Head of Finance, Equus Software
Cloud-based mobility solutions
Job no longer available
Cloud-based mobility solutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide great employee, HR and mobility team experiences.
Role
Who you are
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (essential)
- Significant post-qualification experience in a finance leadership role, ideally within a multi-currency transactional environment
- Strong technical accounting skills; the go-to person for complex accounting questions, particularly in multi-currency consolidation, revenue recognition, and management reporting
- Commercial instinct; able to translate financial data into insight that drives business decisions, not just report what happened
- Proven ability to lead and develop a finance team through a period of structural change; a track record of developing people, not just managing them
- Demonstrable experience driving automation and process improvement in a finance function; comfortable with finance systems, APIs, and automation tools, and making the case for investment
- A continuous improvement mindset; someone who is never satisfied with "good enough" and consistently looks for smarter ways to operate
- Experience managing offshore or distributed finance teams is an advantage
- Hands-on and willing to operate at both strategic and transactional levels, particularly during the transition period
- Experience in EOR, staffing, professional services, or a similarly complex billing model (strongly preferred)
What the job involves
- The Head of Finance leads a finance function across two pillars: Transactions & Reporting and Service Delivery & Commercial
- Full ownership of the finance function: Financial controls, reporting integrity, and team leadership across both pillars
- Board reporting: Produce accurate, timely, and credible management information that gives the COO and board genuine confidence in the numbers
- Month-end close process: Oversee the GL Accountant and Finance Manager to deliver a clean, controlled close each month within a defined timetable
- Financial controls framework: Design and embed controls appropriate for a multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction EOR business, with clear ownership and sign-off at every stage
- Senior stakeholder relationships: Be the primary finance voice with the COO, board, and business partners; the person people come to first for financial guidance
- Technical accounting: Serve as the go-to expert for complex accounting judgements across the business, including revenue recognition, FX treatment, intercompany and multi-entity consolidation
- Team leadership and development: Build a high-performing finance team, set clear expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across both pillars
- Automation and systems: Drive the finance technology agenda; identify and implement automation opportunities across the billing, reconciliation, and reporting cycles
- Continuous improvement: Embed a mindset of process improvement across the function; regularly review how work gets done and challenge the team to find better ways
- Transformation delivery: Lead the finance restructure through to steady state, including the people plan, system improvements, and Order-to-Cash redesign
- Cost base management: Manage the finance budget and ensure the function is appropriately resourced as the business scales
Our take
With more than 20 years of experience and bootstrapped since birth, any other company management team would have slipped Equus Software into complacency. Instead, its founder and former CEO, Mark Thomas, has responded to tech innovations with unprecedented dexterity, having grown the company astronomically since 2009.
Throughout the 2020s, the flagship products under Equus’s belt have become mainstays of talent mobility. Its solutions provide a seamless way to managing remote and on-the-go teams, plus assistance in recruitment and onboarding. It also offers products to help companies save money, maintain communication and visibility, and expand to new territories without having to open an office there.
The success of Equus’s products, it claims, comes down to long-term client relationships and the growing global and remote needs of companies. As a background assistant for an increasingly globalized enterprise theatre, Equus has kept up with innovations and prospered because of it. Moving forwards, we expect it will continue to acquire global software companies and expand its product line.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Permanent Role – You will not start over when moving projects. We only hire passionate people who are looking for a long-term opportunity with a growing company
- Learn best practices and become a SME with our technology
- Great salary and benefits. We have highly competitive salaries and offer great bonuses for exceptional contributors. We have enterprise-class benefits
- Great location! This is a hybrid opportunity
- Nice office, relaxed and collaborative atmosphere with a casual dress code
- Software is our business! We’ve been developing software for 20 years, and we’re growing fast. You’ll be a part of a team that develops software quickly and effectively
- Take advantage of Innovation Day with every release. Play with whatever technology you want, learn what you want, try out something new! You will get to present it to the company. Many innovations have made it into our products!
Company HQ
Union Square, Lakewood, CO
Leadership
Mark Thomas
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Founded Equus Software in 1999. BS in Journalism and Advertising from University of Kansas, MA Business from Webster University.
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