Chief Financial Officer - PE Backed Tech Scale-Up

Location

Saarland, Germany

Overview:

Pearse Professionals has partnered exclusively with a top European private equity fund to find the first CFO for one of their fastest growing technology businesses, based in Germany.


Following significant PE backing, they’ve grown into a global leader in their space, with projects spanning more than 30 countries and long term partnerships that are solving worldwide sustainability challenges.

Role & Responsibilities:

The CFO will lead on all financial aspects of the business, reporting directly to their CEO and leading the overall finance function.

  • Responsible for driving the future growth of the business

  • Strategic partner to the CEO and wider leadership team to support on commercial initiatives and long-term strategic planning (including exit planning)

  • Leading on future fundraising projects

  • Support their international expansion

  • Continuous process improvement and automation to enable the business to scale

  • Stakeholder management with the PE investors

  • Own and continually develop KPI reporting and analysis of key metrics

  • Identifying performance gaps and areas for potential improvement


Requirements:

  • CFO experience in a fast growth start-up or scale-up

  • Highly commercially astute

  • Ability to become a strategic partner to the co-founders

  • Excellent communicator with the ability to present well both internally and externally

Connect with our Senior Consultant, Charlie Whitaker, to hear more.
charliewhitaker@pearseprofessionals.com


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