Overview

A small information services business operating in the global talent and workforce sector is hiring a CFO. The role is fully remote, with flexibility for candidates based in the UK or US, and is anchored to London for listing purposes. This is a permanent, full-time position paying £80,000 - £100,000 (or USD equivalent) plus equity options.

The business is at a genuine inflection point: growing fast and expanding into the US, with financial processes that need to catch up with that ambition. This role exists to build the financial infrastructure the business needs to scale, not to maintain what's already there. The right person will be equally at home designing a volume invoicing system as they are presenting KPIs to the leadership team. If you've built finance functions from scratch before and you find the detail as satisfying as the strategy, this is a role where you'll have real impact and real ownership from day one.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable, high-volume invoicing processes
Build a KPI dashboard that gives leadership a clear, reliable view of performance
Own day-to-day financial operations end to end
Provide strategic financial input to support business decisions
Formalise financial processes to support US expansion
Produce management information that directly informs board decisions

Requirements

Must-haves:

Built financial processes and systems from scratch
Seen that work through to changing how decisions are made at board level
Comfortable with hands-on processing as well as strategic input
CFO or financial controller background
Experience in a small business or lean finance environment

Nice-to-haves:

Experience in the talent, workforce, or information services sector
Familiarity with US financial and regulatory requirements
Exposure to cross-border or multi-currency operations

What Success Looks Like

Volume invoicing processes are running smoothly and built to scale within the first year
A KPI dashboard is in place and actively used by the leadership team to make decisions
Financial processes are formalised and documented, not just functional
The US expansion has proper financial infrastructure behind it
The leadership team has a clear, consistent view of the numbers for the first time

Team and Culture

Small, lean business where everyone, including the most senior hires, gets into the detail
No finance team beneath this role: the person appointed owns the work top to bottom
Strategic input is genuinely valued, and this hire will have a seat at the table

Challenges

There is no finance team to delegate to, so the day-to-day processing sits with this person alongside everything else
The business is growing quickly, and the financial infrastructure needs to be built while operations keep moving
Building from scratch in a scaling business means tolerating some ambiguity and making decisions without a full picture

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