Head of Finance, Kili
Office located in Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris
Training data platform for enterprise AI
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Training data platform for enterprise AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help enterprise customers turn raw data into training data so that they can scale AI applications on their internal challenges to solve their issues.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. Advanced degrees or professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CFA) are a plus
- A minimum of 4-5 years in FP&A or Controlling, with a proven track record in Transaction Services or M&A. You should be adept at financial modeling, forecasting, and interpreting financial data to have a business impact
- Your ability to generate actionable insights from financial data will empower strategic decision-making. You thrive in dynamic environments where innovation and continuous improvement are valued
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You must be comfortable presenting financial insights to senior management and working cross-functionally to drive strategic initiatives
- You have a drive for continuous improvement and the ability to see beyond the numbers to the big picture are key to success in this role
What the job involves
- As our Head of Finance, you will be more than just number crunching
- You’ll be a critical strategic business partner and the CFO’s trusted advisor, driving financial strategy and enabling decisive, high-impact decisions across the organization
- This role is designed for an experienced professional from M&A or Transaction Services looking to step into a dynamic environment where strategic finance takes center stage
- Lead the development of comprehensive budgets, forecasts, and financial analyses that inform key strategic decisions. Your insights will be pivotal in shaping the company’s financial future, ensuring that every plan aligns with our ambitious growth objectives
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership by translating complex financial data into clear, actionable business insights. Collaborate across departments to drive strategic initiatives and optimize performance, ensuring the company’s resources are effectively aligned with its goals
- Play a key role in evaluating and executing mergers, acquisitions, equity fundraising, and debt financing opportunities. Your expertise will help guide strategic investments and unlock new growth avenues
- Develop and implement cost-saving initiatives while ensuring robust cash management and liquidity planning. Your proactive approach will support business stability and fuel innovation
- Oversee high-level financial operations with a focus on strategic oversight rather than routine accounting tasks. Ensure that all financial practices comply with legal, regulatory, and tax requirements, including key incentives like CIR/CII
Our take
According to digital business research, artificial intelligence is one of the primary areas of exploration for businesses looking to take advantage of growing tech developments. However, as Kili rightly emphasise, the efficacy and reliability of AI depends largely on the quality of data used to train it. Good data requires good labelling and the ability to store it for future use, and Kili is hoping to furnish enterprise businesses with precisely that.
The data labelling market is fiercely competitive, but the relatively young Kili has made impressive strides in their native France already. A roster of high profile clients including BNP Paribas, Safran, and Louis Vuitton demonstrates its ability to net quality enterprise custom across a breadth of markets using disparate data types. Plus, it has cemented Kili a strong reputation from which it can springboard its planned expansion to the US market.
Here is where things may get tricky. The United States takes 40% of the global AI market, and has attracted a correspondingly strong crowd of competing startups and enterprise businesses. Kili will benefit from a reputable track record, but will have to play fierce to get ahead in the market. Its 2024-launched Patent AI Co-pilot may go some way to differentiating it in the market, helping attorneys draft better patents and halving response time for office actions.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$6.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $31.5m
Company benefits
- The opportunity to work in an international and friendly work environment
- The opportunity to build an expertise on THE topic that will be the future: AI
- The opportunity to join one of the most exciting startups of the French Tech as it is taking off
- Flexible work organization and access to remote work
- Afterworks every Thursday and 2 off-sites per year
Company HQ
Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France
Leadership
François-Xavier Leduc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded the car-as-a-service company Tripndrive, then went on to freelance for The Boston Consulting Group.
Edouard d'Archimbaud
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously a Managing Partner at Creative Research Ltd., who then worked as a Data Scientist at Capgemini Consulting, and moved on to become Head of the Data and AI Lab at BNP Paribas.
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