[Hiring] Head of Finance @Equus Software

Role Description

The Head of Finance will be responsible for the following key areas:

• Full ownership of the finance function: Financial controls, reporting integrity, and team leadership across both pillars.
• Board reporting: Produce accurate, timely, and credible management information that gives the COO and board genuine confidence in the numbers.
• Month-end close process: Oversee the GL Accountant and Finance Manager to deliver a clean, controlled close each month within a defined timetable.
• Financial controls framework: Design and embed controls appropriate for a multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction EOR business, with clear ownership and sign-off at every stage.
• Senior stakeholder relationships: Be the primary finance voice with the COO, board, and business partners; the person people come to first for financial guidance.
• Technical accounting: Serve as the go-to expert for complex accounting judgements across the business, including revenue recognition, FX treatment, intercompany and multi-entity consolidation.
• Team leadership and development: Build a high-performing finance team, set clear expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across both pillars.
• Automation and systems: Drive the finance technology agenda; identify and implement automation opportunities across the billing, reconciliation, and reporting cycles.
• Continuous improvement: Embed a mindset of process improvement across the function; regularly review how work gets done and challenge the team to find better ways.
• Transformation delivery: Lead the finance restructure through to steady state, including the people plan, system improvements, and Order-to-Cash redesign.
• Cost base management: Manage the finance budget and ensure the function is appropriately resourced as the business scales.

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (essential).
• Significant post-qualification experience in a finance leadership role, ideally within a multi-currency transactional environment.
• Strong technical accounting skills; the go-to person for complex accounting questions, particularly in multi-currency consolidation, revenue recognition, and management reporting.
• Commercial instinct; able to translate financial data into insight that drives business decisions, not just report what happened.
• Proven ability to lead and develop a finance team through a period of structural change; a track record of developing people, not just managing them.
• Demonstrable experience driving automation and process improvement in a finance function; comfortable with finance systems, APIs, and automation tools, and making the case for investment.
• A continuous improvement mindset; someone who is never satisfied with "good enough" and consistently looks for smarter ways to operate.
• Experience managing offshore or distributed finance teams is an advantage.
• Hands-on and willing to operate at both strategic and transactional levels, particularly during the transition period.
• Experience in EOR, staffing, professional services, or a similarly complex billing model (strongly preferred).

Benefits

• Incredible team that is invested in our success.
• Innovation and creativity as core values.
• Exceptional company culture.
• Leadership team that genuinely believes in balance.