Group Corporate Finance Director

About Equals

Equals is the next-generation global money movement platform built for exceptional businesses operating across borders. We bring international payments, embedded finance, and more together into a single connection that simplifies operations and strengthens financial control. With deep expertise and integrated infrastructure, Equals turns financial complexity into reliable solutions.

With our headquarters in London and teams around the UK and Europe, you will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers' needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

Equals Money is a fast-growing, regulated payments business on a mission to make money movement simple. As Group Corporate Finance Director you lead the financial planning, analysis and insight activities for the group - management accounts insight and analysis, Executive and Board reporting, shareholder communications, bank packs, budgeting and forecasting, rolling financial outturn, five-year business plan modelling, financial data integrity and business partnering across the group.

You also lead Finance Projects, including M&A support, debt financing support and the continuous improvement of finance function processes, controls and outputs. The role combines day-to-day commercial finance excellence with the delivery of the strategic finance projects that support the group's growth ambitions.

Above all, you keep the group Deal Ready. Three years of history and five years of forecast - P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, fully integrated and reconciled to the published monthly management accounts and the annual statutory accounts of the Alakazam Group - available on demand, rather than assembled in a rush once a transaction has already started.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this is a senior leadership role for a qualified accountant who is equally credible in a Board meeting, a lender meeting and a diligence data room.

• Keep the Alakazam Group Deal Ready at all times - three years back and five years forward, P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, fully integrated and reconciled to the published monthly management accounts and to the annual statutory accounts.
• Maintain an ever-ready, print-ready data room, so that a transaction begins from a position of readiness rather than a scramble to assemble.
• Work with the Head of Management Accounting and the Head of Financial Reporting so that deal readiness falls out of business as usual, rather than becoming a separate exercise every time it is needed.
• Ensure normalised trading is separated from one-off items at general ledger level, so that adjusted earnings can be evidenced to a buyer, a lender or an auditor rather than argued.

• Own the five-year business plan modelling, developing and maintaining integrated financial models that support long-range strategic planning.
• Run one single, fully integrated group model - P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, with double-entry integrity and built-in checks - used for the budget, the reforecast, the long-range plan, lender reporting and every transaction, rather than a proliferation of separate spreadsheets that cannot be reconciled to each other.
• Run scenarios and stress tests off that one model, so that every version of the future is internally consistent and the difference between them can be explained.
• Model at group and at regulated entity level, so that regulatory capital, safeguarding and distributable reserves are visible in the plan rather than discovered afterwards.

• Lead the group budgeting and forecasting cycles, delivering accurate financial projections aligned with strategic objectives.
• Maintain and deliver a rolling financial outturn, providing the business with a continuously updated view of expected full-year performance.
• Own the preparation and delivery of Board packs, ensuring financial content is accurate, insightful and presented to the highest standard.
• Produce high-quality Executive insight and analysis, translating complex financial data into actionable narratives for the Executive Committee.
• Deliver management accounts insight and analysis, providing clear commentary on performance, trends and variances to support executive decision-making.
• Work with the Head of Management Accounting to…