Our client is an international group operating in the Transport Equipment Manufacturing sector, backed by a leading Italian PE and an international Private Equity Fund.
Founded in the late 1900’s, the Group is headquartered in Northern Italy and operates with manufacturing facilities in Italy and America. With this footprint, they have been driving a relevant double-digit growth journey in recent years , which implies both organic and inorganic business opportunities. In 2023, they have achieved a turnover of 150+M€ with the ambition to double the results in 2025.
Position – The role:
The business is growing fast and there is space for further growth. The current plan requires to add leadership in the Executive Team to exploit full potential. The new role of the Group CFO is now required to support organic growth as well as M&A; and all ordinary and extraordinary business actions.
The role is strategic and designed to report solid line to the CEO. The key goals will be:
- deliver impact in driving finance as strategic partner of the business,



across new business milestones and a growth mission in parallel with optimisation actions;
- ensure full domain of technical topics, addressing a strategic dialogue with both the Executive team and Stakeholders, while communicating effectively both upwards and downwards

Position – Specific responsibilities & critical priorities:
- Establish trust with both Stakeholders and Executives and forge an effective business partnership to 1) ensure a sound domain of all Finance topics, full control of all KPIs, and to 2) enable growth and the reach of strategic goals.
- Take the leadership of all functional areas in the scope , and act as a role model to reinforce finance credibility and reshape its ability to commit and deliver across new goals, including enable stakeholders to take decisions rooted on solid reasons. The mission will focus on the set up of a new Strategic Finance function , steering the team to achieve excellence targe

📌 GROUP CFO (Italia)
🏢 Rochester Executive
📍 Italia