For finance leaders in Europe
Many CFO and finance director roles are filled before they are ever advertised. Before the Brief watches the public signals that come first — a new CEO, a private-equity deal, an IPO plan, a refinancing, a finance leader moving on — and ranks the companies most likely to hire a CFO or Finance Director in the next three to six months. It also flags smaller companies about to open a board seat.
Your role and region. Emailed within two working days.
Public sources only: company announcements, regulatory filings, stock-exchange notices and the business press. Every signal links to its source.
We read the signals. Every morning we scan company announcements, filings and the European business press for the events that usually come before a senior finance hire or a board change.
We score each company. Each signal adds points that fade over time. The total becomes a likelihood that a seat in your function opens in the next three to six months, weighted by company size, sector and how reachable the person who decides is.
You get the list, and the first move. For each company: why it is on the list, the source, who decides and a concrete first step, so you can be in the conversation before a search firm is briefed.
Illustrative examples
about €240M revenue · 1,400 staff
Signals: new majority investor (August), debt refinancing
Likelihood 58% · Hot
Who decides: the CEO, with the investor's deal partner
First move: ask the investor's portfolio talent lead how the finance team will be set up after the deal.
about €400M revenue
Signals: new CEO (June), plan to move to the main market
Likelihood 52% · Warm
Who decides: the CEO, with the chair
First move: a short note to the CEO on finance priorities for the move to the main market.
about £60M revenue
Signals: first independent director planned; audit committee to be formed
Window: Act now
Who decides: the founder-chair
First move: write to the chair before the board is formed.
Invented composites to show the format. Not real companies.
CFO, Finance Director or VP Finance reporting to the CEO, at mid-sized companies in Europe: PE-backed platforms, scale-ups, family businesses, mid-caps.
non-executive, supervisory and advisory seats at smaller companies (about €10M–€100M revenue) where an experienced finance leader can get noticed: new investors, board expansions, first independent directors, mandates ending, and boards that need audit-committee and financial expertise.
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Every C-level role, and the CEO seat itself. Lists go out today for seats in Europe, where most of the companies we track are in Portugal, Spain, France and the UK. The Middle East, Asia and the US are on a waiting list: request a sample anyway and we'll email you once we can build a good list for your region. If fewer than ten companies fit your role and region well, we'll send the ones that do and say so; if fewer than five do, we'll tell you honestly instead of sending a thin list.
Public sources only: company announcements, regulatory filings, stock-exchange notices, investor news and the business press. Every signal links to its source so you can check it.
It is an estimate, not a promise. It weighs how strongly each kind of event tends to come before a senior hire in your function, how recent it is and the company's size. Treat it as a reason to look closer, then check the source.
No. The radar works from company events — a new CEO, a deal, a funding round, an announced leadership change. We don't build profiles of individuals.
Mid-sized companies across sectors: marketplaces and e-commerce, insurance, fintech and banking, software, industry, consumer goods, healthcare, mobility, media and retail.
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