VP Finance – PE-Backed, Multi-Entity Platform (London)
This is a senior leadership role, reporting to the CFO, with responsibility for driving financial performance, strategic decision-making, and transformation across a complex, multi-entity group.
You will sit at the centre of the business, working directly with senior leadership to translate strategy into commercial outcomes, operational execution, and measurable value creation.
The Opportunity
This is a high-impact role in a scaling, PE-backed environment where finance is expected to be a driver of performance, not just reporting.
You will play a key role in:
* Driving growth, margin expansion, and capital efficiency
* Supporting strategic decision-making at board and investor level
* Leading finance transformation and capability build-out
* Embedding rigour, accountability, and performance culture
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering & Performance
* Partner with business unit leaders and central functions to shape and deliver strategy, budgets, and value creation plans
* Provide forward-looking insight on growth, margins, productivity, and investment decisions
* Act as a trusted challenger, ensuring decisions are grounded in commercial and financial reality
FP&A & Financial Leadership
* Own budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking across multiple entities
* Deliver clear, actionable reporting focused on business outcomes (not just variance analysis)
* Drive visibility across revenue, margin, opex, capex, working capital, and cash
Commercial Finance & Profitability
* Partner with commercial and operational teams on pricing, deal governance, and margin optimisation
* Analyse unit economics, recurring revenue dynamics, and cost to serve
* Support and challenge business cases, investments, and growth initiatives
Transformation & Value Creation
* Lead finance transformation initiatives (process, systems, data, reporting)
* Support broader business transformation and performance improvement programmes
* Drive simplification, automation, and better decision support across the organisation
Leadership
* Lead and develop a multi-layered finance team (~20+)
* Build capability across business partnering, analysis, and execution
* Create a culture of accountability, pace, and delivery
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a commercial, high-calibre finance leader who can operate effectively in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment.
* Proven experience in a senior finance leadership role (FD / Head of Finance / VP Finance)
* Strong background in multi-entity, complex organisations
* Experience in private equity-backed and/or high-growth environments
* Deep expertise in FP&A, commercial finance, and business partnering
* Track record of driving transformation and measurable performance improvement
* Strong understanding of unit economics, pricing, and margin levers
* Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge effectively
* Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels
Experience across SaaS, technology, services, or multi-revenue model businesses is highly relevant.