Head of Finance, Orbital
£90-100k
2-3 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
Be an early applicant
Legal due diligence platform for property transactions
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-100k
2-3 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- Finance Leader with Growth Experience: Proven experience in a B2B SaaS, high-growth, or VC-backed business. Prior experience as a Head of Finance, or FP&A Lead is ideal
- FP&A and Modeling Expertise: Deep understanding of financial modeling, forecasting, and strategic finance to support scaling and fundraising. Loves working with revenue operations
- Strategic Thinker, Hands-On Operator: Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution of financial operations. Willing to dive into spreadsheets, review P&L statements, and solve operational finance issues
- Overseeing Financial Control Responsibilities: You have a strong background in financial control, ensuring effective management of accounting, tax, and compliance functions while maintaining rigorous financial governance. Ideally, your experience extends internationally, with a particular focus on the U.S
- Strong Stakeholder Management: Able to partner effectively with leadership and external advisors. An ability to communicate with simplicity and enable others to track KPI’s effectively
- Qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification (or equivalent)
What the job involves
- As a Head of Finance at Orbital Witness, you'll play a critical role in leading our financial strategy and operations as we scale
- Reporting to the COO, you will be a key business partner to the leadership team, helping drive informed decision-making and preparing the company for its next phase of growth
- This is a unique opportunity to have a meaningful impact at a Series-A, GenAI LegalTech startup with ambitious plans to reshape the $144 trillion global real estate industry
- Join us in our mission to simplify and accelerate property transactions by automating legal processes with cutting-edge technology
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): Own and develop financial models that provide insight into business performance, growth opportunities, and funding strategies
- Strategic Finance: Provide commercial insights and support strategic decisions, particularly around SaaS metrics, market expansion and fundraising
- Financial Controls & Operations. Oversee financial reporting, compliance, and risk management, ensuring solid practices in financial governance. Ensure accurate and timely preparation of quarterly, and annual financial statements and monthly close of accounts
- Team, Process and AI Leadership. Deliver scale by pursuing automation and streamlining processes. Rethink finance with a desire to integrate AI into workflows. Grow, mentor and build a finance team
- Cash Flow & Capital Management: Manage cash flow forecasting, working capital, ensuring the business is well-positioned for growth
- As part of our commitment to information security, all employees are expected to adhere to company security policies and procedures, participate in mandatory security awareness training, and ensure the secure handling of sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards. Reporting potential risks or incidents is a key part of fostering our culture of security and compliance
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Orbital Witness builds SaaS solutions for real estate lawyers and property professionals, transforming how property professionals work, leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.
There is huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
7 people
Kieran Pattison, Senior Customer Success Manager
Our mission
To ensure clients love working with us and see maximum value from their investment. If our customers are successful, everyone wins.Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Every employee gets £1000/year to spend on personal development (books, conferences, tech etc). None of this has any red tape, ask your manager and..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2023
$9.9m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$4.4m
SEED
Total funding: $15.9m
Company benefits
- Matched pension contributions and equity options
- Flexible working hours and location; access to 30+ Boutique Workplace offices in the UK
- 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- All-company off-sites, Deliveroo Wednesdays and team socials
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
- Extra day annual leave when you move house
Company values
- Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
- Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
- Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
- Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Edmond Boulle
(Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.
Will Pearce
(Co-Founder and CEO)Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.
People progressing
Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.
Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.
People breakdown
35%
65%
Female
Male
Last updated on 11 February 2025
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital
Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)
- We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
- We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.
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