Job Description

About The Opportunity

Our client is a middle market Private Equity house with a focus on the global manufacturing and industrials markets.

A portfolio group of wholly owned subsidiary businesses (~£100m combined revenue) will require an interim CFO to step in for a period of 6 months and support the PE's Operating Partner as the firm looks to create synergies and roll out strong financial governance.

Based in North West England, with the expectancy of your presence on site in the initial stages of the role, the CFOs core focus will be:

• Providing strategic financial guidance to the executive team, Board of directors and subsidiary CEOs.
• Development and implementation of a comprehensive reporting and consolidations structure to provide timely financial information to key stakeholders.
• Establishment and maintenance of robust financial control systems across the group.
• Daily treasury management to optimise cashflow, monitoring liquidity, managing working capital and mitigating global risk.
• Management of the group borrowing facilities and compliance with covenants.

Approximate start date for the candidate is towards the end of October.

This will be a day rate opportunity Outside IR35.

About The Candidate

It's crucial that you have overseen subsidiaries on a global scale. Overseeing / directly managing businesses within the Americas and Asia is a strong advantage.

The candidate will need to demonstrate 10+ years in senior leadership positions within manufacturing / industrial environments.

It is also strongly desired that the candidate possess existing private equity experience - preferably over the past 5+ years.

If you would like to know more, please contact Giles at Right Pear for a confidential discussion.