A fast-growing, PE-backed IT services group operating across Northern and Central Europe, generating around £20m in net revenue. Built through acquisition, with a lean central team overseeing finance and IT. There's an ambitious five-year plan to get to a significantly larger revenue base, at a strong margin, through continued M&A.
Group CFO, reporting into the CEO and the Board. This is a genuine build mandate at the centre of an active buy-and-build strategy not a "shape what's already there" role.
What you'll actually be doing:
- Standing up group finance from scratch, multi-currency, multi-entity consolidation from day one
- Owning lender relationships and covenants across existing debt facilities, plus cash and working capital group-wide
- Leading post-acquisition integration, completion accounts, earn-outs, the lot
- Running the M&A engine end-to-end: diligence, deal execution, integration, and doing it again
- Building one consistent reporting framework across operating units and standardising how revenue, margin and performance actually get measured
- Managing incentive plans, board and investor reporting, and starting to shape the business for a future exit
The Person
You've built or scaled a finance function inside a PE-backed, acquisitive services or technology business before and this isn't your first buy-and-build. You're genuinely comfortable being one of very few central functions in a lean group structure, rather than sitting on top of a big finance team. You're a hands-on operator first, the early months are execution, not slide decks. And you're entrepreneurial and personable enough to be credible in the same room as founders, management teams and investors, often in the same week.
UK-based preferred; though may consider someone based in Europe.
What's On the Table
A competitive salary is on offer, plus equity, full package specifics available on conversation.
