Interim CFO

Job Description

Interim Chief Financial Officer (m/f/d)
Sector: Healthcare Services
Location: Germany (South) (Hybrid / Multi-site)
Revenue: over 250 million
Duration: 6 months

The Role
Our client is a private equitybacked healthcare services platform undergoing a phase of operational and financial transformation. The Interim CFO will partner closely with the CEO PE sponsor and executive leadership to stabilise and professionalise the finance function enhance transparency and performance management and support value creation initiatives across a multi-site operating model.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining strategic finance operational excellence and transaction readiness in a regulated high-growth healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as strategic finance partner to the CEO and PE sponsor driving financial governance reporting quality and value creation initiatives.

• Lead and stabilise the finance organisation across central and regional teams strengthening controllership FP&A and shared services.

• Own monthly reporting KPI frameworks and board-level performance packs aligned with PE standards.

• Oversee budgeting forecasting and cash flow management including working capital optimisation and liquidity planning.

• Lead or support ERP BI and finance systems enhancement to improve data quality transparency and scalability.

• Manage banking relationships debt covenants refinancing processes and financial risk management.

• Support M&A activity including financial due diligence integration and post-merger finance professionalisation.

• Ensure compliance with German regulatory tax and healthcare-specific requirements.

Candidate Profile

• Proven Interim CFO or senior finance leader experience in PE-backed or highly leveraged environments ideally within healthcare services medtech life sciences or regulated multi-site businesses.

• Track record in leading finance transformations ERP/BI implementations and building exit-ready finance functions.

• Strong command of German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS with solid tax and regulatory understanding in the German healthcare context.

• Hands-on resilient and comfortable operating in complex fast-paced and ambiguous environments.

• Strong stakeholder management skills able to work effectively with PE investors lenders management teams and external advisors.

• Fluency in German and English required.