solveintelligence - Financial Operations Lead

• We are a high-performance culture. To thrive here: • You get your hands dirty: You'll happily go line-by-line through invoices, the CRM, and the bank to make things clean — then automate the process so it stays clean. • You're detail-obsessed: Duplicate invoices, overdue payments, wrong pricing — nothing gets past you. • You have high agency: There's no playbook and no finance team behind you (yet). Give you an ambiguous problem and you'll work it out: find the mess, own it, fix it. • You're a business partner, not a back-office cop: You work close to Sales, Marketing, and the wider team, helping everyone spend smarter and move faster. You know the highest-leverage thing finance can do here is accelerate growth — nudging our treasury yield from 2.7% to 2.9% is not the job. • You're all-in: Solve is fast and intense, and this isn't a 9–5. You get passionate — even obsessive — about the problems you own. • You're ambitious: You'll do the dirty work now because you want to build the finance function as we scale. • 5+ years in finance or finance-heavy operations at high-growth tech companies — e.g., FP&A lead/head, finance ops, or a generalist operator with a finance spike — now hungry for broader scope. • Deep fluency in accounting — you can run external accountants to an on-time close — without needing to be an accountant yourself. • A track record of implementing finance processes, tooling, and automation that scale with a fast-growing company. • Strong modelling skills across budgets, forecasts, P&L, and cash. • Exceptionally clear written and verbal communication. • Preferred & Nice-to-Haves: • First/early finance hire experience: You've built a finance function from scratch — or been the #2 to a great CFO/VP of Finance at a scaling startup and seen what good looks like. • Procurement & negotiation: Experience negotiating vendor contracts and pricing. • Treasury: Experience managing cash and liquidity at scale. • Multi-entity experience: Exposure to international operations — consolidation across entities, transfer pricing, or international tax. • Accounting foundation: An accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or fundamentals from banking, consulting, or VC — since battle-tested in a scrappy, hands-on environment. • STEM background: A technical or quantitative degree (maths, CS, physics, engineering, etc.) — bonus points if you can write a bit of code. • Tooling mastery: Experience with modern finance stacks (e.g., ERP/accounting, spend management, billing & AR systems), and experience leveraging AI across everything you do (Claude Code/Cowork, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc).