Chief Financial Officer

Salary/Rate:c.£200,000 per annum
Type of work desired:Perm
Desired work region:London
Sector:Financial Services
Post Date:20. 01. 2026
Ref:174707
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About Profile

 

  • Highly accomplished Chief Financial Officer with over 25 years of expertise, specialising in financial services.
  • Led board-level finance, treasury and capital strategy across regulated lending environments.
  • Delivered refinancing and capital restructuring programmes to strengthen funding resilience and exit readiness.
  • Oversaw high-growth balance sheet expansion while tightening controls, governance, and accountability.
  • Directed M&A activity from evaluation and due diligence through integration and value realisation.
  • Built and scaled high-performing finance functions, upskilling teams and improving operating cadence.
  • Strengthened audit outcomes by improving assurance environments and governance routines.
  • Led enterprise-wide stress testing and risk programmes, improving readiness under downside scenarios.
  • Managed senior stakeholder relationships with lenders, auditors and investors through complex change.
  • Drove transformation of processes and technology to improve insight, decisioning and performance discipline.

 

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