Fractional CFO | Manufacturing

Highbury Executive Talent has been engaged by a privately held manufacturing business undergoing significant growth. With a strong market position and ambitious expansion plans, the business is investing in its operations, people and systems. This fractional CFO role sits alongside the CEO and Founder, providing senior financial leadership on a part-time basis to strengthen the finance function and drive commercial value creation across a multi-site network.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical accounting expertise, sound governance capability, and the commercial mindset to act as a genuine strategic partner at the executive level. Experience within a private equity-backed or investor-owned manufacturing environment is highly regarded.

• Act as a strategic financial partner to the CEO and Founder, providing commercial insight to support growth and key business decisions.
• Build and lead the finance function, including board reporting, management reporting, consolidations and timely financial information delivery.
• Drive best-practice financial governance, internal controls, risk management frameworks and external audit processes across the organisation.
• Lead treasury and capital management activities, including cash flow forecasting, working capital optimisation and banking relationships.
• Partner with operations leadership to embed commercial and financial discipline across the multi-site network and support unit-level performance.

• CA or CPA qualified, ideally with Big 4 or reputable mid-tier training background.
• Proven track record as a CFO or senior finance leader within a manufacturing business.
• Experience operating in a private equity-backed or investor-owned environment with strong reporting capability.
• Strong technical expertise across financial reporting, statutory compliance, tax, controls, governance and external audit.
• Commercially minded and comfortable operating at pace in a high-growth, founder-led environment.

Highbury Executive Talent is an executive search and recruitment firm specialising in placing senior finance and commercial leaders. The firm works with high-growth and privately held businesses across Australia, connecting them with experienced executives for both permanent and fractional engagements.