Interim Chief Financial Officer

1. Establish Financial Control and Transparency

Objective: Quickly build confidence with investors and the board by ensuring robust, accurate, and timely financial information.

• Review and validate financial statements, management accounts, and KPIs.
• Implement or tighten internal controls, governance, and compliance procedures.
• Ensure finance function is audit‑ready and aligned with PE reporting standards.
• Deliver fast, reliable monthly close and performance dashboards.

Objective: Protect liquidity and optimise cash to maximise value creation.

• Implement 13‑week rolling cash flow forecasts and scenario models.
• Identify working capital inefficiencies (e.g., receivables, inventory, payables).
• Manage covenant compliance and banking relationships.
• Improve capital allocation discipline across business units or investments.

Objective: Build a clear bridge between strategic goals and financial outcomes.

• Lead the annual budget and reforecast processes with commercial rigor.
• Establish performance KPIs tied to the investment thesis.
• Develop financial models to assess growth initiatives, bolt‑on acquisitions, and exit scenarios.
• Challenge business assumptions to ensure credible, data‑driven plans.

Objective: Align finance with the PE sponsor’s value creation plan and potential exit timeline.

• Translate the PE firm’s investment thesis into measurable financial drivers.
• Partner with operations to deliver margin improvement and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Prepare for diligence — ensuring clean data rooms, normalised EBITDA, and defensible metrics.
• Contribute to valuation, debt refinancing, or M&A readiness.

Objective: Leave behind a finance organisation capable of sustaining performance post‑interim.

• Assess and reshape the finance team to meet PE expectations.
• Introduce systems, tools, and processes that support scalability and investor reporting.
• Mentor the finance team and ensure knowledge transfer to the incoming permanent CFO.
• Establish a disciplined finance cadence — board packs, forecasts, and variance analysis.