Job Description
Location: Recruiting across the BN and RH postcodes.
Salary: ÂŁ810 per day
What's the opportunity?
If you're a top-quality Chief Financial Officer / Finance Director who’s frustrated and fed up with the confines of a normal corporate life and you’re looking for something different, or you’re an independent CFO who has already made the break from corporate life, or a working or returning CFO parent who wants more work flexibility and work-life balance, this might be for you.
You’ll be responsible for providing CFO services to ambitious £2‑50M private businesses, supporting business owners to climb their Everest. They’re not interested in people who just want a job. You’ll help their clients reach those summits, be a self‑starter with ambition, energy, and a can‑do attitude, and have a passion to help their clients—typically business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs or MDs.
You’ll thrive on the challenge and autonomy of growing your own portfolio of clients, supported by an incredible network of CFOs based across the world. They have big dreams, and they expect you to have the same.
What do you need to have?
You need to be qualified from one of the UK’s major chartered accounting institutes and have been a real‑life CFO/FD once, twice or several times over, with strong experience and understanding of commercial finance, business strategy, and a track record of success. Your special sauce is your natural ability to build genuine long‑lasting relationships with clients—part CFO, part advisor, part strategist, part friend.
Working closely with your Regional Director and a team of CFO/FDs in a highly collegiate environment. They pride themselves on being a great place to work, with family at their core, as is often found in their own clients’ operations.
How does it work?
The role is self‑employed, while operating within a defined model, combining the benefits of being part of a team and supported by a well‑established organisation, but with a level of autonomy and freedom in how you deliver outcomes for clients.
Rather than feeding you fish, they teach you how to catch them and how to build a portfolio career that can be a game changer for clients and yourself. You’ll love the challenge, variety and interest of working for multiple clients and appreciate the flexibility this way of working provides.
Who are they?
They’re 700+ people, in 5 continents, operating across multiple regions in the UK & Ireland. They started the business to change the game for mid‑tier businesses! You’ll join a collective team of former CEOs, Executives, CFOs, FDs, and successful business owners who count themselves at the top of the game, with an experience base that supercharges their clients’ businesses.
"I started here 4 years ago and I’m loving the lifestyle, loving the challenge, and loving the difference I can make to the clients I am working with, and the ethos of what this place is all about. I even get to go to my kids' football games now! CFO"
They’re a movement of people who left corporate seeking a freedom-based lifestyle. This isn’t about retiring or kicking back drinking pina coladas on a beach in Thailand. It’s about doing something purposeful and being the captain of your own ship.
What do they do?
They define and deliver the numbers that really matter. They help their clients find the metrics that make a real difference to their business and their lives, and help deliver them—whether that’s growth, acquisition, consolidation, or setting them up for the lifestyle they’ve always wanted.
They want to continue to change the game, and they are looking for a game changer to join them. Apply now if this sounds like you!
To Apply
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Job Details
Posted Date:
November 24, 2025
Job Type:
Finance and Insurance
Location:
United Kingdom
Company:
Smiley & Co, Ltd.
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