The Role

Our client is a leading healthcare services business seeking an experienced Interim FP&A leader to strengthen financial planning, reporting, and performance management capabilities during a period of growth and transformation.

Reporting directly to the CFO, the successful candidate will act as a key business partner to the executive team, providing insight-driven analysis, enhancing forecasting processes, and supporting strategic decision-making across a multi-site healthcare environment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Developing and enhancing KPI reporting, dashboards, and performance management frameworks.
• Delivering robust monthly management reporting and variance analysis.
• Supporting operational leaders with financial insight to improve performance and profitability.
• Improving FP&A processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
• Driving cash flow forecasting and working capital visibility.
• Supporting business cases, investment appraisals, and strategic initiatives.
• Assisting with M&A, integration, and value creation projects where required.
• Providing ad hoc analysis and decision support to the CFO, CEO, and wider leadership team.
• Managing and developing the FP&A team and broader finance stakeholders.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Significant FP&A leadership experience within healthcare, healthcare services, multi-site businesses, or similarly complex service-led environments.
• Strong financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and performance management expertise.
• Proven ability to operate in fast-paced, changing environments.
• Experience partnering with senior operational stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Strong analytical capabilities combined with a commercial mindset.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced Excel and financial systems expertise; experience with BI and reporting tools is highly desirable.
• Previous interim, transformation, private equity-backed, or high-growth experience would be advantageous.

Key Information

• Interim assignment
• Healthcare services sector
• Immediate or short-notice availability preferred
• Competitive day rate
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Initial 6-month assignment with potential extension

Director of M&A | Germany | PE-Backed Healthcare Platform

I’m working on an exciting opportunity with a fast-growing, PE-backed healthcare services platform in Germany, looking to appoint a Director of M&A to help drive its next phase of buy-and-build growth. The business operates at meaningful scale nationally and is pursuing an ambitious acquisition strategy in a fragmented market.

This is a hands-on role with direct exposure to senior management and shareholders, suited to someone who wants to play a visible role in executing and shaping a live M&A agenda. The position will involve ownership of the deal pipeline, evaluation of targets, business case development, LOI preparation, due diligence coordination, SPA negotiations, management of external advisers, and support through post-merger integration. There is also broader exposure to strategy, corporate development and operational improvement work.

We are keen to speak with candidates who bring c.5–8 years of M&A experience gained in investment banking, consulting, transaction advisory or in-house corporate development. You should have strong modelling capability, successful end-to-end transaction experience, including SPA negotiation exposure, and be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-moving environment. Fluency in both German and English is required.

This is a particularly attractive opportunity for someone who enjoys hands-on deal execution, wants broader ownership than a traditional large corporate seat, and is motivated by the chance to help build a scaled platform in a resilient healthcare market.

Location: Germany
Language: German and English