Group Financial Controller

Reporting to: Group FD and CFO
Exposure: High interaction with C-SUite

Business Overview

UK based, PE-backed specialist insurance group with 350,000+ policyholders and multiple operating businesses across insurance broking, underwriting and direct distribution.

The Group has expanded from niche personal lines into commercial and digitally focused insurance, with an active acquisition strategy aimed at significantly increasing the scale of the business over the coming years.

Role Context

This is a senior Group Controllership role within a growing, acquisitive insurance platform. The successful candidate will take ownership of the Group's financial control environment and lead the integration of acquired businesses into the wider finance function.

The role combines hands-on financial controllership, team leadership and acquisition integration, with significant interaction across finance and the wider business.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial control: Own the Group's financial control environment, ensuring robust processes, controls, governance and month-end reporting.

• Acquisition integration: Lead the financial integration of acquired businesses, including group reporting, systems, processes, controls and policies.

• Team leadership: Lead and develop a finance controllership team of c.15, providing direction, coaching and performance management.

• Process improvement: Identify opportunities to standardise, automate and improve finance processes across the Group.

• Technical finance: Provide technical and commercial input into wider finance projects and strategic initiatives.

• Senior stakeholder management: Partner closely with senior finance, operational and business stakeholders to support continued Group growth.

• Tax & treasury: Provide oversight and input across tax and treasury alongside core controllership responsibilities.

Candidate Profile

Looking for an experienced insurance finance / controllership leader who can operate at Group level while maintaining a strong grip on the detail.

Key attributes:

• Significant insurance sector experience

• Strong financial controllership background within a complex, multi-entity environment

• Proven experience leading and developing large finance teams

• Strong understanding of financial controls, governance and reporting

• Experience with acquisition integration

• Exposure to tax and/or treasury

• Strong technical and commercial finance capability

• Comfortable operating strategically while remaining hands-on when required

Finance Director – AI Division

Reporting to: Division CFO
Exposure: Very high / daily interaction with Global C-suite, investors and senior business leaders

Business Overview

London Headquartered, PE-backed industrial software and AI business with £1.5bn revenue, £1bn ARR and 6,000+ employees globally with operations in more than 90 countries. The business is experiencing strong growth, with ARR and cloud revenue both growing at c.25% YoY.

The AI Division is a strategically important growth area, comprising 6–7 product groups, each with its own P&L and senior product leader.

Role Context

This is a senior Strategic Finance role within a high-performing, low-ego and highly collaborative environment. The successful candidate will take significant day-to-day ownership of the Division's finance agenda, working closely with the CFO, Strategic Finance leadership and wider C-suite.

The role offers substantial autonomy and is intended to provide a natural successor / second-in-command within the Strategic Finance function.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Division / P&L ownership: Partner with product leaders across 6–7 businesses on performance, investment decisions, growth opportunities and P&L management.
• Strategic finance: Own forecasting, month-end financial review and performance analysis, remaining close enough to the detail to ensure numbers and outputs are robust.
• Board & C-suite reporting: Lead the financial narrative for the AI Division, producing high-quality Board and senior leadership materials and clearly articulating performance, outlook and strategic priorities.
• Capital markets: Support equity, financing and other corporate events, including investor materials, Q&A preparation, data rooms and analytical work.
• Investor / lender engagement: Contribute to reporting and communications with PE sponsors, institutional investors, lenders and rating agencies.
• Capital allocation & ROI: Drive disciplined investment decisions across the AI portfolio, tracking returns and holding business leaders accountable for outcomes.
• Team leadership: Lead a lean Strategic Finance team, currently comprising two offshore analysts, while developing the function and ensuring high-quality outputs.
• AI-enabled finance: Identify opportunities to automate and improve finance processes using AI and emerging technology.

Candidate Profile

Looking for a commercially minded Strategic Finance leader who can operate confidently at C-suite and investor level while maintaining strong technical grip over the detail.

Key attributes:

• Strong capital markets / PE fluency
• Excellent financial reporting and analytical capability
• Able to build and communicate a compelling financial narrative
• Comfortable operating with significant senior-level exposure
• Strong stakeholder and upward-management skills
• High ownership and autonomy
• Experience leading lean, high-performing teams
• Commercial approach to capital allocation and ROI
• Curiosity and a genuine interest in applying AI and automation to finance
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment

Group CEO (m/f/d)

Start: Immediately
Location: Flexible across Europe, ideally Nordics or Benelux - with regular international travel
Salary: Competitive package
Reporting to: Shareholders & Advisory Board

The Role

Our client is an internationally active IT Services business and entering its next phase of growth and international expansion.

