Interim Finance Consultant

Summary: The Interim Finance Consultant will lead the financial separation and execution planning for a private equity-backed healthcare business preparing for a significant liquidity event. Reporting to the CFO, the role involves managing financial workstreams, liaising with external stakeholders, and ensuring compliance and readiness for an IPO or trade sale. The consultant will oversee project timelines and deliverables while maintaining financial integrity throughout the process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the financial carve-out process, ensuring clear separation of assets, liabilities, and reporting structures.
• Preparing the business for IPO or trade sale, including supporting VDD (vendor due diligence), financial factbooks, and investor presentations.
• Acting as the key finance lead with external advisors including bankers, legal counsel, and auditors.
• Establishing clean standalone financials and ensuring accuracy and defensibility of reporting.
• Supporting the CFO with scenario modelling, equity story development, and transaction structuring.
• Overseeing project timelines, risk registers, and critical path delivery across all finance-related exit activities.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant listing or buyer due diligence requirements.
• Partnering across business functions to ensure operational readiness and execution alignment.

Key Skills:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with significant experience in transaction finance.
• Demonstrated track record of leading IPO or M&A processes, ideally in a carve-out context.
• Experience in the healthcare sector, particularly multi-site or regulated environments, is highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of private equity value creation and exit strategies.
• Ability to manage multiple external stakeholders and advisors under tight deadlines.
• A highly analytical and commercial mindset, with excellent attention to detail and financial rigour.
• A proactive, project-oriented approach with the ability to influence at board level.

Salary (Rate): 850

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Finance