INTERIM CFO
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THE OPPORTUNITY:
Our client is a private equity-backed, tech-enabled services organization seeking an Interim Chief Financial Officer to lead the finance function during a leadership transition. This is a full-time interim engagement expected to last approximately six to nine months, with overlap alongside the outgoing finance leader and eventual permanent successor.
The number one priority for this role is to ensure strong operational control of the finance function - including close execution, billing, collections, lender reporting, audit oversight, and overall financial governance - while simultaneously advancing several critical transformation initiatives.
The business operates at scale, with a sizable global workforce and complex service delivery operations. The Interim CFO will be responsible for stabilizing, optimizing, and enhancing the finance organization while partnering closely with executive leadership and ownership stakeholders.
Initial on-site presence in India is required during transition, with hybrid flexibility thereafter.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Run the Business – Operational Finance Leadership
- Oversee all core accounting and finance operations, including monthly close, invoicing, accounts receivable, DSO management, lender reporting, and audit leadership.
- Reduce the monthly close timeline and improve the timeliness of board-level financial reporting.
- Strengthen revenue estimation processes for period-end cutoffs.
- Monitor international tax exposure areas and ensure active mitigation of identified risk items.
- Oversee foreign exchange risk management and hedging initiatives.
- Ensure accurate recurring revenue metrics and contract value calculations.
- Improve controls around commission tracking and compensation payouts.
- Forecasting, Planning & Performance Enhancement
- Upgrade forecasting methodologies to improve predictability and accuracy.
- Evaluate and enhance budgeting processes and planning cadence.
- Strengthen FP&A capabilities to provide proactive insights rather than reactive reporting.
- Assess and develop the current FP&A leadership and team structure.
- Cost, Productivity & Organizational Optimization
- Lead enterprise-wide cost management initiatives with measurable savings targets.
- Drive procurement optimization efforts, including vendor rationalization and strategic sourcing.
- Integrate workforce management tools into financial planning to improve labor productivity visibility and cost control.
- Evaluate finance organizational structure, processes, and third-party spend; develop recommendations to optimize headcount and operating efficiency.
- Systems & Process Transformation
- Lead ERP optimization efforts to better leverage existing system capabilities.
- Re-engineer finance processes in light of system capabilities to reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
- Improve financial reporting frameworks, dashboards, and performance analytics.
- Strategic Partnership & Transition Support
- Partner closely with ownership stakeholders and lenders to ensure confidence in reporting and financial discipline.
- Provide continuity and leadership during CFO transition, including knowledge transfer to incoming permanent leadership.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership across operational and strategic decisions.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven experience serving as CFO or senior finance leader within a private equity-backed healthcare-tech/RCM or tech-enabled services organization.
- Strong background in managing global finance operations at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to both stabilize operations and drive transformation initiatives simultaneously.
- Experience reducing close timelines and improving financial reporting cadence.
- Strong operational finance expertise, including billing, AR management, DSO reduction, lender reporting, and audit oversight.
- Deep forecasting and planning experience with a track record of improving forecast accuracy.
- Experience driving cost reduction programs and procurement optimization initiatives.
- Experience evaluating and restructuring finance organizations for efficiency and scalability.
- ERP optimization and process re-engineering experience required.
- Exposure to healthcare services, revenue cycle operations, B2B tech-enabled services or complex outsourced service models required.
- Willingness to travel internationally during initial transition period.
- Ability to commit full-time to a 6–9 month interim engagement.
