Finance & Corporate Functions
Finance leadership where numbers meet judgement.
From CFO and controlling leadership to treasury and FP&A — I fill finance seats where technical accuracy alone isn't enough. One mandate. One accountable lead, from brief to appointment.
Role architecture
Five roles that carry different weight.
Focused market expertise. Better-informed appointments.
CFO / Finance Director
Overall responsibility for finance, reporting to owners, board or shareholders.
Head of Controlling
Planning, forecasting and management reporting that a leadership team can actually act on.
Head of Accounting
Statutory and management accounts, audit readiness, process and system ownership.
Treasury & M&A
Financing, liquidity, deal support — often close to ownership or investors.
FP&A Leadership
Business partnering between finance and operations, model and scenario work.
Search situations
When finance leaders bring me in.
- A CFO succession prepared with time and discretion
- Building a controlling function that a growing company has outgrown its old one
- A finance leader needed alongside a transaction, carve-out or refinancing
- Professionalising accounting and reporting after a period of rapid growth
- A finance seat that also needs to lead and develop a team
Working logic
What shapes a finance role beyond the title.
Five dimensions I clarify with you before a search starts. Illustrative working view — no client data.
Ownership structure
Family-owned, private equity, corporate group, listed
Reporting line
Direct to owner/board vs. reporting into a group CFO
System landscape
SAP, other ERP, degree of process maturity
Scope
Single entity vs. multi-entity, national vs. international
Mandate
Steady-state stewardship vs. transformation or transaction support
Motivations to move
What finance leaders are really looking for.
- Genuine proximity to decisions — not just producing numbers for someone else's decisions
- A mandate to build or fix something, not just maintain it
- Clarity on reporting lines and how much autonomy the role really carries
- A ownership structure and time horizon that matches their own risk appetite
- Team size and quality — whether they are building a function or inheriting one
Executive Search
For CFO, Finance Director and other finance leadership roles where the wrong appointment is costly and the market for candidates is narrow and often passive.
Professional Recruitment
For qualified specialist roles in controlling, accounting or FP&A, where a structured, well-targeted process finds strong candidates without a full search mandate.
Questions
Frequently asked questions on finance recruitment.
Let's talk about the finance seat.