Finance Director
SPECIALISM
Accounting
SALARY
£100k - £140k
JOB TYPE
Permanent / Full Time
DATE POSTED
16/10/2025
LOCATION
Greater London
JOB REF
1292214
Radley Green is exclusively partnering an early-stage start-up to recruit their first in-house Finance Director.
The business is currently less than 10 people and operates in the innovative tech space. This is an amazing opportunity to join a bootstrapped business in its infancy and work two tech founders that have exited their last 3 businesses with a combined value of $500m.
This role requires someone with experience working in a hardware business or have experience managing hardware within a growth business.
This role is initially a very hands-on position where the successful candidate will set up finance systems and processes from scratch, alongside managing a recently acquired company, and provide insight and analysis to aid decision making. The role will grow and develop over time and the founders plan to make this a £1bn business in 5 years.
This role will offer £100k - £140k base salary, plus bonus and equity / options and the founders see this as a huge opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of the Founding team and support their growth through to exit.
This role will be 5 days a week in the office initially.
The role will entail:
Skills and experience required:
This is a huge opportunity for someone and the business is looking to turn this recruitment process around quickly.
The business is currently less than 10 people and operates in the innovative tech space. This is an amazing opportunity to join a bootstrapped business in its infancy and work two tech founders that have exited their last 3 businesses with a combined value of $500m.
This role requires someone with experience working in a hardware business or have experience managing hardware within a growth business.
This role is initially a very hands-on position where the successful candidate will set up finance systems and processes from scratch, alongside managing a recently acquired company, and provide insight and analysis to aid decision making. The role will grow and develop over time and the founders plan to make this a £1bn business in 5 years.
This role will offer £100k - £140k base salary, plus bonus and equity / options and the founders see this as a huge opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of the Founding team and support their growth through to exit.
This role will be 5 days a week in the office initially.
The role will entail:
- Review, develop and implement best in class financial systems and processes
- Own financial and management accounting and produce statutory accounts, monthly management reports and forecasts
- Full financial management of recently acquired software business
- Automate, day-to-day finance operations (including AP, AR, payroll)
- Ensure tax compliance and file comprehensive VAT/tax returns while also exploring any available tax credits/grants
- Analyse and reduce costs by introducing and enforcing cost control measures
- Procure and purchase equipment efficiently by building strong supplier relationships
- Develop and implement FP&A and Commercial Finance offering as business scales
- Act as Finance Business Partner to all functions by providing insight and analysis to aid decision making
- Opportunity to lead broader commercial ad-hoc projects as business scales
- Work with founders on all product launches - 1st planned Qtr 2 2025
Skills and experience required:
- Fully Qualified accountant with a background of working in Tech Hardware
- Experience, and willingness, to work in a hands-on role setting up financial systems and processes from scratch
- Experience working in tech companies that have scaled
- Very strong systems and tech experience with the ability to implement and automate
This is a huge opportunity for someone and the business is looking to turn this recruitment process around quickly.
