Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Build Finance Function

About the role

Fortis is scaling its international footprint, and the finance function needs to scale with it — not as a bookkeeping centre, but as the strategic backbone behind every major decision the Group CEO and the Board make. We are looking for a CFO who can build a unified finance function from the ground up, lead fundraising personally, and speak the language of decisions to the CEO.

Key responsibilities

• Build a single financial core across Fortis and the international perimeter: consolidation, management reporting, unified methodology across jurisdictions.
• Turn finance into a decision‑making engine – unit economics, scenario modelling, and clear prioritisation of investments and markets.
• Personally lead capital raising: financial model, data room, due diligence, investor negotiations.
• Own cash flow, liquidity and working capital in a growth‑stage environment.
• Drive automation and integrate ERP with billing, CRM, POS and banking APIs.
• Own accounting, audit, tax and compliance across a multi‑jurisdiction structure.
• Build and lead the finance team: FP&A, Controller, Treasury, Finance Business Partners.

Required profile

• Proven track record building a finance function for a group of companies or a multi‑jurisdiction structure – from scratch or in a growth‑stage.
• Personal fundraising experience: financial modelling, due diligence, term‑sheet negotiation.
• Multi‑jurisdiction consolidation, IFRS knowledge and experience working with a Big 4 auditor.
• Strong expertise in unit economics and scenario modelling.
• Treasury and cash‑flow experience in a growth‑stage company, including periods of negative EBITDA.
• Ready to be a true financial partner to the CEO – argue with numbers, explain trade‑offs and recommend a path.
• Fluent in Russian and English (B2 or above).

Required skills

• Unit economics
• Due diligence
• Billing systems
• Accounting
• Scenario modelling
• Banking APIs
• Financial modelling
• Tax
• DipIFR
• Multi‑jurisdiction consolidation
• Treasury
• Audit
• Compliance
• Fundraising
• POS integration
• CPA
• Term‑sheet negotiation
• IFRS
• CRM
• CFA
• ACCA
• Automation