Finance Manager, Mission Zero
+ Employee Share Options Scheme
Low-cost carbon capture
Open for applications
Low-cost carbon capture
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Share Options Scheme
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the world's relationship with carbon.
Role
Who you are
- Fully qualified/Finalist ACCA/ACA/CIMA or international equivalent
- Experience working with NetSuite and Xero
- Understanding of FRS102 accounting standards
- Ability to multi-task and work in a challenging environment
Desirable
- Experience in a startup environment
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
What the job involves
- We’re now looking for a motivated Finance Manager to support our mission — helping us effectively use our funds as we start to put our technology on the ground across the world
- As Finance Manager, you will be responsible for looking after our financial systems and keeping funds moving in service of our business objectives. If you excel at financial reporting, purchasing, and systems implementation, you’ll thrive in this role
- In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end finance operations, ensuring all finance activities are running smoothly with minimum disruption to the business and stakeholders. You will be the first point of contact for all transactional activities
- Reporting to the Head of Finance (HoF), you will work primarily in the technology development team focusing on creating the foundational scientific/engineering solutions to advance our current and future DAC products. The role will be centred around our headquarters in London, in a hybrid working arrangement
- Payroll - maintain and process payroll including year-end submissions
- Purchasing, Payables, and Receivables - entails overseeing the entire life cycle of purchasing, paying invoices, and collecting revenues. This also includes ensuring transactions are recorded accurately according to supplier and customer contracts while adhering to accounting policies
- Manage, compile, and reconcile financial data to ensure accuracy, completeness and availability for translation
- Reporting - prepare month-end close report with variance commentary. Assisting HoF on additional reporting requirements including budget vs actuals for departments
- Systems - Strive to ensure all systems are up to date and minimize administrative tasks by automating processes
- Handle ad-hoc tasks such as VAT returns, HMRC audits and assist HoF with any additional task requests from external stakeholders such as banks, auditors, and tax advisors
Application process
- Application review
- Intro Call
- Getting to know you - (Partner Assessment)
- Interview with HoF and Exercise
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mission Zero is a UK-based company that develops machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air, in a process known as direct air capture (DAC). DAC promises to create a more circular carbon economy by capturing carbon and recycling it, but a major challenge for the technology is that the capture process itself can be very energy intensive.
This is where Mission Zero steps in, with a two-step process that works by capturing CO2 in a water-based solvent and then using electrolysis to separate it from the water. This approach has the potential to use 3-5x less energy than other established DAC technologies - a promising step for the technology.
Interestingly, Mission Zero is focusing on selling its DAC units directly, rather than selling associated carbon credits. It believes this approach will require less capital and help it to achieve faster scaling, as it pursues the goal to have one billion tonnes of DAC capability deployed by 2040.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$27.6m
SERIES A
May 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $32.7m
Company benefits
- 30 days of Annual Leave
- 3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave
- £500 annual Personal Development Grant
- Unlimited mental health support
- Employee Share Options Scheme
- Christmas holidays office closure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employer-matched contributions to global re-wilding programme
- Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
- A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity
Company values
- Bold curiosity
- Problem solving acumen
- Hope for the future
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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Leadership
Nicholas Chadwick
(CEO)Experience scaling and building early-stage materials technologies in renewables, semiconductors, sensors and carbon capture. They have a PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
Gaël Gobaille-Shaw
(CTO)Scientific Consultant at Supercritical Solutions. They gained their PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol. In their final year of University they joined Deep Science Ventures as a Founding Analyst.
Shiladitya Ghosh
(COO)They have 6 years of experience in low-carbon research with world-leading academic and industrial teams at Imperial College London and BP. They gained their PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
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