newxel - Director of Finance & Legal (NXJ-189)

European Union+ Equity3w ago

In Office Director EMEA Banking Director of Finance CFO Reporting Russian Fundraising Governance

Requirements

• CFO or Head of Finance in a company of 100+ people, in a service or product-service business. • You have scaled a business globally across multiple locations and jurisdictions, with headcount or revenue growing several times over while you were there, and you rebuilt the economics as the business grew. A service-operational model is the baseline; a service-to-product transition is the strongest signal. • Hands-on experience raising capital - equity, debt, or strategic investment. We will ask for specifics: stage, size, investors, and your personal role. • Set up legal entities in at least two jurisdictions from scratch, including structure choice, licensing, tax and transfer pricing, and banking. • Experience leading Finance together with Legal. • Investor-level English • Based in Warsaw. • Experience in IT outsourcing, staff augmentation, EOR, or ODC. • IAS 38 and intangible asset capitalisation. • VC- or PE-backed company experience and board reporting. • We value direct communication, written decisions, and ownership. • When something is uncertain, we expect clear options, implementation timelines, estimated costs, and a personal recommendation—not a list of unanswered questions. • Our team works across Europe, in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Responsibilities

• Capital & Investors: Own the fundraising process end to end: investment story, financial model, data room, investor pipeline, negotiations, and closing. Be the primary finance contact for investors between funding rounds. • Corporate Structure & New Markets: Design and execute entity, licensing, and tax structures in new jurisdictions, starting with the UAE. Deliver options with timelines, costs, and a recommendation—not a research memo. • Financial Management: Own group P&L, cash flow, and forecasting. Build the financial model around service versus product unit economics, R&D and intangible asset capitalisation, and pricing and margin architecture across delivery locations. • Finance & Legal Leadership: Lead a distributed Finance and Legal team, establish standards, and build the reporting cadence the company can operate on. • Governance & Risk: Own multi-jurisdiction tax and compliance, contract architecture (MSA, IP assignment, non-solicitation), certifications (ISO 27001, ISO 9001), and GDPR.

Benefits

• We need a finance leader who can fund and structure that transformation: raise capital, build the corporate architecture for new markets, and make the economics of the new model provable to investors.