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Your Mission
Our Heat Geek community is excited to bring a Head of Finance into our team. This person will own and evolve our finance function as Heat Geek scales. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you'll set the standards, build the processes, guide decision‑making, and develop a high‑performing finance team.
You'll balance strategic oversight with operational detail, bringing clarity, structure, and insight to a fast‑moving business.
Role Outputs
Financial Operations
- Own the management and documentation of FinOps processes, procedures, and roles, including the company share options scheme
- Iteratively review and improve finance processes as they are undertaken, ensuring they scale with the business
- Manage FinOps priorities, projects, tasks, and deadlines
- Run regular meetings to align BAU and project work across the team, balancing priorities against capacity and advocating for financial process improvements to be built into the technical platform
Reporting & Analysis
- Produce monthly profit and loss reporting, including insightful analysis against historic and budgeted figures
- Own balance sheet reporting, including cash, debtor, and creditor reviews
- Deliver clear, accurate, and timely financial insight to the leadership team
Planning, Budgeting & Cash Flow
- Lead quarterly budgeting and reforecasting
- Produce and maintain cash forecasts and runway reporting
- Support strategic decision‑making through scenario modelling and forward‑looking analysis
Leadership & Team Building
- Build, mentor, and lead a highly successful finance team
- Set clear expectations, roles, and development pathways
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and commercial thinking
Stakeholder Support
- Act as a trusted financial partner to the CEO, COO and leadership team
- Support fundraising, investor reporting, and external stakeholders as required
- Ensure financial controls and governance remain robust but proportionate to a startup environment
Candidate Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven startup or scale‑up experience
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where little exists
- Strong commercial mindset with excellent analytical skills
- A genuine desire to build and lead high‑performing teams
- Practical and detail‑oriented, but able to zoom out to the bigger picture
- Passionate about Heat Geek's mission and the transition to low‑carbon heating
Optional Bonus Experience
- Experience within a VC backed or private investor driven company
- Experience managing finances for international teams
- Worked in companies with multiple entities
- Worked in FinOps and/or process improvement
- Experience with a marketplace business model
- Experience with heat pumps, renewable energy, construction, or utilities
Ways of Working & Benefits
This is a 3‑day‐in‑the‑office hybrid role where you will work with the team at our office in Sustainable Ventures in Waterloo, Europe's biggest climate tech hub.
- £5,000 contribution towards your own heat pump installation
- Shares in the company, allocated under a tax‑incentivised scheme
- Salary that's evaluated regularly, and based on skills, impact, and role scope, not negotiation tactics
- Private medical & dental insurance
- Learning and development budget
- Annual summer retreat
- Gym membership contribution
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Yoga, run club and social events with other sustainability startups in our co‑working space
- Monthly socials and regular collaboration opportunities with a team that's passionate, hardworking, and kind
Company: Heat Geek
Location: London
Job Description:
Your Mission
Our Heat Geek community is excited to bring a Head of Finance into our team. This person will own and evolve our finance function as Heat Geek scales. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you’ll set the standards, build the processes, guide decision‑making, and develop a high‑performing finance team.
You’ll balance strategic oversight with operational detail, bringing clarity, structure, and insight to a fast‑moving business.
Role Outputs
Financial Operations
- Own the management and documentation of FinOps processes, procedures, and roles, including the company share options scheme
- Iteratively review and improve finance processes as they are undertaken, ensuring they scale with the business
- Manage FinOps priorities, projects, tasks, and deadlines
- Run regular meetings to align BAU and project work across the team, balancing priorities against capacity and advocating for financial process improvements to be built into the technical platform
Reporting & Analysis
- Produce monthly profit and loss reporting, including insightful analysis against historic and budgeted figures
- Own balance sheet reporting, including cash, debtor, and creditor reviews
- Deliver clear, accurate, and timely financial insight to the leadership team
Planning, Budgeting & Cash Flow
- Lead quarterly budgeting and reforecasting
- Produce and maintain cash forecasts and runway reporting
- Support strategic decision‑making through scenario modelling and forward‑looking analysis
Leadership & Team Building
- Build, mentor, and lead a highly successful finance team
- Set clear expectations, roles, and development pathways
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and commercial thinking
Stakeholder Support
- Act as a trusted financial partner to the CEO, COO and leadership team
- Support fundraising, investor reporting, and external stakeholders as required
- Ensure financial controls and governance remain robust but proportionate to a startup environment
Candidate Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven startup or scale‑up experience
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where little exists
- Strong commercial mindset with excellent analytical skills
- A genuine desire to build and lead high‑performing teams
- Practical and detail‑oriented, but able to zoom out to the bigger picture
- Passionate about Heat Geek’s mission and the transition to low‑carbon heating
Optional Bonus Experience
- Experience within a VC backed or private investor driven company
- Experience managing finances for international teams
- Worked in companies with multiple entities
- Worked in FinOps and/or process improvement
- Experience with a marketplace business model
- Experience with heat pumps, renewable energy, construction, or utilities
Ways of Working & Benefits
This is a 3‑day‐in‑the‑office hybrid role where you will work with the team at our office in Sustainable Ventures in Waterloo, Europe’s biggest climate tech hub.
- £5,000 contribution towards your own heat pump installation
- Shares in the company, allocated under a tax‑incentivised scheme
- Salary that’s evaluated regularly, and based on skills, impact, and role scope, not negotiation tactics
- Private medical & dental insurance
- Learning and development budget
- Annual summer retreat
- Gym membership contribution
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Yoga, run club and social events with other sustainability startups in our co‑working space
- Monthly socials and regular collaboration opportunities with a team that’s passionate, hardworking, and kind
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Posted: May 20th, 2026