Group Chief Financial Officer

An international founder-led group spanning healthcare staffing and hospitality across four countries is seeking a Group CFO to be the CEOs strategic financial partner and right hand. This is not a stewards seat. It is the senior financial head of a group in motion: strengthening performance and profitability underwriting expansion into the US and Australia and turning capable but unled finance teams into one coherent capability.

THE ROLE

• Act as the CEOs primary financial counsel: challenge the thinking structure the hard decisions own group capital allocation.
• Lead and align existing UK and South African finance teams including two UK Financial Controllers into a single group function.
• Drive performance and profitability improvement across the staffing and hospitality businesses in the UK and South Africa.
• Financially underwrite US and Australia market entry: structuring tax funding and viability.
• Deliver consolidated reporting group cash flow and multi-currency treasury the CEO can act on quickly.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Qualified accountant (CA(SA) ACA ACCA CIMA or equivalent) with senior experience at CFO or FD level.
• Multi-country group experience ideally including the UK; real understanding of the UK tax and regulatory environment.
• Proven in driving performance improvement and profit recovery in fast-changing businesses.
• Exposure to both services and operational or hospitality businesses strongly preferred.
• The standing to challenge a founder and be heard paired with the trust to work as a close right hand.

WHY THIS ROLE

The work asks for two things that can pull against each other: the spine to tell the CEO when she is wrong and the trust and availability of a true right hand. The right person does both. You will not be managing a steady state. You will be helping build strengthen and expand a group in close daily partnership with its founder with real influence over where it goes next.

PACKAGE

Competitive package structured for CFO-calibre talent. Cape Town based in close daily partnership with the CEO with rare scope to shape the direction of a growing entrepreneurial international group.

To apply submit a CV and a short note on a performance improvement or expansion you have personally driven.

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