Finance Manager

at  Climate X

ABOUT US

Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We’re a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.
Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You’ll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We’re excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.

WHAT WE DO

• We’re helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
• Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.
• Climate X’s customers include the world’s largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.
• Customer’s choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems, and drive tangible business benefits to our customers. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Professional Accounting Background: ACA, ACCA, CIMA (post qualification) or equivalent (will consider CFA etc.).
• Hands-on experience in an accounting/finance role, with ability to strategically connect financial insights to operational and business goals.
• Hands-on experience working with an accounting and finance system (Xero, Quickbooks, Sage etc.).
• Experience owning month-end reporting and the financial model, and managing financial operations such as invoices and payments.
• Experience managing accounts payable i.e. generating invoices in collaboration with sales, ensuring tax compliance, maintaining accurate tax records and calculations, updating spreadsheets, and staying on top of vendor payments.
• Experience in FP&A, financial modelling and analysing & tracking key SaaS metrics, such as ARR, MRR, Churn, and NRR, and providing actionable insights to support business growth.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to dive deep into spreadsheets, financial data, and accounting numbers to uncover insights and ensure accuracy.
• A desire to add value beyond pure Finance and learn the Operations side of building a high-performing international business.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Experience working in a SaaS start-up environment with the ability to be pragmatic and proactive.
• Experience working with external investors or Venture Capital.
• Experience working with external accountants.
• Knowledge of US tax compliance and entity creation (a plus, but not essential).
• Experience creating strategic reports for executive/board level that deliver insights.
• Experience in start-up operations (or a strong desire to contribute/support Operations).
• Proven experience managing and administering an ESOP plan.
• Experience innovating and automating company expenses policies.
• Skilled at handling tasks with precision and consistently delivering high-quality results.
• Highly self-motivated and proactive – seeks out tasks and ways to contribute to the business and team.

Please refer the Job description for details