Interim CFO / Finance Transformation Leader | Turnaround, Value Creation & PE-Backed Growth Specialist
This interim finance specialist combines strategic leadership with rigorous financial discipline, offering deep experience managing complex, fast-moving and high-stakes environments. They are adept at restoring financial clarity, enhancing reporting accuracy, modernising systems, and strengthening controls. Their ability to quickly assess financial health, identify root causes and implement structured processes enables organisations to regain stability while building the platform for sustainable growth.
They have extensive experience working with private equity investors—both pre- and post-acquisition—supporting investment decisions, rebuilding finance functions, preparing businesses for sale, and ensuring finance operations withstand lender, investor and auditor scrutiny. Their track record includes leading turnaround efforts immediately after PE buyouts, building financial models, structuring refinancing packages, preparing due diligence materials, negotiating with HMRC, and ensuring accurate and timely financial information across multi-entity environments.
Highly effective in both hands-on and board-level roles, this executive is particularly well suited to organisations requiring rapid financial stabilisation, improved governance, investor engagement, or major strategic change. Whether stepping in as an interim CFO, supporting a transaction, or leading a finance transformation programme, they bring a proven ability to create robust financial foundations and enhance enterprise value.
Turned around a multi-entity property development group by selling non-core assets, securing major project wins, restructuring financing, centralising treasury, and improving reporting across 40+ companies.
As Finance Director for a PE-backed manufacturer, rebuilt the finance function from day one post-acquisition, overturned a significant VAT assessment, resolved balance sheet inaccuracies, strengthened controls, and implemented comprehensive KPI-driven management reporting.
Supported the sale readiness and due diligence process for a private equity–backed technology and services group, producing high-quality financial information packs and correcting forecasting model weaknesses to maximise valuation and buyer confidence.
As Finance Director of a large international government-contracted business, doubled turnover and grew profits significantly while securing major long-term contracts, raising substantial financing, delivering tax efficiency, integrating new systems and leading through acquisition by a global corporation.
About the Candidate
This interim finance leader brings extensive experience in CFO and Finance Director roles across privately owned, private equity–backed and multinational organisations. With deep expertise in financial governance, cashflow management, business turnaround, complex reporting environments and multi-entity structures, they specialise in stabilising and modernising finance functions during periods of transition, distress or rapid growth. Their background spans property development, manufacturing, technology, e-commerce, government-contracted services and high-volume international operations.
They excel in situations requiring immediate financial control, restructuring, improved reporting accuracy, investor readiness and negotiating with lenders, auditors, and tax authorities. Adept at creating best-in-class reporting environments, leading due diligence and integration processes, resolving legacy financial issues, and implementing efficient treasury, tax and compliance practices, they are particularly effective in businesses facing cash constraints, operational disruption, system challenges or the need for strategic financial redirection. They also bring strong commercial judgement, supporting CEOs and boards in executing major transactions, refinancing, growth planning and post-acquisition transformation.