Partner / Portfolio Finance Director

London / Remote

Partner-level opportunity | Private Equity-backed portfolio

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Build a central finance centre of excellence. Shape a Portfolio. Drive Growth.

A rapidly expanding Private Equity-backed group is seeking an ambitious Partner to establish and lead a central finance centre of excellence supporting a growing portfolio of businesses.

This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded Chartered Accountant from a Big 4 accountancy practice background to build and lead scalable finance capability across multiple businesses in the portfolio.

Working closely with investors and senior leadership, you will play a central role in supporting portfolio companies, shaping financial strategy, and contributing to acquisition activity as the group continues to expand.

The Opportunity

Following several recent acquisitions, the group is now creating a centralised finance capability to support its expanding investment portfolio.

Initially, the function will support around 10 portfolio companies, including large-scale businesses generating significant revenues and managing workforces of up to 800 temporary staff.

Over time, the ambition is to expand the portfolio to up to 40 businesses, including smaller SME companies.

You will lead the development of the finance capability that supports this growth - building the team, the systems, and the strategic oversight required to support an ambitious investment strategy. This can be achieved domestically in the UK, or through offshoring.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Establishing and leading a central finance centre of excellence supporting multiple portfolio companies
• Acting as the finance subject matter expert across the group, providing commercially focused financial guidance
• Supporting portfolio leadership teams with strategic financial insight and decision-making
• Building and leading a high-performing finance team across UK hires and global BPO capability (e.g. India or South Africa)
• Designing scalable reporting, governance, and financial oversight frameworks across the portfolio
• Supporting mergers and acquisitions activity, including financial evaluation, due diligence input, and post-acquisition financial integration
• Identifying opportunities to expand finance services across the investment portfolio
• Helping develop the capability into a large and successful accountancy practice over the next five years
• Operational finance tasks such as payroll, finance administration, and day-to-day transactional processing are largely handled within the individual businesses.

About You

We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader with the ambition to build something significant.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a Chartered Accountant (ACA / ACCA)
• Experience in setting up a centralised finance function from scratch
• Have a background in a Big 4 accountancy practice (highly desirable)
• Have a minimum of 5 years post-qualified experience
• Bring experience in senior finance leadership or advisory roles
• Have strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking
• Possess knowledge of CIS (Construction Industry Scheme)
• Ideally have exposure to mergers and acquisitions, financial due diligence, or transaction advisory work
• Be comfortable working with investors, CEOs, and senior leadership teams
• Most importantly, you will have the ambition and intrapreneurial mindset to build and scale a successful finance service centre.

Location

The role can be fully remote, with optional office presence in central London.

What's on Offer

• Partner-level position within a rapidly growing Private Equity-backed group
• Opportunity to build and lead a new finance practice from the ground up
• Significant influence over strategy and growth
• Share options and long-term value creation potential
• Exposure to portfolio growth and acquisition activity

If you are an ambitious finance leader interested in building a scalable finance service centre within a dynamic Private Equity environment, we would welcome a confidential conversation.

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.