Chief Financial Officer

About this role

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a CFO to join the Management Board, alongside our CEO and COO, who will drive Fastned on its path to profitability.
• After 6,5 years Fastned's previous CFO, Victor van Dijk, has transitioned into a new VP Strategy Role focusing on Fastned's long-term strategic vision. This transition creates the unique opportunity for a new CFO to join the mission and help shape the company’s next stage of growth.
• This role is for a financial leader who thrives in scale-up environments and feels comfortable navigating complexity. You know how to build a finance function that is both structured and able to move fast, maintaining strong financial discipline while enabling the continued investment needed to expand the network that supports our long-term vision.
• In this role, you will oversee the full Finance domain, including Business & Finance Control, Accounting & Reporting, Funding & Investor Relations, Treasury, Sustainability, Tax, and Risk & Audit, developing people and teams to the next phase. In addition, you will act as a key financial voice within the Executive Team and Management Board.
• Your responsibilities will include:
• Strategic Planning & Advisory: Partner with the Executive Board to set long-term financial goals, evaluate investment opportunities, oversee mergers and acquisitions and direct your teams to deliver the analyses and frameworks that underpin these decisions.
• Manage our capital structure by optimising the company's capital, debt, and equity structure to maximise shareholder value.
• Leading the Finance Domain: lead and inspire a talented Finance team of 43 professionals, bringing clear direction, fostering growth in culture that balances a bold mission with financial rigour. You will empower domain leads to do their best work, for each of your domains this entails the following:
• Accounting & Reporting team: accurate and timely preparation of financial statements, ensuring full compliance with applicable regulatory standards and accounting frameworks.
• Funding & Investor Relations team: develop a compelling, forward-looking equity story that reflects both current performance and long-term potential. You will serve as the primary spokesperson for Fastned's financial health, leading earnings calls and maintaining strong relationships with analysts, shareholders, and investors.
• Business & Financial Control team: partner with Country- and Functional Directors to evaluate the business cases for new markets, charging stations, joint ventures, and other expansion initiatives, ensuring rigorous financial discipline and cost efficiency underpin every growth decision.
• Risk & Audit team: build structures that protect against financial fraud and operational risk. Represent the Management Board in Audit Committee meetings and actively drive the embedment and maintenance of internal controls as an integral part of all organisational activities.
• Tax team: meet tax compliance and the maintenance of a tax control framework across all countries, covering corporate income tax, transfer pricing, and VAT.
• Serve as the executive owner of Fastned's sustainability strategy, ensuring it is credible, auditable, and aligned with both regulatory requirements, the company's long-term mission and B Corp obligations.
• Management Board Member: Serve as a full member of the Management Board, carrying statutory responsibility for Fastned's financial governance, risk management, and sustainability reporting, and knowing when to accelerate growth and when to apply disciplined challenges.
• Who we are looking for
• A financial leader (RA, CPA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent) with proven experience as a CFO or senior finance leadership role in a listed scale-up or high-growth environment, preferably in infrastructure, energy, mobility, or another capital-intensive sector.
• A genuine people leader who inspires, challenges, and grows the people around them.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a business towards profitability: owning the P&L, managing cash flow, and building the financial discipline needed to scale sustainably.
• Hands-on experience with FP&A, financial control, risk management and compliance: you are a T-shaped leader, with deep expertise in financial planning and analytical excellence and broad oversight across the full CFO domain.
• Proven track record in funding and capital markets including bonds, equity, project finance, or institutional investment with the ability to tell a compelling and credible financial story to investors.
• Track record in leading treasury management specifically cash management, (bank) guarantee management, subsidiary capitalisation, FX management, and bank loan management.
• Experience in building or professionalising a finance function, including systems, processes, and team capability including leveraging AI and digital technologies company-wide.
• Ability to articulate a long-term financial vision and translate it into clear near-term actions.
• Bring a healthy appetite for risk combined with rigorous financial discipline: knowing when to accelerate and when to challenge.
• Affinity with Fastned's mission: a genuine belief in the energy transition.
• Join us in building a better future!
• We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place.
• Our benefits include:
• The compensation package is between EUR 122.295 and EUR 200.256 (annual compensation including 8% holiday allowance) per year. For more detailed information please refer to the Management Board Remuneration Policy.
• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.
• Attractive Pension plan fully covered by Fastned.
• Company bonus plan.
• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you 2 ‘Mission Days’ you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.
• Fully electric company car.
• Yearly training budget of € 3000.
• Access to the mental health platform Nilo Health including 10 sessions with psychologists of your choice.
• Urban Sports Club Subscription.
• Additional parental benefits above legal minimum, including coaching via Foundtree.
• Accessibility to Women's Health platform Flouria.
• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations
• Company events year-round, including an exciting yearly trip abroad with all employees.
• Interested in making an impact?
• We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply today, share your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned’s mission in this impactful role. Our talent acquisition team will get back to all applicants in due time to share details about timing & structure of the upcoming recruitment process.
• Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.
• A note to recruitment agencies: we work exclusively with a carefully selected party for this search. Unsolicited agency approaches or candidate submissions will not be considered and do not create any obligation on Fastned's part.