Chief Financial Officer (England)

We have an exciting opportunity for a chief financial officer to join the c-suite managerial team at Concrete4Change.

Job Title: Chief Financial Officer

Location: Nottingham, moving to the Oxbridge region

Remuneration: £70,000 – £120,00 salary per annum (FTE) plus £1 million share options

Start date and end date (approx): This is a permanent position and is available for immediate start. (Flexible on start date)

About us:

Concrete4Change (C4C) is a R&D company that is developing a ground-breaking technology to utilise and permanently mineralise CO2 in concrete. C4C has secured £5 million from private and public investors. Now we are fundraising £20 million for the next round. The company is partly owned by two of the largest concrete manufacturers in the world, Siam Cement Group ($17 billion turnover) and Goldbeck GmbH (€7 billion turnover).

C4C technology won a wide range of awards including

• 2021, The most innovative Net-Zero project from UN COP26 Climate Challenge Cup
• 2021, SDG award from the European technology chamber
• 2022, Top 10 startu-ps from Royal Academy of Engineer (£20k)
• 2022, Santander X Prize – Global Countdown to Net-Zero (worldwide)
• 2022, Top 50 start-up award from PWC
• 2023, Startups 100 2023 Award Winner
• 2023, Hard Tech Investment of the Year from UK Business Angel Association

Learn more about us:

Technologies and Vacancies:

Day in the C4C Labs:

Employees Perspective:

Founder's story:

Job description:

As the CFO, you will be responsible for leading the £20 million fundraising of Series A by 2025. Then you will manage the £20 million budget for the next 2-3 years. You will work with the executive team to strategise fundraising, oversee the capital structure budgets, and manage the accounting and finance activities

Please consider that this position is designed for an entrepreneur and is not a 9-5 job.

Person’s specifications

Essential:

• Experience in the financial management of startups or SME – plus £5 million turnover per annum.
• Extensive experience leading fundraising or investment for startups – plus £10 million in a single fundraising round.
• Experience in securing public grants – plus £2 million in non-dilutive grant from the public sector.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment and build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience and understanding of deep tech startups
• Experience with CCUS or net zero technologies.
• Knowledge of grant applications, and collaboration opportunities within the public sectors.
• Experience working in deep tech start-ups is highly desirable

Benefits:

C4C is seeking people who want to do applied science, with an entrepreneurial spirit and use their skills to build a sustainable world.

• A unique opportunity to work with multi-billion manufacturing partners
• An exciting opportunity to work with construction and develop technologies for multi-billion pound cement and concrete companies
• Private health insurance
• Government backed pension scheme
• A competitive bonus upon achieving milestones
• Regular team meals and social events