The opportunity
Our client is a PE-backed energy infrastructure business with a utility-scale development, construction and operating portfolio moving through an active growth phase. This is a rare CFO mandate offers a seat at the centre of the business's investment and transaction agenda, offering a role that goes beyond a back-office finance function bolted onto a growing balance sheet.
As one of a small number of senior executives shaping the business's next phase, this strategic CFO will own the finance function end-to-end while sitting directly alongside the CEO and engaging directly with the sponsor, working across M&A activity, capital raising and broader investment decisions. You'll build the financial infrastructure of a business and directly influence which deals get done, how they're financed and how capital is deployed across a growing portfolio.
What you'll own
- Financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning across a growing multi-project portfolio.
- Statutory and management reporting, financial controls, tax, treasury and audit: the full finance function, built for scale.
- Project and corporate financing: lender selection, debt structuring, term sheet negotiation and driving transactions to financial close.
- Financial analysis and recommendations feeding directly into investment committee decisions and capital allocation.
- M&A and investment execution: due diligence, valuation and deal structuring, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO from screening through to close.
- Building the finance team itself: this is a build-and-lead mandate, not a maintain-and-report one.
- Acting as a key point of engagement with the PE sponsor on portfolio performance, reporting and value creation initiatives.
What you bring
The successful candidate will have 20+ years of finance leadership in energy, infrastructure or renewables, either as a current CFO or as a Deputy CFO / Head of Finance ready to step into a broader, more commercially exposed mandate. Experience operating in a PE-backed environment is preferred but not a prerequisite but must be comfortable with sponsor reporting and value creation planning within an Energy or complex Infrastructure related business.The successful candidate will pair a strong technical accounting and control foundation with real transaction experience, including due diligence, deal structuring through to financial close, not just reviewing the outputs. CA/CPA or equivalent is expected; MBA or CFA is a plus. Most importantly, our client is looking for someone who wants a seat at the table on the deals themselves.
Why this role
This is a genuine seat at the table on the transactions and capital decisions shaping the business's growth, the kind of broad, commercially exposed CFO mandate that PE-backed businesses are well placed to offer, in a sector still building out its senior leadership.
