[Hiring] Director of Finance & Legal @Newxel

Role Description

We need a finance leader who can fund and structure that transformation: raise capital, build the corporate architecture for new markets, and make the economics of the new model provable to investors.

What You Will Own

• Capital & Investors: Own the fundraising process end to end: investment story, financial model, data room, investor pipeline, negotiations, and closing. Be the primary finance contact for investors between funding rounds.
• Corporate Structure & New Markets: Design and execute entity, licensing, and tax structures in new jurisdictions, starting with the UAE. Deliver options with timelines, costs, and a recommendation—not a research memo.
• Financial Management: Own group P&L, cash flow, and forecasting. Build the financial model around service versus product unit economics, R&D and intangible asset capitalisation, and pricing and margin architecture across delivery locations.
• Finance & Legal Leadership: Lead a distributed Finance and Legal team, establish standards, and build the reporting cadence the company can operate on.
• Governance & Risk: Own multi-jurisdiction tax and compliance, contract architecture (MSA, IP assignment, non-solicitation), certifications (ISO 27001, ISO 9001), and GDPR.

Qualifications

• CFO or Head of Finance in a company of 100+ people, in a service or product-service business.
• You have scaled a business globally across multiple locations and jurisdictions, with headcount or revenue growing several times over while you were there, and you rebuilt the economics as the business grew. A service-operational model is the baseline; a service-to-product transition is the strongest signal.
• Hands-on experience raising capital—equity, debt, or strategic investment. We will ask for specifics: stage, size, investors, and your personal role.
• Set up legal entities in at least two jurisdictions from scratch, including structure choice, licensing, tax and transfer pricing, and banking.
• Experience leading Finance together with Legal.
• Investor-level English together with Ukrainian or Russian.
• Based in Europe.

Requirements

• Experience in IT outsourcing, staff augmentation, EOR, or ODC.
• IAS 38 and intangible asset capitalisation.
• VC- or PE-backed company experience and board reporting.
• UAE, DIFC, or ADGM experience.
• M&A.

How We Work

We value direct communication, written decisions, and ownership. When something is uncertain, we expect clear options, implementation timelines, estimated costs, and a personal recommendation—not a list of unanswered questions. Our team works across Europe, and English and Ukrainian are our primary working languages.