Financial Controller Family/Founders Office

Interim Financial Controller Family/Founders Office London Harmonic are delighted to be partnering with a serial entrepreneur in their search for a Interim Financial Controller to sit across their business and wider interests. Alongside a portfolio of investments and property, the founder is building a number of new business ventures, the largest of which is a fast-growing tech business. These interests have grown over time and are closely tied together, and the founder now wants to put proper structure around them. The Role This is a full-time interim role, which is open to part-time fractional candidates. The brief is to bring the whole picture together: oversight of the operating businesses, the related entities, the property portfolio and the investments, and how capital moves between them. The role also involves being 'hands-on' in the new business venture, managing month-end, payroll, accounts and general bookkeeping. The founder is also thinking about a permanent founder's or family office role, and this person will help inform what that looks like. Key Responsibilities Build a single view of the founder's businesses, entities, property and investments Ownership of the finance function within the main operating business Get on top of the group and entity structure, and simplify it where it makes sense Advise the founder on funding new ventures and allocating capital across the portfolio Manage the finance and admin around the property portfolio Help design the longer-term finance structure, including the full-time hire into the operating business Stay hands-on with the detail, including the admin that comes with a multi-asset structure What We Need to See (Essential) Senior finance experience in a family office, founder's office, or PE or VC fund finance Experience across multiple entities and asset types, including complex ownership structures Exposure to investing into businesses, and getting in and out of them