Finance Director

Stride Up is leading a new era of values-driven finance. Ranked the 5th fastest growing fintech in the UK and Ireland in 2025, we have already deployed hundreds of millions in property finance, supporting people in achieving their financial goals.

What makes us different is how we combine purpose with performance. We began with home finance, creating an alternative trusted by the Muslim community and welcomed by anyone seeking fairer, more transparent products. This product-market fit has powered our growth, and is only the beginning. Our vision is bigger; to expand our offering and build a financial institution that opens doors for communities often left behind.

Joining Stride Up means being part of a high-performing, values-driven team at the most exciting point in our journey. We have proven success behind us and huge opportunity ahead, and now we are ready to build beyond. Are you?

Stride Up is backed by leading VC and private equity investors, having raised over £40m in corporate funding, and over £600m in institutional funding lines.

We are looking for a Finance Director to lead Stride Up's Finance function as we enter our next phase of growth. This is a senior leadership role at the centre of a fast-growing, FCA-regulated fintech with accountability for financial control, audit, an expanding set of funding lines and structured finance arrangements, and a growing investor base.

Reporting to the CEO, you'll take ultimate ownership of the Group's financial control environment, lead the business through its annual audits, and be the credible face of Stride Up's finances with auditors and regulators while playing a key supporting role alongside the CEO on fundraising and investor relations.

• Technically credible, with an audit background and significant in-industry experience within banking or specialist lending
• Deeply knowledgeable in structured finance and financing lines, comfortable with complex, multi-entity balance sheets
• A proven people leader, with a track record of leading and developing finance teams
• Confident operating at a strategic, ExCo level, connecting finance to the wider business
• Credible in front of auditors and investors, able to represent Stride Up's numbers and judgement calls with authority
• A clear, structured and measured communicator, with good judgement under scrutiny
• Comfortable in a scale-up environment, building processes and governance as the business grows

• Sit on Stride Up's Executive Committee (ExCo), contributing to company-wide strategy and decision-making
• Advise the CEO and ExCo on funding strategy and capital structure, keeping the business financially prepared for future strategic corporate activity

• Own the integrity of the Group's financial statements and control environment
• Design and continuously strengthen internal controls, governance and risk management as the business scales
• Line manage the members of the Finance function

• Lead the business through annual audits as the primary contact for external auditors
• Own the resolution of audit findings and use them to strengthen controls

• Own the accounting treatment, financial reporting and audited financial statement impact of a growing number of funding lines and structured finance arrangements
• Maintain oversight of sources and uses of funds for financial reporting and control purposes, including SPV consolidation, partnering with Capital Markets, who own origination, negotiation and day-to-day operational management of these facilities

• Provide the audited financials, technical accounting positions and financial credibility that underpin fundraising,…