Fractional CFO

Pink Elephant is seeking a Fractional CFO to design and oversee the financial architecture supporting its portfolio of progressive mental-health products and safe, legal psychedelic-assisted therapy digital services.

Pink Elephant is a venture builder developing products designed to increase access to safe, scalable and progressive mental healthcare. Its work supports patients seeking help, the practitioners and clinicians delivering care, the researchers and regulators shaping the field, and the organisations building the wider industry.

The company combines scientific rigour and evidence-based standards with clear, accessible communication. Its mission is to destigmatise and expand access to progressive mental-health solutions, including advanced therapies and holistic practices.

The role

The Fractional CFO will design and manage the financial architecture of the Pink Elephant group. This includes determining how entities are structured across jurisdictions, how capital moves between them, how cash is controlled and how financial information is presented to the founders.

You will work directly with the founders and alongside external legal and tax advisers. Day-to-day bookkeeping will remain with external accountants.

The role’s priorities include corporate structuring, source-of-funds and compliance readiness, treasury management and management reporting.

Financial modelling and budgeting also form part of the position, although these are currently managed operationally by the Financial Manager, who will have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Fractional CFO.

Key responsibilities

• Design holding-company structures spanning two to four jurisdictions across Europe and APAC

• Recommend suitable jurisdictions for operating companies, holding companies and investment platforms

• Conduct BEPS, ATAD and CRS impact reviews

• Produce and maintain transfer-pricing documentation

• Structure dividend, royalty and interest flows appropriately

• Help maintain the group’s desired effective tax position

• Coordinate with external legal and tax advisers

• Assess professional advice for proportionality, value and commercial practicality

• Establish source-of-funds and compliance-readiness processes

• Oversee treasury management, cash controls and financial visibility

• Develop clear management reporting for the founders

• Provide oversight of financial modelling and budgeting

• Work closely with the existing Financial Manager

• Support compliant and cost-efficient international growth

• Senior-level financial leadership experience

• Experience designing international corporate and holding-company structures

• Strong knowledge of cross-border tax and financial architecture

• Knowledge of BEPS, ATAD and CRS requirements

• Experience producing or overseeing transfer-pricing documentation

• Experience managing treasury, cash controls and management reporting

• Confidence working across multiple jurisdictions

• Experience coordinating with external legal, tax and accounting advisers

• Strong commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge unnecessarily complex or expensive advice

• The ability to work directly with founders in a fractional capacity

• Availability within or close to European time zones

• Willingness to undertake occasional travel for banking, notarial or adviser meetings

This role does not include

• Day-to-day bookkeeping

• Payroll processing

• Routine statutory filings

• Acting as the group’s legal counsel

• Leading fundraising or investor relations as a primary responsibility

• Implementing an enterprise ERP or large corporate finance system

• Full-time availability

• Fully remote working

• Flexible fractional commitment

• Monthly time commitment agreed in advance

• Direct working relationship with the founders

• Strategic influence across an international venture portfolio

• Opportunity to shape the financial architecture of growing mental-health and psychedelic ventures

• Collaboration with specialist legal, tax and accounting advisers

• Occasional international travel

• Long-term potential within a growing, mission-led organisation

• Work supporting greater access to progressive mental healthcare