Finance Lead (Hiring Immediately)

We are at a pivotal stage in our growth as a regulated healthtech business, moving from early-stage foundations into a phase of greater scale, maturity, and operational rigour. As we move towards product-market-fit and grow the organisation, we are strengthening our team to ensure we have the financial insight, discipline, and processes needed to support good decision-making. 

The Finance Lead will play a central role in this next phase, helping to deepen the financial understanding of our business, mature our financial operations, and support future growth ambitions, including potential fundraising or investment activity. This trusted role will work closely with the executive team to ensure the company is financially robust, compliant, and well positioned for the next stage of growth.

The Role 

The Finance Lead is responsible for the overall financial health of the company, with end-to-end ownership of financial processes, planning, analysis, budgeting, and reporting. The role oversees outsourced accounting services, while ensuring that financial processes, controls, and insights are fit for a growing, regulated organisation. 

As a key contributor to the company’s strategic direction, the Finance Lead supports data-driven decision-making across the business, works closely with other functions and the senior management team (including the CEO on fundraising activity), and drives continuous improvement in financial operations. This is a hands-on role, combining strategic leadership with practical execution in a lean environment. 

The role reports to the COO and will be part of the broader Ops team. It is supported by outsourced bookkeepers and by a part-time contractor. This role will not be right for you if you want to manage a large team. 

The role is hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK only. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK.

What you will do:

Running an effective, scalable and compliant finance function 

• Own day-to-day financial operations, including payroll, invoicing, A/P and A/R, bookkeeping, VAT and tax, ensuring transactions are accurate, timely, and well controlled.

• Ensure financial, corporate, and regulatory compliance, including timely statutory reporting, adherence to UK and US regulatory requirements, and oversight of audits, tax planning, and financial risk management. 

• Lead cash flow, working capital, and treasury management, maintaining liquidity, forecasting cash requirements, and ensuring the business is well positioned to fund operations and strategic investment. 

• Manage outsourced bookkeeping partner and external advisors (as needed) 

• Improve finance processes, systems and controls, improving the quality, speed, and usefulness of financial information as the business scales. 
  

Supporting business strategy, growth and reporting 

• Own financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, providing forward-looking insight to support strategic planning, growth initiatives, and operational decision-making. 

• Deliver high-quality financial reporting and analysis, including monthly management accounts, board reporting, financial modelling and scenario planning, improving understanding of unit economics and key financial levers. 

• Act as a trusted finance business partner to the senior management team and departmental leaders, translating financial data into clear insights, challenging assumptions where appropriate, helping teams grow their financial understanding and ensuring cost controls. 

• Support capital strategy and fundraising activity, working closely with the CEO and COO on fundraising (including financial modelling, and investor due diligence support), investor reporting, and debt or equity financing. 

Requirements

Required 

• Proven experience in a senior finance role (e.g. Finance Lead, Head of Finance), with end-to-end responsibility for the finance function in a growing business at a similar stage (Start-up / scale-up, Series A / B) 

• Experience supporting a B2B business, ideally with exposure to different revenue models 

• Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, budgeting, and cash flow management, with clear ownership of outputs and quality 

• Demonstrated ability to define, analyse, and improve profitability, including developing a clear understanding of margins, unit economics, and financial performance across different parts of the business 

• Track record of producing high-quality board-level reporting, including clear narrative, insight, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making 

• Experience working as finance leader for a PE/VC portfo]]>