Finance Director

🍊Our mission

All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show they’re safe and effective. But today’s clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past, and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments. 

Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials. We’re still a young company, but we’ve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 we’ve helped run over 80 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, with a customer NPS of 100.

We recently raised a $18m Series A round from some great investors including Creandum, Peter Thiel and Firstminute to power the next stage of our growth. 

🍊About the role

We’re looking for an exceptional Finance Director who will be responsible for leading Finance at Lindus Health, working closely with our leadership team to define and deliver on our long term strategy and financial goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance within a high-growth startup environment, with a proven track record of driving financial strategy and operational excellence.

This is an on-site role in London with a flexible (hybrid) office arrangement. After an initial onboarding period full-time at our headquarters (near London Bridge) we expect you to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

You will report into Michael (Co-founder) and work closely with the wider business including Operations, Commercial and Clinical Operations. 

🍊About you

• 8+ years professional experience, including within a startup or scaleup environment and having led a Finance team
• Strong expertise in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and financial strategic planning
• Proven track record of driving financial performance and operational efficiency
• 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
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Highly proficient in account software (Xero preferable) and working with Excel/GSheets, comfortable with data analysis and presentation

🍊What you’ll focus on

Strategic finance planning

• Provide financial insights and analysis to support company strategy, growth opportunities and fundraising
• Develop and maintain financial models to support business planning and decision-making
• Drive analysis around margins at company and account level
• Analyse financial performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks, including market and operational risks

Budgeting

• Lead the annual budgeting process, working closely with Functional heads (including Commercial, Product and Clinical Operations) to ensure alignment with company goals.
• Prepare and update financial forecasts, incorporating business performance and trends
• Monitor and report on budget variances and coordinate actions across teams to address these variances as needed
• Work closely with our ClinOps and Product teams on resourcing models, milestone forecasting and accounting across live projects

Support on fundraising processes

• Work alongside our founders on fundraising process strategy and requirements, including financial budgets and walkthroughs
• Respond to investor due diligence requests

Financial management

• Manage the current finance team, including our Head of Finance and Finance Manager
• Ensure accurate and timely financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
• Oversee payroll, accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, across both our UK and US entities
• Implement and maintain robust internal controls and financial policies

Ad-hoc financial support

• Lead on special projects, for example trial margin analysis and resource modelling
• Support in the development of board packs
• Deliver monthly financial result summaries to our founders and leadership team
• Available for ad-hoc finance requests and discussions with team members across the business

🍊What we offer

• Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world’s most broken industries
• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options
• Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.
• Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year
• Health & wellbeing - cashback scheme with Medicash (unlimited virtual GP appointments, medical, dental, optician, physio, mental health + more!)
• Gympass membership; flexible access to gyms, studios, classes and wellness apps
• Enhanced Parental Leave - 12 weeks full pay for primary care giver & 4 weeks full pay for secondary care giver
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular team events; recently we've been to Legoland, a Bake Off competition, and a Millwall FC home game (decided by popular vote)
• Up to £1,000 per year towards courses, certifications and development
• A new laptop as your main workstation

🍊Our hiring process

• Initial conversation with our Talent team (20 minutes)
• Second meeting with Michael (Co-founder) (30 minutes)
• Functional exercise (1 hour)
• Functional interview with Michael, Gaby (Director, People and Ops) and the Finance team (45 minutes)
• Culture and values interview with co-founders (45 minutes) We also use standardised testing as a complement to our final values interviews.