Senior Finance Manager/Junior CFO
We're looking for an all-action Senior Finance Manager/Junior CFO for a fast-paced technology/engineer start-up, with a marine bent. This is truly a wonderful opportunity, in an innovative, cutting-edge sector. The ideal candidate is someone who can juggle multiple hats, adapt to constant change, handle pressure with grace, and embrace new technologies quickly.
This is a standalone role, responsible for the finance management of the entire company, ensuring financial legal compliance, and build the company’s portfolio for future investment. If you have a can-do attitude to problem-solving, and would consider yourself a creative Senior Finance Manager/Junior CFO, then certainly this is a role for you.
Responsibility:
* Financial Planning and Reporting: Developing and managing budgets, creating financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement), and reporting on the company's financial performance.
* Cash Flow Management: Ensuring the company has sufficient liquidity, monitoring cash flow, and managing the company's financial resources.
* Implementor: turn the strategy into reality through financing, budgets, and KPIs.
* Communicator: convince stakeholders to support the strategy; translate the strategy into financial terms
* Creator: contribute strategic ideas and create an environment where innovation flourishes
* Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating financial risks, establishing internal controls, and ensuring compliance with regulations.
* Strategic Financial Advice: Providing financial expertise to the CEO and board on matters such as mergers and acquisitions, investments, and capital structure.
* Investor Relations: Maintaining relationships with investors
* Technology and Innovation: Leveraging financial technology (fintech) solutions to enhance financial processes and improve data analytics.
* General Ledger Management: Record all financial transactions in the general ledger accurately and promptly, ensuring proper classification and coding
* Generate and manage Purchase Orders
* Accounts Receivable and Payable: (Pleo)Process and track invoices, payments, and receipts. Monitor outstanding
Experience:
* Demonstrable start up experience, preferred, which ideally will provide the creativity, entrepreneurial unstructured, and flexible approach required for this role.
* Demonstrable “big” company experience which will, provide the structure approach required for this role.
* Demonstrable experience in a standalone, senior finance role.
* Ideally technology, engineering, fintech or marine/sport experience.
* Demonstrable exposure of liaising, guiding and working with senior management – CEO/COO.
* ACCA, CIMA, ACA qualified or equivalent with 4/5+ years post qualified experience.
* 2 years in a senior, strategic finance management role.
* Experience of Invest Funding round – Invest Packs.
Location:
* London