humanoid - Senior Business Assistant - CFO Office

London, United Kingdom+ Equity3w ago

In Office Mid EMEA Senior Executive Assistant CFO Microsoft Office Google Workspace Team Leadership Budget Forecasting Reporting

Requirements

• Proven experience as an EA, business assistant, or similar role supporting senior executives, ideally within a finance function. • A working understanding of financial concepts and terminology (P&L, budgeting, forecasting) sufficient to follow and accurately summarise finance discussions. • Excellent note-taking and written communication skills, able to turn meeting discussions into clear, actionable outputs. • Strong organisational skills, with a proven ability to track and drive multiple action items to completion. • Comfortable preparing pre-meeting materials, pulling together data and context from multiple stakeholders. • High level of discretion when handling confidential business and financial information. • Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. • Strong proficiency with everyday productivity tools (Microsoft Office / Google Workspace). • Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or a related field is a plus. • Experience supporting a CFO or finance leadership team specifically is a strong plus. • Experience in a venture-backed, high-growth startup or scale-up is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Meeting Support & Follow-Through • Join key meetings: Join meetings alongside the CFO — leadership, board, and finance-function meetings — capturing accurate notes and the decisions that come out of them. • Own the follow-up: Turn discussions into clear, assigned action items and drive them to completion, chasing owners and flagging slippage before it becomes a problem. • Track outstanding items: Maintain a live view of open actions and decisions across the CFO's meeting cadence, escalating blockers to the CFO directly. • Pre-Meeting Preparation • Prepare pre-reads: Prepare pre-reads, briefing packs, and agendas ahead of key meetings, pulling together relevant background, data, and context. • Coordinate stakeholder input: Coordinate input from stakeholders across Finance — Controllership, Tax, Treasury, FP&A — so the CFO walks in fully briefed. • Anticipate what's needed: Proactively anticipate what the CFO will need for a given meeting, rather than waiting to be asked. • Finance-Literate Business Support • Follow technical discussions: Apply a working understanding of financial concepts and terminology to accurately capture and summarise technical finance discussions. • Sanity-check materials: Review financial reports, decks, and models before they reach the CFO, spotting errors, inconsistencies, or omissions. • Partner across finance: Partner with Controllership, Tax, Treasury, and FP&A to gather the input and context needed for meetings and follow-ups. • Communication & Organisation • Produce clear meeting notes: Produce clear, well-structured meeting notes and summaries, distributed promptly to attendees. • Maintain a master tracker: Maintain a single source of truth for action items, decisions, and deadlines across the CFO's meeting cadence. • Handle information with discretion: Manage confidential and sensitive business and financial information with sound judgement.

Benefits

• Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale. • 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown). • Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care. • Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings. • Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office. • Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics. • Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.