The Group CEO will lead the overall strategy and commercial development, drive operational excellence, scale the organisation and oversee the integration of acquisitions.

Your Profile

• Senior executive experience in an international IT Services / technology services business

• Deep understanding of the IT Services industry and its commercial dynamics

• Ideally experience in a Private Equity-backed or buy-and-build environment

• Strong commercial and sales orientation with excellent stakeholder management skills

• Proven track record in scaling organisations, professionalising processes and driving performance

• Hands-on, entrepreneurial leadership style with international experience

• Excellent English; German is advantageous

This is a high-impact leadership role with significant autonomy and responsibility for the Group’s continued growth and value creation.

Title: Head of Finance

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Location: Sweden (Multiple Regional Office Options / Flexible Hybrid)

Industry: B2B Software, SaaS & Financial Solutions

Position Overview

Our client is a market-leading Nordic technology platform providing mission-critical business software and integrated financial solutions.

We are seeking an operational, highly analytical Head of Finance to serve as a key lieutenant to the Chief Financial Officer. Sitting on the CFO Leadership Team, you will bridge strategic vision with operational execution—leading functional finance teams across Accounting, FP&A, and Business Intelligence, while building a scalable financial engine to drive long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Leadership & Strategic Support: Take an active seat on the CFO Leadership Team, contributing to cross-functional strategy, governance, and board-level reporting packages.

• SaaS Unit Economics & Commercial Steering: Partner with FP&A and BI to track, model, and optimize core recurring revenue metrics (ARR/MRR, Churn, LTV, Net Revenue Retention, and Gross Margins).

• Planning & Forecasting: Direct annual budgeting, rolling operational forecasts, and multi-year strategic financial modeling.

• Team Management & Development: Lead, mentor, and scale functional team leads across Accounting, FP&A, and Business Intelligence.

• AI & Modernization Agenda: Drive the adoption of modern finance technology, automated workflows, and predictive analytics across core finance functions.

• Financial Operations & Control: Oversee monthly/annual closing processes (IFRS, revenue recognition/subscription accounting), cash flow management, working capital, and external audit relationships.

Candidate Profile & Qualifications

• Leadership Experience: 5+ years of progressive financial leadership experience (e.g., Senior Controller, FP&A Lead, Finance Director, or Head of Finance) with a track record of direct people management.

• Domain Expertise: Deep fluency in subscription/SaaS business models, recurring revenue accounting, and complex unit economics. Experience in fintech, transactional platforms, or private equity-backed environments is highly preferred.

• Systems & Analytics Fluency: Advanced command of modern ERP environments, BI platforms, data automation tools, and automated close processes.

• Education: Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field (Master’s preferred).

• Language Skills: Professional fluency in Swedish and English (written and spoken) is required.

Job Title: Interim Financial Controller

Location: On-site near Frankfurt

Industry: Global Industrial Equipment

Languages: Business Fluent German and English (both required daily)

Role Summary

This hands-on senior finance leadership role combines group-level accounting and consolidation with plant-level operational controlling. Reporting directly to global finance leadership, you will oversee reporting integrity across European entities up to the international parent company while remaining closely connected to daily manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes for all European legal entities, including consolidation and intercompany reconciliations.

• Prepare group reporting packages under US GAAP to meet parent company standards and deadlines.

• Ensure local statutory compliance (German HGB) and manage relationships with external auditors and tax advisors.

• Manage plant controlling and cost accounting: standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, work-in-progress (WIP), and margin analysis.

• Partner with operations, engineering, and sales teams on operational budgeting, forecasting, and commercial business cases.

• Optimize internal controls, financial systems, and close reporting cycles across all regional entities.

• Act as a strategic finance partner to local management and serve as the main interface to global finance leadership.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 15+ years of progressive accounting and controlling experience, with substantial time spent in a manufacturing environment.

• Manufacturing Finance: Proven track record in plant controlling, including hands-on experience with standard costing, absorption, and variance analysis.

