We are conducting a confidential search for a Chief Financial Officer to join a publicly traded organization within the energy sector.
This is a highly strategic CFO mandate requiring an executive who can operate well beyond the traditional accounting and reporting responsibilities of the role. The CFO will partner closely with the CEO, Board of Directors, investors, and senior leadership team to help drive the company's financial strategy, capital structure, and long-term direction.
The successful candidate will bring significant experience navigating complex or transformational business environments, with particular strength across capital markets, capital raising, liquidity management, financing, and corporate strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO, Board, and executive leadership team on financial and corporate strategy.
- Lead the company's capital markets strategy, including debt and equity financing, refinancing, and other capital-raising initiatives.
- Oversee liquidity, cash flow, capital allocation, and balance-sheet strategy.
- Help lead the organization through periods of transformation, restructuring, turnaround, or significant financial complexity.
- Manage relationships with investors, lenders, financial institutions, analysts, and other key external stakeholders.
- Provide strategic leadership around long-term planning, forecasting, investment decisions, and enterprise performance.
- Evaluate opportunities related to M&A, portfolio optimization, strategic investments, and corporate development.
- Partner with operational leadership to identify opportunities to strengthen performance, profitability, and cash generation.
- Maintain appropriate oversight of financial reporting, controls, compliance, treasury, tax, and accounting functions.
- Build and develop a high-performing finance organization capable of supporting the company's strategic objectives.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will have:
- Previous experience as a CFO or senior finance executive within a publicly traded organization.
- Demonstrated experience accessing the public and/or private capital markets and successfully raising capital.
- Strong knowledge of debt, equity, refinancing, liquidity, and capital structure management.
- Experience operating through a turnaround, restructuring, transformation, or similarly complex business environment.
- Proven ability to operate as a strategic business partner rather than solely as an accounting or controllership leader.
- Significant experience working with Boards, investors, lenders, and executive leadership teams.
- Strong understanding of public-company requirements and investor-facing responsibilities.
- Experience within energy, power, infrastructure, utilities, or another capital-intensive industry is highly desirable but not required.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
This opportunity is best suited for a CFO who has been tested in complex environments and is comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, capital markets, operations, and finance.
The organization is seeking an executive who can not only lead the finance function, but also help determine how the business is funded, how capital is deployed, and how the organization positions itself for its next stage of growth and transformation.
