Chief Financial Officer

Our client, a Private Equity backed payments company serving merchants across the United States and Canada, is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to support its next stage of growth. The role is suited for a finance leader with deep payments experience and a strong understanding of the financial complexity of merchant acquiring. What You Will Do - Lead the finance and accounting function for a private equity-backed payments company. - Partner with the CEO, private equity sponsor, and executive leadership team on financial strategy, business planning, and company performance. - Build stronger financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and board reporting processes. - Provide clear visibility into processing volume, merchant performance, revenue streams, residuals, costs, margins, and portfolio trends. - Improve financial discipline across merchant acquiring, ISV partnerships, sponsor bank relationships, and ancillary payment solutions. - Strengthen finance systems, controls, processes, and reporting as the company scales. - Support investor reporting, board communication, lender relationships, and private equity ownership requirements. - Partner across sales, product, risk, underwriting, operations, and technology to improve visibility into business performance. - Help evaluate growth opportunities, new products, partnerships, geographic expansion, and potential acquisitions. - Lead cash management, capital planning, compliance-related financial oversight, and risk-informed decision-making. - Build, lead, and develop the finance team. What You Bring - Senior finance leadership experience in payments, merchant acquiring, payment processing, gateways, ISOs, sponsor bank models, embedded payments, or related fintech environments. - Strong understanding of payments revenue complexity, merchant acquiring economics, residual reporting, portfolio performance, processing costs, and interchange economics. - Experience working in a private equity-backed company or directly with private equity sponsors, boards, and investors. - Ability to connect financial reporting to business performance, operating metrics, and growth decisions. - Experience building reporting, forecasting, budgeting, controls, and scalable finance processes. - Comfort operating in a growing middle-market company where the CFO needs to be strategic, hands-on, and close to the details. - Experience with board reporting, investor communication, capital planning, and business performance reviews. - Ability to partner with sales, product, risk, underwriting, operations, technology, and executive leadership. - Experience with merchant portfolios, sponsor bank oversight, residuals, ISO or agent models, ISV partnerships, or complex merchant verticals. - CPA preferred, but not required. Originally posted on Himalayas