Finance Director in London

Our mission — We’re powering biology's century with radically faster, more reliable clinical trials. Every new treatment needs clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy, but today’s infrastructure is stuck in the past—driving up cost, causing delays and ultimately meaning new treatments don’t get to patients. We’re fundamentally changing that—not just being a "better CRO," but transforming how people think about developing new treatments, so patients can access breakthrough treatments faster.

Our impact speaks for itself: Since March 2021, we’ve powered 100+ clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients. We recently raised a $55M Series B from Balderton Capital, alongside backing from Creandum, Firstminute, Seedcamp, and Visionaries.

What it’s like to work here? When you join us, you’ll experience:

• High-Impact, Mission-Driven Work: Lindus Health is disrupting an outdated industry, giving you the chance to directly improve patients’ lives and see tangible results from your work.
• Fast-Paced Growth & Ownership: We recognise hard work and outcomes over anything else. You’ll take on real responsibility, work across different areas, and actively shape the company’s success.
• Collaborative, No-Ego Culture: Work with smart, driven people in a supportive and informal environment. At Lindus we break down silos, fun is a core value, and creativity is encouraged.

Ready to power biology's century? We’d love to hear from you.

About the role: We’re hiring a Finance Director to lead our finance function through the next phase of growth. This is a high-impact role combining strong controllership and technical accounting with high-quality FP&A and commercial insight. You’ll ensure our numbers are audit-ready and our decisions are well supported while staying close to the detail and building foundations that scale.

This is both a hands-on and strategic role. You’ll be comfortable leading the Finance Operations team, delivering monthly management accounts and leading the annual audit end-to-end while rolling up your sleeves to build models, improve processes, and partner with the business day-to-day as well as lead and coach the existing finance team and be a strategic advisor to the executive team.

About you: We’d like to hear from you if…

• You are a qualified accountant with 8+ years of total experience in finance, accounting & FP&A roles.
• You have Big 4 (or equivalent) audit training and strong core accounting fundamentals.
• You have spent at least 3 years in finance roles at Series A - Series D startups/scaleups in similarly fast-moving environments.
• Ideal candidates have held management roles in finance at fast-moving startups for most of their career.
• Ideally, experience leading Finance teams in project-based/consultancy businesses (vs SaaS or consumer).
• Have proven ability to cover both controllership/technical accounting and FP&A/planning/modelling.
• Strong technical judgement (especially around IFRS 15/services revenue recognition).
• You have a hands-on mindset.
• Keen eye and attention to detail, matched with the comfort of working in a fast-paced environment where ambiguity and the ability to adapt processes and forecasting assumptions are key.
• You can influence leaders, challenge assumptions, and communicate clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Comfortable swiftly zooming in and out of detail to see the bigger picture.

You belong here! If your experience and interests align with the above, we want you to apply.

What you’ll focus on:

• Leadership & team development: Lead the finance function, line managing a team of 2, and hiring further team as needed. Provide coaching and mentoring to team members to upskill and develop professionally. Raise the bar on technical accounting depth, close quality, and business partnering. Be a strategic partner to the executive team providing advice on best practices, revenue recognition and accrual strategies to support adequate maintenance of runway and cashflow. Build a roadmap for scaling the function.
• Financial control, reporting & audit: Ensure accurate and timely financial statements, including income statements, cost control reporting, balance sheets, and cash flow statements: accuracy, timelines, reconciliations, and continuous process improvement. Lead the annual audit and statutory reporting process end-to-end: Auditor relationship, PBC management, technical papers, and delivery to deadlines. Implement and strengthen internal controls, financial policies, and scalable processes as the company grows. Ensure high-quality balance sheet management, evidence standards, and audit-ready documentation. Act as the technical accounting owner for the business: Revenue recognition (IFRS 15), contract review guidance, and policy documentation. Judgement areas such as provisions, accruals, capitalisation, leases, and share-based payments.
• Planning, forecasting & modelling (hands-on): Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasting, partnering with functional leads to build accountable plans. Build and maintain driver-based models (revenue, margin, headcount, cash/runway, scenario planning). Produce clear monthly performance narratives for leadership: Variances, drivers, risks, and recommended actions. Gross margin reporting & analysis.

What we offer: We believe in rewarding the people who are building the future of clinical research.

• Financial & Growth: Competitive salary plus meaningful equity - you’ll own a piece of what we’re building.
• £1,000 annual Learning & Development budget for courses, certifications, and conferences.
• 39 days annual leave (30 days PTO + 8 bank holidays).