Webinar: How Finance Teams in PE-Backed Companies Build Data-Driven Planning — Lessons from the CFO Chair
When private equity acquires a company, the Finance function fundamentally changes.
Headcount and personnel cost decisions - the biggest cost block in any software business - need to be defensible in days, not weeks. And "we've always done it this way" stops being an option.
Stevan Lutz has lived this twice.
As CFO at HomeToGo, he built Finance from zero to IPO under VC ownership — where the mandate is to scale fast and keep adapting to the market. 350+ employees, €170m raised and 5 M&A transactions along the way.
Today, as CFO of CSS Group — a Carlyle-backed German software group — the mandate is different: transforming an established, profitable business and making it fit for what comes next. Tighter planning, sharper cost steering, and reporting that holds up in a PE board room.
In this session, Stevan walks through the concrete changes he made: what the investor context demanded, which reporting and planning processes had to be rebuilt, and what he'd do differently - with a particular focus on personnel cost planning as a central lever in software.
If you're leading Finance at a PE-backed company — or heading into that environment — this is the session you don't want to miss.
Live Q&A included. Bring your real questions.
For: CFOs · Heads of Finance · Controlling & FP&A Leaders