Hybrid Finance Director

at TORTUS

• Job title: Finance Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Finance Director providing strategic financial insight and managing financial reporting at healthtech company. Collaborating with executive leadership to streamline financial operations and growth.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted financial partner to the CEO, providing clear and timely insight to support rapid decision-making
• Own board-level financial reporting; producing concise, investor-grade packs covering financials, KPIs, risks, and strategic progress
• Translate complex financial data into straightforward narratives that build confidence with investors and board members
• Partner with the commercial team to build accurate, assumptions-led pipeline forecasting that reflects the realities of long public sector sales cycles
• Develop scenario models that account for variable deployment timelines, contract phasing, and revenue recognition
• Standardise commercial contract terms where possible to improve cash flow predictability
• Own the financial model; maintaining scenario capability, stress-testing key assumptions, and ensuring it reconciles to actuals
• Run a monthly forecasting and variance tracking process with clear accountability across team leads
• Manage cash flow and runway with transparency, presenting multiple scenarios to leadership on an ongoing basis
• Lead budgeting processes that are lightweight enough not to slow the business down, but rigorous enough to enable real control
• Manage our outsourced finance provider to ensure accurate bookkeeping, timely close processes, and clean reporting
• Introduce sensible spend approval and procurement guidelines that protect cash without creating bureaucracy
• Ensure R&D tax credit claims are optimised and VAT is managed accurately
• Maintain oversight of financial risk, including contractor agreements and insurance coverage
• Establish governance rhythms appropriate for our stage and investor expectations

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Finance Director or comparable Senior Finance position, ideally within a startup or scale-up environment
• Background in healthtech, medtech, or a sector with complex, long-cycle public sector revenue. You understand how to model and predict income that doesn't follow a neat SaaS curve
• Comfortable being the most senior Finance person in the business; you can think strategically and still roll up your sleeves when needed
• Experience managing outsourced finance teams and holding external providers to a high standard
• Strong financial modelling skills; you can build, stress-test, and communicate a model that an investor will trust
• A clear, confident communicator who can present to a board without jargon and challenge assumptions without friction
• Fully qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Flexible working arrangements