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Chief Financial Officer
Private Equity-Backed $1B+ Global Industrial Services Platform
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Our client is a global provider of specialized services, equipment manufacturing and related technology serving multiple industrial and resource-sector end markets across several international regions. |
SITUATION ANALYSIS
Following its recent acquisition by an industrial-focused private equity sponsor, our client entered a new phase that demanded heightened financial rigor, liquidity discipline and transaction readiness within a leveraged capital structure. The business operated across globally dispersed manufacturing and services segments carrying legacy processes and high transaction volume, which called for modernization of its finance operating system, improved segment separability and stronger cash visibility. The prospect of several potential exit pathways, including a full sale, a divisional carve-out or a public offering, further elevated the need for defensible reporting, disciplined forecasting and enterprise-wide cohesion.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Chief Financial Officer leads the global finance organization with full enterprise accountability, owning the management operating system end to end and building the separable segment reporting that enables clean segmentation, defensible cost attribution and full transaction readiness. Partnering closely with the sponsor, lenders and the board, the role drives finance transformation, carries hands-on treasury leadership in a leveraged setting and translates operational complexity into the disciplined forecasting and capital allocation the business requires.
SUCCESSFUL PLACEMENT
Our placement is an accomplished finance executive who has spent more than two decades leading financial and operational transformation across globally complex manufacturing and industrial businesses. Most recently they served as CFO of a corporate carve-out, where they built a standalone finance organization from the ground up, stood up central controllership, treasury and tax functions and installed the forecasting and steering discipline that turned finance into a driver of operational decisions. Across earlier divisional and global finance leadership roles they improved profitability in declining and margin-compressed environments, managed multi-currency and captive finance complexity and partnered directly with private equity ownership through sale and exit-readiness processes.
