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Are you an experienced, globally minded finance leader who knows how to take a solid finance function and mature it into a world class, globally scalable capability?
Do you excel at strengthening systems, people, and processes so they can support fast, ambitious international growth?
Do you thrive in high growth environments where ambition is big, the pace is fast, and the opportunity to shape the next chapter is huge?
If you’re looking for a role where you can be a strategic partner to the founder and senior leaders, a calm voice in complexity, and a champion of ethical, transparent, data driven decision making then DFYNE is the place for you.
About DFYNE:
A picture paints a thousand words… and we’re sure you don’t want to be sat here reading an essay of corporate “about us” spiel…. Seriously, how’re you able to really get under the skin of what we’re about from a few words on a screen. So why don’t you have a look and see what we’re all about for yourself – www.dfyne.com
About the role – DFYNE Your Career:
First off, it’s best I introduce myself (person behind the keyboard here), it’s not the norm on a job role spec, but I feel it’s important you get introduced to who you may be working with for a long time early on.
I’m Oscar, Founder and CEO at DFYNE. I’m looking for someone who’s going to help us take DFYNE financial processes to the next level. The Chief Financial Officer will lead and mature our global financial strategy, ensuring we scale with discipline, insight, and operational excellence.
You will strengthen our existing finance function, enhance global capability, and ensure DFYNE is positioned for sustainable, profitable international growth.
This role blends strategic leadership with hands on commercial partnership across every part of the business.
Attitude:
- Commercially fearless.
- Calm under pressure.
- Forward looking mindset.
- Collaborative partner.
- Operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will develop and elevate DFYNE’s finance function across the UK and international markets, enhancing systems, processes, and capability.
- You’ll champion finance transformation, drive automation, and build a high performing, culture aligned global team.
- You will evolve and deliver DFYNE’s global financial strategy, covering the UK and all international markets, ensuring alignment with long term growth plans.
- You’ll partner with the CEO and senior leaders to refine investment priorities, capital allocation, and expansion decisions across every geography we operate in.
- You will enhance DFYNE’s FPA capability across UK and global markets, strengthening forecasting, scenario planning, and performance reporting. You’ll ensure leaders everywhere have real time clarity and the insight needed for confident, data driven decisions.
- You will oversee and mature financial governance across all DFYNE entities, including the UK. You’ll ensure accurate reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance with UK and international accounting standards, statutory requirements, and tax obligations.
- You will deepen DFYNE’s commercial capability across the UK and global operations, partnering with Product, Operations and People to optimise pricing, margins, supply chain economics, and investment decisions. You’ll embed commercial modelling and financial literacy across all regions.
- You will lead DFYNE’s capital strategy, including fundraising, debt management, and investor engagement, ensuring our UK and global footprint is positioned for long term financial resilience and opportunity.
Experience Needed:
- You will bring extensive senior finance leadership experience across both the UK and global markets, ideally within fast growth organisations.
- You’ve led mature finance functions through periods of scale, transformation, an international expansion, strengthening systems, controls, and commercial capability.
- You have a proven track record of partnering with CEO’s, Boards, and cross functional leaders to shape financial strategy, drive performance, and support complex decision making.
- Your background includes oversight of UK and international accounting standards, tax, compliance, and governance, alongside experience in capital strategy, and building high performing global teams.
Skills:
- Strategic financial leadership
- Commercial mindset
- Global governance expertise
- Operational finance excellence
- Cross functional partnership
- Leadership & team development
- Data driven decision making
So, what’s in it for you?:
If you’ve made it this far down without being put off, brilliant, I’d love to hear from you. Besides a work family and a great place to work, you’ll have an opportunity to grow with the company, be a part of the journey, and have a vital input into helping continue the crazy growth we’ve already seen.
You’ll be part of a high challenge, high reward culture.
What will aid a successful application with DFYNE:
- Tailored Cover Letter
- Completed Questionnaire
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