Ambitious Finance Director with CFO potential (at least 5-7 years of experience) for private equity-backed GreyBird Pilot Academy
Are you a talented finance professional ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have the ambition and skills to grow into a CFO role at a private equity-backed company with bold growth aspirations? If so, this is your opportunity to join Europe’s leading pilot academy, where we are shaping the future of aviation. To support our rapid growth and success, we are seeking an analytical and results-driven Finance Director to play a key role in our organisation. Over time, you will have the opportunity to lead our finance team (currently comprising 3 dedicated colleagues) and drive strategic financial initiatives.
As the Finance Director, you will be instrumental in ensuring the academy's financial health. Reporting to and working closely with the CEO and management team, you will provide strategic financial insights, ensure compliance, and help drive outstanding performance. This role offers significant responsibility and the chance to grow into a CFO position in the near future. Additionally, you will thrive in an inclusive and supportive environment that values teamwork and promotes a healthy work-life balance for all employees.
Key Responsibilities
Your Qualifications
What We Offer
GreyBird is an innovative and fast-growing company, and the new Finance Director will play a key role in driving our strategic goals forward. At GreyBird Pilot Academy, you’re not just stepping into a position—you’re becoming part of a visionary team dedicated to continuous improvement and technological innovation. Our cutting-edge approach, exemplified by our proprietary software system, SmartBird, ensures you’ll thrive in an environment where digital solutions seamlessly integrate into daily operations, empowering us to constantly aim for excellence.
We offer permanent employment with a competitive salary tailored to your qualifications, along with a good pension scheme and health insurance. You’ll be part of a dynamic workplace with a collaborative and supportive team of skilled colleagues, all contributing to a shared mission of shaping the future of aviation.
About GreyBird Pilot Academy
GreyBird Pilot Academy is one of Scandinavia’s largest and most innovative pilot schools. Since we started in 2013, we have experienced strong growth and are now a leading pilot academy in Europe, with bases in Denmark, Sweden, and Spain. We are constantly at the forefront of technological development and are committed to being the best in the industry.
We are headquartered in Aarhus Airport, and we an ambition to expand into +10 cities in new countries within a foreseeable future. Our organisation currently comprises a total of 40 skilled and dedicated people, and our current turnover is around DKK 50m – with a sound profitability and the ambition to grow the business significantly in the coming years.
We take pride in our proprietary system, SmartBird, which digitally manages all processes across the company. This system ensures a high level of efficiency and quality in our work and training. We are also one of the few pilot schools in Europe that offer our students the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree in collaboration with SETU University in Ireland. This provides our students with a unique advantage and a strong educational profile.
We recently secured a significant investment from the Danish private equity firm Dansk Ejerkapital, which now holds a 45% ownership stake and is represented at the board level. This strengthened ownership provides us with the financial resources to pursue our mission of delivering the most advanced and high-quality pilot training across Europe.
For further information, please contact CEO Jørgen Sørensen Stensgaard via [email protected] or by phone at +45 3060 0520.
Please send your application and CV through the link below.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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