Interim Finance Director / CFO | Manufacturing, PE-Backed Change & Post-Acquisition Integration
This executive brings extensive senior finance experience across manufacturing-led and operationally complex environments. Their career includes Finance Director, Financial Controller, Group Financial Controller and Interim General Manager roles, providing a strong blend of technical finance, commercial control and practical operational leadership. They are particularly strong where finance must work closely with operations to improve costing, stock, production planning, working capital and management information.
They have significant private equity and investor-backed experience, including supporting MBO activity, due diligence, post-acquisition integration and investor reporting within manufacturing and medical device businesses. Their work has included direct engagement with investors, banks, auditors, overseas stakeholders and operational leadership teams, giving them the ability to operate confidently in PE-backed and transaction-led environments.
Well suited to interim Finance Director, CFO, finance transformation or post-acquisition integration assignments, they bring a calm, practical and hands-on style. Their combination of manufacturing finance depth, ERP experience and operational understanding makes them particularly valuable for PE-backed or SME industrial businesses needing stronger financial control, improved reporting and support through change.
As UK Finance Director for a marine and defence manufacturing business, reduced stock by £500k, improved MI and controls, managed treasury, HR and IT responsibilities, and led TUPE, redundancy and site closure activity connected to the relocation of UK manufacturing to Sweden.
Supported a PE-backed medical device group through investor-led due diligence, ERP implementation, standard costing, production planning improvements and a €500k working capital reduction project.
As Finance Director of an international bathroom products business, established finance procedures across UK and China, supported Chinese manufacturing entity set-up, managed overseas finance teams and secured material duty refunds and ongoing monthly duty reductions.
As Interim General Manager of an acquired medical implant manufacturing business, provided post-acquisition continuity, began integration activity, improved machine shop efficiency, reduced stock and supported sales growth through investment in further instrumentation.
About the Candidate
This interim executive is a highly experienced Finance Director and senior finance leader with deep experience across manufacturing, engineering, medical devices, automotive, marine, defence, distribution and international operations. They bring strong hands-on finance leadership, commercial control and operational insight, having worked closely with MDs, Boards, investors and management teams through growth, closure, acquisition, relocation and restructuring situations.
They are particularly effective in environments where finance needs to provide better grip across stock, costing, working capital, ERP, reporting and operational performance. Their expertise includes product costing, BOM and routing control, budget and forecast management, treasury, MI development, ERP implementation, site closure, TUPE, redundancy consultation, entity set-up, acquisition integration and stakeholder management. They are well suited to manufacturing and industrial SMEs requiring experienced finance leadership with strong operational understanding.