Why Airbox?
You’re more likely to love what you do when your work has a purpose, when it makes a real difference to the world, and when it involves protecting lives. At Airbox Systems, it will.
Here’s how:
We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better, safer place. Our friendly team includes members with backgrounds in military, aviation and law enforcement. Our experience brings first-hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting-edge solutions for improving situational awareness where it matters most.
At Airbox, our values are a big deal and we are proud that they drive our behaviour and culture. These principles and beliefs form a vision and a North Star that define who we are as a company internally and externally with our stakeholders and customers. Whilst we celebrate the diversity of our team members, there are certain values and attributes that we all share. Whatever your background, these are the qualities we’re looking for in the people we hire: Commitment, positive realism, ethics, accountability, humanity, quality, and delight.
What this role is about:
This new role is to support our CFO in all long range planning and commercial aspects of the business, managing the day to day running of the function whilst taking ownership of the annual budget process, quarterly re-forecasting and the monthly cash flow forecasting process. You’ll be advising on the commercial and financial implications of all contractual relationships for Airbox and will be responsible for working with our Commercial team to ensure robust sales forecasts.
This role is permanent, though will temporarily cover some duties of our Commercial Finance Manager, during a period of leave, commencing towards the end of 2024. Although flexible, we anticipate a need of 1-2 days in the office most weeks for finance management support.
What you’ll do:
* Financial Analysis and interpretation; looking into all our commercial activities and pricing, supporting our portal sales and creating and developing our monthly commercial activities reports.
* Liaison with our Commercial function in relation to their outputs and reporting from our CRM.
* In collaboration with our CFO, you will work on Finance based projects for our Executive team.
* Partnering with the Business leaders on our financial planning and budgeting processes including identifying opportunities for cost optimisation and revenue growth.
* Supported by our CFO, you will be responsible for our commercial agreements and other arrangements i.e. Insurance.
* Line Management of our Financial Operations Team, ensuring smooth running of the Finance function including promoting and guiding process simplification and automation.
* Support our People function with future vacancies, ensuring alignment with financial projections and forecasting.
* Development and maintenance of finance documentation surrounding commercial activities including the maintenance, renewal and support of commercial frameworks.
* Reviewing/Signing off on quotes and contracts from a Financial/Commercial perspective. Occasionally support with Client related processes and documentation; contracts, CRM information, quotes, purchase orders and other related documents, as needed.
* Finance representation at our Change Advisory Board meetings.
What we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:
* All of our colleagues have to pass an NPPV3 clearance; you can find out more about it at Warwickshire Police FAQs but a key feature is having the last 3 years living in the United Kingdom.
* Strong experience as a Financial Controller in a high-growth environment.
* Accounting or other relevant Finance qualification e.g. CIMA, ACA.
* Previous management or supervisory experience.
* Proactive self-starter, capable of adapting to an evolving business.
It’s a bonus if:
* You have experience in building and/or developing complex financial models.
* You’ve managed a G-Cloud Framework.
* You’ve worked with a Hubspot CRM system.
* You’ve worked in a start-up/scale-up environment.
What we offer: We’re always looking for new ways to celebrate our people. You’ll be no different.
* Salary: £65,000 - £70,000pa.
* The chance to work with a passionate team that’s working together every day towards our shared big ambitious goal.
* A dynamic, flexible and fun scale-up work environment with a highly talented team.
* 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays.
* Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues, as well as a Wellbeing Allowance each year.
* Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution.
* Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum.
* Personal Development budget.
* Electric Car Scheme.
* Truly living our value of Delight; we run Company Socials including Christmas and Summer parties alongside activities and gifts throughout the year.
When you visit the office you won’t just find rows and rows of desks. No, you’ll find our colleagues meeting on the walking pads, having planning sessions over a game of table tennis or grabbing a bean bag in our ‘Quality’ collaborative space - that’s right we live our values so much, we named our meeting spaces after them.
Connect with us: Interested in the role, or Airbox in general, but you don’t meet 100% of the requirements? We’d love to hear from you! We encourage you to connect with us here; we’d be excited to see if your unique skill set and experience could be a match for future roles.
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