RORA Contractors
Contracting is great - you get to be the boss.
But it can leave you out on your own with no real support and no one to learn from.
And it's tough to always be worrying about where your next client is coming from.
So, we've re-designed how we work with contractors. You get the freedom and control you're looking for, with the training and support of being in a wider team.
FinOps Lead
Our FinOps Leads are FDs, tech experts, and business leaders all rolled into one.
As a FinOps lead, you’ll usually be the most senior person in finance in the business. You’ll be supported by an in-house function or by our amazing FinOps team (FinOps Managers and FinOps Associates).
You’ll work directly within our partners’ teams solving their most complex and technical problems, supporting and challenging the C-suite, and ensuring they are set up to scale and succeed.
What you'll be doing
We promise work that excites and challenges you with some of the most exciting, fast-growing businesses in the UK. You’ll be exposed to founders and their most senior teams to direct and oversee rapid growth.
With startups, no two days are the same but you can expect to take on the following sorts of things:
- Directing and ultimately being responsible for all Finance and Ops processes and systems
- Providing financial insight and challenge to founders, their C-suite and the rest of their business
- Tackling the most complex systems integrations or process re-designs
- Undertaking financial modelling and forecasting to ensure the business knows where it is going
- Coaching and developing the FinOps team
It's a hybrid UK-based role - for those able to come into London roughly weekly.
You can flex how you work to suit you: wfh, at your partners’ offices or in our office near London Bridge but we ask you’re available to be in London from time-to-time.
About you
You'll be looking for contract work from us that will take up >50% of your week. We want to invest in you - and we want you to invest in us too!
You'll naturally be someone who challenges the status quo. Someone who craves a job they really love and can challenge themselves to develop and grow.
For this role, you’ll need to have:
- 5 or more years experience in finance or operations (including startup/ small business experience)
- Confidence in managing the most senior people in the team (CEO and CFO level)
- Proven ability to manage the most complex of projects alongside challenging competing priorities
- Excellent communication in both written and spoken English
You’ll be someone who:
- Has likely worked as an FD in a startup already
- Can turn their hand to almost any problem in finance and ops
- Doesn’t shy away from hard conversations with stakeholders
- Can work independently and motivate themselves
- Is able to direct and manage a team to get the best out of them
- Is excited about changing accounting and finance for the better
What you'll get from us
You'll get regular work once a week in our L&D pods - this will focus on training and FinOps development.
You’ll get:
- work once a week in our L&D pods for training and FinOps development
- access to the same benefits as our employees
- £425 /day
- The ability to set your own rate after 12 months
Who we are
At RORA, we believe in doing work we care about with people we love.
To do this, we build fractional teams, perfectly designed for a new world of work, specifically for startups - some of the most exciting and innovative businesses in the world.
This allows us to provide our team with amazing opportunities to make a real difference doing fun, challenging work. We take the safety of being an employee, with the variety you’d get as a contractor, alongside the support and development opportunities of a big firm.
We like to think it’s the best of everything.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
What we believe:
We believe we’re a product of the varied experiences, skills and stories of everyone in the team. The broader those experiences & skills, the more numerous the beginnings, and the more diverse the view point; the more we can challenge each other and challenge everything -
our core principle.
What this means to us:
We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and help make RORA more diverse (and add much needed diversity to accounting as a profession).
We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of age, disability, caring needs, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, caste, religion, belief, pregnancy or maternity, marriage or civil partnership.
What you can expect from us:
We are striving to create a new type of team. We believe we can create a new standard in finance, and in this journey, we are committed to eliminating all forms of direct and indirect discrimination.
We promise fairness and openness in our recruitment process, and to foster a diverse and healthy workplace for all.
Sounds good?
We’re always open looking for great new contractors who are looking for exciting, ad hoc roles.
We can’t always guarantee that we’ll have a role with one of our partners immediately available. However, once vetted, we will keep you up-to-date with the roles as they come available.
If that works for you, we’d love to get you get going with the application process - there’s a case study exercise to ensure you’d be a good fit. We will update you with the roles we do have as you get through the process.
By the way, it’s ok if you don’t hit every single one of these requirements, if you have a passion for changing accounting and finance for the better, we’d love to speak with you.
If that works for you - hit ‘Apply Now’ above and complete the short form below.
Good luck! We’ll be in touch soon.