Job description
Are you an experienced finance leader ready to support a high-growth organisation through a critical scale-up phase? This is an exciting opportunity to join as Interim CFO, ensuring continuity and financial leadership while partnering with the incoming permanent CFO during a planned transition.
What's in it for you?
- Competitive day rate or contract arrangement
- Fractional engagement - 3 days per week
- Approx. 3-month assignment, starting ASAP
- Opportunity to shape a finance function in a rapidly scaling, technology-driven organisation
- Work alongside a collaborative executive team during a pivotal growth period
About the organisation
This role sits within a UK-based AI scale-up working with government, international, and critical-infrastructure clients.
The organisation is:
- Post-Series A, now entering a rapid build-out and operational maturity phase
- Scaling from ~60 headcount
- Establishing and strengthening core functions across finance, operations, and governance
The Interim CFO will play a key role in providing financial stability, driving discipline, and preparing for a handover in late Q1.
About you
- Proven scale-up finance leader with experience across Series A-C
- Background in deep tech, AI, or other regulated sectors (preferred)
- Strong technical capability in:
- Cashflow management and forecasting
- Board reporting and investor readiness
- Monthly close discipline and budgeting cadence
- Experienced in tightening controls, implementing financial processes, and supporting system/tooling improvements
- Able to support audit preparation and uplift finance operations
- Collaborative, pragmatic and able to land quickly and hand over cleanly to the permanent CFO
What you'll do
- Lead short-term financial management and provide stability during the transition
- Manage cashflow, forecasting, budgeting, and monthly close
- Deliver clear, timely reports for the board and investors
- Strengthen financial controls, cost discipline, and operational processes
- Support audit preparation and improvements to finance tooling and systems
- Work closely with the executive team and prepare a structured, comprehensive handover to the incoming CFO
For further information on this job, or any other Accountancy & Finance job in Belfast or Northern Ireland, apply via the link or contact Dan Morgan for a confidential chat today.
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