Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in London

The Collecting Group (TCG) isn’t your average company; we’re a team of culture curators who live and breathe cars and watches. We’re not just disrupting the auction industry—we’re redefining it. Our brands, Collecting Cars and Watch Collecting, are already leading the pack, but we’re just getting started. We are now looking for a strategic Chief Financial Officer to join our executive team and help architect the next phase of our global expansion.

The Mission: The CFO at The Collecting Group will serve as a high-impact strategic partner to the CEO and Executive Team, driving the financial evolution of a high-growth, international B2C business. We are in an active growth phase, expanding into new geographies and categories, with a Board and investor base that expects precision, pace, and clear commercial thinking. As a core member of the executive team, you will work closely with the CEO and COO to drive global commercial performance.

The Gearbox: This is the primary mandate of the role. The CFO will be a trusted advisor to the CEO, COO, and commercial leads, bringing financial rigour to strategic decisions and ensuring the business has the analytical horsepower to make fast, well-reasoned trade-off decisions.

• Drive prioritisation across the business, challenging assumptions and forcing structured trade-off decisions.
• Lead business case development for major market launches, product investments, hiring plans, and operational bets.
• Own budgeting and forecasting as a commercial tool rather than a compliance exercise, utilising rolling forecasts that reflect business reality.
• Partner with commercial teams on revenue-driving and cost-out initiatives, bringing analytical depth to both sides of the ledger.
• Lead the evaluation and execution of offshoring and shared services opportunities as the business scales.
• Champion AI-driven automation across finance operations and reporting to reduce manual workload and improve decision-speed.
• Act as the lead financial voice on all M&A activity, including financial due diligence, commercial assessment, and post-acquisition integration.
• Lead on debt, refinancing, and any future financing processes—from preparation through to negotiation.
• Build and maintain relationships with corporate finance advisors, banks, and relevant financial stakeholders.

The Specs (What We’ll Need From You):

• A proven CFO with a track record of operating at the executive level; commercial instinct and leadership credibility are as vital as technical depth.
• Experience in marketplaces, premium consumer, or luxury sectors is preferred. Our model requires specific commercial intuition.
• Private Equity experience is strongly preferred, either within a PE-backed business or through transaction advisory; we need a "PE-backed operator" mindset.
• International experience across multi-currency, multi-entity environments.
• A demonstrable track record of building or significantly improving finance functions, systems, KPI frameworks, and team capability.
• A strong mindset with the ability to turn data into actionable insight quickly.
• Genuinely curious about how automation and AI tooling can improve the finance function.
• Ability to design and manage a scalable global financial governance and internal controls framework that ensures multi-jurisdictional compliance while providing the Board with rigorous oversight.
• Ability to direct treasury and cash management for a multi-entity structure by optimising working capital, managing debt, and maintaining 13-week rolling forecasts to ensure full liquidity visibility.

The Pit Stop: This will be based at our Head Office in Parsons Green, London.

The Fuel: 25 days holiday (plus an additional day each year after 2 years of tenure). Private medical insurance for you and your family. Competitive company pension contribution. Annual learning and development budget. A chance to grow your career in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

The Finish Line: If you’re passionate about the limitless potential of AI to transform financial governance and have the ambition to architect automated reporting and forecasting tools that redefine how we drive commercial performance, we want you in the driver’s seat. Ready to Shift Gears? Apply now and let’s build the future of The Collecting Group together.