• Accounting Standards: Strong practical knowledge of US GAAP (for parent company reporting) and HGB statutory compliance.

• Group Reporting: Experience managing group accounting and multi-entity consolidations.

• Languages: Daily operational fluency in both written and spoken German and English.

• Education: Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration (or regional professional certifications such as Bilanzbuchhalter / certified controller).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within an international corporate structure (e.g., a US-owned German subsidiary).

• Knowledge of IFRS.

• Hands-on experience with mid-to-large enterprise ERP systems (e.g., Oracle ERP or regional manufacturing ERPs).

• Demonstrated track record of streamlining close processes and enhancing reporting capabilities.

Group FP&A Manager | PE-Backed Healthcare Platform

Location: Munich, Germany (Primarily Office-Based)

Ownership: Backed by Tier-1 International Private Equity Investors

The Mandate This is not a conventional controlling role. We are seeking an exceptionally sharp finance professional to join the Group FP&A team of a leading pan-European healthcare platform. Reporting directly to the Director FP&A, you will operate at the intersection of executive decision-making, financial modeling, and operational value creation—moving seamlessly from C-suite and Board-level inquiries directly into underlying data structures and models.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the Financial Story: Develop integrated five-year plans, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario models across P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, business KPIs, and equity value.

• Hands-on Modeling & Systems: Work directly in Excel and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) to build driver-based models, data retrievals, reporting logic, and templates. Interrogate source data to ensure full reconciliation and commercial clarity.

• Performance Challenge: Analyze multi-country and Group results, identify variance drivers and forward risks, and constructively challenge country leadership on operational delivery.

• Executive Decision Support: Translate complex financial analysis into crisp recommendations for the CFO, C-suite, Board, and private equity shareholders.

• Strategic & Investment Agenda: Pressure-test business cases, support M&A and value-creation initiatives, and contribute to shareholder and exit-readiness workflows.

• Process Leadership: Drive major planning cycles end-to-end across Finance, Operations, M&A, Procurement, Treasury, and Accounting.

Candidate Profile

• Experience: Minimum 7 years of high-performance experience in Group FP&A, business control, Big 4 Transaction Services / Deal Advisory, Strategy Consulting, Valuation, or Investment Banking.

• Modeling Expertise: Proven track record of personally building decision-grade financial models and working directly with large, complex datasets.

• Systems Proficiency: Advanced Excel and PowerPoint/think-cell capability. Practical experience with structured planning platforms such as IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), SAP BPC, Anaplan, or Oracle HFM.

• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex topics, debate assumptions constructively with senior executives, and present confidently to PE shareholders.

• Education: Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Econometrics, Business Administration, or a quantitative field such as Engineering.

• Mindset: High numerical reasoning, strong ownership, low ego, and a bias for action in a fast-paced environment.

Why Join

• Unmatched Exposure: Direct interface with the Group CFO, C-suite, country leadership, and two major international PE investors.

• Build-and-Shape Mandate: High-impact opportunity to design and improve planning tools, data structures, and financial models rather than simply managing a static reporting cycle.

• Lean, High-Caliber Team: High-visibility environment where individual output directly influences board-level decisions and capital allocation

Interim Head of Finance (m/f/d)

Start: Immediately
Duration: 3 months with option to extend or transition to permanent employment
Location: Austria / Remote (occasional on-site presence required)
Industry: IT Services
Company size: Approx. 100 employees

Daily rate: up to €1,200

Our client is a fast-growing IT and software company focused on Artificial Intelligence, which has recently received an investment from a Private Equity fund. As part of the further professionalisation of the Finance function, an Interim Head of Finance is being sought at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the Finance function as well as leadership and further development of the two-person Finance team.

• Managing reporting, budgeting, forecasting, liquidity planning and further development of financial processes using LucaNet.

• Close collaboration with C-level management and the PE investor on M&A and Corporate Finance topics.

• Management of external service providers (Payroll, Accounting, Tax) as well as supporting the further scaling of the Finance organisation.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in Transaction Services, Investment Banking or Corporate Finance, ideally complemented by experience as a Head of Finance or CFO.

• Very good knowledge of LucaNet as well as experience in PE-backed growth companies and multi-entity structures.

• Strong affinity for technology and AI, with an understanding of AI-based business models ("AI Native").

• Fluent German and English language skills.

