Location: Vauxhall/Hybrid (2-3 days per week in the office) with occasional travel to Croydon and Birmingham
Working pattern: Full-time or .8FTE would be considered
Starting salary: £100-£125k
The Role:
Our scaling subscription-based e-commerce business is in need of a visionary Financial Director to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring Oddbox's financial health and helping us achieve our profitable growth targets. You'll work closely with our CEO/Founder Emilie and the Leadership team to drive cross functional projects, identify & maximise commercial opportunities and provide a healthy level of challenge to our senior teams, in addition to ensuring best in class financial accounting and reporting.
The Finance Director is expected to significantly impact the company’s financial health and strategic decision-making processes. The key goals include:
🍇Effective presentation of financial information at board level and across internal teams.
🍇Lead and develop the finance team
🍇Improved financial modelling accuracy and forecasting reliability
🍇Leading on cross-functional projects to challenge, drive accountability, actions and decision making capability
🍇Responsible for governance, risk management, statutory accounting and treasury
Who We're Looking For
🥝You're a hands on leader, not afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive into detail; but can also summarise data and financial information to provide strategic insight at leadership level.
🥝You've worked in disruptive DTC/E-commerce brands supporting growth journeys above £10m
🥝You have proven commercial and strategic expertise, with a track record of business partnering with Founders/CEOs and other cross-functional heads to drive commercial success.
🥝You are an experienced and inspiring leader with a track record of motivating, coaching, and developing high-performing Finance teams.
🥝You have credibility and EQ to manage teams and stakeholders up to Board level.
🥝You are resilient and have gravitas, performing well under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
You May Not Be the Right Fit If:
🍎You aren't comfortable with change and rapidly evolving environments
🍎You aren't proactive about finding solutions and driving improvements
🍎You find managing people and processes a challenge
🍎You're not willing to hold yourself and your stakeholders accountable for accuracy and robust solutions
🍎You aren't able to use financial data to deliver clear instructions to a senior team with a diverse skillset and level of commercial literacy
Interview process:
👋 Initial call (normally via video but let us know if a phone call works better) with our People & Culture team - 30 minutes
👋 Take home task - around 90-120 minutes of prep
👋 Formal interview and task presentation with our CEO and our current Head of Finance - 90 minutes
👋 Follow up interview with two of our management team (the leaders at Oddbox who support our CEO in making key business decisions) -45 minutes
👋Meet the team
👋Offer
Team: You’ll manage our finance assistant and FP&A associate
Location
Hybrid - On average, you'll spend two to three days each week in our Vauxhall office, working closely with other senior leaders and team members. You'll also need to visit our distribution centre in Croydon and packing facility in Birmingham a couple of times each year.
Looking After You
We don't waste your time telling you that annual leave is a benefit when it's your right, but we offer you an extra week of annual leave (33 days including bank holidays if you work full-time), four "not-sick" days, and two volunteering days each year. A £300 self-service L&D budget is available, backed by extensive cohort and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Access to perks and well-being support with YuLife is provided, and of course, you get discounts on Oddbox products (as well as the occasional stash of Oddbox merch).
Other Details
Start date: Flexible for the right person
Duration of role: Permanent
Are you the Financial Director we’re looking for? Click below to apply (the application should take you no longer than 10-15 minutes).
