A highly entrepreneurial, fast growing fund management business who are highly invested in the ideas, people and enterprises that start within and a business that hasn't stopped growing over the last two decades is looking to grow their finance division through the appointment of a Financial Controller to look after their Ventures business.
This Financial Controller will forms part of the 35 strong team and will have a clear mandate to be the primary business partner to the funds business. This is an exciting opportunity to join both the leadership team of the funds finance team and to work closely with investment professionals and develop a comprehensive understanding of their institutional funds and venture capital funds. You will be responsible for senior oversight of the team (two qualified and one non-qualified) along with managing a range of stakeholder relationships professionally and constructively and you will be required to not only deliver exceptional standards of finance support across the funds but provide commercially focused financial leadership to the investment business.
Reporting to the Funds Finance Director this role requires a self starting individual who is highly organised, capable of both dealing with multiple workstreams and redefining processes efficiently and able to work individually on projects or collaboratively as part of a team. You will also need to be comfortable with a role where parameters are constantly changing and be able to put your stamp on the role and galvanise and motivate the team to aspire the same vision.
In order to be considered for this role you will need to be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or CIMA) and have experience of both leading a team with experience working for a VC firm or fund. You will need to be able to demonstrate the ability to look beyond the numbers and deliver meaningful information to senior stakeholders and not be afraid of challenging the status quo when needed.