This role sits close to the engine room of the business. You’ll see how a scaling, venture-backed company runs day-to-day - finance, people, systems, stakeholder relations, revenue ops - and you’ll have room to shape how it runs next.
This role is a backfill, but the business has changed a lot since the job description was last written, so we’ve updated it. We’re looking for someone with the right aptitude, ambition and fit for how we work, more so than a specific list of experience.
Nobody will tick every box below. If there are three or more functional areas (out of the five below) where you are particularly strong, let’s talk. You'll report to the Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance, with direct and regular exposure to the CEO, the Board and wider Executive Leadership Team (XLT). You’ll also act as a representative for worker's voice across all parts of the organisation.
What you'll own
People Ops
- Partner with the People Lead on recruitment - job specs, ATS/tooling, interview scheduling and offer management
- Own the HR system (HRIS), employee records, org chart and headcount reporting
- Run performance review and calibration cycles, and support compensation benchmarking and pay reviews
- Manage onboarding and offboarding end to end, including contracts, right-to-work checks and equipment provisioning
- Maintain the employee handbook and HR policies, and keep them current with UK employment law
- Coordinate health & safety, benefits, wellbeing initiatives and office management
- Support internal comms, culture initiatives and all-hands/team event logistics
Financial reporting
- Own the monthly management accounts process and produce the KPI/board pack the C-suite and Board actually use
- Build and maintain the annual budget, rolling forecasts and cashflow model
- Run variance analysis against budget and forecast, partnering with department heads on cost centre reporting
- Model unit economics across projects and support pricing decisions for commercial deals
- Own carbon accounting and reporting, keeping our footprint metrics accurate, audit-ready and moving in the right direction
- Manage project-level cost tracking across our nature-based portfolio as it scales, working closely with delivery teams on budgets and spend
- Support fundraising due diligence processes - data rooms, investor Q&A and document tracking
- Support grant and subsidy reporting and compliance
- Maintain statutory registers and support share issuance/transfer administration
Financial control
- Manage accounts payable and receivable, invoicing, expense processing and payment runs
- Support payroll processing and act as liaison with our payroll provider and pension scheme administrator
- Support year-end audit preparation, acting as the day-to-day liaison for audit queries and schedules
- Oversee treasury: bank accounts, cash management and short-term cash planning
- Design and maintain financial controls, approval workflows and spend policies as the business scales
- Prepare and file VAT returns, R&D tax credit claims and other routine tax filings, working closely with our external accountants
- Administer the EMI share option scheme and related filings, alongside cap table changes
- Maintain the risk register and manage insurance renewals and policy reviews
Systems
- Manage IT, procurement and software/data licencing, working directly with our external managed IT provider
- Drive AI governance and tooling decisions as we embed AI further across the business
- Managecyber security posture - access controls, certifications (e.g. ISO, Cyber Essentials), policies, incident response and staff training
- Own and document standard operating procedures (SOP) across all areas of the business
- Manage data protection and GDPR compliance as it relates to internal systems
- Manage vendor contracts, renewals and procurement across our core operating stack
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning
Marketing & Revenue Ops
- Manage our website CMS and CRM (HubSpot) - configuration, data hygiene, automations and reporting
- Build and own commercial and financial dashboards, translating between the two for internal stakeholders
- Manage our intellectual property assets, including trademark applications and renewals
- Plan and coordinate our presence at industry events and conferences, fromlogisticsthrough to follow-up
- Own our social media channels and external content calendar, keeping our voice consistent across platforms
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