Finance Director | AI-Enabled Buy-and-Build | Build, Don't Maintain London (Moorgate) or Birmingham — Hybrid £130K–£160K Base + Bonus + Meaningful Equity
STOIX is working with a well-funded, AI-enabled rollup rewriting the economics of a fragmented, legacy services sector — the kind of industry nobody talks about at dinner parties but is quietly enormous. The founding team has already built and exited a business in this space. Since relaunching under twelve months ago, they've raised substantial capital across equity and debt, are scaling from £2M to £20M revenue this year, targeting £500M over five years, and launching in the US later this year. The aim is a multi-billion exit.
They're hiring a Finance Director. This is a \"build the financial architecture of a future category leader\" job.
The role
* Own the financial integration playbook: every acquired business is a puzzle to be solved quickly and cleanly
* Build the automation stack that makes this finance function 10x leaner than any competitor's AI-native tools, not slightly better Excel add-ins
* Own the numbers end to end: group management accounts, statutory reporting, board packs, on time, every time, telling a clear story
* Build reporting infrastructure that scales from 5 acquisitions to 50
* Work directly with the CEO and fractional CFO, with real line of sight to the full Group CFO seat
* Genuine hybrid flex (no 996, family-friendly), with a couple of days a week in London or Birmingham
The profile (non-negotiable)
* ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified with a Big 4 (or top 6/7) foundation, strong technical accountant (long-term contract, lease, share-scheme and acquisition accounting)
* 8–10 years of experience, with meaningful time in a buy-and-build, M&A-heavy or multi-entity group environment
* Startup experience is essential, you've felt the chaos, the unstructuredness, the wheels shaking at the end of a funding cycle
* Demonstrable finance automation experience, you've shipped something that actually saved money, not dabbled in a slicker Excel sheet
* You're the person who asks \"why are we still doing this manually?\" and then fixes it
* Commercially wired, finance's job is to help the business make better decisions faster, not to police them
* High EQ, high ambition, high work ethic, you move fast without being asked and don't wait for permission
What this is (and isn't)
This is the founding finance leadership hire at a business that is genuinely going somewhere; with equity that matters, a clear path to CFO, and a founder who has built and exited in this space before.
It is not:
* a role where the systems are already built and your job is to maintain them
* a steady-state head of finance seat in a large, well-oiled team
* a first move out of practice
* a 9-to-5
If you've operated in the chaos of buy-and-build, shipped finance automation that actually worked, and you want to be part of a founding team that is genuinely changing an industry, this is the one.