Our client is a London-based Series B SaaS business — £18m ARR, growing 65% year-on-year, well-funded, and entering a 9-month period where their CFO is on planned maternity leave. The interim FD will hold the finance function during that period, with explicit responsibility for the Series C fundraise that is likely to fall mid-engagement.
The role is genuinely substantial — not a “keep the lights on” interim brief. The successful candidate will own monthly close, FP&A, board reporting, the relationship with the existing investors, and the Series C data room. There is a high-quality Finance Director (one level below the CFO) in seat who will continue to run day-to-day; the interim’s job is to be the CFO-equivalent at board and investor level.
Who fits: qualified accountant with prior CFO experience at a venture-backed SaaS business. At least one fundraise under your belt (Series B or later). Comfortable with the speed and ambiguity of an unstructured interim. Almost certainly someone who has done this before and is choosing the interim track deliberately.
£950–1,100 day rate. Nine-month engagement starting late June. Outside IR35 (confirmed). Hybrid, three days in the City office.
Briefed by James Finch (Founding Partner, Finance practice). This brief is exclusive to Marlow & Finch.