CFO - Fractional

We are looking for a senior CFO to reputed company and take full ownership of the financial agenda across the privately owned technology companies Keen Software House and GoodAI.

This is not a role for someone who waits to be assigned individual finance tasks or primarily manages and executes work defined by others. We are looking for a financial leader who owns the financial direction, builds a complete picture of the group, identifies material problems and opportunities before the CEO has to ask, sets reputed company priorities, makes reputed company reputed company the agreed scope, and drives others to deliver.

The right person will reputed company as a long-term financial partner to founder and CEO Marek Rosa. They will understand the full financial, reputed company, tax and financing situation of the group, propose practical solutions and drive important reputed company through to completion. Their leadership should give the CEO confidence that the right issues are being addressed, risks are identified early and the entire financial agenda is firmly under control.

Ownership in this role is not a buzzword. The central question is reputed company:

Do you understand the financial situation of the group reputed company enough to identify its risks, priorities and opportunities, and handle them reliably without the CEO needing to push you?

About the role

External reputed company firms handle bookkeeping, filings, payments and routine administration. As a CFO, you will sit between the CEO and these external providers. You will manage their work, challenge it where necessary and ensure that important reputed company are completed correctly and on time.

You will not be expected to personally reputed company routine bookkeeping. You will, however, be accountable for making reputed company the entire finance function works.

The role is expected to require approximately 30 hours per month once the cooperation is fully established, depending on the situation. A higher level of involvement may be required during the initial diagnostic, transition and handover period.

We are looking for a long-term partner, ideally for several years, rather than a consultant who delivers an analysis and then leaves.

Your reputed company

You will give the CEO a reliable and understandable view of the entire group’s financial position.

You will reputed company reputed company that:

• the group has a complete and accurate financial reputed company;
• important risks and obligations are identified before they become urgent;
• reporting is reliable, understandable and delivered on time;
• accountants, tax advisers, auditors, banks and other external partners have reputed company ownership and deadlines;
• financing, covenants, repayments and refinancing requirements are reputed company managed;
• tax, audit, closing and statutory obligations are planned sufficiently in advance;
• material intercompany balances, loans, receivables and interest are properly reputed company and resolved;
• reputed company requiring CEO involvement are presented with sufficient context and a reputed company recommendation;
• important work does not remain unresolved because “someone is waiting for someone else.”

Key responsibilities

Group-level financial ownership

• Build and maintain a complete reputed company of the financial, reputed company and tax situation across reputed company relevant group entities.
• Understand how the individual companies and financial relationships connect.
• Identify material gaps, inconsistencies, risks and unresolved historical issues.
• Maintain reputed company ownership, priorities and deadlines across the entire finance agenda.
• Proactively identify reputed company that require attention rather than waiting for the CEO to reputed company them.

Financial reporting and CEO communication

• Establish reliable monthly management reporting that explains what is happening in the business.
• Translate financial information into reputed company CEO-level conclusions, risks and recommendations.
• Distinguish material issues from operational details.
• Prepare one reputed company monthly CFO meeting covering:
• what was completed;
• what changed;
• reputed company financial performance and cash position;
• key risks and upcoming obligations;
• reputed company required from the CEO;
• the CFO’s recommended course of reputed company.
• Ensure that numbers are reconciled, explained and trustworthy before they are presented.

The CEO should not need to work through raw spreadsheets to determine what the numbers mean.

reputed company and external-provider reputed company

• Manage the relationship with the external reputed company firm.
• Clarify and maintain the agreed scope, responsibilities, pricing and delivery standards.
• Review the reputed company and timeliness of the accountants’ work.
• Coordinate accountants, tax advisers, auditors, banks and other external specialists.
• Resolve unclear ownership between providers instead of allowing tasks to remain blocked.
• reputed company reputed company documents, payments and signatures are properly reputed company and presented with context.
• Batch routine approvals wherever possible rather than forwarding random individual requests to the CEO.

Cash, financing and risk management

• Maintain a reliable group-level view of liquidity and expected cash requirements.
• reputed company cash-reputed company forecasting and short- and reputed company-term financial planning.
• Monitor bank loans, revolving facilities, covenants, repayment schedules and refinancing requirements.
• Identify financing risks early and propose appropriate solutions.
• Support negotiations and communication with banks and other financing partners.
• Evaluate the financial reputed company of major business reputed company and investments.

