the board's strategic direction by formulating an aligned financial plan and challenging assumptions.
• Supervise and mentor the finance team to maintain operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders, including auditors and investors.
• Hand over to the new permanent CFO when appropriate.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Financial leadership

Strategic planning

Hands-on finance

Interim experience

Investor-backed experience

Job description

• Interim opportunity with a PE-backed services business.
• Clear strategic objectives for a six month contract.

About Our Client

Our client is an SME (c£10m turnover) PE-backed services company based in Manchester. The role requires office presence at least three days a week, ideally more.

Job Description

• Providing a stabilising presence to a business and finance team in a key period of change.
• Quickly gaining control of financial performance of the company, including timely and accurate financial reporting and cashflow management.
• Supporting the board's new strategic direction by formulating an aligned financial plan, using commercial nous to challenge assumptions.
• Supervise and mentor the finance team to maintain operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders, including auditors and investors.
• If appropriate, providing a strong handover to the new permanent CFO.

The Successful Applicant

The successful Interim CFO should have:

• Ability to quickly build relationships with board-level internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven financial leadership experience gained within environment(s) of change.
• Strategic and commercial skills to enable rigorous appraisal of a new strategic plan.
• Hands-on approach, with the ability to thrive with only a small finance team.
• Ability to thrive in a busy, interim role with clear deliverables.
• Prior experience in an investor-backed business would be very helpful, though not absolutely essential.

What's on Offer

• Competitive daily rate, dependent on the level of experience.
• Possibility for the role to develop into a permanent opportunity.
• Opportunity to impress a leading North West private equity investor.

Interim CFO - Business Services Manchester, England