Head of Finance, PerchPeek
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Xero
Expert level
London
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Modern relocation management
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Modern relocation management
21-100 employees
B2BEnterpriseHRMobility
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Salary not provided
+ Company share options
Xero
Expert level
London
More information about location
21-100 employees
B2BEnterpriseHRMobility
Company mission
To build a streamlined mobility ecosystem that empowers businesses and individuals to move anywhere in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 7 years PQE Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and strong technical accounting knowledge
- International Experience - Worked and managed processes across multiple entities
- Fluency in using Xero as the accounting system
- Worked in a startup/scaleup environment across a range of finance functions and understands the pace and dynamics
- Proven experience in setting up or improving tech-enabled financial processes in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Ideally, you have created or developed a financial model and provided associated analysis
- An Autonomous Self Starter - Driven to set and deliver against deadlines. You balance thoughtful and clear thinking with responding quickly and doing the right thing at pace
- Strong Analytical Thinking Capability - Logical and quick processing skills, the ability to synthesise and interpret financial data and provide business context informed insights in order to support strategic decision-making
- Pair of Hawk Eyes. Detailed oriented and clinical, whilst working in a fast paced environment. You produce high quality and accurate work
- Highly Organised - Able to balance multiple spinning plates by being able to prioritise tasks, manage projects, and allocate time according to business objectives
- Unrelenting Performance Standards. Ready to be in the weeds and proactively drive performance through a mindset of continuous improvement and a genuine belief that there’s always a lesson to be learnt
- Forward Thinking - Intellectual horsepower to continuously stay ahead and confident to own decisions with an element of risk
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced and versatile Head of Finance who is energised by the challenges of a high-growth and already global startup
- Whilst the role will initially mean you’re the sole finance team member, and we know this will feel like a lot, we’re looking for you to quickly lead on building a world-class finance function and quickly make your first supporting hire (and until you do, our operations team and external accountants have got your back!)
- Given the end-to-end nature of this role, whilst you’ll be responsible for delivering on the core finance processes (AR, AP, MAs etc), you will have the opportunity (and should be hungry!) to drive process and technology improvements that scale the finance function and create watertight accuracy
- You’ll also need to be highly collaborative on 2 key fronts: 1) You will advise and work closely with the C-level team on analysing the business and presenting at the Board level. 2) Finance is actually a service we provide to clients, so you’ll need to engage with our Product and Operations teams to help connect the dots and drive value for our clients
- This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual who’s not afraid to take on something big
- Management Accounts - Prepare monthly management accounts and year end accounts with supporting analysis. Managing and working with, where necessary, our external accountants. Implementing new accounting standards and best practices
- Process Improvement, Automations & Tooling - Implement 3rd party tools, automations and process improvements to improve scalability of financial processes and accounting practices. (This aspect will significantly be supported by the Snr RevOps & Financial Systems Manager)
- FP&A - Maintain and enhance the accuracy of the financial model and regularly report on variance to budget. Work with the executive team on financial scenario planning and budgeting consequences
- Internal controls & financial policies - Setting up or improving internal policies and establishing relevant financial controls and procedures to implement policies i.e. develop and maintain suitable processes and controls for client-related control accounts
- Treasury & Cash Management - Monitor cash flows, forecast future cash needs, and optimize working capital
- Global Compliance & Tax - Fulfill statutory and tax obligations in collaboration with external accountants across the range of global entities, including R&D tax grants
- Finance Team Development
- Owning the finance organisation scaling and development to meet business needs by monitoring and spotting changing financial needs of the business, blockers and where the financial department needs to prioritise time
- Hiring and management of additional team member/s. Includes skills development, managing workload, quality assurance of outputs and overall performance management
- Initially will own, until junior team member is hired:
- Bookkeeping Process - as standard, and including identifying and implementing technical solution and improvements to existing processes
- Financial BAU Processes - including accounts receivable and payable, payroll & benefits processing
- Client Finance Processes - Manage the client & customer payment process in accordance with policies. Streamline and optimize the payment process where possible
- Collaborate on:
- Revenue Operations - with operations and commercial teams - to improve accuracy and automation of revenue processes
- KPI & Board Reporting - with operations and executive teams - to meet reporting needs for both internal and external stakeholders, including the Board of investors
- Fundraising & Investors Relations - with the CEO - to explore capital funding options and prepare fundraising financial materials
- Global Entity Establishments - with operations - assessing global entity needs for optimal accounting and client delivery purposes. Research and establish new entities as required
Application process
- Firstly, no need for a full cover letter (phew!) Please just share your resume and answer our small number of get-to-know-you questions
- If we think we’re well matched, you’ll be invited to a virtual interview with one of the PerchPeek team so we can get to know each other a bit better. We hope you’re as excited to apply as we are to hear from you - good luck!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
PerchPeek is helping the world decide where to live, providing a personal service for movers but without the hefty price tag. It is based on the belief that finding the right home in the right city - let alone country - is already hard enough.
As well as being an affordable service, PerchPeek’s USP is that it tries to understand its users. Using its relocation experts, it is able to come up with bespoke options. This is particularly appealing in a world that is trending towards more personalisation.
Initially described as "the Tinder of rental property", PerchPeek has since developed into a completely unique, global relocation service. Investors have seen the potential, and the company has raised good funding to support continued international expansion.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
67% female employees
-51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$11m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $14.4m
Company benefits
- Remote working (work from anywhere)
- Flexible PTO on top of national holidays
- Compassionate leave (health & wellbeing, bereavement, miscarriage, caretaking)
- Workspace setup budget & recurring funds
- Annual learning & development budget
- Socials, team days & an annual Pandemonium Week
Company HQ
Town Centre, Crawley, UK
Additional info
- PerchPeek also has a social model, believing that everyone deserves a roof over their head, and donates to Centrepoint Charity every time someone finds a home on PerchPeek. It has currently provided over 1300 nights for homeless people.
Leadership
Paul Bennett
(Founder & CEO)After studying at Oxford, worked as a Vendor Manager and Business Development Manager at Amazon. Co-founded Perchpeek in 2017, taking it through Cohort 6 of Pi Labs Property Innovation, and has served as CEO since.
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