Conducting an Executive Search for a General Manager, Finance and Technology (CFO), for an Executive leader that is strategic and future focused.
The Brief
Following a longstanding engagement with the organisation, having assisted in the appointment of multiple Executives over the previous years, Future Leadership was once again selected to assist in the search process for a General Manager, Finance and Technology (CFO) role. A preliminary briefing was held with the CEO and Head of People and Culture.
The organisation sought an Executive to be the organisational lead for finance and technology/systems and bring vision and creativity to the long-term strategic planning and development and delivery of key strategic and organisational priorities. The successful candidate will have high level analytical skills and work across the organisation, bringing stakeholders together to identify operational imperatives for improvement and work collaboratively to problem-solve and develop future focused Solutions; and possess exceptional people skills and be an influential and respectful voice, fostering collaborative relationships.
Candidate net Promote Score
Future Leadership combines truly personalised relationships with innovative technology solutions to ensure an approachable and efficient process for all our Net Promoter Score across clients, successful candidates and unsuccessful candidates is well above industry standard.
Candidates supported every year
We maintain genuine relationships with past candidates and continue to support them with leadership solutions long term, after they land their role.
Senior Women Appointed since 2002
Over half of the executive search assignments undertaken by our team have resulted in the appointment of outstanding female or LGBTQI+ leaders to high profile roles.
Candidate Retention Rate for 12 months since 2002
Our thorough briefing process and ability to engage passive candidates mean that we go to great lengths to find the right person for the role – long term!
The Process
A national search was undertaken, supported by an online advertising campaign. Senior level strategic leaders within complex environments and similar organisations in the not-for-profit and human services sectors were sought, including candidates with strong alignment to the organisations values.
A diverse Longlist of seven candidates was presented with a high regard for the organisation within the marketplace. We conducted an extensive reach out and engagement of prospective and referred candidates of >100 and 108 formal expressions of interest were received, including one internal candidate. Longlist candidates came from various sectors including not for profit, higher education, disability, community services, health, manufacturing and government. Five candidates were shortlisted.
The Outcome
The successful appointee – a highly qualified CFO with over 15 years experience, brining a history of broad leadership responsibility across financial management, as well as HR, IT, warehouse and operations, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions/integrations, crisis and change management, and digital transformation.
