The posting
Fastned is on a mission to accelerate the transition to electric mobility. Since 2012, we have been building and operating a rapidly growing network of iconic fast-charging stations across Europe powered entirely by solar and wind energy. With 500+ colleagues, we now operate over 450+ stations across nine countries, with an ambitious goal of reaching 1,000 stations by 2030. We are not building infrastructure for its own sake. Every station we open is a tangible step in the transition away from fossil fuels.
We are a listed company on Euronext Amsterdam, with a community of over 10,000 retail investors and a growing base of institutional funding partners. In 2025, we reported €122.4 million in charging revenue: a 47% year-on-year increase, exceeding €100 million in annual revenue for the first time. Fastned is at a pivotal point: growing fast, approaching profitability, and expanding across Europe. As our CFO, you will lead a talented and growing team of 40+ finance professionals to drive and shape Fastned's continued success.
Your Role
We are looking for a CFO to join the Management Board, alongside our CEO, COO and CCO, who will drive Fastned on its path to profitability while enabling further growth.
This role is for a financial leader who thrives in scale-up environments and feels comfortable navigating the complexity of an international matrix organisation. You know how to build a finance function that is both structured and able to move fast, effectively resolving scaling-bottlenecks along the way. You maintain strong financial discipline while enabling the continued investment needed to expand the charging network that supports our long-term vision.
In this role, you oversee the full Finance domain, developing people and teams to the next phase. You act as a key financial voice within the Executive Team and Management Board.
Your responsibilities will include:
Strategic Planning & Partnering: 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. With your operational finance expertise, you will empower domain leads to do their best work. For each of your domains this entails the following:
- Accounting & Reporting team: enabling finance transformation to ensure 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, balancing rigorous financial discipline and cost efficiency with growth decisions.
- 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 implementation and maintenance of internal controls.
- 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.
Management Board Member: Serve as a full member of the Management Board, carrying statutory responsibility for Fastned's financial governance, risk management, 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 in senior operational finance leadership in scale-up or high-growth environments.
- A genuine people leader who inspires, challenges, and grows the people around them.
- Experience in building and professionalising a scalable finance function, including systems, processes, and team capability including leveraging AI and digital technologies company-wide.
- Bring a healthy appetite for risk combined with rigorous financial discipline: knowing when to accelerate and when to challenge, driving the business towards profitability while enabling sustainable growth.
- Good understanding of 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.
- Ability to articulate a long-term financial vision and translate it into clear near-term actions.
- 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.
Next to a wide range of attractive secondary benefits, your CFO comps & ben package includes:
- Annual base compensation between EUR 180.000 and EUR 280.000 (including 8% holiday allowance).
- You will participate in Fastned’s attractive stock option programmes designed to give you a meaningful opportunity to participate in the long-term value you help create as a member of Fastned’s Management Board.
- Company-wide Performance Bonus: You are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 15% of your annual base salary.
- 29 holidays. Additionally, you will have 2 ‘Mission Days’ that you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.
- Fully electric company car.
Interested in making an impact?
We would love to have a conversation with you and hear 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.
