Finance Manager

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.

Our mission

To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.

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.

The impact you’ll own

As Finance Manager, you will take ownership of the financial model, ensuring its accuracy and relevance while supporting strategic FP&A activities. Your analysis and input will be pivotal to decision making and the direction of the company. You will oversee the functionality of the accounting system and month end, resolving any issues and ensuring it supports day-to-day operations.

You will collaborate with external accountants to ensure accurate and timely reporting, and you will manage the processing of invoices (through to cash collection) and payments (of vendors and employee expenses) to ensure smooth financial operations.

You will also work closely with the sales team to generate accurate invoices verify sales commissions. You will help ensure tax compliance for both the UK and US, maintaining proper tax records and performing accurate calculations. You will maintain well-organised spreadsheets to track tax obligations and vendor payments. You will also manage vendor payment schedules and assist in producing management accounting reports.

Beyond finance and accounting, you will work closely with the Senior Leadership team to monitor and analyse key SaaS metrics (including ARR growth, NRR, CAC etc.) and provide actionable insights and recommendations, and deliver detailed month-end reports to support leadership and the board in decision-making.

Your role will also be exposed to various strategic operations for the business, including ownership of our ESOP, supplier onboarding, building new operational processes as well as supporting the commercial team. This is an opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of working in a fast-growing international scale-up as the 2^nd finance hire.

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.

Benefits

🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change

💡 Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)

📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews

💰 Pension contribution scheme

🏡 Flexible hours and hybrid working (3 days/week in office; core hours 10am-4pm)

🏥 Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva

🏖 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)

🏏 Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out

🥐 A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office

🚴 Cycle to work scheme via gogeta

🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity

🐶 Pawternity

🐕 Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)

Equal Opportunities

Climate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.