Finance Director

We’re partnering with an early-stage, private equity-backed business preparing to complete its second round of funding. Highly acquisitive and ambitious, the business has a clear growth strategy centred on M&A-led scale, and is now ready to appoint a full-time Finance Director to partner the CEO and help lead the transition from start-up to scale-up.

The Role

Working directly with the CEO, this is a broad, hands-on FD role with real influence across strategy, growth and execution.

You will build a finance and reporting function that is fit for scale, capable of supporting rapid acquisition activity and future fundraising.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the CEO’s primary financial partner, providing strategic insight, challenge and guidance
• Designing and implementing a robust finance and reporting structure to support rapid growth
• Successfully integrating acquired businesses, improving visibility, control and performance
• Partnering closely with the M&A team, identifying opportunities to improve EBIT post-acquisition
• Leveraging modern technology and AI to streamline operational finance and reporting processes
• Building and leading a finance team capable of scaling with the business
• Acting as an externally facing finance leader, supporting future fundraising and managing relationships with PE investors and stakeholders

About You

You are a fully qualified finance leader with strong post-qualification experience and the technical capability to build robust processes that scale.

You will bring:

• Experience operating in a start-up or early-stage environment, and a genuine appetite for pace and ambiguity
• Exposure to M&A transactions, ideally in a buy-and-build setting
• Strong technical grounding with the ability to design controls, reporting and governance fit for growth
• A clear interest in using technology and AI to drive efficiency and insight
• An agile, solutions-driven mindset with the confidence to challenge and influence at board level
• The credibility and communication skills to work with PE investors and external stakeholders

Why Join?

• PE-backed business at a pivotal point in its growth journey
• Direct partnership with an ambitious, commercially focused CEO
• Significant influence over strategy, M&A and future fundraising
• Opportunity to build a finance function from first principles
• Hybrid working with a Birmingham base

If you’re excited by the idea of joining a business early, shaping how it scales, and playing a central role in an acquisitive growth story, this is a standout FD opportunity.