Chief Financial Officer

Location: London / Zurich

Salary £200k per annum, equity shares, travel package, life cover

ENB are recruiting for an experienced CFO for an international investment firm operating across the UK and continental Europe. The CFO will sit alongside the senior leadership team and help build the financial infrastructure, institutional intelligence and commercial insight required for the fund’s next phase of growth.

Responsibilities include

• Owning the financial strategy, planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Lead accounting, consolidation, management and investor reporting.
• Oversee cash flow, liquidity and capital planning.
• Strengthen financial controls, governance, systems and processes.
• Establish technologically advanced reporting, analytics and decision-support capability.
• Improve how organisational decisions, assumptions and outcomes are captured including building institutional decision memory over time.
• Develop meaningful KPI and portfolio-performance reporting.
• Lead audit, tax and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Manage relationships with auditors, banks, tax advisers and other stakeholders.
• Support transactions, valuations and investment activity.
• Build and develop a high-performing finance capability.
• Partner with senior leadership to improve the quality and speed of strategic decision-making.

Experience required

• CFO or senior finance leadership experience within private markets, investment management or alternative assets.
• ACCA qualified, or equivalent recognised professional accountancy qualification.
• Experience within a substantial AUM environment.
• Strong pan European deal exposure.
• Experience operating across international and multi-entity structures.
• Deep understanding of reporting, controls and governance.
• Track record implementing advanced financial technology, reporting and management-information environments.
• Credibility with Investment Partners, Boards, investors, banks and advisers.
• Fluent English essential; German advantageous but not essential