fleek - Head of Controllership
Requirements
• An accounting qualification such as CA, CCA, or CPA • Experience in scaled environments, such as MNCs, big tech, or similarly mature operating environments • Experience building accounting systems or processes from scratch, not just operating within established ones • Early-stage company exposure, even if your role there was not the most senior finance role • Strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive change outside the finance team • Good judgment on where to add structure versus where to stay lightweight • Remote or distributed team experience is a plus • A data-driven or product-adjacent mindset is a plus • A genuine excitement for building something from scratch inside a fast-growing company. • Ready to build the infrastructure for the world's fastest-growing fashion economy? If you want to work on genuinely hard problems, with a world-class team, at a company that's tripling annually, we'd love to hear from you. • The Practicalities • Location: London HQ, E1, Spitalfields / Shoreditch • Work model: In Person, with trust based flexibility • Stage: Post-Series B, hyper-growth • Team: 100+ across London, India and Pakistan • Culture: High ownership, non-hierarchical, fast-moving. Founder-led with strong opinions loosely held.
Responsibilities
• Build the Controllership Foundation: Design and establish the accounting processes, controls, and operating rhythm Fleek needs for its next phase of scale. • Redesign What Doesn’t Work: Assess existing systems and workflows, identify where they break down, and rebuild them where needed rather than patching around weak foundations. • Own the Month-End Operating Cadence: Create a cleaner month-end close rhythm across finance and partner teams, including stronger deadlines, accountability and information flow. • Drive Cross-Functional Discipline: Work with teams outside finance to improve the quality, timeliness, and consistency of inputs into the accounting process. • Bring Scale to an Early-Stage Environment: Use your experience from larger or more mature organisations to help Fleek build a finance function that is robust without becoming bureaucratic.
Benefits
• At most companies, a Controller steps into an established finance function and improves it incrementally. At Fleek, you’ll be doing something much more interesting: building controllership in a company where the business has real scale and complexity, but parts of the accounting operating model still need to be designed from the ground up. In practice, that means you won’t just maintain processes, you’ll challenge them, rebuild them and create the operating cadence the company grows into. • Fleek is building the technology infrastructure for a $350 billion market that has never been digitised. Joining now means you'll be part of the team that defines how the secondhand economy works, at scale, globally. • The problem is real: 9 million items saved from landfill since 2022. 17,400 tonnes of CO₂ avoided. Your work has tangible, measurable impact. • The AI is genuinely novel: FleekSort is the world's first LLM fine-tuned on secondhand fashion. This isn't a GPT wrapper, it's a proprietary model solving classification problems that don't exist anywhere else. • The growth is exceptional: tripling annually, backed by a16z, Y Combinator, HV Capital and others. • The timing is perfect: EU regulation is mandating the infrastructure Fleek builds. The secondhand market is growing 3x faster than new fashion. You're catching a wave. • You'll have real ownership: 100-person company, no bureaucracy. You'll shape decisions and see the impact of your work immediately. • Equity / share options • Learning and development budget • Team socials and offsites • Five values shape how we work at Fleek: • Dream Big and Disrupt Yourself: Push the most ambitious version of what you're building. Step out of your comfort zone. Nothing is out of reach. • Absolute Ownership: The buck stops with you. Drive initiatives to completion. Experiment, learn, persevere. The job isn't done until the job is done. • Curiosity Leads the Way: Don't accept anything at face value. Ask questions you don't know the answer to. That's how you innovate. • Talk to the Customer: Deeply understand their challenges, motivations, and ambitions. Every decision starts with the customer at the centre. • Embrace Diversity: A global team building for a global supply chain. Bring your authentic self and embrace the diversity of everyone you encounter.
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