FinOps Lead

causaLens builds AI-powered Digital Workers that automate high-stakes enterprise workflows. We run finance the same way: AI-native systemised lean a CFO and you with automation and specialist advisors doing the rest.

We went live on an AI-native ERP (Light) in August with payroll in-house and primary banking integrated. The first close on the new system runs in September. Youre joining at the point where a new system has to become a reliable one: own the close get the numbers clean and trusted then push the automation as far as it will go.

This is hands-on with real scope. Youll be in the ledger and in the systems architecture often on the same day.

You report to the CFO and run the operating reality of finance. The CFO keeps the board investors the raise statutory sign-off and the technical-accounting calls; everything operational is yours including which tools automations and AI workflows the function runs on.

• The close and the numbers month-end end-to-end: management accounts balance-sheet reconciliations accruals and prepayments and the judgement to know when a number looks wrong. Then engineer it so most of it runs without you.

• The systems Light to its full automation potential Slack-first; you own the roadmap lead the org through the change and deploy our own Digital Workers into live finance workflows.

• The operating machine UK/US compliance and multi-entity payroll (PAYE P11D PSA VAT) run lean through automation and external specialists rather than headcount. You own the day-to-day advisor relationships; the CFO keeps technical sign-off and the audit relationship.

• Treasury and cash a live automated daily cash position across the UK and US a forecast you trust and working capital.

• Quote-to-cash HubSpot through invoicing deferred revenue and collections with ARR a live reconciled number; plus the gatekeeper that protects what enters the ledger.

• Reporting and the raise a clean actuals layer that feeds board reporting with no manual prep plus the diligence-ready numbers behind the next fundraise.

• Accounting and equity first-pass IFRS 15 and IFRS 2 mechanics audit prep share-scheme admin (EMI ERS) and integrating Carta into the stack.

As you systemise the core and automation compounds the role expands into the higher-value finance work: business partnering across the wider team taking on more of the FP&A model and annual budget over time inference-cost and cost-to-serve economics and FDE delivery economics.

Over time this seat can grow toward running the finance function a new-style FD in a heavily automated team.

Essential

• Hands-on ownership of month-end close management accounts and balance-sheet reconciliations. Non-negotiable youll own numbers people rely on from your first month.

• 35 years in finance from an accounting outsourcing/practice background or in-house startup finance operations. Part-qualified or qualified (ACCA CIMA ACA) or a clear equivalent track record.

• Real ERP experience: youve worked inside one ideally through an implementation and know what clean quote-to-cash architecture looks like.

• Agent-first automation you build not just use. Fluent from no-code (n8n Zapier) to MCP and code when a workflow outgrows it; you automate first and hire second.

• Baseline payroll and UK compliance awareness enough to spot when a number is wrong.

• Comfortable in startup pace and ambiguity and happy to own the cross-functional problem when it needs an owner.

Nice to have: SaaS revenue recognition (IFRS 15 / ASC 606); equity accounting (IFRS 2); HubSpotERP integration; SQL/Python; multi-entity consolidation and FX.

What success looks like

In 12 months: books closed in days not weeks with most journals and reconciliations running without you. A live daily cash position across the UK and US forecast-driven. Deal close to invoice with no manual handoffs and ARR a number nobody has to rebuild. Board reporting that assembles itself from clean actuals. Finance running a business at multiples of todays scale with two people and a stack of automations.

Trusted by J&J Cisco Syneos Health and others causaLens is backed by $50M from Molten Ventures Dorilton Capital IQ Capital and the CEO of Revolut. We combine scientific rigour with startup execution speed. Two pieces that define our culter:

1. A Hiring Framework for a New Kind of Services Company

2. The Primacy of Winning

25 days holiday bank holidays carry over/sell holiday options (up to 5 days) share options pension life cover (4x salary) optional health and dental L&D budget cycle to work work-abroad days referral bonus team outings office snacks on-site gym.

Send your CV and a short note on (1) the most impactful finance or operations workflow youve automated and (2) the process youd most want to automate with AI in your first 60 days.

The process: a video screen with the hiring manager including a short practical accounting exercise a Day 0 take-home challenge an in-person session with the hiring manager and our COO and a final conversation with our CEO.

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