Privatal is a niche private equity headhunting agency focusing on placing talents across i) finance ii) value creation & strategy iii) transformation and iv) management due diligence across Pan-Europe on an interim and permanent basis.
Privatal is currently mandated by a European private equity fund in their search for a new group CFO for their healthcare service platform in Germany. The company is looking to enter a buy-and-build strategy where they would need a strong sparring partner to the CEO, who can support the growth from a finance perspective.
The ideal profile should have:
- Experience in a private equity-backed portfolio company as CFO, MD, or with significant responsibility in a C-1 role.
- Experience in buy-and-build strategies with related post-merger integration, consolidation, and synergy realisation.
- Experience in leveraged buyout scenarios, as the buy-and-build strategy will be carried out over a traditional LBO-structure.
- Experience in building up entire finance organisations, finance teams, and introducing new systems for reporting, accounting, BI, KPIs, and similar, in a digitalisation process.
- Experience in hands-on management, meaning to sometimes work in Excel, explain the numbers to the investors when everyone has left the office, work independently, and be ready to roll up the sleeves.
- Experience in other elements of transformation, digitalisation, and professionalisation of organisations is needed.
- Experience in being the point of contact for finance to shareholders, lenders, and other stakeholders.
- German on a native level is required.
Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Responsible for the search:
Julian Hove, Partner, CFO Practice
Fatima Laguna, EA to Julian Hove, CFO Practice
