Head Of Finance

Location: London (2-3 days in the office) Salary: £80,000 - £90,000

About you

Our Finance team provides the right information for the business to make the right decisions. We’re looking for an experienced and ambitious Finance professional, who will be a vital conduit between the Finance team and the broader business, helping us to learn from our financial results, as well as set accurate expectations for the future. This role is responsible for a team of 3, owning the information that they produce and ensuring it is understood and acted upon by the rest of the business. 

This is an exciting time to join VivaCity. It provides the opportunity to learn and grow from holding the business to account against plan, in a business that is scaling across the UK, US and ANZ and seeking to achieve profitability in 12 months’ time. 

What you’ll be doing

Business partnering:

• Active part of management team working with other Heads of to ensure shared understanding of financial consequences of business decisions
• Assisted by your team, produce simple monthly financial reporting & KPIs to management team
• Routinely review expenditure across the business, and work with management team to drive operational and cost efficiency as we scale internationally

Financial planning and analysis:

• Responsible for regularly maintaining and updating forecast models, including 3 statement financial model and short term working capital model
• Working closely with management team to challenge inputs, analyse outputs and share insights across the business
• Key contributor to, growing to owner of, annual budgeting process

Cash flow management:

• Management of weekly cash flows against a Budget and short term forecasts
• Work closely with Manufacturing team to plan stock purchasing forecasts, and actioning these plans to ensure efficient management of working capital
• Approval of supplier payruns and monthly payroll (produced by external provider)

Reporting:

• Assisted by your team, production of timely and accurate management accounts to support Executive team in monthly Board meetings with investors
• Periodically review reporting processes, focussed on provision of quality insights with an efficient process that keeps reporting overhead manageable
• Work with external accountants to produce annual statutory financial accounts

Compliance:

• Oversight of annual regulatory requirements, ensuring regular filing deadlines are met across our UK, US and ANZ presence.

What we're looking for:

• We will consider experienced Head of Finance candidates, or ambitious Finance Managers or equivalent, looking to make a step up.
• You must have experience in a scale up (e.g - post Series A), and have demonstrated value add from a broad Finance role, ideally with a focus on FP&A activities
• You are an excellent communicator, knowing how to place financial topics in a broader context
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification

What we offer:

• 25 days of holiday.
• Flexible working hours and work-from-home options.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Up to three 'childcare' or 'dependant' days per year.
• Mental health support through Spill.
• Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction.