Chief of Staff to the CFO in London

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.

About the Team

AXIS Finance plays a central role in enabling enterprise strategy, disciplined capital management, regulatory integrity, and performance insight. As Finance modernizes, the function is strengthening execution across near‑term enterprise priorities while building longer‑term capability through transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a constructive challenger to the CFO and Finance Leadership Team by pressure‑testing priorities, assumptions, and resource allocation to ensure focus on the highest‑value outcomes.
• Drives rigor in prioritization and trade‑offs, ensuring that competing initiatives are surfaced, debated, and resolved rather than absorbed or deferred.
• Identifies and escalates misalignment, delivery risk, or execution gaps early, holding stakeholders accountable for clarity, ownership, and outcomes.
• Partnering with the CFO to define, pressure‑test, and continuously refine enterprise priorities, translating strategic intent into clear near‑term focus and measurable outcomes.
• Running the CFO operating cadence (weekly prioritization, monthly performance/initiative reviews, quarterly strategic resets), ensuring disciplined follow‑through and escalation where needed.
• Orchestrating execution across the CFO agenda (e.g., capital strategy and deployment, corporate development readiness, investor/external narrative work, performance priorities, Finance modernization milestones) by aligning stakeholders, clarifying ownership, and tracking delivery.
• Framing complex decisions by synthesizing inputs, evaluating trade‑offs and risks, and preparing concise recommendations for the CFO and senior leadership.
• Integrating Finance leaders (e.g., FP&A, Controllership, Treasury, Investor Relations, Corporate Development) and key enterprise partners to remove bottlenecks and accelerate delivery across cross‑functional priorities.
• Representing the CFO in select forums to reinforce direction, communicate decisions, and maintain consistent messaging where priorities and decisions have been established.
• Elevating all Executive Committee, Board, and external materials to a consistently high standard—clear, concise, fact‑based, and explicitly recommendation‑driven—eliminating unnecessary detail and ensuring messages are direct, decision‑oriented, and easy to act on.
• Enabling coordination with the Head of Finance Transformation (role to be hired) to ensure modernization efforts are sequenced appropriately, benefits are visible, and delivery aligns to CFO priorities—without duplicating transformation ownership.
• Leading special projects and time‑sensitive initiatives on behalf of the CFO that have significant enterprise impact and require senior stakeholder alignment authority.
• Convening and driving governance forums and operating cadence required to deliver CFO priorities, including cross‑functional coordination and issue escalation.
• Requesting and synthesizing inputs from Finance and enterprise teams to frame options, risks, and recommendations for CFO decisions.
• Representing the CFO in meetings where direction has been established, reinforcing priorities and decisions.
• Functional ownership and accountability remain with the relevant leaders; the Chief of Staff enables alignment, pace, and transparency across the CFO agenda.

Success Metrics

• Increased clarity of CFO/Finance priorities with visible, stable execution plans and minimal “initiative churn.”
• Faster decision cycles with better‑prepared trade‑offs and fewer rework loops.
• Improved on‑time delivery of CFO‑sponsored initiatives with transparent reporting of milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Stronger stakeholder alignment across Finance leadership and enterprise partners (reduced friction, clearer ownership).
• Higher‑quality executive/Board materials and consistent Finance messaging aligned to the value story.
• Effective integration of Finance Transformation into the CFO agenda (sequenced, unblocked, benefits visible) without duplicating transformation ownership.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate the ability to operate at enterprise level, connecting Finance priorities to business outcomes and value creation.
• Possess strong financial and strategic acumen, including capital allocation, performance drivers, and enterprise trade‑offs.
• Demonstrate experience leading complex cross‑functional initiatives where success depends on influence rather than formal authority.
• Exhibit executive‑level stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior leadership and Board‑level contexts.
• Apply structured problem‑solving in ambiguous environments, balancing speed, governance, and quality of decision‑making.
• Communicate complex topics clearly and concisely, producing executive‑ready written materials and recommendations.
• Operate with high autonomy and sound judgment, effectively prioritizing, escalating, and protecting focus for senior leaders.
• Build strong partnerships across functions, using collaboration to drive outcomes and remove barriers.
• Demonstrate resilience and adaptability when managing competing priorities and time‑sensitive deliverables.

Role Factors

• Participate in Executive activities, as required.
• Engage regularly with senior leadership teams and key enterprise stakeholders across AXIS.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy in shaping operating cadence, governance, and decision support.
• Work across time zones as needed, with periodic travel where required.
• Maintain a hybrid or in‑office presence aligned with senior leadership expectation.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes medical plans for employees and their families, health and wellness programs, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and much more.