How to get on CFO headhunters’ radars and win your next role

We received a flood of FP&A and CFO questions from our audience (and FP&A Reddit). These and more are put to this this week’s finance headhunter special guests: Nick Gribbon ,Senior Partner, Financial Officers Practice at Essenta, and Laura Streather , Consultant, Private Equity at Essenta , who run the finance headhunting section at the global executive search firm.

Hear all the behind the scenes anecdotes and secrets to getting your next big FP&A or CFO job.

Connect with Nick Gribbon, Senior Partner, Financial Officers Practice at Essenta

Connect with Laura Streather, Consultant, Private Equity at Essenta

In this week's episode:

• Shortage of Exit Private Equity CFOs and what you will need to fill the role  
• How to go from Director FP&A of a large public company to CFO of a PE-backed company
• The importance of demonstrating “behavioral competencies of leadership” to pass the first screening 
• Getting exposure to the right industry – how important is it?
• Getting to understand where you are going to have most impact in your next role
• How important is the CPA?
• What is the best way to get on headhunters’ radars? 
• What the headhunter interview looks like and is designed to accomplish for you and the recruitment firm?
• The importance of referrals and how to play them to your advantage 
• How slow is the CFO job market?
• Is being the CFO at a private equity-backed company right for you? What can candidates add to CVs to stand out?
• Salary bands and how to negotiate the most money
• Salary inflation and how that impacts senior role s

• Will moving as CFO from a $100m to $1bn company automatically get you a higher salary

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