Finance & Operations 'FinOps' Lead (UK-based)

FinOps Lead in short

A FinOps Lead is a CFO, a tech expert, and a business leader all rolled into one.

The core of the job is leading the finance function across a range of dynamic startups... all at the same time. You could be working with anywhere between one and a dozen startups in a given week, so expect to run into a lot of problems and to learn incredibly quickly.

You’ll be supporting a FinOps Manager and a FinOps Associate on every job - as FinOps Lead its your responsibility to make sure that our partners have the right experts in their team at the right time... and that they’re effectively managed, coached and led.

At Quantico we’re also a startup ourselves, so as you progress you’ll get opportunities to work on growing our own business, whether that’s in sales, marketing, recruitment or events. We need your help to build Quantico from within!

What you'll get up to

Transforming finance teams

• Lead the finance teams in the startups we support, either for consulting projects or long term partnerships.
• Review, improve and implement systems and processes covering everything from Xero to Netsuite.
• Ensure that the finance function is effectively supporting the rest of the business, via sharing data or supporting other operational teams.

Managing the partnership

• Manage the relationship between Quantico and our partners: Ensure that they have realistic expectations of what our FinOps Managers and FinOps Associates can get done in a given time frame.
  
• Work with founders to understand the future plans for their business, ensuring that we’ve got the right finance team booked in before they’re needed.

Coaching the team

• Guide teammates both as a line manager and as a Career Coach. Help them get the best from their time at Quantico, and help the company get the best from them.

Developing Quantico

• Our best FinOps Leads go on to lead a functional part of Quantico or the School of FinOps, taking ownership of a core part of how we run the business. As a fast-growing start-up ourselves there is a lot of opportunity to shape the way we work in the future.

What you'll get from us

• A share in the success of our business. Our profit share scheme applies to everyone in the team, meaning we all benefit when the team does well.
• Career changing opportunities: Because you’ll be working with five or ten startups at once, you can expect to gain exposure to fundraising, company sales, system migrations and international expansions five to ten times faster.
• A dedicated Career Coach to work with you on your progression and development. Ability to move up our Skills Ladder fast, with increased base salary and higher profit share.
• Opportunity to up-skill yourself through unlimited access to our innovative School of FinOps content, as well as personalised training through the Quantico Academy. ** The ability to work flexibly and build the role around how you work best, whether that means from home or our awesome office near London Bridge (with free weekly yoga and Box HIIT classes, monthly breakfasts and regular drinks).
• A dynamic, sociable team.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, + 1 more day with every full year of employment.
• Free lunches (via a £5 daily lunch allowance).

Who you are

Your mindset

• You want your work to have an immediate and profound impact. You’re comfortable making quick decisions that result in effective and positive changes to the teams in which you work.
• Fixing problems is your thing. You thrive in the fact-paced environment of a startup and the challenges it brings as you relish working with founders to solve their issues.
• Whilst you are able to flourish on your own, you’ll value the opportunity to work with and manage people from a variety of backgrounds. You won’t get much time in each startup, so you need to be comfortable affecting change by leveraging the strengths of your team.
• You must be comfortable juggling multiple projects at the same time. Working in one startup is stressful, working across 10 or more is not for everyone. Don’t apply if that doesn’t sound appealing.
• Passionate about all areas of a start-up life. Whilst finance will be your primary function, our ideal candidates will have interest and experience in an area like operations, sales or marketing. We’re looking for candidates who have the potential to go on to lead Quantico as a business so skills outside of finance are essential.

Your ideal experience

• You’ve managed a finance function in a rapidly growing business.
• You have experience juggling multiple clients, projects or stakeholders at the same time.
• You've led teams from diverse backgrounds to complete projects under intense time pressure.
• You’re experienced working with founders and functional teams from across a business. You haven’t only worked with and for colleagues in finance.
• You’ll have some experience at Finance Director or CFO level, or you’ll be ready to step into your first role at this level.
• Enthusiastic to rip up the rule book and challenge the status quo. We don’t want more of the same, and nor should you.
• You’re comfortable working across a range of finance systems like Xero, Dext etc. You’re not intimidated by learning about unfamiliar tools and systems quickly and under pressure.

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application directly via our careers site here. Please note that due to a high volume of applications we will be unable to review your application via AngelList.