FD Capital Recruitment Ltd is registered at Companies House (no. 13329383) and has been providing CFOs and Finance Directors since 2018 and is operated by an ICAEW-registered practice. Our founder Adrian Lawrence FCA holds an ICAEW practising certificate.
Fractional / Outsourced CFO | Profitable, Founder-Led Healthcare Business | 1–2 Days per Week | FD Capital
FD Capital is partnering with a profitable, founder-led healthcare infrastructure business to appoint a fractional CFO during a period of significant growth.
Our client is not VC- or PE-backed and isn't burning investor cash. They're profitable, cash-flow-positive, bootstrapped and family-owned, with real revenue and complex fulfilment, supplier, stock, cashflow and margin dynamics. This isn't an investor-theatre brief — they need someone who knows how to help a profitable, founder-led business scale through better forecasting, cash discipline, margin visibility and financial controls.
This is a strategic role that sits above day-to-day finance. You won't run the finance operation — a Financial Controller is being hired in parallel for that — and helping shape and land that hire is one of your early priorities.
Core workstreams (in priority order)
- A robust, granular, bottom-up P&L and forecast model (base / upside / downside)
- Cashflow, VAT and working capital strategy for scaling volumes, including cash reserves and external facilities
- Finance function roadmap and Financial Controller oversight, including their first 90-day plan
- Margin, cost-to-serve and client profitability framework
- A cost allocation methodology for usage-based operational suppliers
- Investment, resource and strategic decision support — the financial challenge layer for the directors
- A practical monthly management reporting cadence (no bureaucracy for its own sake)
What our client is looking for
- A genuine CFO who has helped profitable, operational, founder-led businesses scale — not just venture-backed growth stories
- Strong on forecasting, cash and working capital, margin and cost-to-serve, and finance function design
- Comfortable building frameworks and architecture early, before clean real-time actuals exist
- Able to provide independent technical challenge (e.g. R&D, capex) above external accountants
- A partner to founders who advises, challenges and designs — without becoming an expensive part-time Financial Controller
Engagement: Likely front-loaded during the initial diagnostic and design phase, settling into roughly 1–2 days per week as a regular strategic review and challenge rhythm. Candidates are welcome to propose their cadence, 90-day deliverables and day-rate / retainer options.
📍 Fractional | 1–2 days per week