Interim Director of Finance
Zego
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Lead all aspects of financial operations, including transactional finance, cash flow, and working capital management.
- Strengthen and embed a robust financial control environment, ensuring integrity, compliance, and scalability.
- Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, delivering accurate and timely results.
- Own statutory and regulatory financial reporting (under IFRS), ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
- Manage the year-end audit process, serving as the key liaison with external auditors.
- Uphold strong governance and compliance standards across all financial reporting.
- Oversee all tax matters (corporate, VAT, and employment taxes), ensuring effective compliance and planning.
- Manage relationships with external tax and audit partners, ensuring efficiency and alignment.
- Represent Zego externally on financial and tax matters with professionalism and credibility.
- Lead, develop, and inspire the finance team to achieve operational excellence.
- Partner with the CFO and wider leadership team to deliver financial insights that drive business decisions.
- Play a leading role in the ongoing finance transformation, leveraging AI and automation to build a smarter, more data-driven function.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with extensive post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership.
- Strong technical accounting expertise (IFRS / UK GAAP) with a proven track record in external reporting and control.
- Experienced in managing tax, audit, and financial governance in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Commercially aware, strategic, and comfortable operating in a scaling tech-led business.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills — able to influence across the organisation and inspire teams.
- Experience in the motor insurance or insurtech sector is preferred but not essential.
- Passionate about innovation, transformation, and building robust financial foundations for the future.
Benefits
- market-competitive salary
- private medical insurance
- company share options
- generous holiday allowance
- a whole lot of wellbeing benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial operationscash flow managementworking capital managementfinancial controlIFRSstatutory financial reportingtax complianceaudit managementfinancial governancefinancial transformation
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluenceteam inspirationstrategic thinkingcommercial awarenessoperational excellenceprofessionalismcredibilityinnovation
Certifications
ACAACCA