Finance Director

Job description

# Finance Director

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### The Team & Environment

• Reporting line: You will report into the CFO
• Cross team collaboration: You will have access to and frequent touch points with other key leaders in the business to ensure financial alignment across the business.
• Hybrid working: If you live in London or within commuting distance, we’d like you to come into the office at least once a week. If you’re elsewhere in the UK, we ask you to come in once a month. And for those outside the UK, we require them to attend our Quarterly All Hands in our London office.

### About the role

As our Finance Director, you will be the primary architect of [Employer hidden]’s financial engine, joining us at a pivotal moment. Building on the existing systems we already have, this is a high-impact role that blends strategic leadership with operational execution. As the company grows there is a clear trajectory toward becoming Head of Finance/VP Finance.

You’ll partner directly with the executive team to professionalise our fiscal landscape while remaining "hands-on" as we scale post-Series B. We are looking for an experienced startup finance professional who understands the nuances of the B2B landscape and translates that into processes with best-practice accounting and FP&A frameworks. Ultimately, you will bridge the gap between where we are today and where we need to be as a global leader, ensuring our financial health supports our mission to tackle the world's waste crisis.

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### Core responsibilities

You will have responsibility for:

• Operational finances - Improving key operational processes e.g. purchasing/accounts payable, payroll; supporting managers as they utilise their annual budgets. Initially you would be hands on with this, ensuring all aspects are fit to scale, before moving into an overseeing position.
• FP&A - Driving the financial planning process and supporting strategic decision making from a financial perspective. This includes annual forecasting and budgeting as well as tracking key financial metrics across the business.
• Accounting - Initially being hands on with the management accounts, ensuring full alignment with business practices, before handing this over to someone in your team or external accounting firm. Overseeing transaction reconciliation, closing process and consolidation of a Dutch subsidiary and tax filings.
• Commercial Finance support - Provide support to the C-suite in ongoing strategic projects including pricing, contract review and unit economics amongst others.
• General corporate support - e.g. Company cap table management, employee options cap table management, managing statutory filings process with lawyers
• Ensuring cross country compliance with tax, customs and reporting requirements.

## Job requirements

• 5+ years of experience in finance roles, including as a finance leader of a B2B startup/scaleup
• Degree in Accounting or Finance, or an accounting qualification e.g. CPA/ACCA
• Proven experience with taking over existing financial systems (FP&A, accounting and general corporate) and professionalising them
• Comfortable with multi-country operations, including managing multiple currencies, IT systems and international compliance
• Technically rigorous in accounting and financial control, with the commercial fluency to go beyond the numbers. Able to independently drive analysis such as unit economics or model forecast scenarios.
• Experience of a business that manufactures and distributes product as part of a software solution
• Ability to self-organise and prioritise tasks
• An expert with Xero and hands on experience in reviewing and correcting external bookkeeping entries
• Passion for addressing the waste crisis or other environmental issues