[Hiring] VP, Strategic Finance @Nivoda

Role Description

You will sit on the Extended Leadership Team, report to the CFO, and own how Nivoda plans, reports and is funded. You will present to the board, investors and our receivables lender yourself, work directly with the CFO on equity and debt financing, and build a finance function that runs on routine rather than heroics. This is for someone who wants to lead a team and shape the company’s financial story, not only model it.

What you will own

• Planning and forecasting: You own the annual budget, quarterly reforecast and long-range plan, plus scenario and funding cases for the C-suite and board. You are accountable for forecast accuracy against agreed tolerances, and for an honest post-mortem whether we miss or overachieve.
• Board, investor and lender reporting: You own the monthly board pack and the numbers behind it, plus materials for existing and prospective investors and our receivables lender, including covenant reporting and onsite diligence. You present to these audiences yourself and you are their first call for analytical questions.
• Corporate finance: You build the models and documentation for equity and debt financing, analyse term sheets, work with the People team on cap table and option pool, and support the CFO on transactions.
• Commercial and unit economics: You own cohort economics, customer lifetime value, geographic and segment profitability, and the return on marketing and sales spend.
• Business partnering: You partner with Product and Engineering, Fulfilment, Fintech and the commercial teams on build versus buy, hiring cases, pricing and fee experiments, and capital allocation.
• Leading the function: You lead the team: hiring, onboarding, objectives, development and performance, including written objectives and regular structured feedback for each person.

What good looks like

• First 90 days: You have taken over the monthly pack and the reforecast without the investors noticing a handover.
• 90 to 180 days: The monthly pack, FP&A-approved numbers and lender reporting land on the agreed date, each with a named owner and a written process.
• Twelve months: The function delivers month-end and board commitments without you or the CFO stepping in.

The standard

• Timeliness: Deadlines are commitments, not targets.
• Quality: Every external-facing number reconciles to a primary source and has been reviewed by someone other than its author before it leaves the team.
• Capacity: Within reason, not a constraint. The function absorbs the demands of a 450-person company by organising, prioritising and delegating.

What you bring

• A background in investment banking, FP&A or venture capital, building models that senior stakeholders made decisions on.
• You have led a team, directly or through managers, and you want the management part of this role.
• You have presented to boards, investors or lenders as the person answering the question, not the person who built the slide.
• A working understanding of marketplace dynamics: two-sided liquidity, take rates, usage-based revenue without a contract, and what FX does to all of it.
• You are comfortable in Snowflake and a modern BI tool, you treat AI tooling as part of the stack.
• You are calm under pressure, low on ego and allergic to spin.

Useful but not required

• Receivables financing or lender reporting.
• A multi-jurisdiction group.
• NetSuite.
• A business that trades physical goods across borders.

What this role is not

• It is not a bigger version of a senior analyst role, and it is not where every difficult model gets built personally.
• It is also not a quiet seat. Month-end, board and lender deadlines are fixed.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and a vibrant, remote-first company culture.
• Unlimited holiday allowance.
• Participation in our equity programme.
• Genuine opportunities for growth: we promote from within and invest in your development.
• The chance to join during an expansion phase and shape how Nivoda operates at scale.

Interview Process

• Screening conversation with Talent Acquisition.
• Structured career-history interview with Hiring Manager.
• Focus interview: you present a case study to a panel from Finance and the leadership team.
• Final conversation with the C-suite.

Equal opportunity

Nivoda is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.

Not the right role? Join our Talent Pool

If this isn’t quite the right fit but you’re excited about what Nivoda is building, we’d still love to hear from you. Join our Talent Pool and we’ll reach out when the right opportunity comes along.