Job Description
Group Finance Manager
Remote · Independent contractor · Full time
We are looking for a detail-oriented and driven finance professional to build and run the group's finance function, manage multi-jurisdiction compliance and reporting, and maintain accurate financial records across all entities.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the obligations calendar across all entities, brief and oversee external accountants who handle in country filing
- Manage relationships with external accountants and advisers brief, review, negotiate fees, replace underperformers
- Build the accounting stack, chart of accounts, and a monthly management reporting pack by business line
- Open and maintain multi-jurisdiction banking relationships, survive compliance reviews
- Run a backlog of asset disposals and administrative wind-downs across several countries
- Drive down finance & admin costs, maintain contract tracking, counterparty documentation, and source-of-funds discipline
Requirements
- Sole finance person, head, or #2 in an in-house finance team of six or fewer hands-on experience running the whole function
- Small-company background (a career only inside large organisations will not translate)
- 5–10 years post-degree finance experience across more than one entity and tax regime
- Strong commercial judgement, autonomy, and a track record of pushing counterparties to resolution
- Precise written English most work happens in writing across time zones
- Genuine daily fluency with AI and automation tools
- Qualification welcome but not required (CIMA, ACCA, CMA rate highest); legal education an advantage
What’s on offer
- Broad cross-border scope: entity formation and wind-down, multi-regime filings, international banking, multi-country disposals
- Direct access to the founder's expertise in deal structuring and international tax, earned over time
- A growing role reporting first, then banking, treasury, and a team to manage
- Potential future involvement in the founder's personal investment book (not guaranteed, earned by results)
- Real autonomy from day one: choose the system, hire your junior, decide which advisers stay
- Permanently remote, one person to report to, decisions made in hours
- Paid in USD
Terms
- Independent contractor, full-time; invoice monthly and handle your own tax
- Permanently remote with daily overlap with European working hours; no relocation
- Fee benchmarked to your country and set above local market for the right person
- Milestone bonuses for defined completions (entities incorporated, filings backlog cleared, reporting live, disposals closed, costs cut)
Applications only through the form, emailed CVs not reviewed.
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