At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance strategy and operations for a dynamic scale-up over a 6-month contract.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking venture-backed company with a strong culture.
- Benefits: Flexible 3-day work week, ownership of finance outcomes, and impactful role.
- Other info: Opportunity to shape the future of finance in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in capital strategy and growth during an exciting transition.
- Qualifications: CFO experience, strong leadership skills, and a passion for innovation.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Requirements:
- CFO (or equivalent) experience at a venture-backed scale-up, with Series B+ investment conversations and a leading role in at least one raise.
- Hands-on capital strategy: equity story, investor relations, and non-equity or debt facilities.
- International entity set-up, ideally US – comfortable owning the legal, tax, and banking workstreams.
- ERP and financial systems ownership – you've built or fixed the information flow, not just consumed it.
- Available 3 days a week for 6 months, able to start fast.
- (Desirable) Complex commodity, energy, or regulated-market experience.
- (Desirable) Risk management: structure, levers, and the story to investors.
- (Desirable) AI-native finance team structuring – we have most of this covered; you'd sharpen it, not build it.
- (Desirable) The credibility and appetite to lead a funding round personally.
- (Desirable) Strong culture fit: direct, fast, low ego.
If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.
What the job involves:
We're hiring a Fractional CFO – an interim engagement, 6 months, 3 days a week. This is senior cover with real ownership, not a caretaker seat. For six months you own the team's finance outcome end to end – capital, expansion, infrastructure, and audit readiness – while our permanent CFO search continues. We're upfront about that overlap: this engagement stands on its own terms, and we'd rather three brilliant days a week than five average ones.
- Own capital strategy and the equity story, including non-equity facilities.
- Stand up the team's US entity operationally.
- Own pre-emptive funding readiness and inbound investor relations, including tax and Big Four audit preparation.
- You will report into the CEO.
- Capital & funding readiness: Own capital strategy and sharpen the equity story, including non-equity facilities. Deal with pre-emptive funding and manage inbound investor relations: data room, metrics narrative, investor-grade reporting.
- Expansion & growth: Own the operational set-up of the team's US entity ahead of our Texas launch – legal, tax, banking, reporting. Shape revenue strategy and platform growth for the third-party infrastructure model.
- Finance infrastructure: Own ERP integration and the flow of financial information to key stakeholders. Plug into an AI-forward finance set-up – most of the team structuring is covered; you bring the judgement layer. Leave the function cleaner than you found it: systems, processes, and reporting a permanent CFO can inherit on day one.
6-month initial term, 3 days a week.
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