Finance Director | SaaS scaleup

JR United Kingdom; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS scaleup in the UK is seeking a Finance Director to oversee financial operations and play a key role in preparing for a potential exit. This critical position involves enhancing finance processes, leading FP&A efforts, and collaborating with a dynamic finance team. Ideal candidates will be ACA qualified with experience in high-growth environments and the ability to drive results.

Qualifications

• ACA qualification with a strong academic background is required.
• Experience in high growth tech scaleups and VC or PE environments is essential.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Evolve finance infrastructure ensuring scalable processes.
• Lead on FP&A and prepare monthly Board packs.
• Mentor and develop a progressive finance team.

Skills

Communication

Detail-oriented

Team collaboration

Education

ACA qualified accountant

Tools

Xero

Job description

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Hybrid working (West London office 2-3 days p/w, WFH the remainder)

Talentedge Exec are delighted to be partnering with a hyper growth, SaaS scaleup on a newly created Finance Director opportunity, working closely with an exceptional CFOO (someone that we as a business have known for many years and recruited for numerous times).

As Finance Director, you will own the day-to-day finance function, freeing up the CFOO to focus more of their time on Operations & GTM. You’ll also play a lead role in preparing the company for an exit, which is something that they are currently moving towards.

Key responsibilities to include:

• Continually evolve the finance infrastructure, ensuring all processes and controls are scalable
• Lead on FP&A, commercial finance & tracking KPI’s
• Own pricing structures and changes
• Business partner cross functionally
• Create business cases for new services as well as geographical expansion
• Own the day-to-day finance function, including monthly Board pack preparation, statutory reporting, tax work and transactional finance (AP / AR etc)
• Utilise Xero & its’ wider ecosystem of apps & tools to automate transactional finance
• Mentor and develop an ambitious and progressive finance team (based overseas)

Profile:

• ACA qualified accountant with a strong academic background
• High growth tech scaleup experience (later stage VC or PE)
• Effective communicator, comfortable working with teams across the business
• Ambitious, driven and detail oriented. Someone who can be trusted to deliver

This opportunity won’t be around for long, so please get in touch ASAP.