Skills

Communication Leadership Emotional Intelligence

Job Specifications

Interim Director of FP&A

High-Growth, PE-Backed Group

Circa £900/Day Outside

London

We are supporting a high growth, private equity backed services business on the appointment of an Interim Director of FP&A / FP&A Consultant. The business is scaling rapidly via frequent acquisitions and needs an experienced FP&A leader to bring structure, challenge and clarity to a very fast-moving environment.

This is a hands on role working directly with a highly credible CFO. The ideal person will have proven exposure in building processes in a highly acquisitive PE backed environment.

You will:

Take ownership of group FP&A in a business where M&A is the primary growth driver.
Move the organisation from annual budgeting on spreadsheets towards best-practice rolling forecasting and robust performance insight.
Tighten the link between the deal model, banking covenants and in-year trading, providing clear scenarios and sensitivities for the CFO, Board and PE.
Work closely with M&A, Finance and the wider leadership team to translate a busy acquisition pipeline into coherent group level plans and metrics.

You will be stepping into a lean group finance team in a business that is still relatively “green” from a process, systems and policy perspective - there is a lot to build, not just to maintain.

The ideal profile must have:

Transaction Services background
Big 4 / Top 10 trained
Deep deal and modelling experience
Corporate Finance experience, with a strong grasp of IRR, returns bridges, leverage and covenant mechanics.
In-house FP&A leadership in a PE-backed and/or buy-and-build environment, ideally within multi-site.
A track record of implementing rolling forecasts, budgeting frameworks and decision useful MI in complex, changing businesses.
High energy, resilience and the ability to operate with limited infrastructure - comfortable being both strategic partner and hands on modeller.
Strong stakeholder skills - credible with CFO, PE investors, banks and senior operators, with the emotional intelligence to support and stretch a developing finance team.

If you are an experienced FP&A leader with a deal driven background and are immediately available (or on a very short notice period), please get in touch in confidence to discuss.

All enquiries will be handled on a strictly confidential basis; client details will only be shared under NDA at the appropriate stage in the process.

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace for our clients that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

STOIX receives a high level of applications to advertised opportunities. As much as we strive to respond to each application individually and personally, we would advise if you have not received communication within 10 days that your application has been unsuccessful at this time.

About the Company

OUR MISSION - WE CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE THROUGH PEOPLE STOIX is a boutique Executive Search and Interim Management consultancy that exists to identify and secure top-tier, purpose and values-led finance and transformation talent for high-growth and rapidly changing businesses. We are experts in Executive and Board-level finance and transformation appointments, and we deliver the best-in-market talent in a modern, pragmatic and dynamic way. By following a robust but flexible methodology coupled with state-of-the-art recruitme... Know more