Digital Transformation Leader (Group Level)

To strengthen coordination, execution, and strategic alignment within the Digital Task Force, we are appointing a Digital Transformation Leader who will operate at holding level and play a key role in shaping and driving the group's digital agenda.

Your Main Objectives:

• Ensure, in close collaboration with the Digital Task Force, a coordinated digital transformation strategy that enables the group to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks arising from new technologies (e.g. Generative AI).
• Build and optimize digital capabilities- including tools, infrastructure, and skills-across CompanionCo to support both central and local initiatives..
• Strengthen collaboration, maturity, and best-practice sharing across all digital teams within the organization.

The Digital Transformation Leader will report to the Executive Partner (based in Belgium).

Do you have experience in Leadership?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * A strong overall CV, with an academic background in economics, (IT-) engineering, or a related field, combined with a successful and progressive career trajectory.

• At least 10 years of relevant experience, demonstrating strong technical IT/Digital capabilities and understanding (incl. emerging technologies such as agentic AI models), alongside solid business acumen and strategic thinking. The ability to combine these skill sets to drive digital transformation in large, fast-growing organizations - ideally in the service sector - is essential.
• Proven experience in multi-entity, international environments; exposure to complex stakeholder management is an added value. As is prior experience in a Private Equity portfolio company.
• A pragmatic, hands-on mindset, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization - from IT/digital developers to business leaders with limited/no IT/digital expertise- both internally and externally. You brings a down-to-earth attitude and prioritize execution over visibility.
• Strong experience in change management, particularly within a context of digital transformation
• Low-ego, and the ability to operate effectively within a complex, international environment.
• Highly structured and well-organized, capable of steering projects and resources with an international exposure.
• Full professional fluency in English is required; proficiency in additional European languages is a valuable asset.

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• The role is highly varied and involves working in a dynamic team and strong cross-border collaboration. The international projects you could work on offer continuous learning, increase your knowledge and support you in growing your future career with us.
• Thrive in a people-first culture , where your ideas and initiative are encouraged
• A culture built on trust, ownership, and entrepreneurship.
• We commit ourselves to encouraging true team spirit and creating an inclusive work environment that values diversity.
• Work-life integration and hybrid working are important to us.

Contactpunt: Caroline Schelfaut

CompanionCo brings together several Moore and Auren accounting and consulting firms across Europe, supported by Waterland Private Equity Investments B.V. With a strong entrepreneurial mindset and an ambitious growth strategy, CompanionCo is building a pan-European organization, founded on the solid legacy and values of its partnerships. The group currently operates across six European countries (Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Spain), all fast-growing, market-leading firms and consolidating their positions across Europe under the CompanionCo umbrella. CompanionCo's ambition is to become the leading pan-European service provider for mid-market companies, offering accounting, audit, tax, and advisory services through a pragmatic, hands-on approach. By combining strong local identities with shared expertise and scale, CompanionCo aims to create sustainable value for its clients, employees, and shareholders. Context of the role: Digital transformation is evolving at fast pace with a strong impact on our market, customers expectations, our way of working and our employees. To respond to this evolution, CompanionCo is consolidating elite development teams across Europe into a single high-performance digital transformation Task Force. Led by an experienced leadership team, the mission of this Task Force is to accelerate digital transformation within the existing and future CompanionCo firms, by delivering scalable AI, automation and data-driven solutions. These solutions are designed to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and unlock growth opportunities. By combining existing capabilities (and potential capabilities from other existing or future CompanionCo firms) under unified leadership, we combine multilingual, multi-jurisdictional expertise with proven technical capability. Together, these hubs will create repeatable digital solutions that streamline high-volume processes, strengthen compliance, and enable portfolio companies to redeploy talent into higher-value, revenue-generating activities., This role can be based in one of the countries mentioned above. The Antwerp and London offices are the most actively involved. You will occasionally travel to CompanionCo offices across the group.