Finance Director
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3 hours ago
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Job Summary
About the role
As Finance Director youll be the senior financial leader for Cellular Origins and a key member of the C-suite working closely with the CEO and leadership team to guide strategic decisions and ensure we grow in a disciplined sustainable way. Youll bring clarity to complexity translate data into decisions and help everyone understand how their work contributes to our long-term goals as an independent company.
This is a new role so youll get to reimagine and build a modern finance function shaping how we deploy our recent Series A funding and setting the standards tools and rhythms that will support future growth.
What youll do
Youll get to:
- Shape and lead the financial strategy that supports our mission to industrialise cell therapy manufacturing as an independent privately owned company.
- Act as a core member of the C-suite partnering with the CEO and executive team on strategic choices trade-offs and long-term value creation.
- Own budgeting forecasting and long-range planning giving the leadership team clear timely insight into performance and runway.
- Partner with the CEO and Board on funding strategy investor reporting and scenario planning as we grow.
- Build and lead a high-performing finance team creating the processes tools and standards that make great decisions easier. Plan and manage the in-source accounting from our current external providers
- Develop and refine commercial models for our platform ensuring pricing and contracting support sustainable growth and strong partnerships.
- Oversee financial controls reporting audit and compliance keeping us disciplined as we scale.
- Work closely with operations engineering and commercial teams to understand cost drivers optimise unit economics and support key decisions on investment and resourcing.
- Champion clear communication around numbers helping the wider team understand how day-to-day choices link to our mission and financial health.
Qualifications :
Youll excel in this role if you enjoy building as well as refining and if youre motivated by the idea that good financial decisions can directly translate into more patients receiving life-changing therapies. Youll be comfortable working at C-suite level while staying close to the detail when it matters.
Youll bring:
- Significant experience in a senior finance leadership role ideally in a scaling technology life sciences automation or advanced manufacturing environment.
- A track record of owning budgets forecasts and long-term financial plans and of partnering with executive teams and Boards.
- Experience of investor relations for high-growth companies.
- Confidence moving between strategic questions and detailed analysis and knowing when each is needed.
- Strong understanding of capital equipment recurring consumable platform or project-based commercial models and how to align them with long-term value creation.
- A collaborative low-ego style with the ability to build trust across technical commercial and operations teams.
- Professional finance qualifications (such as ACA ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent experience.
Youll enjoy working here if you like open discussion clear thinking and being part of a multidisciplinary team that genuinely cares about what it is building and why.
Additional Information :
Benefits
Our employee benefits include:
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Employer pension contribution of 10% of basic salary
- Free lunch and all-day refreshments
- Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Life insurance worth 6x salary
- Electric car leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- An activities and community fund that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether its lunchtime squash or football Zumba or our own rock band.
Ready to apply
If youre excited by the idea of using your financial and commercial experience to help bring cell therapies to many more patients wed love to hear from you.
Every application will be reviewed by the hiring team and will receive a response.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Accounting Software
- Forecasting
- Ellucian
- Financial Report Writing
- GAAP
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Budgeting
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning
About Company
Cell therapies have shown the ability to cure the incurable and yet we cannot get them to patients because of an inability to scale manufacturing. The Cellular Origins team is transforming patient access to cell therapies by addressing the challenges associated with scalable, cost-eff ... View more
