Financial Director, Oddbox
£100-125k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Vauxhall, London)
Sustainable fruit and vegetable box subscription
Be an early applicant
Sustainable fruit and vegetable box subscription
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£100-125k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Vauxhall, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To rescue odd and surplus food in order to reduce food waste and foster conscious consumerism.
Role
Who you are
- 🥝You're a hands on leader, not afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive into detail; but can also summarise data and financial information to provide strategic insight at leadership level
- 🥝You've worked in disruptive DTC/E-commerce brands supporting growth journeys above £10m
- 🥝You have proven commercial and strategic expertise, with a track record of business partnering with Founders/CEOs and other cross-functional heads to drive commercial success
- 🥝You are an experienced and inspiring leader with a track record of motivating, coaching, and developing high-performing Finance teams
- 🥝You have credibility and EQ to manage teams and stakeholders up to Board level
- 🥝You are resilient and have gravitas, performing well under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
What the job involves
- Our scaling subscription-based e-commerce business is in need of a visionary Financial Director to join our team
- You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Oddbox's financial health and helping us achieve our profitable growth targets
- You'll work closely with our CEO/Founder Emilie and the Leadership team to drive cross functional projects, identify & maximise commercial opportunities and provide a healthy level of challenge to our senior teams, in addition to ensuring best in class financial accounting and reporting
- The Finance Director is expected to significantly impact the company’s financial health and strategic decision-making processes
- 🍇Effective presentation of financial information at board level and across internal teams
- 🍇Lead and develop the finance team
- 🍇Improved financial modelling accuracy and forecasting reliability
- 🍇Leading on cross-functional projects to challenge, drive accountability, actions and decision making capability
- 🍇Responsible for governance, risk management, statutory accounting and treasury
Application process
- 👋 Initial call (normally via video but let us know if a phone call works better) with our People & Culture team - 30 minutes
- 👋 Take home task - around 90-120 minutes of prep
- 👋 Formal interview and task presentation with our CEO and our current Head of Finance - 90 minutes
- 👋 Follow up interview with two of our management team (the leaders at Oddbox who support our CEO in making key business decisions) -45 minutes
- 👋Meet the team
- 👋Offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Oddbox is a provider of sustainable fruit and vegetable boxes. The company buys fresh produce from local farms and delivers them in a weekly subscription box scheme to clients.
Oddbox aims to fight food waste. The company differentiates itself through the fact that the fruits and vegetables within boxes are supplied by farmers who would otherwise send them to waste due to the fact that they are misshapen or a surplus. What's more, the company is a Certified B Corporation. Its boxes are 30% cheaper than alternatives and the company donates 10% of its produce to charities that aim to fight food poverty.
Alongside its continued expansion across the UK, Oddbox aims to build a ‘personal impact’ dashboard that will allow consumers to view the CO2 emissions and water that they saved by using its service. Recent funding from a multi-million pound crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs will be used to scale its operations and to improving its tech so the company can offer a more personalised box for its customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$0.1m
GRANT
Aug 2021
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $24.2m
Company benefits
- An exciting opportunity to be part of a sustainable challenger brand at a time where we are scaling rapidly, helping reduce food waste one carrot at a time
- 33 days holiday per year (incl. Bank Holidays)
- 4 'Not-Sick' Days per Year
- Access to Health Cash Plan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Learning & Development Budget
- 2 days Volunteering Allowance per year
- Discount on Oddbox fruit and veg
- Employee perks via Perkbox & Charlie HR
- Flexible Working Hours
Company values
- Eat good
- Do good
- Stay odd
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Deepak Ravindran
(Chief Customer Officer)Previously Cross Products Business Analyst at HSBC Investment Bank for 1 year and Senior Business Analyst at Northern Trust for 4 months.
Emilie Vanpoperinghe
(CEO)Previously worked for 5 years at Girl Effect, first as Finance Manager for 1 year and then as Director of Finance and Operations for 4 years.
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