Chief Financial Officer – For first time CFOs - High-Growth Technology Business
£110,000–£120,000 + bonus + potential equity
South London based - with excellent rail link from Sussex/Surrey/Greater London | Hybrid – 3 days office / 2 days home
We are exclusively supporting an exciting high-growth, technology-led business on the appointment of a commercially minded Chief Financial Officer.
This is a genuine first-time CFO opportunity for an ambitious Finance Director, Head of Finance or senior finance leader who wants to step into a role with real influence.
You'll be the right hand to the CEO, a key partner to the leadership team and an important voice in the company's commercial and strategic decisions.
The opportunity
The business is scaling rapidly and has a proven, cash-generative model. The finance function is now at an exciting stage where the successful CFO will have a genuine opportunity to build, shape and modernise the function.
You'll bring greater visibility around FP&A, forecasting, unit economics, KPIs and commercial performance, giving the CEO, board and investors a clear forward-looking view of the business.
You'll also be heavily involved in commercial decision-making — from pricing and contract economics to investment decisions, negotiations and strategic growth initiatives.
We're looking for someone who is commercial, pragmatic and hands-on. Someone who understands the detail but can also step back and explain the bigger picture.
Key responsibilities
- Act as the right hand to the CEO across financial, commercial and strategic matters
- Bring greater rigour and insight to growth and investment decisions
- Partner with the commercial team on pricing, negotiations and contract economics
- Build and own the FP&A, budgeting and forecasting capability
- Develop board and investor reporting to provide a clear forward-looking view of performance
- Establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards and financial metrics
- Own cash flow, working capital, capex and scenario planning
- Build, lead and develop the finance team as the business grows
- Introduce the processes, controls and systems required to support scale without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Partner with the CEO, board and investors on fundraising, refinancing and potential M&A
- Manage banking, treasury and key financial relationships
- Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to make finance faster, more efficient and more commercially valuable
- Continuously improve the contribution a lean finance function can make to the wider business
What we're looking for
We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
- Experience operating at FD, Head of Finance, Senior Controller level
- The capability and ambition to step into a first CFO role
- Experience within a high-growth, scaling environment
- Strong commercial judgement — you understand the business behind the numbers
- The ability to build FP&A, modelling, forecasting and scenario planning
- A genuinely hands-on approach — you're comfortable getting into the detail
- Strong communication skills and the ability to make financial information meaningful to CEOs, boards, investors and non-financial stakeholders
- A forward-thinking approach to finance technology, AI and automation
Ideally, you'll also have
- Experience within a VC/PE-backed or investor-backed scale-up
- Technology, SaaS, fintech, paytech, marketplace or another data-led business background
- Experience supporting a fundraise, refinancing or M&A
- Experience presenting to a board and/or investors
- Experience building and developing a finance team from a relatively small base
- Experience with modern data/finance technology
However, we're deliberately open-minded on sector background.
The most important thing is the person — your commercial mindset, ambition, judgement and ability to operate as a genuine partner to the CEO.
For a confidential discussion, please contact John Richardson at Alexander Lloyd on jri@alexanderlloyd.co.uk please quote reference EJR52569
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.
