Finance Director, Sunsave
Equity
4 days a week in office (Central London)
The UK’s first solar subscription
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The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Equity
4 days a week in office (Central London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Save every household meaningful money by putting power in their hands
Role
Who you are
- Capital markets and corporate development experience: you've raised or invested real money. That might be banking (DCM, leveraged or structured finance), investing, or a corporate development, corporate strategy or strategic finance seat where you've run raises, facilities or M&A. You can run the process (with Founder support) and lead on pricing, structuring, covenants and negotiation with investors/banks
- Fluent in venture and growth equity: you're plugged into that market, you know the comps, how growth investors value businesses like ours, and what a credible narrative looks like to them. The difference between good and exceptional here is whether you can shape that narrative alongside the founders, rather than needing us to craft it for you
- A strategic finance operator aiming at CFO: you have an edge in FP&A, long-range planning, capital allocation and KPI design, and you've been the person the CEO turns to on where the next pound goes. Control and compliance may not be where your edge is, but you want to be accountable for them and you know what good looks like. You're already thinking about what you'd need to learn to be a credible CFO of a business several times our size
- High-growth company experience: you've built at pace at an early or growth-stage company (roughly Series A to Series C), you've chosen that kind of environment before, and you know that processes here need to evolve every month, not every year
- Genuinely interested in energy: you don't need to be an energy expert, and few people will be, but you should be curious about where the transition is going and have a view on it
- Exceptional modeller, and close to the detail: you build models other people can use and stakeholders can be given access to, and you rebuild without ego when the business changes. At our stage the person owning the strategy also builds the model, writes the board slide and verifies the numbers
- A leader and a bar-raiser: you'll take on an existing team and hire selectively as we scale. You might already lead a function, or you might be stepping up from a strategic finance, corporate development or strategy seat inside a larger business to own one for the first time. Both work for us. Analysts and accountants who've worked with you got better because you were there
- Genuinely AI-native: you use AI daily in your own workflow and have a clear point of view on where it creates real leverage in a finance function. You use and test the latest tools constantly
- Commercially broad: the best people in this seat operate well beyond finance's lane, on strategy, pricing, partnerships and business operations. We are looking for someone with exceptional judgement when making consequential business decisions and operating in unfamiliar territory
What the job involves
- Own the finance function end to end: financial control, reporting and audit, tax, treasury and banking, regulatory reporting as an FCA regulated lender, finance systems and controls, and the team. Raise the bar on pace and output, and hire where required as we scale. As with any role at our stage, you'll cover other core business functions from time to time where finance is the right home for them.
- Own capital raising: run or heavily support our debt and equity processes end to end, and own the relationships with lenders, funds and investors between raises so we're never starting cold.
- Fund new business lines: we are working on or weighing projects in social housing retrofit and small scale commercial. In these segments the credit risk and the funding structure both look different from our existing consumer financing products. You’ll lead on working out how we finance these, and raising the capital behind them, alongside Ben
- Own capital allocation: cash flow forecasting, departmental forecasting across each of our business lines, and the trade-off calls on where the next pound of capital and headcount goes. Set budgets with each department head, hold them to account against them, and make the cost of capital visible in the decisions we take
- Develop the FP&A engine: evolve the model set behind the business, covering unit economics to CM3, the lending model, cash flow, departmental budgets and the KPIs the leadership team steers by. Make it quick to flex as the business changes and strong enough to stand up in a diligence process, and lead the move onto FP&A software if you judge the time is right
- Own KPIs and business insight: define the numbers the leadership team runs on, and make sure every department head owns theirs
- Support investor relations and board reporting: own the numbers behind the board pack and the reporting our investors and lenders see, and support the founders on investor relations between raises. Be the person the rest of the business comes to before making a decision with money attached to it
Application process
- Stage 1: Intro call (~30 mins)
- Stage 2: Technical deep dive on capital raising and FP&A (~1 hour)
- Stage 3: Case study (2-3 hours at home), then a run-through with us (~1 hour)
- Stage 4: Leadership and culture (~1 hour)
- References
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sunsave is building what replaces your energy supplier. Energy companies sell power from a grid that gets more expensive every year. Sunsave believes the future of energy is decentralised, and they're building the company that brings that to the masses.
The national grid is creaking. Only 40% of a household's energy bill is actually used; the rest is grid cost, levies and policy costs. Even if wholesale energy prices drop, bills will keep increasing for decades. People are paying for a problem they didn't cause and can't control.
As energy decentralises, home energy is unbundling: a different company for the install, another for monitoring and maintenance, another for the financing, another for battery optimisation & trading. Sunsave bets that whoever puts it all back together into a single bill and a joined-up customer experience wins.
Founded in 2022, Sunsave lets people switch without paying anything upfront and offers an all-in-one package with kit, installation, finance and long-term protection. Battery optimisation and grid trading let customers charge when energy is cheap and sell it back when it's expensive, balancing the grid, earning money while they sleep and pushing their bill towards zero.
The traction shows their bet is paying off, with Sunsave raising a £113m Series A in 2025 and growing 3x that year. Growth is accelerating further in 2026, placing the company in the top 20 of Sifted's fastest-growing UK startups list two years running.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$17.7m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$7.4m
SEED
Total funding: $31.4m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance (incl. dependents under 18)
- Mental health support
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Fortnightly company social events
- Quarterly team social outing
- Quarterly women's dinner/social
- Remote working home office budget
- Cycle to work scheme
Company values
- We're changing how people power their lives: We know that only doing what’s familiar or easy isn’t going to get us there, so we’re unashamedly ambitious and set audacious goals. We’re excited by the hard problems that come with accomplishing something difficult, and we do whatever it takes to get closer to achieving our mission
- We start with the customer: We’re here to help real people, so their voices are at the centre of everything we do. We know that we can’t create a hugely successful business without building things that people really love. So everything we do starts with us asking: ‘What’s best for the customer?’
- We make it happen: We act with urgency, constantly prioritising to make sure we channel our energy into what matters most. We believe every problem has a solution, and we take ownership to figure it out. When we don’t have perfect information it doesn’t slow us down: we act, learn and adapt
- We drive each other to be exceptional: We’re one team, made stronger by supporting each other, sharing openly, and holding ourselves and each other to the highest standards. We prize honest constructive feedback, and we value fresh perspectives and respectful differences of opinion. We win, lose and learn together, and don’t let silos or egos get in the way
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alick Dru
(Co-Founder)Ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.
Ben Graves
(Co-Founder)Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.
People progressing
I joined Sunsave as an Operations Associate and was promoted to Senior Operations Associate after 9 months and to Ops Manager after a further 10 months. I now manage a full team.
I joined Sunsave as a Sales Specialist and was promoted to Sales Development Manager after 6 months. I now manage the Sales team as a whole.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sunsave
- One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
- We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
- Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
- Flexibility of working hours and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
- Enhanced parental leave
- Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
- Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate
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