Financial Controller, Vivacity
£70-75k
1-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
AI-powered traffic insights
Open for applications
AI-powered traffic insights
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£70-75k
1-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower cities to put sustainable communities at the heart of their transport networks.
Role
Who you are
- You must have experience of working for Finance in a scale up (e.g - post Series A), and have demonstrated value add from a broad Finance role
- Any FP&A experience will be highly valued, but is not essential - we’re happy for this role to gain such experience in the role
- You are an excellent communicator, knowing how to place financial topics in a broader context
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
What the job involves
- 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 knows how to provide sound financial control as well as how to efficiently distribute key financial information to the broader business
- This role reports into the COO and 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
- 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
- Active part of management team working with ‘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
- Management of weekly cash flows against a Budget
- 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)
- Oversight of annual regulatory requirements, ensuring regular filing deadlines are met across our UK, US and ANZ presence
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Technology is the driver of positive change in all aspects of our lives. The way we communicate, entertain ourselves and move around have all improved exponentially thanks to huge advancements in technology. So could we do the same for the cities we live in?
Vivacity is implementing transport-focused smart cities, using cameras with on-board machine learning in order to quantify movement of pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists, and then building advanced predictive AI systems around this data. The company’s artificial intelligence anonymously captures, classifies and tracks live transport usage 24/7, via sensors placed in major towns and cities. With this data, local authorities can recognise behaviour patterns - enabling them to improve safety.
Vivacity's technology has been adopted by numerous UK councils and institutions, including Transport For London, Oxfordshire and Sunderland City Councils, and the University of Bristol. With the government awarding funding for regions to develop "Active Travel" schemes, there could be many more clients to come. Funds raised by the company will be used to widen its product portfolio, as well as support expansion into North America.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% female employees
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$8.9m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$0.4m
GRANT
Total funding: $20.1m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Flexible working hours and locations
- Private pension with 3% employer contribution
- Health Assured employee assistance programme
- Annual company away trip – COVID permitting (previous trips have been in Europe and the UK)
- Optional healthcare plan
- Annual personal training budget
- Home office set up budget
- Cycle to work scheme
- Fully stocked office kitchen
- Monthly social activity budget
Company values
- Be human: We’re welcoming, approachable and friendly, working in a mutually supportive way, where our default question is ‘how can I help?’ We show compassion and kindness to ourselves and others, building strong relationships and celebrating successes.
- Challenge accepted: Pushing the boundaries and tackling challenging problems is at the heart of the company. We know that taking risks means that sometimes things fail, and that’s ok. But driven by curiosity, ingenuity, persistence and expertise, we step into the unknown to find a solution. When someone says ‘That’s impossible’, we say ‘Challenge Accepted!’.
- Open by default: We value transparency and traceability and construct our processes around this. We share information freely and openly to help everyone understand the rationale behind decisions and why they are in the best interests of our people and company.
- Speak your Mind: It’s better to have ten ideas that don’t pass muster – and one that does – than not share any for fear of getting it wrong. We can put ourselves out there and voice our ideas. We always give and receive feedback constructively, helping the team work better together, and recognise achievements and success.
- Autonomy: Innovation is, by nature, bottom-up. It’s not for the people in charge to come up with all the ideas. It’s only by asking everyone to contribute and listening to all perspectives, that can we progress as a company and develop the best solutions. We empower people to take responsibility, be creative, experiment and push the boundaries.
- Community First: Community first means welcoming everyone, regardless of background, race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. We also always put community first when developing our solutions – gathering only anonymous insights, eliminating personal data and innovating to be a force for good in the world.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Mark Nicholson
(CEO)Graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences, where they met the other two co-founders whilst leading the solar car racing team. Previously an Associate Consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Yang Lu
(CTO)Completed an Engineering degree at Cambridge where they were the Technical Director on the same solar car project. Spent a year as a Consultant at TTP.
Peter Mildon
(COO)Studied Engineering at Cambridge, was the Chief Engineer on a solar car project. Spent 2 years as a Senior Engineer at Frazer-Nash consultancy.
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