Financial Controller
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About us
We’re a human-centric insurtech startup, and we’re leveraging our proprietary smart technology to disrupt the global cargo and freight insurance market.
Now, having just closed an 8-figure Series A funding round with prestigious VC investors, we’re rapidly scaling to address broad risk exposure in the just-in-time supply chain and become the next insurtech unicorn.
The way we see it, the opportunities to innovate and create meaningful change are great. How so?
Today, 60-90% of cargo in transit is under or uninsured, creating unsustainable losses for some. The reason: Traditional insurance simply can’t work as fast as the supply chain moves.
Founded in November 2018, we’re taking direct aim at this massive global underinsurance crisis. Committed to agile value delivery, solid engineering principles, and continuous improvement, we’re delivering the instant, dynamic, one-click transactional insurance businesses need through AI and automation.
In short, we’re reinventing how the transportation and supply chain industries manage and mitigate risks—protecting the future growth of businesses and the people who rely on them.
Would you like to help drive the digital evolution of the 300-year-old global transportation insurance industry?
Drop us a line. This isn’t just another job, not any other office space. With Loadsure, you’ll have direct access to a strong, supportive, and highly-collaborative community that listens and grows with you. You’ll also enjoy the flexibility of remote working, commensurate pay, equity, and benefits.
Discover your rewarding career.
About you and the role
As Financial Controller, you will the cornerstone of the finance department, responsible for managing the finance team and ensuring the Loadsure ship runs smoothly. You will help establish and enforce adherence to controls throughout the business; you will ensure the financial reporting is completed on time and without error; you will business partner departments to ensure tight budgetary control and will work with the CFO to analyse budgetary variances for monthly reporting. You will ensure working capital is managed effectively with a consistent eye on the cash runway requirements in light of fundraising milestones, and will manage capital allocation across the business accordingly.
You will build a team and source and implement tools that will assist Loadsure as it scales, in terms of clients, headcount and international footprint.
We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.
Key responsibilities
Team building and management
- Build and manage a world class finance team, able to execute with efficiency and speed, being ever mindful of the requirements of a scaling global organisation
Financial Control and Reporting
- Work across departments to build best-practice processes and controls that will help streamline the business whilst also providing oversight for management.
- Manage the team to ensure a robust reconciliation, free from error is performed to FCA standards on client money accounts, in the UK and US.
- Manage the team to ensure a timely month-end close process and produce a set of management accounts to the CFO free from error, including single entity and consolidated group accounts, with accompanying narrative.
- Manage the team to ensure that all tax and statutory reporting requirements are adhered to
- Work with third party firms on R&D, corporation tax returns (UK and US) and limited assurance review/audit of statutory accounts.
- Leverage software and other tools to help automate finance and other processes, including maximising the functionality of accounting packages like Xero (current) and future ERP system.
- Work alongside the CFO to evaluate prospective ERP solutions and lead the implementation process.
- Implement effective budgetary control, ensuring budget owners are made accountable for their budgets through close monitoring and monthly / weekly reviews and ensuring there is transparency and alignment between departments and corporate objectives.
- Assist the CFO with monthly and quarterly board and investor reporting, ensuring sufficient quantitative and qualitative detail is provided for all stakeholders to understand the performance of the business during any reporting cycle.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Help the CFO and leadership team derive financial and non-financial KPIs at company, departmental and individual levels and establish dashboards for monitoring and visualisation.
- Help the CFO build dynamic financial models, with sensitivity analyses around the key drivers of change in the business, to effective model different scenarios and assist decision-making.
- Maintain a rolling forecast for monthly reporting to the board and other stakeholders, providing an up-to-date position of key financial metrics, including gross written premium, gross margin and EBITDA, and cash burn and runway.
- Manage the team to ensure effective working capital management, alongside financing strategy, to ensure the cash requirements of the business are covered.
- Provide insights on key growth drivers, headcount and expenses.
Fundraising and Investor relations
- Assist the CFO in devising investment strategy, including timing, type of financing, funding requirement, target valuation etc.
- Assist in producing financial models and be eager to join investor calls and field certain financial questions as part of DD process.
- Assist CFO and senior management in preparing finance slides for pitch decks and in building a robust data room.
- Help manage company cap table, including equity incentive schemes (e.g. EMI options,growth shares etc.
Skills and qualifications
Essential
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- 1-3 years PQE
- Experience with multi-currency consolidations
- Advance excel skills
- Experience with Xero
Desirable
- Experience in audit/consulting
- Experience in startups/scaleups
- Experience in insurance
- Experience in implementing ERP system
Why work for Loadsure?
- Competitive salary
- Company stock options - extremely flexible plan that is not bound to exit event
- 25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognised national holidays
- Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
- A culture of work-life balance
- A community that gives back
- Hybrid working with co-working space in central London (no more than 3 days required per week)
- Engaging and collaborative work environment
- An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people
- Hugely valuable career development opportunities
- Access to corporate travel agents, allowing for discounted flight and hotel rates on personal travel
- Plus more benefits coming soon…
Credo
We believe with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.
Vision
Through the use of human-centric technology, we will be a global leader in end-to-end risk management.
Mission
We help Assureds understand risk and reduce loss by enabling Brokers to better serve their communities. We’re industry experts, using data and technology to create Insurance. Simplified.
- Department
- Finance & Accounts
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
London
Perks & Benefits
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Competitive salary
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Company stock options
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25 annual leave days, in addition to our recongised national holidays
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Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
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A culture of work-life balance
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A community that gives back
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Remote working with great flexibility
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Engaging and collaborative work environment
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An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people
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And many more!
Workplace & Culture
We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.
This isn't just any other office space. With Loadsure, you’ll have direct access to a strong, supportive, and highly-collaborative community that listens and grows with you. You’ll also enjoy the flexibility of remote working, commensurate pay, equity, and benefits.
About Loadsure
60-90% of loads are transported without sufficient coverage. For brokers, shippers, and carriers, this represents a huge liability. In 40 seconds or less, LOADSURE delivers the per-load coverage you need—getting you back to the business at hand.
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