LOCATION: Teddington, South West London

Head of Strategy & Finance 

This is a rare opportunity for a high-potential strategist to:

  • have a huge business impact

  • work with some of the UK’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, who have between them built several billion-pound businesses

  • accelerate their career toward a general management position

Who we are

VouchedFor is set to scale up, as the “Trustpilot for professional services”. People need to know who they can trust at key points in their life, whether they need advice on their finances, legal matters, property or their mental health.

Having raised venture funding and achieved profitability, VouchedFor has more recently restructured and pivoted its business model. Having grown subscriptions by 40% over the last year, we are poised to grow rapidly across multiple verticals. 

The Role and Opportunity

You will report to our COO, with accountability to our MD, our Chairman/Founder and our Board.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Building, owning and embedding the overall business strategy

  • Developing proposition and pricing strategy

  • Forecasting and reporting financial metrics

  • Setting and reporting business KPIs

  • Raising and managing capital

  • Managing cash flow and budgets

  • Managing financial functions - e.g., payables, receivables, tax, payroll

  • Overseeing preparation of accounts

  • Maintaining internal controls and policies

To elaborate on one of our most urgent priorities. We have a first class technology-stack, which can put any real-time business data at our fingertips. We now need an equally capable financial-stack, ensuring we rapidly and successfully re-invest in proven opportunities. We wish to be able to forecast, track and performance-manage against key growth metrics (lifetime value, cost to acquire, and market headroom) … in real time … across every market, segment, channel, campaign, team and person.

About you

You’ll be an accomplished strategist, with strong technology and influence skills, and sound financial understanding. You’ll be extremely smart, and equally humble. You’ll have an insatiable appetite to grow and succeed. You’ll be as comfortable in a boardroom, as you are having fun over an after-work drink.

We’re a young company, seeking capability and potential over experience. That said, we would expect you to have:

  • 5+ years strategy experience, likely at a top-tier strategy or finance consulting firm

  • First-class analytical skills and strategic insight

  • Strong influence and collaboration skills, at all levels. 

  • Strong technology skills. You won’t be phased by learning and coding SQL, or building system integrations with our developers

  • Experience analysing financial statements, ideally with some level of accounting qualification

  • An operational and action-oriented mindset. Our DNA is to execute initiatives rapidly and get straight to market with new ideas.

  • An appetite to roll your sleeves up. In time you can build a team under you, but in the early stages you’ll be doing everything from Board pitches to financial reconciliations, albeit with external support (accountants, book-keepers)

  • Strong attention to detail

  • Strong time management skills

Benefits:

  • Pay: Competitive salary and stock options

  • Location: Teddington, in SW London. In normal times, take a wonderful bike-ride to work through Richmond Park or Bushy Park, or get a seat on a quiet train as you travel against the commuter flow. During Covid-19, we're fully set up for remote-working.

  • Culture: We're a young and fun team, of about 25 people, set to grow quickly. We encourage people to take on responsibility and achieve maximum progression

Applications:

To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to: caroline.lund@vouchedfor.co.uk