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About the Role
As the first dedicated finance hire, you will own the finance function end-to-end, establishing flawless fundamentals and building scalable processes, tooling, and budgets to support the company's growth to $1B+ ARR. This hands-on role requires deep accounting understanding, relentless execution, and a proactive approach to financial operations.
Responsibilities
- Own supplier payments end-to-end, including vendor negotiations, approval workflows, and timely payments.
- Manage customer invoicing for over 1,000 law firm and enterprise clients.
- Partner with RevOps to collect overdue invoices and ensure consistent cash flow.
- Run external accountants to achieve an accurate and on-time monthly close.
- Design and implement the finance stack, including approvals, procurement, and spend management.
- Automate processes aggressively with AI.
- Build the first budgeting and approval processes for hiring, marketing, conferences, and offices.
- Instil a culture of financial responsibility across all teams.
- Negotiate pricing and contracts with suppliers.
- Steward raised capital, ensuring payroll and vendors are paid and cash is managed safely.
Requirements
- 5+ years in finance at high-growth tech companies (e.g., FP&A lead/head, finance ops, or generalist finance role).
- Deep fluency in accounting, capable of running external accountants for on-time closes.
- Proven track record of implementing scalable finance processes, tooling, and automation.
- Strong modeling skills across budgets, forecasts, P&L, and cash.
- Exceptionally clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience as a first/early finance hire, building a finance function from scratch.
- Experience negotiating vendor contracts and pricing.
- Experience managing cash and liquidity at scale.
- An accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or accounting background.
- Mastery of modern finance stacks (e.g., ERP/accounting, spend management, billing & AR systems).
- Experience leveraging AI across finance functions.
Skills
- Financial Operations
- Accounting
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Billing
- Collections
- Monthly Close
- Process Implementation
- Tooling Implementation
- Budgeting
- Financial Modeling
- Vendor Negotiation
- Cash Management
- AI Automation
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior-level
Education Level
- Accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or accounting background preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Significant equity
- Full visa sponsorship
- Private medical insurance
- Free meals
About the Company
- Solve Intelligence is the fastest-growing startup transforming Intellectual Property with an AI platform that handles invention harvesting, patent generation, litigation, and licensing.
- Experiencing 20-30% MoM revenue growth with 8 figures of ARR just two years since launch.
- Serving over 600 IP teams across 6 continents, including Tier-1 firms and tech giants.
- Users report 50-90% efficiency and quality improvements.
- Backed by approximately $60M from prominent investors including Y Combinator, 20VC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and founders of top companies.