Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

HRtechX

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about finance? If so, you might be our Chief Financial Officer. About us HRtechX is part of United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) which focuses on building large-scale industry media and conference products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. What we offer you As our Chief Financial Officer you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building one of our portfolio companies. By providing you with the ownership of our finances, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with: * An opportunity for getting operational experience in a start-up or scale-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the business. • A chance to work closely together with one of our CEO’s on our finances and budgets as well as report to investors on a monthly basis and participate in board meetings. • Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally. Your responsibilities Your responsibilities will vary; however, some of them will be to: * Prepare annual budgets for effective financial planning. * Provide weekly updates on cash flow. * Conduct monthly P&L and cash updates for comprehensive financial insights. * Evaluate and implement cost optimisation programs. * Review intercompany and external loans to ensure optimal financial health. * Lead the Working Capital responsibilities. * Manage the Human Resources Financial Planning responsibilities. * Offer support to sales and operations teams. What we expect from you You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you have: * Accounting background. Ideally, more than two years of experience from a Big Four firm. * Experience as CFO, Head of Finance or Finance Director from a small or medium-sized business. * UK working permit. * Media and Conferences industry background preferred but not mandatory.

IFRS Foundation

Location: London Status: permanent Reports to: Deputy Chief Financial Officer Job purpose:  The Head of Financial Control is responsible for leading the Foundation’s end to end Statutory Reporting, Management Reporting, and Financial Control activities across all operating countries and at the consolidated group level. This role will oversee the month end close, yearly audit processes, and ensure all statutory, regulatory, and internal reporting requirements are delivered accurately and on schedule. The role manages a team of accountants and financial controllers across multiple geographies, ensuring that financial controls are robust, reporting is consistent and compliant, and that the Group’s financial position is clearly and reliably communicated. A core priority is to optimise, standardise, and automate financial control processes to strengthen governance, enhance accuracy, and support timely delivery. The role will also define and monitor SLAs to ensure a consistent, high quality service across the Foundation. Principal accountabilities: Leadership & Governance * Lead and develop the Financial Control teams across all countries, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continual improvement. * Provide strategic leadership for the Group’s financial control framework, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and regulatory requirements. * Act as the primary contact for external auditors, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders on all matters relating to financial control and statutory reporting. Statutory Reporting * Oversee the preparation and submission of all statutory accounts for the Foundation across all jurisdictions. * Manage group level consolidation and the production of consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable accounting standards. * Ensure all statutory filings are completed accurately, in full, and in line with regulatory deadlines. Management Reporting * Own the month end close process, ensuring a controlled, timely, and accurate close across all business units and geographies. * Produce high quality monthly and quarterly management reporting packs, ensuring financial performance is presented clearly, accurately, and with appropriate insight. Drive consistency in reporting standards, templates, and methodologies across all countries. Audit & Compliance * Lead the annual external audit process, ensuring timely preparation of audit schedules, coordination with auditors, and resolution of queries. * Maintain a strong internal control environment, ensuring policies, procedures, and reconciliations are adhered to across all jurisdictions. * Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting, legal, regulatory, and internal governance requirements. Process Optimisation & Automation * Identify, design, and deliver process improvements to enhance control, reduce risk, and improve reporting accuracy and speed. * Drive automation and system optimisation across financial control processes, collaborating closely with technology and systems teams. * Standardise workflows, documentation, and control processes across countries to ensure consistency and operational efficiency. Stakeholder Management * Work closely with Finance Operations, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and other internal functions to ensure cohesive financial reporting and alignment with organisational priorities. * Provide financial insights and technical accounting guidance to senior leadership, country teams, and project teams. * Support strategic initiatives through accurate, timely financial information and strong financial governance. Service-Level & Performance Management * Develop, monitor, and continually improve SLAs and KPIs for Financial Control activities. * Ensure all tasks—month end, quarter end, annual reporting, statutory filings—are delivered accurately and on schedule. * Monitor and communicate performance metrics and control exceptions, driving accountability across the team. Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience: Qualifications Fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). University degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline preferred. Knowledge & Experience * Significant experience in Financial Control leadership roles, including managing statutory and management reporting in a multi entity or multi country environment. * Strong technical accounting expertise, ideally with experience in IFRS accounting frameworks. * Proven experience managing group consolidation processes and complex audits. * Demonstrated success in improving, automating, and standardising financial processes. * Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and working in a multinational or foundation/non profit environment (advantageous). * Strong understanding of internal controls, risk management, and financial compliance frameworks. * Experience with ERP and consolidation systems (e.g. Microsoft Business Central). Skills & Attributes * Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to coach and develop high performance teams. * High technical competence with exceptional attention to detail. * Excellent analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex financial information. * Strong communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to senior stakeholders and non finance audiences. * Highly organised, deadline driven, and able to manage multiple competing priorities. * Proactive, solutions focused mindset with a strong drive for continuous improvement. * High integrity, sound judgement, and a commitment to strong financial governance. * Ability to work effectively across cultures, countries, and diverse teams. Application closing date: 30th June 2026 Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate.   About us At the IFRS Foundation, we believe better information leads to better decisions. We set financial reporting standards that enable companies to meet the evolving information needs of the global capital markets. United by our purpose to foster trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy, we engage in challenging, meaningful work every day—across all our areas of expertise. If you share our passion for this mission, we want to hear from you. Diverse perspectives. International expertise. Working for our global organisation offers many benefits, including: * rewarding work that serves the public interest; * engagement with diverse international experts; * inclusive and collaborative teams; * intellectually challenging projects; * flexible working arrangements; * numerous areas of specialisation; and * opportunities for professional growth and development. Diversity and inclusion are seen as key strengths of our organisation. These qualities are essential for us to engage with and meet the needs of our varied global stakeholders, and they are part of what makes the IFRS Foundation a great place to work. #LI-MM1

Behavox

ABOUT BEHAVOX Behavox is shaping the future for how businesses harness their most important raw material - data. Our mission is bold: Organize enterprise data into actionable information that protects and promotes the business growth of multinational companies around the world.  From managing enterprise risk and compliance to maximizing revenue and value, our data operating platform presents a widespread opportunity to build multilingual, AI/ML-based solutions that activate data for every function within a global enterprise.  Our approach is unique, and it’s validated by our customers who tell us to keep forging ahead because no one else is aggregating, analyzing, and acting on data to uncover opportunities or solve problems quite the way we are. We are looking for fearless innovators who have an insatiable appetite for building what no one has built before.  This is a hybrid role with 1 day in the office.  About the Role The Head of Finance reports to the Chief Operating Officer and leads the finance function for a global business generating over $50M in revenue, with a growth trajectory toward $100M over the next 3–5 years. The finance function must scale with that trajectory, built to investor-grade standard and ahead of the curve the business is on. The role is accountable for financial planning, accounting, reporting, treasury, compliance, controls, and investor-facing outputs across a multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction environment. The role serves as the senior financial advisor to the CEO and COO on forecasting, liquidity, capital structure, financing strategy, investment decisions, and growth planning. Behavox has a mature M&A strategy in place as one of several growth levers, and the Head of Finance is expected to bring strong hands-on financial modelling capability to acquisition evaluation, financing analysis, scenario planning, and post-transaction financial integration planning. The Head of Finance is also accountable for building a scalable, AI-native finance function. This includes managing the finance team, maturing financial systems and processes, implementing end-to-end automation, integrating AI-enabled workflows, and improving the speed, accuracy, control, and maintainability of finance operations. What You'll Bring 1. Enterprise FP&A and financial model architecture – Knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, revenue planning, cash flow modelling, and investment analysis. Applies this knowledge to support executive decisions, M&A evaluation, financing strategy, and board, investor, and lender reporting. 2. Capital structure and treasury – Knowledge of financing instruments, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt facilities, covenants, FX exposure, and cash controls. Applies this knowledge to support growth while managing funding risk, timing, and cost of capital. 3. Global accounting and multi-jurisdictional reporting – Knowledge of accounting standards, revenue recognition, consolidation, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, and financial controls across jurisdictions. Applies this knowledge to ensure financial outputs are accurate, consistent, and controlled. 4. Finance operating model and team leadership – Knowledge of how to structure finance teams, processes, systems, workflows, access controls, documentation, and operating cadences. Applies this knowledge to build a scalable and maintainable finance function with clear ownership and reduced key-person dependency. 5. AI-native finance systems and automation – Knowledge of finance systems, workflow automation, AI-enabled tooling, agentic processes, and data flows across financial operations. Applies this knowledge to identify, assess, and implement technology that improves accuracy, efficiency, control, and scalability. What You'll Do 1. Finance function leadership – Leads the finance team and owns the finance operating model across FP&A, accounting, reporting, treasury, controls, compliance, and investor relations. Holds ultimate accountability for output quality, role clarity, control discipline, and scalability. 2. Financial modelling and strategic analysis – Personally owns the quality and logic of the company’s core financial models. Reviews, challenges, and helps the team refine models used for forecasting, M&A, financing, scenario planning, and executive decision-making. 3. Budgeting, revenue planning, and performance reporting – Drives the annual budget, re-forecasting cadence, and management reporting process. Ensures Sales, RevOps, People, and Finance inputs are translated into controlled planning outputs, including pipeline-to-revenue bridges, personnel budgets, non-personnel budgets, commissions accruals, opex and capex. 4. Treasury and capital planning oversight – Oversees cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, costs controls, payment controls, debt facilities, covenant reporting, FX exposure, and financing analysis. Provides senior judgement on capital structure, financing timing, and cost of capital. 5. Close, audit, compliance, and automation governance – Holds ultimate accountability for close, consolidation, audit readiness, statutory compliance, accounting policy application, transfer pricing coordination, and investor reporting. Ensures the team has the systems, controls, automation, documentation, and advisor support required to execute consistently. What We Offer * The opportunity to work on a global, mission-critical AI platform alongside the best engineers and technologists across multiple geographies * A role with real ownership and impact, building complex systems at scale in an environment that values speed, experimentation, and technical excellence * A highly attractive benefits package, including competitive cash compensation, an equity award aligned with long-term value creation, and comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families * Modern, comfortable offices in Montreal/Toronto/London, with an expectation of (hybrid) working from the office 1 day per week, reflecting our belief in strong in-person collaboration.  * A generous time-off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave, recognizing the importance of sustained high performance About Our Process We take Talent very seriously and we are building a community of extraordinary individuals working together in very high performing teams. We also know that the best Talent always has options so we believe that the process has to be a two way assessment - the company AND the candidate assessing the business needs alignment, the career next step alignment, and the cultural alignment.  During the process we will begin by exploring the core factors regarding salary and location along with core experience and skills and values alignment. We will then deep dive explore the critical technical competencies we have identified for the role, and then we will deep dive in behavioral competencies. The most aligned candidate will then be asked to do a practical work task simulation activity so we can make sure that you will enjoy the kind of work the role requires, and this task will typically be presented and discussed with a group of colleagues and managers. Finally we will ask you to meet with a number of our senior leaders to make sure that you are making the most informed call possible. Please note that: * We want to get to know you and have a genuine conversation, so the use of AI tools or assistance during live interviews is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate disqualification from the process.  * Interviews may be recorded for internal review purposes to ensure fairness and enable collaborative hiring discussions within the team.