What We Are Building At Conveo
Conveo is the AI research platform enabling fast, affordable, and high-quality consumer / B2B research. Global brands use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across marketing, product, and research teams.
We Are Solving
The current/traditional research methods companies rely on are slow, expensive, and superficial, limiting the quantity and quality of research companies can conduct. Running great research also requires expertise, which is a blocker for many companies. That directly affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them.
The Team You Will Join
You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people. We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives. Our team combines decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.
How We Operate
- We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve. That means we humbly go the extra mile every time.
- We work hard and we have fun.
- To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.
About The Role
We are winning Fortune 500 clients at warp speed while expanding internationally and growing our team.
Financial Operations Lead
As Financial Operations Lead, you will be the architect and owner of Conveo’s financial operations function — owning end-to-end responsibility for converting Conveo's finance function into a bulletproof and scalable operation with necessary controls to scale through Series B and beyond.
Through this role, you'll be the owner, operator, and guardian of Conveo’s financials, work directly with leadership and founders across all divisions, and drive the discussions for every significant call on capital, revenue and expenses, hiring, and growth. In other words, you will be Conveo’s architect that knows every figure of Conveo’s financials.
This role is for an expert in financial control and accounting, someone who owns the books of Conveo with accuracy.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial architecture — design, implement, and optimise the financial systems (e.g. ERP implementation), processes, and internal controls that take Conveo from 30 to 150+ people.
- Accounting — coordinate with accountants to close and consolidate the books across our US, UK, and BE entities.
- Finance operations — manage and optimise AR/AP, compliance, transfer pricing, VAT, set up financial budgets.
- Cash & runway mastery — give the company and investors real‑time clarity on cash burn, scenario planning, and liquidity management, enabling fast and confident decision‑making.
- Investor & board reporting — own financial reporting for investors, financial due diligence/support in future fundraising, and build financial credibility that unlocks Series B.
Main Responsibilities
- Monthly close — operationally consolidating the books within 1 week with our Big Four partner.
- Finance infrastructure — finance setup from 0 to 1, focusing on ERP setup, expense controls, tools optimisation.
- Financial operations — AP/AR management, VAT, transfer pricing.
- Reporting — board reporting, investor materials and investor discussion preparations.
- Financial strategy & planning — financial models, scenario analyses, KPI tracking and monitoring, board reporting.
- Cash & runway — burn dashboard, A/R + cost forecasting, early warnings.
Additional Responsibilities
- Business orchestration — hiring plans, ESOP plans, pricing, deal economics, capital allocation.
- Funding — Series B preparation, subsidies, additional ways of financing.
What We’re Looking For
Must‑haves
- 4–10 years of strong experience across financial operations, accounting, audit, or financial control.
- Implemented and optimised financial systems and controls to bring structure and scalability to a startup.
- Owned monthly close with external auditors; multi‑entity consolidation.
- Model mastery: three‑statement, hiring plan, scenario analysis, and ad‑hoc models.
- Accounting, reporting, financial control, compliance, AR/AP management, audit, and ERP systems.
- Has seen at least 1 ERP implementation/migration.
- At least 2 years of accounting and financial control experience at a startup, ideally having set up the entire accounting system / ERP and books from scratch.
- Strong SaaS metrics understanding: ARR, NRR, CAC, LTV, burn multiple.
- Fluent in English.
Mindset
- Builder — creates accounting system with operational focus.
- Low ego — willing to do the grunt work of accounting.
- Precise — strong eye for detail and numerical accuracy.
Bonus
- Familiarity with Belgian and/or UK local reporting/accountancy.
- Part of Series B or C fundraising as financial controller/accountant/financial ops manager.
- Managed financial operations for a startup before (accounting, ERP systems, AR/AP management, compliance).
- Some touchpoints with FP&A is a plus but not a necessity, financial DD experience also a plus.
- Experience with 409A, R&D subsidies, tax administration, transfer pricing.
What Success Looks Like
- Books closed on time every month, without exception.
- Automated and efficient ERP with up‑to‑date figures and 100 % accuracy.
- Keeping A/R and A/P on track in real time.
- Live burn, runway, and KPI dashboard.
- Financial model actively driving decisions.
- Conveo financially sound and prepared for Series B.
Why Join Us?
- Conveo closed its Series A round — with backing from Tier 1 investors.
- Own the finance ops function from Series A to Series B and beyond.
- Fortune 500 clients with exposure through industry events across the globe.
- Competitive compensation (including equity).
- Rapidly growing organisation with offices across London, Antwerp, New York, and upcoming cities.
Compensation Range: £70K - £100K
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