Head of Finance & Strategy Planning, MANUAL
+ Stock option plan
3+ days a week in office (London Bridge)
Healthcare at scale
Posted today
Healthcare at scale
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Stock option plan
3+ days a week in office (London Bridge)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To extend the healthy years of lives for a large part of the population in the UK, Brazil, and beyond focusing on life-impeding conditions like hormonal imbalance, obesity, hair loss and menopause.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of progressive experience in finance and / or company planning, with a strong focus leadership in a high-growth environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships across the organisation, while confidently challenging stakeholders when necessary
- Relentless, output focused mindset; someone who loves pushing through the noise with disciplined pragmatism
- To be proactive and self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership; someone who constantly seeks opportunities to create and drive initiatives forward independently
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Willingness and ability to operate in an unstructured environment, tackling unstructured problems; an ability to deliver high-quality work, fast
- Strong proficiency with financial systems and analytics tools. Experience with modern cloud-based ERP and BI platforms is highly desirable - for example, familiarity with NetSuite for accounting/ERP and Looker (or similar tools like Tableau/Power BI) for data visualisation and reporting. Advanced Excel skills for financial modeling are expected
- Professional finance qualifications (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) are advantageous but not a prerequisite
What the job involves
- This role will report to the Director of Finance & Strategy and will take full ownership of our financial and strategic planning processes, acting as a trusted partner to the leadership team
- You will be responsible for building and running the company-wide budgeting cycles, introducing processes that drive accountability, and uncovering opportunities to create value and improve cost efficiency across the business
- This is a highly visible, hands-on role that will work closely with every function to align financial plans with strategic priorities, whilst also laying the foundation for a best-in-class FP&A function that can scale through our next stage of growth
- We are an office-first company, based in London Bridge, with at least 3 days a week to be worked from the office
- Group-Wide Planning & Performance: lead the organisation’s annual and quarterly planning processes, ensuring financial and strategic priorities are aligned across all functions. Drive effective resource and capital allocation to maximise ROI, accelerate growth, and achieve the Group’s strategic and financial objectives
- Budgeting & Financial Planning: oversee consolidation of business unit budgets and forecasts into a coherent Group view. Develop long-term financial plans and scenario models to support decision-making, manage risk, and ensure the business is positioned for sustainable growth
- Management Reporting & Accountability: own the performance management and reporting framework, delivering timely, accurate monthly and quarterly reports and KPI dashboards. Partner with department heads to review actuals vs. budget, explain variances, and drive accountability through actionable insights and corrective measures
- Cost Efficiency & Value Creation: build business understanding and analyse financial data to identify opportunities for value creation and cost efficiencies across the organisation. Provide actionable insights and recommendations to optimize spending, improve gross margins and drive profitable growth
- Headcount Planning: lead headcount reporting and workforce planning in partnership with HR, ensuring hiring plans and people costs align with the approved budget and company growth strategy
- FP&A Team Building: with traditional FP&A as a key part of the role, take a hands-on approach to laying the foundations of a world-class FP&A function. Design and implement FP&A processes, systems, and best practices from the ground up and over time recruit and develop a high-performing FP&A team to support the company’s growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
MANUAL is a digital healthcare clinic supporting patients with life-changing conditions such as hormonal imbalance, obesity, menopause and hair loss across the UK and Brazil. It does this with a blend of doctor-specialist services, prescription medication backed by science, and digital products informed by behavioural change.
It works to remove the stigma around health problems such as obesity, hormone imbalances and menopause through teleconsultations, testing, regular check-ins and a range of tools, supplements and medications to treat common issues like poor sleep, hair loss, erectile dysfunction and skin conditions. Originally focused solely on men's health, the service led a shift in attitudes among its customers, with about half the men using the service to treat more than one condition, indicating that they're not just seeking help for the worst health issue that they're experiencing. Since then it has opened its services to all genders with a hope to sift attitudes on a wider variety of health issues.
The company has raised an impressive amount of capital, most recently in 2024. And this funding is being used to expand its reach and enhance its services, particularly focussing on treatments for hormonal imbalance, obesity, and hair loss.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$39.5m
EARLY VC
Mar 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74.6m
Company benefits
- Generous stock option plan
- Private medical insurance plan (Amil S750)
- Access to English learning platform with 1 class hour per week
- Gym and wellness benefit with Wellhub
- Hybrid role based in São Paulo, with 1 week per month of in-person working (usually last week of the month)
- 22 business days of vacation
- A growing team with plenty of opportunities for progression, ownership of goals and a direct impact to MANUAL
Company HQ
Southwark, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
George Pallis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous the Global Head of Marketing at Deliveroo and Head of Performance Marketing at TransferWise.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at MANUAL
- Diversity and Inclusion at MANUAL is about fairness. It's a fabulous virtuous circle and we are fusing on:
- Conversations - we are creating a common language via initiatives such as our monthly Tea & Learns, our IWD spotlight on our incredible female-identifying employees, our ongoing celebrations…
- Learning - we are offering D&I trainings catered to our needs such as unconscious bias, psychological safety, mental health support...
- Measurement - we are proud of our 93%+ favourable responses in our monthly pulse confirming that everyone feels welcomed and all voices are listenned to at MANUAL.
- Culture - we are feedback-driven culture, we are humble and love to learn from each other!
- We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender, age, disability, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs. This applies to all decisions related to hiring, training, remuneration, promotion and potential termination.
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