Finance Director | SaaS scaleup

JR United Kingdom; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a hyper-growth SaaS scaleup as Finance Director, overseeing the finance function and preparing for an exit strategy. This role requires an ACA qualified accountant with experience in high growth tech companies, effective communication skills, and the ability to lead a progressive finance team. With a hybrid work setup, this opportunity promises significant impact and growth.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background and ACA qualification.
• Experience in high growth tech scaleup environment.
• Ability to mentor and develop a finance team.

Responsibilities

• Evolve finance infrastructure and manage all processes.
• Lead FP&A, commercial finance & KPI tracking.
• Prepare monthly Board packs and statutory reports.

Skills

Communication

Detail oriented

Leadership

Financial analysis

Education

ACA qualified accountant

Tools

Xero

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Talentedge Exec (formerly Talentarc)

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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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.