Finance Director

StrideUp, a fast-growing FCA-regulated fintech, as the Finance Director. In this senior leadership role, you will be responsible for financial control, audit, funding lines, structured finance arrangements, and investor relations. You will report to the CEO and sit on the Executive Committee, contributing to company-wide strategy and decision-making. You will also lead the Finance team, own the Group's financial statements and control environment, and strengthen internal controls, governance, and risk management. Additionally, you will lead the business through annual audits, own the accounting treatment and financial reporting of funding lines, and provide financial insight for investor updates and fundraising.

About StrideUp

Confident operating at a strategic, ExCo level, connecting finance to the wider business

Responsibilities

• Assumer la responsabilité ultime de l'environnement de contrôle financier du groupe, diriger l'entreprise à travers ses audits annuels et être le visage crédible des finances de StrideUp auprès des auditeurs et des régulateurs.
• Contribuer à la stratégie et à la prise de décision de l'entreprise en tant que membre du comité exécutif, conseiller le PDG et le comité exécutif sur la stratégie de financement et la structure du capital.
• Diriger et développer l'équipe financière, en fixant des normes et des objectifs clairs pour la fonction, et en mentorant le contrôleur financier du groupe et l'apprenti.
• Comfortable in a scale-up environment, building processes and governance as the business grows
• Credible in front of auditors and investors, able to represent StrideUp's numbers and judgement calls with authority
• Track record leading and developing finance teams

Requirements

• Deeply knowledgeable in structured finance and financing lines, comfortable with complex, multi-entity balance sheets
• A proven people leader, with a track record of leading and developing finance teams
• A clear, structured and measured communicator, with good judgement under scrutiny
• Technically credible, with an audit background and significant in-industry experience within banking or specialist lending
• ACA qualified (or equivalent)
• Comfortable operating at ExCo/strategic level and representing the business to external stakeholders

Preferred

• Proven track record owning financial control and audit relationships in a regulated environment
• 8+ years post qualified experience, including significant in-industry experience within banking or specialist lending, following an audit background
• Regulatory and compliance awareness (e.g. capital adequacy, solvency, regulatory returns) about the broader fintech and financial services landscape
• Working knowledge of tax fundamentals, with experience working with specialist tax advisers
• Strong technical expertise in structured finance and financial instruments
• Top 10 accounting firm background
• Audit within financial services

Experience supporting equity fundraising rounds