Chief Finance Officer (Part Time)

About the role

As Chief Finance Officer youll be the senior financial leader for Cellular Origins and a key member of the C-suite. Youll work closely with the CEO leadership team and Board to shape our capital strategy guide major decisions and help us grow as an independent privately owned company.

Youll bring clarity to complexity. From long-range planning and funding strategy to pricing investment and resourcing decisions youll help the team understand not just the numbers but what they mean and how they connect to our long-term goals.

Youll get to shape the financial foundations of a company tackling a complex manufacturing challenge with huge potential impact. Youll combine strategic thinking with enough detail to make sure the right decisions are being made at the right time.

Youll get to:

• Shape and lead the financial strategy that supports our mission to industrialise cell therapy manufacturing as an independent privately owned company.
• Partner closely with the CEO executive team and Board on strategic choices trade-offs and long-term value creation.
• Develop our capital strategy including the right timing and mix of funding across sources such as equity and debt.
• Own budgeting forecasting and long-range planning giving the leadership team clear and timely insight into performance runway and future scenarios.
• Partner with the CEO and Board on funding strategy investor reporting and scenario planning.
• Build and lead a high-performing finance team creating the processes tools and standards that make good decisions easier.
• Plan and manage the transition of accounting activities from our founding company TTP.
• Develop and refine commercial models for our platform helping ensure pricing and contracting support sustainable growth and strong customer partnerships.
• Oversee financial controls reporting audit and compliance keeping the business disciplined as it grows.
• Work closely with operations engineering and commercial teams to understand cost drivers improve unit economics and support decisions on investment and resourcing.
• Champion clear communication around financial performance helping the wider team understand how day-to-day choices connect to our mission and financial health.

Qualifications :

About you

Youll thrive in this role if you enjoy building as much as refining and if youre motivated by the idea that better financial decisions can ultimately help more patients receive life-changing therapies.

Youll be comfortable operating at C-suite and Board level while staying close enough to the detail to understand what is really driving performance. Youll enjoy working through ambiguity bringing structure to complex questions and helping others make confident decisions.

Youll bring:

• Significant CFO experience ideally in a scaling technology life sciences automation or advanced manufacturing environment.
• A strong track record of owning budgets forecasts and long-term financial plans while partnering closely with executive teams and Boards.
• Experience of investor relations in a high-growth company.
• Experience developing capital strategies and working with different sources of funding including equity and debt.
• Confidence moving between strategic questions and detailed financial analysis and knowing when each is needed.
• A strong understanding of capital equipment recurring consumables platform or project-based commercial models and how to align them with long-term value creation.
• A collaborative low-ego approach with the ability to build trust across technical commercial and operations teams.
• A professional finance qualification such as ACA ACCA or CIMA or equivalent experience.

Additional Information :

Cellular Origins is currently based on the TTP Campus within purpose-built sustainable offices labs and green surroundings 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship shared ideas and collaboration while providing you the freedom to do your best work. 

Our employee benefits include: 

• Annual bonus 
• 25 days holiday(pro-rata)
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary 
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants 
• Enhanced family friendly leave 
• Life insurance worth 6x salary 
• Electric car leasing scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Part-time