Fractional Chief Financial Officer

Fractional Chief Financial Officer, 6 Month Contract

Position Details:

• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Level: Senior and Expert level
• Location: Remote from UK
• Salary: Not provided

About the Role: This is a fractional CFO position with tem, a next-gen energy transactions company that is transforming how renewable energy is bought, sold and powered.

Who you are

• CFO (or equivalent) experience at a venture-backed scale-up, with Series B+ investment conversations and a leading role in at least one raise
• Hands-on capital strategy: equity story, investor relations, and non-equity or debt facilities
• International entity set-up, ideally US - comfortable owning the legal, tax, and banking workstreams
• ERP and financial systems ownership - you've built or fixed the information flow, not just consumed it
• Available 3 days a week for 6 months, able to start fast
• If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for

Desirable

• Complex commodity, energy, or regulated-market experience
• Risk management: structure, levers, and the story to investors
• AI-native finance team structuring - we have most of this covered; you'd sharpen it, not build it
• The credibility and appetite to lead a funding round personally
• Strong culture fit: direct, fast, low ego

What the job involves

• We're hiring a Fractional CFO - an interim engagement, 6 months, 3 days a week
• This is senior cover with real ownership, not a caretaker seat. For six months you own tem's finance outcome end to end - capital, expansion, infrastructure, and audit readiness - while our permanent CFO search continues
• We're upfront about that overlap: this engagement stands on its own terms, and we'd rather three brilliant days a week than five average ones
• Own capital strategy and the equity story, including non-equity facilities
• Stand up tem's US entity operationally
• Own pre-emptive funding readiness and in-bound investor relations, including tax and Big Four audit preparation
• You will report into the CEO
• Capital & funding readiness
• Own capital strategy and sharpen the equity story, including non-equity facilities
• Deal with pre-emptive funding and manage in-bound investor relations: data room, metrics narrative, investor-grade reporting
• Lead tax and Big Four audit preparation
• Expansion & growth
• Own the operational set-up of tem's US entity ahead of our Texas launch - legal, tax, banking, reporting
• Shape revenue strategy and platform growth for the third-party infrastructure model
• Finance infrastructure
• Own ERP integration and the flow of financial information to key stakeholders
• Plug into an AI-forward finance set-up - most of the team structuring is covered; you bring the judgement layer
• Leave the function cleaner than you found it: systems, processes, and reporting a permanent CFO can inherit on day one
• 6-month initial term, 3 days a week

Application process

• Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes
• Deep dive with Joe, our CEO, 60 minutes
• Working session with leadership stakeholders - a live discussion of the capital plan, 60 minutes
• References and terms