Finance & Operations Director - Antler Elevate in London

About Antler

Antler backs the world’s most ambitious founders from the very start. Founded on the belief that innovation is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 27 cities, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney. Our global community supports founders on deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,800 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies. A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward.

About Antler Elevate

Managed from offices in London, Singapore, New York, and San Francisco, Antler Elevate invests in remarkable founders beyond day zero—providing scale-up capital from Series A onwards for companies that have ambitious mindsets, show strong signs of product-market fit, and demonstrate compounding growth. Some of these companies were supported in Antler’s early-stage funds, which cover 20+ ecosystems. Others are startups new to the portfolio, having raised seed investments outside Antler’s early-stage funds.

The Role

• Define and lead the strategic roadmap for investment execution, investor relations, and portfolio management initiatives.
• Serve as a key operational member of the Investment Committee, advising fund partners on structuring and complex financial due diligence.
• Oversee and direct the governance, legal, compliance, and operations functions for the Antler Elevate, ensuring best-in-class risk management.
• Develop and implement the annual financial strategy, including providing strategic oversight of all financial activities, budgeting, expense classification, and vendor payments.
• Manage the relationship with the fund administrator and AIFM to ensure timely approval and execution of all transactions and alerting fund partners to issues when needed.
• Direct the entire fund reporting cycle, including final approval of annual financial statements, external audits, and tax filings with global regulators.
• Cultivate and manage high-level relationships with key external stakeholders, including Limited Partners (LPs), governmental regulatory bodies, legal advisors, and auditors.
• Act as an individual contributor, demonstrating the ability to balance high-level strategic planning with hands-on execution of daily tasks.
• Provide high-level strategic support to portfolio companies on financial, operational, and governance matters.
• Other ad-hoc administrative duties as required.

Your Background

• Higher education and 7+ years previous experience within fund management, accounting, auditing or legal/compliance; CPA or similar accounting designation would be considered an advantage.
• Interest in venture capital and startups.
• Highly proficient in MS Excel and MS Office or Google Suite.
• Proactive and positive personality with excellent communication skills.
• Highly analytical, and organized with an excellent attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Possesses a strategic, 'big picture' mindset, combined with a willingness and ability to personally execute detailed, hands-on tasks as an individual contributor.
• Ability to propose constructive and creative ideas to address observed gaps.
• Ability to thrive on challenges in a very fast-paced and high-volume environment where quality and speed are of essence.
• High level of integrity and takes accountability of work.
• Comfortable dealing with various stakeholders such as founders and investors.
• Comfortable working across multiple time zones as adjusting working hours to the needs of a global team that spans San Francisco to Singapore.
• Comfortable using AI tools and platforms to enhance efficiency in financial analysis and operations.
• Experience with the Luxembourg venture capital regulatory would be considered a significant advantage.

What we offer

• Be part of one of the most active venture capital firms globally, which invests in and supports hundreds of new portfolio companies every year.
• Work in a fast-growing global organisation with a lot of responsibilities from day one, in a supportive culture with colleagues across all continents.
• A fun and highly-qualified team, all dedicated to making Antler and our portfolio companies a huge success.
• Opportunity to create a legacy and have a large impact: be part of a company that will invest in and support thousands of disruptive companies over the coming years and support exceptional entrepreneurs from around the world who are making a difference.

Details

• Location: Remote, but will require significant time zone overlap with CET.
• Start date: ASAP.
• Remuneration: Competitive.

Please note that Antler does not provide visa sponsorship at this stage.