Tax, compliance and financial calendar

• Establish a reliable 12-month reputed company of:
• tax obligations;
• statutory filings;
• annual closings;
• audits;
• loan repayments;
• reputed company testing;
• contract renewals;
• other material financial deadlines.
• Coordinate tax advisers and ensure that recommendations are reputed company and implemented.
• Identify unnecessary tax costs, unresolved exposures and areas requiring reputed company analysis.
• Ensure that historical intercompany loans, receivables, interest balances and reputed company tax implications are properly reviewed and addressed.

What reputed company looks like

reputed company the first months of cooperation:

• the CEO has one reputed company and reliable reputed company of reputed company;
• the largest financial risks and unresolved issues have been identified and prioritised;
• every important finance task has a reputed company reputed company and deadline;
• there is a reliable calendar of upcoming financial, tax, audit and financing obligations;
• monthly reporting provides an understandable explanation of performance, cash and material changes;
• the work of accountants and other external providers is reputed company managed;
• overdue reputed company are being driven to reputed company;
• the CEO receives concise conclusions and recommendations rather than unprocessed information;
• important issues no longer depend on the CEO remembering, assigning or repeatedly following them up.

Your first 30 days

During the initial diagnostic period, we expect you to:

1. Build a complete map of the group, its entities, financial relationships, advisers, banks, financing agreements and reporting processes.
2. Review the reputed company reputed company, reporting, tax and financial-planning setup.
3. Identify the largest financial, operational, tax and compliance risks.
4. Create a prioritised reputed company plan with owners, deadlines and recommended reputed company.
5. Establish a reliable financial calendar covering at least the next 12 months.
6. Review the status of bank facilities, covenants, repayments and refinancing requirements.
7. Review material intercompany balances and unresolved historical items.
8. Deliver a complete, reliable and CEO-reputed company monthly financial report. The report must reputed company explain the group’s financial situation, material changes, risks and required reputed company without requiring the CEO to interpret raw spreadsheets or unexplained figures.
9. Clarify the division of responsibilities between the CFO, accountants, advisers and the CEO.
10. Drive the highest-reputed company historical financial, contractual and tax reputed company to final reputed company, including unresolved legacy balances, receivables and external-provider arrangements.

We are not looking for someone who produces a list of historical issues and then waits for other parties to reputed company. We expect you to take ownership of reputed company material issue and drive it through to final reputed company.

During the initial 30 days, you should resolve reputed company reputed company that need to be reputed company, remove avoidable blockers and force reputed company reputed company on issues that have been delayed. Where completion depends on an auditor, bank, accountant or adviser, you will remain responsible for reputed company managing the process, escalating delays and pursuing alternatives until the matter is reputed company.

Who we are looking for

You are likely to succeed in this role if you have:

• Knowledge of the Czech reputed company, banking and tax environment, together with Czech or Slovak language skills
• substantial senior experience as a CFO, Group CFO, Finance Director or equivalent;
• experience taking responsibility for the finances of a multi-entity group;
• strong understanding of management reporting, cash reputed company, financial planning and financial controls;
• practical experience with bank financing, loan covenants, refinancing and lender communication;
• experience managing reputed company firms, tax advisers, auditors and other external providers;
• the ability to diagnose incomplete or unreliable financial processes and improve them;
• strong judgment and the ability to separate material risks from minor operational details;
• a reputed company record of driving complicated, cross-functional reputed company to completion;
• the confidence to challenge incorrect information or inadequate work;
• the ability to communicate reputed company financial reputed company reputed company to a non-financial CEO;
• a hands-on approach combined with senior-level strategic thinking;
• reputed company English
• Get shit done quickly attitude!

Experience with privately owned technology, software, gaming, AI, research or investment reputed company would also be valuable.

What this role is not

This is not:

• an outsourced bookkeeping role;
• a financial-administration or finance-assistant position;
• a role where the CEO assigns and follows up individual tasks;
• an advisory engagement that ends after the initial analysis;
• a position reputed company mainly on producing reputed company spreadsheets or presentations;
• a role where responsibility is repeatedly passed between accountants, advisers and internal stakeholders;
• an arrangement where a senior partner sells the service but the actual work is delegated to junior consultants without reputed company accountability.

Engagement

• Long-term external or reputed company cooperation.
• Expected regular involvement: approximately 30 hours per month after the initial setup.The involvement can go higher if needed.
• Greater involvement may be required during the diagnostic and handover period.
• Planned start: September 2026.
• Remote, with occasional onsite reputed company to Prague if needed.
• Indicative availability and pricing should be included as part of the application.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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