Interim Financial Controller | Family/Founders Office | London

Harmonic Finance™ | Certified B Corp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmonic Finance is partnering with a serial entrepreneur to appoint an Interim Financial Controller in London. The role sits across the founder's family office, multiple operating businesses, property portfolio and investments, and blends hands-on bookkeeping with strategic finance.

The six-month engagement is open to part-time fractional candidates, with a mix of office and remote work to be agreed. You will lead month-end, payroll, and accounting processes, shape the group structure, advise

Qualifications

• Senior finance experience in a family office, founder's office, or PE or VC fund finance.
• Experience across multiple entities and asset types, including complex ownership structures.
• Exposure to investing into businesses, and getting in and out of them.
• Hands-on and comfortable as a player-coach with no large team underneath.

Responsibilities

• Build a single view of the founder's businesses, entities, property and investments.
• Ownership of the finance function within the main operating business.
• Get on top of the group and entity structure, and simplify it where it makes sense.
• Advise the founder on funding new ventures and allocating capital across the portfolio.
• Manage the finance and admin around the property portfolio.
• Help design the longer-term finance structure, including the full-time hire into the operating business.
• Stay hands-on with the detail, including the admin that comes with a multi-asset structure.

Skills

Senior finance experience

Family office

Founder’s office

PE/VC fund finance

Job description

Interim Financial Controller | Family/Founders Office | London

Harmonic are delighted to be partnering with a serial entrepreneur in their search for a Interim Financial Controller to sit across their business and wider interests.

Alongside a portfolio of investments and property, the founder is building a number of new business ventures, the largest of which is a fast-growing tech business. These interests have grown over time and are closely tied together, and the founder now wants to put proper structure around them.

The Role

This is a full-time interim role, which is open to part-time fractional candidates. The brief is to bring the whole picture together: oversight of the operating businesses, the related entities, the property portfolio and the investments, and how capital moves between them. The role also involves being 'hands-on' in the new business venture, managing month-end, payroll, accounts and general bookkeeping. The founder is also thinking about a permanent founder's or family office role, and this person will help inform what that looks like.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a single view of the founder's businesses, entities, property and investments
• Ownership of the finance function within the main operating business
• Get on top of the group and entity structure, and simplify it where it makes sense
• Advise the founder on funding new ventures and allocating capital across the portfolio
• Manage the finance and admin around the property portfolio
• Help design the longer-term finance structure, including the full-time hire into the operating business
• Stay hands-on with the detail, including the admin that comes with a multi-asset structure

What We Need to See (Essential)

• Senior finance experience in a family office, founder's office, or PE or VC fund finance
• Experience across multiple entities and asset types, including complex ownership structures
• Exposure to investing into businesses, and getting in and out of them
• Hands-on and comfortable as a player-coach with no large team underneath

What We'd Like to See (Bonus)

• Operating finance experience in a start-up or scale-up
• Experience working directly with a founder or principal

Location: London, mix of office and remote to be agreed

Contract: Full-time, 6 months (open to part-time fractional candidates)

Start Date: ASAP

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.