Finance Director | SaaS scaleup

JR United Kingdom; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS scaleup in Gloucester is seeking a Finance Director to oversee daily finance operations and prepare for an exit strategy. The ideal candidate will be ACA qualified, possess high growth tech scaleup experience, and demonstrate outstanding communication and leadership skills. With a hybrid work model, this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the finance function in a dynamic, rapidly growing environment.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background required.
• Experience in high growth tech scaleups essential.
• Effective communication skills to work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Evolve finance infrastructure for scalability.
• Lead on FP&A and commercial finance.
• Own the day-to-day finance function and statutory reporting.

Skills

Finance Infrastructure Development

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

KPI Tracking

Communication

Mentoring

Education

ACA Qualified Accountant

Tools

Xero

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Finance Director | SaaS scaleup, gloucester

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Client:

Talentedge Exec (formerly Talentarc)

Location:

gloucester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

Finance Director | SaaS scaleup

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.