VP of Finance Executive Search
Retained VP of Finance Search for Middle-Market, Private Equity & Venture-Backed Companies
Hiring the right Vice President of Finance is a critical inflection point for organizations navigating growth, institutional investment, or acquisition-driven strategies. In private equity-backed, venture-backed, and middle-market environments, the VP of Finance serves as a senior execution leader, translating financial strategy into operational results and supporting value creation across the business.
Built for High-Stakes Finance Leadership Environments
Our VP of Finance executive search practice supports organizations where senior finance leadership is essential to operational excellence and scalability. We partner with middle-market companies, private equity portfolio companies, venture-backed growth firms, family offices, and institutional investors seeking proven VP of Finance leadership aligned to ownership structure and strategic priorities.
Private Equity firms and portfolio companies
Venture and growth equity-backed businesses
Family offices and institutional investors
Founder-led and middle-market operating companies
Our retained, consultative approach ensures VP of Finance leaders are selected for execution capability, leadership depth, and long-term alignment.
The Role of the VP of Finance in Investor-Backed & Middle-Market Companies
In today’s market, the VP of Finance is a hands-on senior leader responsible for execution beneath the CFO or, in some organizations, as the most senior in-house finance operator. The role is shaped by ownership structure, deal activity, and the pace of growth.
Effective VPs of Finance in these environments are responsible for:
- Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- Managing financial operations, reporting cadence, and performance metrics
- Cash flow and working capital management
- Leading and scaling finance teams and processes
- Supporting audits, external reporting, and investor requirements
In private equity-backed and acquisition-heavy environments, the VP of Finance role shifts from primarily managing planning and reporting to serving as a core execution leader, supporting transaction activity, integration, and value creation alongside the CFO.
The M&A-Focused VP of Finance in Roll-Up & Acquisition-Heavy Strategies
In roll-up strategies and high-volume acquisition environments, the VP of Finance is frequently a transaction-oriented execution leader, not a traditional FP&A-focused hire.
Key responsibilities often include:
- Leading financial due diligence across platform and add-on acquisitions
- Building and owning acquisition and transaction models
- Managing data rooms, diligence requests, and external advisors
- Supporting purchase agreement economics, working capital analyses, and close mechanics
- Leading financial integration post-close, including reporting alignment and KPI standardization
- Supporting synergy tracking and value creation initiatives
- Creating repeatable acquisition and integration playbooks to support scale
For private equity sponsors, this VP of Finance provides critical execution leverage, enabling speed, discipline, and consistency across the deal lifecycle. For CFOs, the role removes deal execution bottlenecks while maintaining operational continuity.
When to Engage a VP of Finance Executive Search Firm
Organizations engage a retained VP of Finance executive search firm when finance leadership depth becomes critical to performance and scale. This inflection often follows institutional investment, rapid growth, or acquisition-driven strategies, when execution demands across operations, transactions, and integration begin to exceed existing leadership capacity.
Common inflection points include:
- Post-investment or post-acquisition, when finance execution must scale quickly
- Rapid organic growth or acquisition velocity overwhelming existing finance leadership
- CFO bandwidth constraints, particularly during periods of active deal execution
- Launch of an acquisition-driven growth or roll-up strategy following private equity investment
- Increasing reporting, forecasting, and operational complexity across the core business and acquired entities
- High-volume add-on activity requiring in-house financial diligence, modeling, and integration support
- Preparation for audits, diligence, or future leadership succession
At these stages, a retained VP of Finance provides critical execution leverage, strengthening day to day finance operations while supporting acquisition activity, integration, and value creation.
Our VP of Finance Executive Search Approach
Our VP of Finance executive search engagements are conducted on a retained, exclusive basis, allowing us to operate as a true partner to investors, boards, and finance leadership teams.
Our approach includes:
- A consultative intake focused on organizational structure, growth plans, and leadership gaps
- Targeted outreach leveraging deep VP of Finance and senior finance networks
- Rigorous evaluation of operational finance expertise, leadership capability, and cultural fit
- Discreet, confidential execution to protect sensitive stakeholders and transitions
VP of Finance Profiles We Place
Our VP of Finance executive search practice supports a range of leadership profiles, tailored to the company’s stage, ownership model, and operating complexity, including:
- M&A-focused VPs of Finance supporting private equity-backed roll-ups and acquisition-led growth
- Private equity portfolio VPs of Finance supporting CFO-led value creation
- Venture-backed growth VPs of Finance scaling reporting and forecasting infrastructure
- Middle-market VPs of Finance serving as senior finance operators for founder-led businesses
- FP&A-focused VPs of Finance driving performance analytics and decision support
- Finance transformation leaders improving processes, systems, and team capability
These profiles are typically drawn from investment banking, private equity, or transaction advisory backgrounds and lead financial diligence, acquisition modeling, deal execution, and post-close integration.
Why PeakPitch
VP of Finance searches carry meaningful execution risk and long-term impact. Our clients choose us because we are purpose-built for environments where finance leadership performance matters.
Our retained VP of Finance executive search model delivers:
- Boutique, senior-level focus, ensuring hands-on leadership throughout execution-critical VP hires
- Exclusive specialization in finance and accounting leadership, enabling precise evaluation of operational finance capability
- Deep experience with private equity, venture capital, and middle-market companies, where VPs of Finance serve as key partners to CFOs
- Confidential, disciplined, and consultative execution, aligned to growth, reporting, and performance expectations
- Long-term alignment over transactional placement, measured by durability, execution strength, and trust
We serve as a trusted partner to investors, boards, CFOs, founders, and business owners building high-performing finance leadership teams
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Whether you are scaling finance operations, strengthening execution beneath the CFO, or preparing for future growth or transactions, the right VP of Finance can materially improve outcomes. Engage a retained VP of Finance executive search partner aligned to your ownership structure, timeline, and objectives.