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Finance Director Location: South West (this is not fully remote role) Salary: up to 100k pro rata (3-4 days per week) Are you an experienced Finance Director passionate about helping start-ups scale? Do you have experience of leading start-ups through funding rounds? As Finance Director, you will play a hands-on role managing both our day-to-day financial activities alongside partnering with the CEO and leadership team to support business growth and optimising financial health. Responsibilities: Day-to Day Financials Manage all day-to-day financial activities from transactional accounting, cashflow management to management accounts and other internal controls and financial reporting Budgeting & Reporting Be responsible for budgeting & reporting, analysis and KPI tracking Board reporting and investor relations Manage board process, reporting and investor relations Fundraising Support the fundraising process, working closely with the CEO, Chairman and Investors (we are heading towards a Series A) Leadership 'strategic decision Play a key role in the leadership team, bringing appropriate level of challenge to ensure sound business and financial planning Company Secretarial Manage our Company Secretarial activities to ensure we meet all statutory compliance requirements Contract & Financial Operations Manage financial processes and systems and support on contractual issues to ensure mitigation of risk and liabilities To be successful in this role, you will have experience of: Working in an FD role, managing the day-today finance function within a high-growth early-stage VC backed SaaS business Working directly with and advising the CEO and senior stakeholders of a company Supporting the fundraising process and managing investor relations Experience: start up and fundraising experience is non-negotiable Have excellent financial modelling skills Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting at board level and with the ability to be impactful at a senior level Be comfortable working in a small, fast growth team, rolling up your sleeves with a proactive mindset Be super organised, with a real skill to cut through noise, obsessively prioritize, keep everyone updated and managing upwards Have great project management skills and high attention to detail - someone who is great at keeping projects and all those involved on track Hold a full chartered accountancy body qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or equivalent To be successful working with us you will be Start-up ready. You are naturally proactive, have a positive attitude to change; have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, always happy to go beyond your brief; enjoy working at pace and comfortable with ambiguity.