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Package: Competitive base salary plus performance incentives. The successful candidate will participate in economic gain—via phantom equity or equivalent.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Join a purpose-driven, B-Corp certified professional services firm renowned for delivering innovative, client-focused solutions in the built environment and sustainability sectors. With a strong track record of rapid, year-on-year growth, this organisation is poised to more than double turnover and achieve significant valuation uplifts—and you’ll lead finance through every step as the company’s inaugural CFO.
About the Business
• People-First Culture: A collaborative LLP structure that values transparency, professional development, and social impact.
• Specialist Expertise: Multidisciplinary consultancy offering engineering, environmental, and advisory services to public- and private-sector clients.
• Growth Momentum: Mid-tens of millions in revenue today, targeting significant valuation milestones by 2030.
Your Mission as CFO
• Strategic Financial Leadership: Design and implement sophisticated, data-driven financial models that translate operational levers into clear value-creation pathways.
• Roadmap to Scale: Own the finance strategy to scale revenue and unlock ambitious valuation targets by 2030.
• Insight & Influence: Embed clean, consistent reporting, analytics, and KPI frameworks to drive proactive, insight-led decision-making; compiling and presenting meaningful financial data is non-negotiable.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Implement robust budgeting, forecasting, and KPI processes tied directly to value creation.
• Function Build: Recruit, mentor, and professionalise a high-performing finance team—cultivating a culture of accountability, commercial rigour, and service excellence.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with the Finance Controller to unlock potential and shape development trajectories.
• Investment & M&A Readiness: Lead due diligence, audit preparation, and controls to ensure the business is investment-ready.
Who You Are
• Qualified Leader: ACA, ACCA, or CIMA-qualified CFO or senior FD with demonstrable success transforming under-resourced finance functions.
• Commercial Strategist: Expert at building integrated models that support growth, margin expansion, and valuation enhancement.
• Systems Savvy: Strong systems literacy; experience with Sage Intacct a bonus.
• Builder & Mentor: A people-first coach who thrives on talent development, high standards, and decisive leadership.
• Growth Operator: Comfortable scaling systems and teams across multiple locations in a dynamic, high-velocity environment.
• Values Aligned: Passionate about purpose-led culture and committed to B-Corp principles.
• Proven track record of implementing budgeting, forecasting, and KPI frameworks tied to strategic outcomes
• Proven track record of driving accelerated growth in organisations of comparable scale
• Hands-on exposure to M&A processes, due diligence, and external investment readiness
• Exceptional stakeholder management within complex governance structures
• Strong data governance, systems literacy, and reporting discipline
Ready to make your mark?
Apply confidentially today to explore how you can lead this transformative CFO journey.
This search is confidential; full details will be shared in a first-stage conversation.
Please note; all candidates will be required to complete The Acuity MeasureTM in order to be considered for this role.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Strategy/Planning, Finance, and Accounting/Auditing
* Industries
Professional Services, Building Construction, and Surveying and Mapping Services
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