Finance Director
Location: South West (this is not fully remote role)
Salary: up to £90k pro rata (3-4 days per week)
Are you an experienced Finance Director passionate about helping start-ups scale?
Do you have experience of leading start-ups through funding rounds?
As Finance Director, you will play a hands-on role managing both our day-to-day financial activities alongside partnering with the CEO and leadership team to support business growth and optimising financial health.
Responsibilities:
* Day-to Day Financials
* Manage all day-to-day financial activities from transactional accounting, cashflow management to management accounts and other internal controls and financial reporting
* Budgeting & Reporting
* Be responsible for budgeting & reporting, analysis and KPI tracking
* Board reporting and investor relations
* Manage board process, reporting and investor relations
* Fundraising
* Support the fundraising process, working closely with the CEO, Chairman and Investors (we are heading towards a Series A)
* Leadership & strategic decision
* Play a key role in the leadership team, bringing appropriate level of challenge to ensure sound business and financial planning
* Company Secretarial
* Manage our Company Secretarial activities to ensure we meet all statutory compliance requirements
* Contract & Financial Operations
* Manage financial processes and systems and support on contractual issues to ensure mitigation of risk and liabilities
* To be successful in this role, you will have experience of:
* Working in an FD role, managing the day-today finance function within a high-growth early-stage VC backed SaaS business
* Working directly with and advising the CEO and senior stakeholders of a company
* Supporting the fundraising process and managing investor relations
Experience:
* start up and fundraising experience is non-negotiable
* Have excellent financial modelling skills
* Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting at board level and with the ability to be impactful at a senior level
* Be comfortable working in a small, fast growth team, rolling up your sleeves with a proactive mindset
* Be super organised, with a real skill to cut through noise, obsessively prioritize, keep everyone updated and managing upwards
* Have great project management skills and high attention to detail - someone who is great at keeping projects and all those involved on track
* Hold a full chartered accountancy body qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or equivalent
To be successful working with us you will be “Start-up ready”. You are naturally proactive, have a positive attitude to change; have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, always happy to go beyond your brief; enjoy working at pace and comfortable with ambiguity.