Finance Director PE Backed Healthcare Services

Finance Director, PE-backed Healthcare Services

Marks Sattin Executive Search is working with a high-growth, PE–backed Healthcare Services business based in South West London to appoint a Finance Director. This key leadership role involves full ownership of the finance function and offers extensive strategic exposure, operational responsibility, and direct influence over the future growth of the company.

Responsibilities

The Finance Director will lead the finance function, ensuring strong financial controls, accurate reporting, and timely analysis for decision‑making. Key duties include managing the budgeting and forecasting cycle, long‑term financial planning, performance reporting, improving finance processes, overseeing cash flow, working capital, financial risk, and regulatory compliance, and contributing to commercial initiatives such as pricing analysis, scenario modelling, and investment appraisal.

Ideal Candidate

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
• Experience in a people‑based or service‑led environment; exposure to a PE‑backed setting is an advantage
• Proven track record of owning and managing the full budgeting and forecasting cycle and engaging effectively with key stakeholders
• Hands‑on approach, able to operate at both strategic and operational levels
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder‑engagement skills, including interaction with boards and investors
• Experience working with local authorities, commissioning bodies, or public‑sector funding mechanisms is advantageous

Equity included as part of the compensation package.

Seniority Level

Executive

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Finance

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