Interim Chief Financial Officer
An interim Chief Financial Officer secures the financial steering of your company, for the length of a year-end close, a transaction or a recruitment. They come from a pool of Chief Financial Officers that BCP Partners has met, assessed and referenced. Sixteen years of executive search have taught us to tell a reassuring CV from a leader able to hold a refinancing.
to present Chief Financial Officers we have already assessed
of the profiles proposed have been interviewed by the firm
the year since which we have worked with finance departments
Four deadlines that do not move
Financial emergencies have one thing in common, they arrive on a fixed date. A board, a lender or an auditor is waiting for an answer.
A year-end close to make reliable
After a departure or a doubt about the quality of the accounts, with deadlines that do not move.
A refinancing to conduct
In front of lenders who require a credible counterpart, operational from day one.
Preparing a disposal
Data room, restatements, dialogue with acquirers and their advisers.
The post vacant during the search
Cash is steered week by week while the recruitment of the permanent post-holder runs its course.
They take full responsibility, not a supporting role
The exact remit is set at the scoping stage, according to what the manager has already practised.
- 01 Cash and covenants Taken over without delay, banking commitments included.
- 02 The close and the figures Made reliable, so that every decision rests on accurate data.
- 03 The financial voice Carried before banks, auditors and shareholders.
- 04 The handover Processes, risks and open workstreams documented for the successor.
Your figures are not entrusted to an available CV
Financial urgency pushes people to take the first profile free. We take the opposite path. Every interim Chief Financial Officer proposed has gone through the process of our permanent placements, in-depth interviews and cross-checked references included. That discipline protects precisely what the assignment has to secure, your figures and your credibility.
No profile on paper alone
Every manager is seen in an in-depth interview before entering our talent pool.
Tested in real situations
We test the ability to hold a refinancing, not only the career path on display.
Cross-checked references
Taken from environments comparable to yours, on transactions of the same nature.
A year-end close falls due on its date, whether the post is filled or not
Tell us about the deadline on your mind. One call is enough to assess your context, and mobilising an interim Chief Financial Officer takes under 48 hours.
Ce que les dirigeants nous demandent avant d'appeler
Because they would then be holding two roles at once, their own and that of the Chief Financial Officer. During a year-end close, a refinancing or a disposal, that doubling up weakens both. Financial emergencies have one thing in common, they arrive on a fixed date. A board, a lender or an auditor is waiting for an answer by a deadline that will not move, and you need a leader who is immediately credible in front of your management committee and your financial partners. The interim Chief Financial Officer takes full responsibility, not a supporting role. They take over the steering of cash, covenants and banking commitments without delay. They also bring an outside eye, useful for establishing objectively the real state of the function before the permanent post-holder arrives. Your number two thus stays focused on their own remit.
Yes, and it is a central part of the assignment. They carry the financial voice before banks, auditors and shareholders, with the authority of a permanent post-holder. We select Chief Financial Officers who have already carried that dialogue in contexts close to yours, which our cross-checked references verify point by point. Refinancing in front of demanding lenders, preparing a disposal with a data room and dialogue with acquirers, a turnaround where cash is steered week by week, each of these grounds calls for a demonstrated track record. Credibility in front of lenders is not improvised, it is demonstrated through the career path. Every manager proposed has gone through the process of our permanent placements, in-depth interviews and cross-checked references included, and their presentation file sets out that experience precisely.
A finance function documented and put back in order. The manager leaves behind processes made reliable, an up-to-date risk map and a complete handover file. Processes, risks, open workstreams, priorities, everything is written down for their successor, who starts on sound foundations without reconstructing the history. The handover is part of the assignment, it does not depend on goodwill on the day. The assignment also produces information that nothing else gives, the real remit of the role, the maturity of the teams and the priority workstreams, seen from the inside. Those elements transform the scoping of the permanent hire, which we can run in parallel. It is one of the reasons why an interim assignment shortens the period of risk instead of simply filling it.
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