CFO
- Recruiter
- Equity FD.
- Location
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Flexible
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Up to £130k + Options
- Posted
- 06 May 2021
- Closes
- 04 Jun 2021
- Ref
- RDLFA
- Job Title
- Chief Financial Officer
- Category
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is an international, rapidly growing technology business with an impressive blue-chip client base. A data driven business with a high level of recurring revenue, they are now looking to recruit a truly commercial CFO to partner the CEO as they embark on the next cycle of growth. Responsible for driving strategic decisions and managing investor relations, the new CFO will play a lead role in future fundraising, ensuring successful execution against the business plan and for managing the subsequent exit.
Duties & responsibilities
If you choose to email us in response to this advert please keep the data you send us to a minimum, i.e. your CV (in Word), your email address and your contact number. We will store your data for a period of 3 months and will not send it to anyone else without your explicit consent. If we have not contacted you within 3 months (an estimate of the time period that it is likely to take to fill the advertised role) we will delete your data. Here’s a link to our privacy policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with Data Protection Laws. You can find how to send us a request to access your data, request a deletion of your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data with the Information Commissioner’s Officeor you can contact Sarah Hunt for more information or concerns.
Duties & responsibilities
- Report to the CEO, acting as their right-hand support focussed on driving execution of the business plan
- Work with the CEO and management team to define KPIs and goals and drive company-wide drive reporting against these
- Ensure exceptionally high standards of company governance and processes
- Run management and companywide meetings in the absence of the CEO
- Attend Board meetings to report financials, input on strategic decisions and present devised plans to improve the company financial position and operations
- Continued refinement of and adherence to appropriate internal controls
- Provision of strategic insight and support across the business from the finance function
- Ensuring effective and efficient financing of growth
- Company secretarial duties
- Treasury and working capital management
- Commercial risk management
- Be willing to roll-up your sleeves to lend a hand across the business as may be required
- Responsible for all company financial operations in relation to the company bank account, cashflow, payables, receivables, expenses and treasury
- Analyse and report company finances, client profitability and key metrics to the management team, identifying immediate opportunities to save or acquire cash
- Support the CEO in sourcing, managing and closing equity/ debt funding opportunities.
- Analyse company risks and manage all company insurance policies
- Support customer and partner commercial negotiations to ensure terms favour the company, adhere to our standards terms (as much as possible) and ensure profitable pricing
- Previous fundraising experience, ideally Series A/ Series B
- Previous experience working with a multi-entity, multi-currency business.
- Strong understanding of the principles of SaaS accounting and SaaS metrics
- Highly proficient with the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Microsoft Excel
If you choose to email us in response to this advert please keep the data you send us to a minimum, i.e. your CV (in Word), your email address and your contact number. We will store your data for a period of 3 months and will not send it to anyone else without your explicit consent. If we have not contacted you within 3 months (an estimate of the time period that it is likely to take to fill the advertised role) we will delete your data. Here’s a link to our privacy policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with Data Protection Laws. You can find how to send us a request to access your data, request a deletion of your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data with the Information Commissioner’s Officeor you can contact Sarah Hunt for more information or concerns.