You will own the financial and operational backbone of Fornax, building the commercial engine rather than just managing a back-office. Reporting to the CEO and COO, you’ll design revops, automate workflows, and embed compliance into customer journeys. This hands-on role buys back founder time by scaling a clean-tech market leader.
Head of Finance & Operations at Fornax
Join Fornax, a London-based clean-tech innovator building the commercial and operational engine required to make sustainable heat pumps accessible to every home across the UK. As a product-minded Head of Finance & Operations working directly with the founders, you will go beyond traditional accounting to lead automation roadmaps, design revops workflows, and embed regulatory compliance into the customer journey to scale a business with a perfect NPS while driving real-world environmental impact.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Fornax
Role overview
Energy, Fintech10 employees
Fornax’s mission is to make clean home energy cheaper, simpler, and more accessible.
While clean energy hardware is proven, high upfront costs and installation complexity have slowed adoption.
Fornax fixes this by combining an AI-powered delivery platform with the UK’s only heat-pump lease, turning high upfront costs into a simple monthly fee.
We’re a VC-backed seed stage startup building a fintech x climatetech to change the way people access energy in the UK and beyond.
What you will do
- Manage end-to-end finance operations including bookkeeping, management accounts, board reporting, and lender due diligence to ensure flawless financial hygiene.
- Partner with the Platform Director to drive the automation roadmap, building the software systems that allow finance and ops to scale without adding headcount.
- Oversee people operations and HR administration, ensuring internal processes like onboarding, IT logistics, and supplier management run with precision and efficiency.
Who this is a fit for
- Product-minded operator with experience in revops, investment banking, or product operations within a fast-moving startup or scale-up environment.
- Financially literate professional capable of designing compliant processes and managing straightforward accounting without needing a formal CPA or qualified accountant status.
- Disciplined executor who proactively challenges wasteful spending and initiates cost-optimization conversations to protect the company’s financial health and runway.
Why this role is remarkable
- Unique blend of finance and product where you design commercial workflows, revops, and automation rather than performing traditional, siloed back-office accounting.
- High-impact leadership role reporting directly to the founders, with a mandate to build the operational scaffolding for a business with a perfect NPS.
- Strategic positioning at the intersection of climate tech and fintech, helping every UK home switch to sustainable heating through innovative financial products.
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