JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a SVP Finance to join the team and work alongside our Senior Leaderships team to ensure the smooth running of the company's finances by managing gains and expenditures, keeping detailed records and identifying solutions to problems in financial processes, whilst coaching, directing, and structuring financial team members and projects for best efficacy.

Our successful candidate is someone who can hit the ground running and gets excited by implementing change and being part of a fast-growing company that’s trying to make a positive mark in the payments industry.

This individual must be comfortable presenting to key stakeholders of the business and board members, and have an excellent attention to detail.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversee all company accounts and expenditure.

Pulling together monthly and annual reports to identify financial and KPI results, trends, and financial forecasts.

Review all financial plans and budgets, regularly looking for cost reduction opportunities

Manage and make improvements to commercial pricing model calculation templates for Sales & Partnership teams

Provide robust, comprehensive and insightful financial planning and analysis to challenge the business on cost management and contribute to operational decision making

Preparing monthly financial dashboard and commentary for senior team and Investors

Create long-term finance department strategic plans which align with the company's strategic plan and business plan.

Manage all financial aspects of the company (forecasting, budgeting and analysis).

Oversee business financial management and ascertain areas which need improvement.

Managing the relationship with Auditors / External Tax Advisors and the year-end statutory audit.

DESIRED BEHAVIOURS & COMPETENCE

Highly competent at Microsoft Office with particular expertise in Excel.

Highly numerate, well-organised, accurate and with high attention to detail.

First-class communications skills of business writing.

Experience in accounting/finance for a technology services provider, ideally in payments.

Experience from a dynamic, high-growth entrepreneurial environment with a global customer base (preferred).

Highly competent with Salesforce (or another similar CRM system) for data export and forecasting purposes (preferred).

Proven experience preparing financial management information including budgeting and forecasts.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the same role or equivalent.

ACCA/CIMA qualified (or equivalent).

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, statistics or mathematics.

Perks and Benefits:

Aside from the opportunity to work for a tech-scale up, having great responsibility and varied tasks every day, other benefits includes:

Health: APEXX pension scheme with Scottish Widows offering salary exchange, Life Insurance 4x salary & 5 years' salary protection for critical illness, we care package with access to 24 hour GP's globally, Bike 2 work scheme, Enhanced Adoption, Maternity & Paternity Leave

Enrichment: Learning and development training, with a £300 yearly budget, to strengthen your career and progression, leadership in house training and monthly lunch and learn, where you eat lunch and learn with our guest presenter.

Holiday: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. We love birthdays! - additional paid holiday for your birthday. Holiday increases a day each year after 3 years with APEXX and have the option to carry 5 days holiday over to the following year.

Work: Complete Flexi working locations & Flexi hours with the opportunity to hot desk from three of our global offices. Our HQ is in the popular Fintech hub of Shoreditch, London, option of working 2 weeks a month abroad! Monthly Fireside Chats and learning programs, Apple Mac Laptop and home equipment provided.

Social: Monthly team outings & incentives. Some of our recent ones include: Yoga, Break Out Rooms, APEXX Quizzes, Wine Tasting, Afternoon Tea's, Golf Tournaments.

ABOUT APEXX

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market. What's more, we won the 'Most Disruptive Payment Technology' award in 2018 for the second consecutive year. No other company has ever retained this award and it demonstrates that APEXX is at the forefront of what can be achieved in Payments Technology.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.

Apexx is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination.

We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.

Department

Operations (Compliance, Finance, Legal)

Locations

London

Remote status

Hybrid Remote

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