Chief Financial Officer (PE Backed Capex Intensive Business)
Company Type: Private Equity-Backed Portfolio Company
Industry Sector: Capital-Intensive (Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy, Telecom)
Position Overview
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will serve as a strategic co-pilot to the CEO and an essential link to the Private Equity sponsor. Operating in a high-stakes, capital-intensive environment, this role requires an elite balance of aggressive cash management, complex capital budgeting (CapEx), and rigorous operational oversight. The primary mandate is to maximize Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and drive EBITDA growth to prepare the business for a lucrative exit event within a 3-to-5-year investment horizon.
Key Responsibilities
CapEx Allocation & Strategic Financial Planning
- Capital Budgeting: Establish strict governance, hurdle rates, and ROI modeling for multi-million dollar asset investments.
- Asset Lifecycle Management: Monitor project execution timelines, cost overruns, and utilization rates to ensure heavy assets generate expected cash flows quickly.
- Investment Defense: Partner with the CEO to pitch and justify major expansionary CapEx projects to the PE Board.
Cash Flow Optimization & Debt Management
- Liquidity Management: Maintain a laser focus on rolling 13-week cash forecasting to balance heavy maintenance CapEx against leverage constraints.
- Debt Compliance: Monitor and optimize senior debt facilities, ensure zero covenant breaches, and manage relations with syndicate lenders.
- Working Capital Rigor: Drive efficiency across inventory, procurement, and supplier payment cycles to unlock internal liquidity for reinvestment
PE Board Relations & Value Creation
- Investor Reporting: Deliver a institutional-grade, highly transparent monthly reporting cadence tailored to PE metrics (EBITDA, MOIC, Net Debt).
- Thesis Execution: Quantify, monitor, and aggressively execute the PE sponsor’s core value-creation roadmap.
- Exit Readiness: Maintain the business in a continuous state of audit-readiness, grooming the financial infrastructure for an IPO or strategic sale.
Execution: Quantify, monitor, and aggressively execute the PE sponsor’s core value-creation roadmap.
Operational Accounting & Technology
- Granular Controllership: Implement robust unit-economic tracking and Activity-Based Costing (ABC) across all facilities or projects.
- Systems Transformation: Upgrade legacy ERP and business intelligence tools to automate asset tracking and financial tracking.
- Exit Readiness: Maintain the business in a continuous state of audit-readiness, grooming the financial infrastructure for an IPO or strategic sale
Required Qualifications & Profile
- Experience Track Record: Minimum 10+ years of corporate finance leadership, with a mandatory track record as a CFO or VP of Finance within a PE-backed company.
- Industry Profile: Prior execution history in high-CapEx, heavy-asset industries (e.g., manufacturing, industrial, infrastructure, heavy logistics) is highly preferred.
- Transaction Experience: Proven involvement in navigating corporate debt refinancing, structured finance, asset leasing, or a successful private equity exit event.
- Technical Excellence: Advanced mastery of financial engineering, levered capital structures, and continuous performance metrics (ROIC, IRR, Free Cash Flow).
- Leadership Persona: Exceptional executive presence, capable of challenging operational leaders on spending while serving as a credible company ambassador to lenders and board members.
