Head of Finance, Supercritical
£85-105k
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Carbon removal marketplace
Job no longer available
Carbon removal marketplace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£85-105k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring radical transparency to the carbon removal market
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced finance professional looking for a new challenge in an exciting, impact driven industry
- You have a strong foundation in most elements of finance and a particular strength in FP&A
- Building beautiful financial models is your bread and butter and you perhaps even have some experience in data analytics
- You are well versed in best practice processes but have also worked in unstructured environments where you have to be pragmatic about what makes the biggest impact
- You love building and have likely had a hand in building something from scratch before
- You are excited about the challenge of being the first finance professional in the organisation
- You persuade by making the complex simple and are not afraid to challenge leaders in order to get the best outcome
- You thrive on seeing how your work impacts the company culture and results
What the job involves
- Build and manage the company financial model including P&L and cash forecasting
- Work with leaders to run the quarterly forecasting process
- Work with our external book keepers and internal platforms (e.g. CRMS) to produce more insights from our monthly reporting
- Engage our investors and board with high quality reporting
- Build the fundamentals of a great finance function
- Have a significant impact on business performance by holding leaders to account and supporting them with ad hoc analysis
- Act as an advisor to the management team and drive a culture of data-driven decision making
- UK Work Sponsorship: Unfortunately, at this stage of our growth, we are unable to offer UK sponsorship to applicants
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Supercritical is offering businesses the option to reach carbon net zero output. It measures a company’s carbon footprint, creates an actionable plan for reducing emissions, and recommends a portfolio of high-quality carbon removal offsets to buy. It does this through unprecedented transparency of price, availability and quality, so its customers know exactly how its carbon output is being reduced, and what effect this reduction will have.
Businesses create a lot of pollution that either needs to be lowered or removed from the atmosphere to keep the earth’s warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry, Supercritical has made the tech industry an initial target.
When companies buy conventional offsets, the carbon emitted still remains in the atmosphere as someone else gets paid not to emit the same amount of carbon. Supercritical differentiates itself by focusing exclusively on carbon removal offsets that actively remove toxins from the atmosphere through methods such as tree planting, biochar, enhanced weathering, bio-oil sequestration, and direct air capture. It partners its customers with teams of climate scientists on carbon removal procurement, offering live pricing and granular vetting to simplify carbon reduction for the fluid and volatile tech industry.
Supercritical counts well-known businesses The Economist Group, Virgin Atlantic and Rothschild & Co as customers. And its using funding to grow its carbon removal to a mass scale, placing it in a good spot to do so with its unique strategy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$13m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $15.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave – Take the time you need to recharge
- Extra Time Off – The first Friday of every month is a company-wide day off
- Pension Contribution – We’ll match your 5% contribution with 3%
- Flexible Hybrid Work – Work remotely first, with the option to use our London co-working space in Old Street, London
- Wellbeing & Home Setup Support – £1,000 annual wellbeing allowance + up to £500 for home office equipment
- Team Socials – Monthly company gatherings in London and annual company multi-day offsites
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle You
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Songkick and was CPO for 9 years. Product Consultant & Advisor for several startups and was a Venture Partner at LocalGlobe. Current Board Member of Subak and Member of Getting to Zero Steering Group.
Aaron Randall
(Co-Founder & CTO)Progressed from Software Developer to CTO of Songkick over the course of 7 years. Previously interim CTO and then Technical Advisor at Lingumi.
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