Chief Financial Officer

About Us

Exergy3 is a Scottish cleantech company developing and commercialising a high-temperature Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system for industrial decarbonisation. Our technology converts surplus electricity into stored heat and delivers it as process steam or hot air directly into industrial plant, displacing natural gas and materially reducing carbon emissions, all without requiring customers to redesign their processes. Our technology is innovative. The next chapter is financing and building the business behind it. We're hiring a Chief Financial Officer to guide Exergy3 through its scale-up journey to Series A.

The Role

Reporting to the CEO and working alongside our Financial Controller, you will hold full ownership of the finance function, with the authority to determine what the business needs and when.

What You'll Own

• Capital Raising: Lead the financial dimension of our fundraising activity. Develop strategic financial plans, manage the data room, direct financial due diligence, and serve as the principal point of contact for external stakeholders on all financial matters. Following investment, maintain investor confidence through timely, rigorous and credible reporting.
• Heat-as-a-Service Financing: Our Heat-as-a-Service proposition demands a financial model as innovative as the technology that underpins it. Lead its financial design and structuring, and partner with infrastructure funds to secure the project finance that brings these installations to fruition.
• Financial Strategy: Define and execute a financial strategy aligned with the company's long-term ambitions. Collaborate closely with the leadership team to shape long-range planning, take ownership of reporting, forecasting and budgeting, and anticipate financial risk well before it crystallises.
• Board Engagement: Oversee preparation of Board papers and attend investor Board meetings, providing directors with a candid, lucid view of performance, liquidity and risk that enables swift and well-founded decision-making.
• Commercial Performance: Develop robust planning and performance-analysis frameworks and monitor the KPIs that matter most. Identify opportunities to optimise cost and accelerate revenue and collaborate on new product development to strengthen gross margin. Equip department heads with the models and insight they need to interpret performance and act decisively.
• Finance Function Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing finance team underpinned by strong controls and processes. Own cash flow forecasting and treasury; oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable and reconciliations; and partner with Engineering and Product on inventory and supply chain planning that optimises working capital. Work with our external payroll provider and accountants to ensure payroll, VAT and tax filings are accurate, compliant and timely.
• Governance, Compliance and Audit: Oversee financial policies, governance frameworks and internal controls that meet UK and international standards. Lead the external audit process and manage relationships with auditors, tax advisers and other key stakeholders.
• Scalable Systems: Implement financial systems designed for the company we are becoming, not merely the one we are today. Harness technology and automation to elevate reporting, business intelligence and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Who We're Looking For

You will bring a substantial track record in senior financial leadership, ideally spanning the energy sector and high-growth ventures, together with demonstrable experience of raising risk capital and leading financial due diligence. A builder by instinct. You have guided a business through the transition from start-up to scale-up, or you are ready to lead one through it. Your command of the numbers is deep, and you are equally at ease presenting them to a Board, an investor or an engineer. You understand the distinction between reporting on a business and helping to run it, and when something needs fixing, you take ownership of fixing it.

Key Attributes

• Strategic and commercial: you translate financial data into business insight and use it to shape decisions, not merely record them.
• A capital raiser: you understand what venture capital investors and infrastructure funds seek, and how to deliver it.
• A builder: you can design and implement the team, processes and systems a growing business requires.
• Data-driven: sophisticated financial modelling and analysis are second nature to you.
• A leader: you develop talent and cultivate strong relationships with stakeholders across and beyond the business.
• Hands-on: you move seamlessly between setting strategy and engaging with the detail.
• Decisive: you thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and exercise sound judgement without waiting for perfect information.

Experience We'd Value

• A minimum of 10 years in financial leadership, ideally within energy and high-growth businesses.
• Fundraising, investment and leading financial due diligence.
• Financial strategy, FP it is the foundation for better decisions.

Take ownership. We don't wait to be told what to do. We identify what needs to be done and take personal responsibility for seeing it through to completion.

Efficient and precise. We don't get distracted. We focus on the details that matter. We channel our energy into critical tasks to quickly turn ambitions into results.

Mistakes happen! Occasional mistakes are normal. When they occur, we learn from them together and move forward.

Enjoy the work. We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate successes and support one another—because great teams are built on trust and genuine care.

Exergy3 is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.