Job Description

Role

Who you are

Have a strong track record in finance leadership within a startup or high-growth environment
Are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves on month end as you are presenting strategic recommendations to the CEO or board
Understand the mechanics of a venture-backed business — unit economics, SaaS or marketplace metrics, investor reporting — and can bring that lens to everything you do
Have experience with statutory compliance, audit processes, and share option scheme administration (EMI experience a plus)
Move quickly, communicate clearly, and don't need a lot of hand-holding to figure out what needs to be done
Have interim experience — or are genuinely excited by the pace and focus that comes with a fixed-term remit
Sound like you but not quite 100%? Apply anyway - we're looking for potential and passion, not perfect CV match

What the job involves

Duration: 7-8 months, ideally starting in July
Title: Interim Finance Director (mat leave cover)
Department: Finance
Reporting: Directly to Lottie's CEO
Team: Managing a team of three

Lottie is looking for an experienced and commercially minded Interim Finance Director to cover a maternity leave period of around 7-8 months. You will own the finance function across both operations and strategy - managing a team of three, maintaining strong controls and processes and acting as a key strategic partner to the leadership team during a pivotal stage of Lottie's growth.

Finance Operation and Controls

Provide oversight on month end close
Maintain and improve cross-functional finance processes
Ensure compliance across all areas of finance, including statutory filings, audit preparation and EMI scheme administration

Team Leadership

Lead, manage and develop a team of three ambitious finance professionals
Create a high-performing and collaborative environment

Strategic Finance & Business Partnering

Support on strategy planning and re-forecasting
Provide clear and actionable insights to the leadership team
Proactively identify risks and opportunities

Key Problems You'll Be Solving

Ensuring Best-in-Class Finance Operations: Play a key role in maintaining and improving controls and reporting to ensure we are audit and Series B ready as we scale
Shaping the FP&A Function: Support the newly appointed FP&A Lead on building out robust processes around strategy planning, forecasting and business partnering
Creating a Seamless Transition: Hold the finance function together whilst raising the bar during your successors leave and return

Compensation

Salary: £110-130k
Pro rata

About the Company

Company Mission

To elevate later life for everybody.

About Lottie

Choosing a care home is often a hugely daunting, complex, and expensive process, coming at a time that's already stressful enough. What's more, the UK's ageing population is growing at an increasing rate, putting more strain on social care than ever before. The result is that 44% of care seekers often ultimately regret their choice of care home, something that has had increasing attention since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lottie aims to address this in part by simplifying the process of finding the perfect care home for every individual's specific needs. Its online marketplace gives users all the tools to select and compare the UK's best-performing care homes, taking into account CQC reports, facilities, treatment methods, and location.

Having received investment, Lottie aims to continue its growth to reshape the future of the care industry. It is doing so with a strong emphasis on data and real-time information, collecting datasets that will be vital not just to its business operations, but potentially to the UK government and healthcare policy too.