AI Operating Partner - Portfolio Value Creation

San Francisco | New York | London

Artificial Intelligence | Product | Technology | Portfolio Value Creation

We are partnering with a leading global technology investment firm to appoint an AI Operating Partner focused on driving AI-led value creation across its portfolio.

This is a senior, highly hands-on role sitting at the intersection of AI strategy, product, technology and business transformation. The successful individual will work directly with investment teams, portfolio CEOs and technology leaders to identify where AI can create meaningful enterprise value and then take those opportunities from 0-1: strategy through product definition, implementation, adoption and scale.

This is not a purely advisory or strategy position. We are looking for someone who has personally helped organisations build and implement AI products and capabilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with portfolio leadership teams to define practical AI strategies linked directly to business value.
• Identify and prioritise high-impact AI opportunities across revenue, product, operations and productivity.
• Take AI initiatives from initial concept and business case through build, deployment and adoption.
• Help portfolio companies establish the right AI product, data, technology and operating capabilities.
• Work closely with CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, CDAOs and functional leaders to accelerate implementation.
• Support investment teams during diligence and early-stage value creation planning.
• Develop repeatable AI playbooks, frameworks and capabilities that can be deployed across the portfolio.
• Build relationships with leading AI technology providers, practitioners and external partners.
• Act as a senior thought partner while remaining close enough to delivery to unblock programmes and drive outcomes.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

We are particularly interested in individuals who have combined high-level AI strategy with direct implementation experience. Relevant backgrounds may include AI leadership within a private equity fund or portfolio value creation team, senior leadership within an MBB AI or digital practice, AI product leadership within a major technology business, or operating experience building AI capabilities inside complex enterprise environments.

• Deep understanding of Generative AI, machine learning and modern AI product development.
• A track record of taking AI initiatives from 0-1 and into production.
• Strong product thinking alongside technology and commercial judgement.
• Experience translating emerging AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes.
• Credibility with boards, investment teams and highly technical delivery teams.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders without relying on large internal delivery teams.
• Exposure to private equity, technology investing or PE-backed environments strongly preferred.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in shaping how one of the world's leading technology investors drives AI-enabled value creation across its portfolio.

Head of Data

Location: Fareham, UK

Wealth Management

Competitive Salary

We are working with a dynamic, forward-looking wealth management business that is redefining how clients experience investment and financial planning. Combining digital innovation with trusted advisory expertise, the business is scaling rapidly, delivering personalised client solutions and driving operational excellence across its platform. Positioned at the forefront of the sector, the firm is helping shape the future of wealth management.

We are seeking a highly strategic and technically skilled Head of Data who will be responsible for ensuring data capability and governance underpin strategic priorities, drive value creation and enable data driven product, client and commercial decisions. The role combines hands on technical leadership with strong commercial acumen and outstanding stakeholder engagement to accelerate the monetisation of data across platforms, products and client solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to optimise data strategy and execution, ensuring alignment across data governance, engineering, analytics and product initiatives.
• Leading high priority data initiatives, including data platform enhancements, data product development, pricing and commercial models for data-enabled solutions and market and customer analytics, ensuring recommendations are actionable and data-driven.
• Driving end-to-end execution of data led initiatives, tracking progress, resolving roadblocks and fostering a culture of accountability across data, tech and commercial teams.
• Monitoring data platform and analytics performance, supporting commercial decision making and identifying opportunities for optimisation, innovation and growth.
• Embedding risk management, data privacy and regulatory alignment across data.

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience in a senior data leadership role within wealth management, asset management or broader financial services (e.g., Head of Data, Chief Data Officer or equivalent).
• Strong strategic, operational and analytical skills, with a track record of delivering cross functional data driven programmes to completion.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex data or digital transformations, including data architecture, data governance, ML/AI enablement and data monetisation.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to engage senior executives, boards and external partners.
• Commercially astute, able to align data strategy and delivery with business outcomes, revenue opportunities and client value propositions.
• Highly organised, proactive and able to manage competing priorities in a fast p paced environment.
• Deep understanding of regulatory frameworks, data privacy and data management best practices relevant to UK wealth management.
• Hands on but strategically focused: comfortable contributing technically when needed while driving the overarching data strategy and commercial ambitions.

For more information, please apply for this role or contact Elliot O'Shea-Cowan at elliot.oshea-cowan@phippscameron.com.