Nous is an intelligent assistant that helps households manage their bills, saving them money and time. We’re a fast-growing well-funded start-up led by experienced entrepreneurs on a mission to make people’s lives simpler and fairer.
By handling household hassles for Nous members, we're freeing them from a lifetime of admin while saving them money and time. This has led to rave reviews from members like Rob and Christian.
We’ve thought carefully about how to ensure our product and business has a distinctive positive social impact. For more than a year now, Nous has officially been a B Corp, which means we’ve been formally accredited for our commitment to exceptionally high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
Over a hundred thousand people used our free tools during the cost-of-living crisis. We’re now rolling out our paid, smart-household management service through a variety of channels – including employers who want to help their teams save hundreds of pounds (sometimes thousands) by using Nous.
With rapid growth comes many organisational challenges — including ensuring that we are properly accounting for the money we spend, and just as importantly the money we earn.
As the company’s first dedicated finance person, you’ll be responsible for almost everything related to the preparation and communication of the monthly and annual accounts.
You’ll work closely with the Board, the founders, and the leadership team, as well as our external accountants.
Many of the problems you’ll need to work on haven’t yet been solved—or rather, they require a lot of thinking and problem-solving. Therefore this is the opposite of a ‘routine’ finance job. You’ll be spending as much of your time figuring out the right internal business processes and then redesigning them as you will just executing them.
To be able to hit the ground running, it’s important you’re not having to solve everything from first principles. That means you’ll necessarily have seen the inner workings of a well-run finance function, and perhaps even have been involved in building one.
We initially envisage this full as part time — probably around 3 days / week. We’re practical and open minded as to how to make this work for you, so if you’re unsure, get in touch and we can explore together.
This role could scale to a full time one in due course, or you may be the first person in the team who then helps bring on and support others as they come up to speed. We’re not opinionated about that: what we do care about is your energy, drive, problem-solving and communication skills.
It goes without saying you’ll need to know your way around a set of financial statements. But never fear: you won’t be expected to figure it all out on your own. You’ll be working particularly closely with Greg and Jon who both have a serious track record and significant financial management experience in high growth as well as large complex organisations.
We’re looking for someone who: