Capsa AI - Head of Finance
Requirements
• Compensation: Top of market. Competitive base + OTE • Multi-entity, multi-currency. UK and US operations, GBP and USD reporting. Comfortable with the tax and accounting complexity that comes with both. • Multi-entity, multi-currency. • Academic foundation. Bachelor's degree minimum 2:1 from a leading university. • Academic foundation. • How you lead • Player-coach by instinct. You're equally credible building the model on a Monday and presenting it to the board on a Tuesday. You don't pick one mode and stick to it. • Player-coach by instinct. • Strong point of view on commercial trade-offs. You don't just report the number. You have a view on what we should do next, and you can defend it with the model. • Strong point of view on commercial trade-offs. • Builder. You're choosing this role because the function isn't built yet, and that's the appeal. Low ego, high ownership, bias for action over committee. • Builder. • Direct communicator. You make calls, write them down clearly, and tell the team why. Comfortable disagreeing with the founders and the CEO when you believe you're right. • Direct communicator. • Genuinely curious about AI. Using it, breaking it, embedding it into how the finance function runs.
Benefits
• Exceptional traction. 15x ARR growth in 12 months, PMF with top PE funds managing over $1tn AUM. • Define the function. First senior marketing hire at a category-defining AI company. Build it, don't inherit it. • Direct line to the founders. Partner with the CEO and CRO on positioning, narrative, and how Capsa earns the right to be the category leader. • Backed by the best. Top VCs and senior PE execs from Warburg Pincus, KKR, and Goldman Sachs. • Major upside. Meaningful equity in a company growing 15x year on year. • 8+ years in Finance. Including Head of Finance, FP&A or Controller leadership at a high-growth B2B SaaS or fintech startup. Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or US equivalent), with Big Four or top-startup grounding. • Operator, not just controller. You've owned the operating model and the board pack yourself. You've sat in the room with investors and answered hard questions live. • Series B+ raise experience. You've supported a CEO through a fundraise. Data room, diligence, modelling, investor Q&A. You know what good looks like and where the traps are. • Multi-entity, multi-currency. UK and US operations, GBP and USD reporting. Comfortable with the tax and accounting complexity that comes with both. • Academic foundation. Bachelor's degree minimum 2:1 from a leading university. • Player-coach by instinct. You're equally credible building the model on a Monday and presenting it to the board on a Tuesday. You don't pick one mode and stick to it. • Strong point of view on commercial trade-offs. You don't just report the number. You have a view on what we should do next, and you can defend it with the model. • Builder. You're choosing this role because the function isn't built yet, and that's the appeal. Low ego, high ownership, bias for action over committee. • Direct communicator. You make calls, write them down clearly, and tell the team why. Comfortable disagreeing with the founders and the CEO when you believe you're right. • Genuinely curious about AI. Using it, breaking it, embedding it into how the finance function runs. • If this opportunity excites you • We'd like to meet you. Initial conversations are direct and substantive, going deep on the work, the team, and what you'd own in the first six months.
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