Head of Finance

Behavox; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global AI platform

Equity award and health insurance

30 days off + holidays

Ownership and impact

Job summary

Behavox, a global AI-driven data platform company, is hiring a Head of Finance responsible for scaling finance across FP&A, accounting, treasury, and investor reporting. You will guide forecasting, liquidity planning, and strategic financing with hands-on modelling for growth toward a multi‑currency, multi‑jurisdiction operation.

You will build a scalable finance organisation, implement automatised workflows, and partner with the CEO/COO on capital strategy, M&A, and long-term value creation.

Qualifications

• Enterprise FP&A and financial model architecture for forecasting, budgeting, and investment analysis to support executive decisions.
• Capital structure and treasury, liquidity planning, and cost of capital considerations.
• Global accounting and multi-jurisdictional reporting across revenue recognition, intercompany accounting, and transfer pricing.
• Finance operating model and team leadership to build scalable finance functions.
• AI-native finance systems and automation to improve accuracy and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Leads the finance team and owns the finance operating model across FP&A, accounting, reporting, treasury, controls, and investor relations.
• Owns the quality and logic of the company’s core financial models for forecasting, M&A, financing, and scenario planning.
• Drives budgeting, re-forecasting, and management reporting with cross-functional inputs.
• Oversees cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, and covenant reporting.
• Ensures close, audit, compliance, and automation governance with scalable processes.

Skills

FP&A

Forecasting

Capital structure

Treasury management

Multi-jurisdiction reporting

Finance leadership

AI finance automation

Job description

About Behavox

Behavox is shaping the future for how businesses harness their most important raw material - data. Our mission is bold: Organize enterprise data into actionable information that protects and promotes the business growth of multinational companies around the world.

About Behavox

Behavox is shaping the future for how businesses harness their most important raw material - data. Our mission is bold: Organize enterprise data into actionable information that protects and promotes the business growth of multinational companies around the world.

From managing enterprise risk and compliance to maximizing revenue and value, our data operating platform presents a widespread opportunity to build multilingual, AI/ML-based solutions that activate data for every function within a global enterprise.

Our approach is unique, and it’s validated by our customers who tell us to keep forging ahead because no one else is aggregating, analyzing, and acting on data to uncover opportunities or solve problems quite the way we are.

We are looking for fearless innovators who have an insatiable appetite for building what no one has built before.

About The Role

The Head of Finance reports to the Chief Operating Officer and leads the finance function for a global business generating over $50M in revenue, with a growth trajectory toward $100M over the next 3–5 years. The finance function must scale with that trajectory, built to investor-grade standard and ahead of the curve the business is on. The role is accountable for financial planning, accounting, reporting, treasury, compliance, controls, and investor-facing outputs across a multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction environment.

The role serves as the senior financial advisor to the CEO and COO on forecasting, liquidity, capital structure, financing strategy, investment decisions, and growth planning. Behavox has a mature M&A strategy in place as one of several growth levers, and the Head of Finance is expected to bring strong hands‑on financial modelling capability to acquisition evaluation, financing analysis, scenario planning, and post‑transaction financial integration planning.

The Head of Finance is also accountable for building a scalable, AI-native finance function. This includes managing the finance team, maturing financial systems and processes, implementing end‑to‑end automation, integrating AI‑enabled workflows, and improving the speed, accuracy, control, and maintainability of finance operations.

What You'll Bring

• Enterprise FP&A and financial model architecture – Knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, revenue planning, cash flow modelling, and investment analysis. Applies this knowledge to support executive decisions, M&A evaluation, financing strategy, and board, investor, and lender reporting.
• Capital structure and treasury – Knowledge of financing instruments, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt facilities, covenants, FX exposure, and cash controls. Applies this knowledge to support growth while managing funding risk, timing, and cost of capital.
• Global accounting and multi-jurisdictional reporting – Knowledge of accounting standards, revenue recognition, consolidation, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, and financial controls across jurisdictions. Applies this knowledge to ensure financial outputs are accurate, consistent, and controlled.
• Finance operating model and team leadership – Knowledge of how to structure finance teams, processes, systems, workflows, access controls, documentation, and operating cadences. Applies this knowledge to build a scalable and maintainable finance function with clear ownership and reduced key‑person dependency.
• AI-native finance systems and automation – Knowledge of finance systems, workflow automation, AI‑enabled tooling, agentic processes, and data flows across financial operations. Applies this knowledge to identify, assess, and implement technology that improves accuracy, efficiency, control, and scalability.

What You'll Do

• Finance function leadership – Leads the finance team and owns the finance operating model across FP&A, accounting, reporting, treasury, controls, compliance, and investor relations. Holds ultimate accountability for output quality, role clarity, control discipline, and scalability.
• Financial modelling and strategic analysis – Personally owns the quality and logic of the company’s core financial models. Reviews, challenges, and helps the team refine models used for forecasting, M&A, financing, scenario planning, and executive decision‑making.
• Budgeting, revenue planning, and performance reporting – Drives the annual budget, re‑forecasting cadence, and management reporting process. Ensures Sales, RevOps, People, and Finance inputs are translated into controlled planning outputs, including pipeline‑to‑revenue bridges, personnel budgets, non‑personnel budgets, commissions accruals, opex and capex.
• Treasury and capital planning oversight – Oversees cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, costs controls, payment controls, debt facilities, covenant reporting, FX exposure, and financing analysis. Provides senior judgement on capital structure, financing timing, and cost of capital.
• Close, audit, compliance, and automation governance – Holds ultimate accountability for close, consolidation, audit readiness, statutory compliance, accounting policy application, transfer pricing coordination, and investor reporting. Ensures the team has the systems, controls, automation, documentation, and advisor support required to execute consistently.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on a global, mission‑critical AI platform alongside the best engineers and technologists across multiple geographies
• A role with real ownership and impact, building complex systems at scale in an environment that values speed, experimentation, and technical excellence
• A highly attractive benefits package, including competitive cash compensation, an equity award aligned with long‑term value creation, and comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families
• A generous time‑off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave, recognizing the importance of sustained high performance

About Our Process

We take Talent very seriously and we are building a community of extraordinary individuals working together in very high performing teams. We also know that the best Talent always has options so we believe that the process has to be a two way assessment - the company AND the candidate assessing the business needs alignment, the career next step alignment, and the cultural alignment.

During the process we will begin by exploring the core factors regarding salary and location along with core experience and skills and values alignment. We will then deep dive explore the critical technical competencies we have identified for the role, and then we will deep dive in behavioral competencies.

The most aligned candidate will then be asked to do a practical work task simulation activity so we can make sure that you will enjoy the kind of work the role requires, and this task will typically be presented and discussed with a group of colleagues and managers. Finally we will ask you to meet with a number of our senior leaders to make sure that you are making the most informed call possible.

Please note that:

• We want to get to know you and have a genuine conversation, so the use of AI tools or assistance during live interviews is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate disqualification from the process.
• Interviews may be recorded for internal review purposes to ensure fairness and enable collaborative hiring discussions within the team.