M&A Group Performance Director in Borehamwood

Location: Borehamwood HQ, with required travel

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: up to £140,000 + potential EMI

The M&A Group Performance Director is accountable for ensuring that acquisitions integrate successfully, performance is stabilised, and value is consistently realised as the Group scales through rapid M&A. The purpose of the position is to protect and enhance value during a period of accelerated acquisitions, ensuring integrations are right first time, vendor and founder relationships remain aligned, and performance outcomes match what was underwritten.

The role draws on deep, repeat acquisition experience to reduce risk, improve judgement, and ensure the Group is fully prepared for lender scrutiny and future equity events.

• Integration Outcomes (Non‑Negotiable)

• Accountable for ensuring post‑acquisition integrations deliver the expected value.
• Maintain a strong focus on outcomes, not integration mechanics.
• Identify integration risks early and intervene through the Executive Team.
• Ensure integrations protect customers, people, EBITDA, and cashflow.

• Track post‑acquisition performance against acquisition models and investment cases.
• Identify margin leakage, underperformance, or execution risk early.
• Improve predictability and quality of earnings across the Group.
• Reduce surprises to lenders and equity investors.

• Act as a senior, credible point of contact for vendors and founders post‑completion.
• Manage founder dynamics and earn‑out tension effectively.
• Maintain alignment and minimise disruption to trading performance.
• Support smooth leadership transitions where founders remain in the business.

• Participate in selected vendor meetings pre‑completion.
• Apply experience from multiple prior acquisitions to identify repeat risk patterns.
• Assess founder behaviour, cultural risk, and integration complexity.
• Provide judgement, challenge, and perspective, not deal execution.

• Ensure operational and cultural stability as significant revenue and headcount are added.
• Support leadership teams through integration‑related change.
• Prevent fragmentation across regions, functions, and cultures as the Group scales.

• Act as a constructive counterweight to optimism within the Executive Team.
• Bring lived experience of integration failure, covenant pressure, and complexity.
• Strengthen Executive decision‑making through practical, experience‑led challenge.

• Clean, timely, and disciplined integrations.
• EBITDA delivery aligned to acquisition models.
• Stable, well‑managed vendor and founder relationships.
• Fewer integration surprises and performance shocks.
• Strong lender and equity readiness narrative.

• Former CFO and/or Managing Director experience.
• Extensive experience in high‑volume acquisition environments.
• Track record operating in PE‑backed or lender‑heavy organisations.
• Commercially astute, calm under pressure, and decisive.
• High credibility with vendors, founders, lenders, and senior executives.

• Be a Changemaker: Play a vital role in shaping Redsquid’s future through innovative UC solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a dynamic, forward-thinking team that values your ideas and expertise.
• Professional Growth: Access opportunities to expand your skillset and thrive in a role with real impact.
• Exciting Challenges: Lead UC initiatives through a transformative acquisition journey that positions Redsquid as an industry leader.

• We value our employees and are committed to providing them with a workplace which is both safe and secure.
• Likewise we create an environment where every employee is treated fairly, with respect and importantly equal opportunities for all.
• ~24 days annual leave entitlement (Increase on years’ service up to 29)
• ~ Additional day off for your Birthday
• ~ A strong, inclusive culture supported by regular team social events.
• ~ Private Health Insurance with discounted perks; (such as gym membership, cinema tickets, flight and hotels)
• ~ Bupa Dental Plan
• ~ Eye care contribution