Chief Financial Officer (Buy and Build strategy)
£140,000 – £170,000 + Equity + Bonus + Benefits
Birmingham, West Midlands | Hybrid
The CFO Practice is recruiting a Chief Financial Officer for a growing, technology-enabled platform business embarking on an ambitious buy and build strategy.
The business has established a strong core platform, a high-growth data-driven base, with a live pipeline of acquisitions. It is now entering its next phase of its exciting development, focused on acquiring and integrating complementary software, payments and data-led businesses. Working closely with the CEO and Board, the incoming CFO will play a central role in shaping and executing this growth strategy.
The role
This is a high-impact CFO position combining strategic leadership, M&A execution, and commercial performance management across a developing multi-entity structure. The successful candidate will partner closely with the CEO to scale the platform, secure funding for acquisitions and embed data-led decision-making across the group.
The right person will thrive in an entrepreneurial, hands-on, and highly commercial environment, with the opportunity to drive a significant value creation story across multiple businesses.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and Board, supporting long-term value creation and group growth strategy
- Shape and execute the buy and build strategy, leading acquisition activity end-to-end across software, payments and data-led businesses
- Drive financial and commercial due diligence, valuation, deal structuring and post-acquisition integration, ensuring disciplined execution and synergy realisation
- Lead debt funding activity to support inorganic growth, including lender engagement, modelling and covenant management
- Oversee finance across the group structure, ensuring strong financial control, governance and reporting standards across both the core platform and acquired entities
- Provide commercial support to operating businesses, strengthening insight across pricing, margins, customer economics and recurring revenue performance
- Embed robust budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning processes across the group to support scale and capital allocation decisions
- Build and develop a scalable, high-performing finance capability that can support a growing, multi-entity platform
- Act as a senior external representative of the business with banks, advisers, auditors, investors and potential acquisition targets
About you
This role will suit a commercially astute finance leader who is motivated by building and scaling businesses through acquisition and disciplined execution in a highly entrepreneurial environment.
You are likely to bring:
- A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)
- Experience operating in data-rich, commercially driven environments, ideally with exposure to software, payments or a technology-focused company
- Meaningful exposure to M&A, whether through leading transactions or playing a senior role in due diligence and integration
- Strong commercial instincts, with the ability to translate financial and operational data into actionable strategic insight
- Experience overseeing or strengthening finance functions within group or multi-entity environments
- Confidence operating in fast-paced, change-oriented environments where hands-on leadership is required
This is an opportunity to join a leadership team at an inflection point and play a defining role in building a scaled, acquisition-led platform over the coming years.
