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Head of Finance

Behavox - Leeds, England, United Kingdom - In-office - posted 2026-08-24

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Behavox is a data operating platform that helps multinational enterprises organize and activate data for risk management, compliance, revenue optimization, and business growth. The company generates over $50M in revenue with a trajectory toward $100M over the next 3–5 years. The Head of Finance reports to the Chief Operating Officer and leads the entire finance function for this global business. This is a strategic, hands-on role that combines executive financial leadership with deep technical expertise in financial modeling, accounting, and operations. Key responsibilities include: **Financial Leadership & Strategy**: Serve as senior financial advisor to the CEO and COO on forecasting, liquidity management, capital structure, financing strategy, and growth planning. Lead the finance team across FP&A, accounting, reporting, treasury, compliance, and investor relations. Own the finance operating model and ensure scalability as the business grows. **Financial Modeling & Analysis**: Personally own the quality and logic of core financial models used for forecasting, M&A evaluation, financing analysis, scenario planning, and executive decision-making. Behavox has a mature M&A strategy, and you will bring strong hands-on modeling capability to acquisition evaluation and post-transaction integration. **Planning & Reporting**: Drive the annual budget, re-forecasting cadence, and management reporting process. Ensure Sales, RevOps, People, and Finance inputs translate into controlled planning outputs including pipeline-to-revenue bridges, personnel budgets, commissions accruals, and capex/opex planning. **Treasury & Capital Planning**: Oversee cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt facilities, covenant reporting, FX exposure, and financing analysis. Manage multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction operations with investor-grade standards. **AI-Native Finance Operations**: Build a scalable, AI-native finance function. Manage financial systems and processes, implement end-to-end automation, integrate AI-enabled workflows, and improve speed, accuracy, control, and maintainability of finance operations. **Required Expertise**: - Enterprise FP&A and financial model architecture (forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, revenue planning, cash flow modeling, investment analysis) - Capital structure and treasury (financing instruments, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt facilities, covenants, FX exposure) - Global accounting and multi-jurisdictional reporting (accounting standards, revenue recognition, consolidation, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, financial controls) - Finance operating model and team leadership (structuring finance teams, processes, systems, workflows, access controls, operating cadences) - AI-native finance systems and automation (finance systems, workflow automation, AI-enabled tooling, agentic processes, data flows)

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