Head of Finance

What you'll do

• Own day-to-day financial operations across our finance and accounting portals: accounts payable, expense management, bank and card reconciliation and bookkeeping, to a clean monthly close.
• Track cash, runway and budgets, and prepare the finance inputs to our management, board and investor reporting. Manage banking operations and our external accounting firm: payments and bank relationships, and the books, ensuring accurate accounts, a timely close and compliance.
• Support the fundraising process: provide the financial and operations inputs we need (data room, financial and operating data), as required.
• Own EoR and contractor budgets and our technology and cloud invoices (AWS, SaaS), always finding smarter, more automated ways to handle them. Support reporting and the leadership team.
• Prepare the financial inputs and packs the COO needs for our operating cadence and Monthly Business Review (the COO owns the cadence and business reporting); partner closely and keep the data clean.
• Be the dependable back-office backbone the leadership team can rely on, owning the finance and operations administration. Manage vendors, EoR, suppliers and contracts
• Own our vendor, supplier and EoR relationships end to end: onboarding, contracts, renewals, invoicing and performance.
• Administer our contracts and agreements, for both vendors and customers (the CEO and COO lead negotiation): keep the contract repository, signatures, renewals and key dates in order.
• Provide commercial management support: keep our CRM (HubSpot) clean, run pipeline and activity reporting, prepare proposals and deal documents, and help with EoR onboarding and basic people-ops as we grow.

What success looks like

• First 6 to 8 weeks: a clean monthly close, banking and the external-accounting relationship in hand, EoR / vendor admin and contracts under control, and the finance load off the COO.
• First 3 months: you reliably deliver the finance inputs and packs the COO needs for reporting and the MBR, with runway and budget tracking the team can rely on.
• By 6 months: the finance and back-office backbone runs without anyone chasing it, and you are ready to take on more as we scale.

What you'll bring

Required

• 8+ years in operations, finance or business-operations roles, including senior or head-of-function experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS, a scale-up or professional services.
• Hands-on financial operations administration (a must): Xero or similar, accounting, accounts payable, reconciliation, bookkeeping, P&L operations, budgeting and management or board reporting. You are comfortable owning the numbers.
• Accounting experience is a must: you will manage our banking operations and our external accounting firm, so a solid accounting grounding is required (a qualified or part-qualified accountant is an advantage).
• Commercial / sales-operations exposure in a B2B environment: CRM reporting (HubSpot or similar), pipeline reporting and proposal / deal-document preparation.
• A trusted operator: discretion, judgment and the ability to run things without being directed, having been a right hand to founders or executives. A versatile, roll-up-your-sleeves startup mindset is essential.
• Vendor, EoR and contract-management experience; CRM literacy (HubSpot preferred); excellent Microsoft 365.
• AI-first ways of working: you get real leverage from state-of-the-art AI productivity tools (for example Claude and Claude Cowork) and adapt fast. This is how we work, and it is a genuine requirement.

Bonus points

• Experience in the UAE or GCC and with multi-jurisdiction EoR setups; contract administration; investor or board-reporting and fundraising-operations exposure; light HR or people-ops; bookkeeping certifications; comfort with automation tools.