Head of Finance

Key Responsibilities

1. Own Financial Performance

• Own ENIXEN's annual budget, rolling forecasts, financial planning and management reporting.
• Build reliable financial models across entities, regions and business lines.
• Analyse actuals vs. budget and forecast, identify root causes and drive corrective actions.
• Build scenarios and financial simulations to support strategic decisions.

2. Drive Financial Discipline

• Challenge costs, budgets and spending decisions across the Group.
• Ensure significant spending has a clear business rationale, expected value or ROI.
• Identify inefficiencies, unnecessary costs and opportunities to optimize spending.
• Ensure costs are correctly allocated and aligned with business priorities.
• Challenge existing ways of working where they are financially inefficient.

3. Own Accounting & Financial Control

• Own the Accounting function and act as the senior escalation point for finance and accounting matters.
• Ensure accurate, timely and compliant accounting and financial reporting across all Group entities.
• Ensure strong financial controls, month-end close and reporting processes.
• Ensure operational finance and statutory accounting remain properly aligned.

4. Partner with Revenue & Commercial Excellence

• Work closely with Revenue, Commercial Excellence and Business Development to understand and challenge business performance.
• Build reliable pipeline and revenue forecasting.
• Analyse revenue, margins, profitability and commercial performance.
• Provide financial input on pricing, margins, go-to-market investments and resource allocation.
• Ensure regions and commercial teams understand and are accountable for their financial performance.

5. Drive ROI & Resource Efficiency

• Evaluate the ROI of major investments, projects, marketing initiatives and operational decisions.
• Challenge whether teams, resources and investments are appropriately sized and generating sufficient value.
• Support decisions on major investments, acquisitions and strategic initiatives through rigorous financial analysis.

6. Support the Board & Leadership Team

• Act as the key financial escalation point for C-Level and Board discussions.
• Provide clear, decision-ready financial analysis, risks, scenarios and recommendations.
• Ensure leadership has the right financial information to make informed decisions, not simply reports on what has already happened.
• Challenge assumptions and bring the financial perspective into major business decisions.

7. Build Finance for Scale

• Establish the financial processes, systems, controls, KPIs and reporting required for ENIXEN's next stage of growth.
• Strengthen financial visibility across entities and regions.
• Build a scalable financial roadmap aligned with ENIXEN's growth, acquisitions and international expansion.

What Great Looks Like

• ENIXEN operates financially smartly and with discipline . Significant spending is challenged, justified and linked to business value or ROI . Budgets are actively challenged, optimized and reallocated according to priorities and performance.
• Every region and function understands its financial performance and is accountable for costs, resources, margins and profitability .
• Forecasts are reliable, deviations are identified early, and leadership understands why performance is changing and what needs to happen next .
• Accounting is accurate, compliant, timely and reliable .
• Financial risks, inefficiencies and unnecessary costs are identified early and challenged proactively.
• Commercial and operational decisions are made with a clear understanding of revenue, margin, profitability, resources and ROI .
• The Board and leadership team receive clear, accurate and decision-ready financial information .
• Finance is not simply reporting what happened. It is actively challenging how we operate and where we allocate money and resources .
• ENIXEN has the financial visibility, discipline, controls and infrastructure required to scale sustainably, invest intelligently and remain financially strong over the next several years .

What the First Weeks Look Like

This role is being created at a critical stage in ENIXEN's growth. The business has grown significantly, but the financial function now needs to catch up with that growth.

Your first priority will be to establish a clear financial baseline and identify where we can operate more intelligently.

• Audit the current cost base: Understand what we spend, where we spend it, why we spend it and who owns it.
• Identify financial blind spots: Surface untracked, misallocated, inefficient or unnecessary costs and quantify their impact.
• Map revenue and profitability: Build a clear understanding of revenue streams, margins, profitability and the drivers behind performance across entities and regions.
• Assess resource efficiency: Challenge whether current teams, investments and resources are appropriately sized and generating sufficient business value.
• Establish forecasting discipline: Build reliable budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and scenario-planning foundations.
• Strengthen reporting: Establish the financial KPIs, dashboards and reporting needed for leadership and Board decision-making.
• Create the financial roadmap: Define the priorities, controls, systems and processes required to build a strong finance function for ENIXEN's next stage of growth.

Requirements

Must Have

• 10+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, Management Control or a related field, with demonstrated progression into leadership.
• Strong experience overseeing Accounting and financial reporting.
• Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis capabilities.
• Experience working closely with C-Level and Board stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of commercial finance, profitability, margins, ROI and resource allocation.
• Experience with M&A, financial due diligence or strategic investment analysis is a strong plus.
• Experience with ERP, BI and financial reporting tools.
• Experience operating across multiple entities, regions or international environments.
• Fluent in English and French.
• Rigorous, analytical, proactive and commercially minded.
• Comfortable challenging senior stakeholders and bringing clarity to complex financial topics.
• Able to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-growing environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience in technology, SaaS or high-growth environments.
• Experience building or transforming a finance function.
• International finance experience.
• Experience supporting acquisitions and post-acquisition integration.

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