Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer North West

Our client, a family investment office with assets in private capital, real estate development and funding, is seeking to appoint a Chief Operating Officer.

Acting as the right hand to the CEO, the position of COO is a senior, strategic leadership role responsible for driving the financial, operational, and organisational performance of the family office. The individual must be a proven leader, capable of shaping a high-performance culture, optimising team output, and ensuring clarity, discipline, and commercial excellence across all areas of the organisation.

• Deliver highly accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting to support confident decision-making
• Establish a culture of data intelligence, ensuring advanced, technology-enabled financial insight
• Optimise working capital, protect liquidity, and secure appropriate funding and financing
• Lead clear analysis of risk, returns, value creation, and timing to support investment strategy
• Present a clear strategy for growing assets under management
• Build and constantly develop a robust allocation strategy
• Build, lead and optimise a high-performance team through clear delegation, accountability, training, recruitment and, where necessary, decisive performance management
• Ensure compliance across regulatory, tax, HR and operational domains
• Drive structural and operational simplification across the family office
• Oversee the performance and development of all employees and contractors, ensuring capability, attitude, and cultural alignment
• Ensure operational excellence across facilities, technology, and the household environment

• Financial leadership and reporting
• Wealth and investment strategy
• Planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Banking and cashflow management
  
  Tax strategy & planning
• Operational management and oversight of the family household
• Organisational performance and talent management
• Team leadership

• Proven leadership experience in senior finance/operational roles
• Demonstrated ability to optimise teams through clear delegation, coaching and decisive performance management
• Strong understanding of building a performance culture and creating a positive work environment
• Experience producing board-quality financial insights, dashboards and modelling
• Strong technical understanding of finance, investment, treasury and compliance
• Experience negotiating with banks and external partners
• Strong people skills. Able to build trust, manage conflict, and influence at senior levels
• Experience hiring based on attitude and cultural fit, not only capability
• Ability to step in and cover CEO during leave and absences

• Family office experience
• Background in investment, private equity, or property-backed structures
• Experience of managing complex, multi-entity structures