Finance Director, Cubitts
£111.6k
3-5 days a week in office (King’s Cross, London)
Modern spectacle maker
Be an early applicant
Modern spectacle maker
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£111.6k
3-5 days a week in office (King’s Cross, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revive Britain's lost optical legacy.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a FD /CFO or senior finance leader, preferably within retail, e-commerce, or consumer
- Track record of successfully managing financial operations in high-growth businesses
- Strong strategic and analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Experience in fundraising, having gone through at least one PE / VC investment in a growing company - would do a trusted and inspiring job in representing the company in those discussions
- Familiarity with inventory-heavy businesses, supply chain finance, and margin optimisation
- Intimately understands how both technology and insight can really help power a modern, progressive brand and business
- Proven commercial acumen with a focus on balancing creativity and profitability
- Strong alignment with Cubitts’ brand ethos and values - for all, proud, pioneering
- Hands-on, relishes a high growth environment, and aligns with our business philosophy - including growing profitability, being a B Corp, doing things in the right way
- A true leader - sitting alongside the Founder and MD, this is the final part of the triumvirate, they create the culture which defines the company and leads by example
- A pacesetter, impatient to get things done, and able to effectively multiple projects (and people) at the same time
- Someone with the right mindset and personality - talented, intelligent, low ego and self-deprecating, ambitious but doesn’t take life too seriously
- An excellent manager of people, who brings gravitas internally and externally, who's able to step into the detail when needed, but also can think strategically and big picture
- Potential to grow into a CFO role over time
What the job involves
- We're looking for a brilliant, talented Finance Director to join our Executive team of 3 (Founder, Finance Director and MD) and Board, to execute on the next 2-3 years of our strategy - and help us become one of the world’s best brands
- The FD will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Cubitts, acting as a key strategic partner to the founder, Leadership team and board. They will lead an agile finance and insight team, whilst supporting the Founder and MD across the day-to-day running of the business
- They will oversee all financial aspects of the business, ensuring fiscal health, growth, profitability, and aligning financial strategies with the company’s growth ambitions and brand values
- It’s a broad leadership role, which won't be easy, but it is an opportunity to build something truly unique
- Creating a highly effective and modern finance function - spanning financial planning, operational finance, corporate governance and risk management, financial leadership, investor relations and fundraise, data and insight
- Building a brilliant and profitable business which delivers our financial fundamentals, doubling topline sales from £17.5m to £35m, and growing EBITDA from 10% to 15%, through:
- Proving the potential of the US through continuing the expansion of our retail footprint, supported by a growing eCommerce business, and establishing a US base
- Continuing to grow the UK footprint, from 18 beautiful sites today
- Doubling our eCommerce channel from 16% of revenues today to 32% over the next 5 years
- Executing on JV / partnerships in Japan / Korea, and building a brand-first wholesale business
- Working alongside the founder and MD to develop the growth plan for the next 5 years, and run a successful fundraising process
- Playing a leading role in Cubitts into insight led business, working closely with the Technology Director, and creating a dedicated
- Being a true leader across the business (not only the finance function), building a strong culture and effective, motivated team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Cubitts was founded in 2012, offering bespoke and made-to-measure high-quality sunglasses and eyewear. Its online and brick-and-mortar stores offer a wide range of glasses at affordable prices, as well as bespoke spectacle-making courses and full eye examinations.
2/3 of the population wear glasses, half every day, but the glasses industry hasn't evolved accordingly over the past few hundred years, with products and standards not improving. Cubitts aims to create a spectacle-buying experience that people love to transform the industry for the better.
Cubitts offers spectacles for life, with lifetime adjustments and reglazing, frames made the traditional way so that they outlast their users, using only the finest materials (and recycled waste), as well as allowing users to create a one-off frame to customers' exact colour choices and exact measurements.
With multiple stores mostly in London already, the brand is looking to expand not just throughout the UK but across the world. In the future, Cubitts aims to take the brand global to drag the $130bn industry into the modern age.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% female employees
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- London Living Wage employer
- Access to YCN training programmes
- Pension scheme
- Generous friends and family discount
- Quarterly frame allowance
- Bespoke holiday allowance
- Monthly yoga and free fruit
- Cubitts Academy training
- Wellbeing Hub with Champions Health
Company values
- Pioneering
- Proud
- For all
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Andrew Purvis
(Chair, not founder)Former CEO of Fairbridge, Virgin Unite and K10. Alongside Cubitts, they are also the Chairperson at Clean Team Ghana since 2018.
Tom Broughton
(Founder)Founder of Cubitts
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