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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-gribbon-37349b1/ Connect with Laura Streather, Consultant, Private Equity at Essenta https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-streather-451966137/

• 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

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