Posted:
11/22/2024, 1:36:39 AM
Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Growth & Marketing ⋅ Product
Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?
Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on, entrepreneurial, business building experience?
Do you want to have the opportunity to be involved in building a best-in-class finance function for an exciting and ambitious company?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking to hire high-energy, entrepreneurial and value-adding talent at Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s most successful venture builder to support the transformation and growth of one of our portfolio companies. This is a pivotal role within in a small, agile Finance function with exposure to Senior Management, Funding Partners and BC Partners with a fundamental impact on our development and growth.
ABOUT US
At Blenheim Chalcot, we use our ideas, infrastructure, and people to create an innovation system that transforms disruptive ideas into innovative businesses. We originate the ideas ourselves, grow them from the ground up and take them through to scaling and ultimately exit.
We typically build enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) products, powered by Generative AI and target industries which are exposed to market, regulatory or technology discontinuities. We have built businesses across the following sectors:
Our track record has seen us build more than 60 businesses over the last 25+ years. The portfolio has annual revenues of £500m, employs more than 3,000 people, has raised £600m in equity, and secured exists totalling over £1bn.
Blenheim Chalcot has three global locations. Portfolio companies are headquartered from Scale Space, London, our 200,000ft2 collaboration space which was built as a joint venture with Imperial College London. Our Mumbai offices provide unparalleled scaling capability and technical expertise, and our U.S. operation powers the go-to-market activities of the portfolio across North America.
IMPACT BEYOND PROFIT
10% of our partnerships and ventures are charities. These are the British Asian Trust, Babyzone and Onside Youth Zones. In the same way that we support our ventures, our Partners provide direct hands-on support to the charities through sitting on the boards and much more.
OUR BEHAVIOURS
THE ROLE
This role offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated and technically strong Finance Transformation Manager to take full ownership of transforming key areas in the Finance function within one of the BC portfolio businesses.
This is a newly created role and so will have some scope to be shaped as you embed into the role. You will be responsible for driving improvements across the Finance team to continue progress made to date in achieving a ‘gold standard’ Finance function.
Key responsibilities
The Finance Transformation Manager is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio business and will require excellent attention to detail and a drive for continuous improvement.
The successful Finance Transformation Manager will play a key role in leading and shaping our Finance function and will have full responsibility for improving the processes, controls, structure and culture that make a ‘gold standard’ Finance function.
Specific duties
KPIs & Deliverables
OPPORTUNITY
This role is an excellent platform for experienced professionals to take their career to the next level and an opportunity unlikely to be found anywhere else. It offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced Treasury and Finance professional to make a meaningful contribution to delivering commercial and financial insight across various lines of business and to develop within an ambitious and exciting company.
ABOUT YOU
The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering Finance transformation or process improvements in a fast-moving business. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.
The Ideal Candidate
Skills
Qualifications
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:
PROCESS
We have a rigorous recruitment process which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best and diverse talent.
This will involve an initial telephone conversation, followed by a panel interview and a case study where you will meet with that businesses management team and the Chief Operating team over 2 stages. We aspire for every person invited into an interview to find the process as interesting and engaging as we no doubt will.
Individuals seeking employment at Blenheim Chalcot must note we see diversity as a really positive thing that creates a better workplace and delivers better outcomes, so we are keen to maximize the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.
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Website: https://www.blenheimchalcot.com/
Headquarter Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Employee Count: 51-100
Year Founded: 1998
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Software ⋅ Venture Capital