CFO - Confidential Portfolio Company - The Brydon Group

Job Description

Job Description

About the Company

A Brydon portfolio company in the public sector technology and analytics space is seeking an exceptional finance leader to join our leadership team and build the finance function from the ground up. As the CFO, you will shape the company’s financial strategy, implement best practices from day one, and lead the development of a high-performing team. You will be a key advisor, collaborator, and operator, working closely with leadership to align financial priorities with strategic growth initiatives. In particular, this is a great fit for a finance leader in a private equity portfolio company environment who is excited by a high growth company and an accelerated path to CFO.

Role Overview

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will serve as a key member of the executive leadership team, reporting directly to the CEO and lead the company's Finance function. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role responsible for building financial and operational infrastructure to support aggressive revenue growth and long-term sustainability.

Near term :

• Move company to best practice on controllership and financial management
• Improve and streamline the monthly close process
• Implement rigorous cash flow forecasting
• Implement improvements to internal spend and cash controls
• Integrate add-on acquisitions and help lead M&A
• Lead and execute systems integrations (e.g., finance systems, HR, centralize cash management)
• Provide accurate pro-forma financial reporting
• Identify, and capture synergies in integration
• Develop a repeatable, effective financial reporting process
• Develop weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting mechanisms and provide and operating pack each month
• Work with other functions to quantify and track KPIs that drive value creation
• Design & implement a standardized process to be followed when updating the package
• Codify and drive the annual budgeting process
• Take the organization through an efficient, rigorous budgeting process
• Partner with the CEO, CoS, ELT to refine the 2026 value creation plan
• Review billing and revenue recognition processes, and partner with the technology team to implement improved billing systems / transaction processes
• Evaluate migrating existing finance systems to upgraded platforms to improve financial reporting, analysis quality, and scalability

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