VP Finance VC-Backed Frontier Deeptech Startup | London / Hybrid

VP Finance | VC-Backed Frontier Deeptech Startup | London / Hybrid The Client Harmonic is delighted to have been retained by a newly funded deep-tech startup building an entirely new category of infrastructure at the frontier of AI and science.

Backed by leading venture investors and funded through a mix of equity and debt, the business is building physical capacity from the ground up and selling access to it on a usage basis.

This is truly one of the most impressive founding teams we have worked with.

They have extensive experience in the space; with mixed backgrounds, having been investors, operators and founders of multi-$100m and unicorn valued businesses.

They have now come together to capture an estimated $1T TAM.

It is an unusually rare time to join a deeptech who is positioned to scale rapidly: pre-product, capital-intensive, and moving fast toward its first operational site later this year.

This is a founding hire, where the expectation is you will have an outsized impact on the business as an early hire.

The Role This is the first dedicated finance hire, owning the finance function end to end and reporting directly to a co-founder who currently carries finance himself.

It is a true individual-contributor role, and it is designed to stay that way: rather than building a team, you own an area larger than one person by working through smart outsourcing, contracting and tooling.

You are properly backed to do exactly that.

The business invests heavily in giving this person everything they need, from a genuinely strong outsourced accounting partner already handling the bookkeeping, expenses and filing, through to a real budget for tools, systems and the AI tokens to automate the function from day one.

The intent is simple: automate and delegate the day-to-day controllership so the majority of your time and headspace goes to the commercial and strategic finance work.

You will stand up and oversee the operational foundations while owning three things that go well beyond standard controllership and are the reason this role matters: the financial model and corporate finance that go to founders, investors and lenders; the accounting and debt structuring behind a CAPEX-heavy operating model; and, most distinctively, the usage-based pricing model that turns physical capacity into customer cost.

Key Responsibilities Own the operational core end to end, working through and getting the best from the outsourced accounting partner: month-end close, management accounts, payroll, statutory accounts, the first audit, and the R