Spectrum.Life

Spectrum.Life is a Mental Health, Wellbeing and Digital Health Innovator, delivering solutions for the Corporate, Insurance and Education Sectors. We support 2,500+ companies in their health and wellness strategies - looking after the mental health and wellbeing needs of over 4,000,000 users.

We are a healthcare company first. We focus on clinical efficacy and outcomes as our prime responsibility. We do this by providing or enabling best-in-class services, delivered by fully accredited, experienced professionals through our in-house built technology.

Our mission is to save and change as many lives as possible. We do this by Engaging and Empowering members to Transform their health and wellbeing.

ROLE BRIEF

We at Spectrum.Life are starting a new function called Commercial Finance, reporting into our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and this role will be the first hire and the lead of this team.

The Commercial Finance Lead will act as the link between the business and finance in ensuring the smooth reporting of actuals and budget performance, collaborating with the core finance team and growth/sales operations in the review and support their delivery of the financials. A key tenet of the role will be communication of P&L performance and positive / negative trends versus expectations.

This person will become a trusted member of the business and an extension of their teams, someone whose input is proactively sought by the business and support delivery of re-engineered financials that provide headline trends and key areas of improvement in the business. The Commercial Finance Lead will be an excellent communicator and can deal effectively with financial and non-financial people and is focused on building and maintaining excellent working relationships across the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Work closely with the CFO to make a strong strategic, commercial and operational contribution to the success of Spectrum.Life
  • Ownership and responsibility for financial planning and analysis, delivering Spectrum.Life annual budget, longer term financial projections and delivery of cost effectiveness to the Exec team
  • Development and joint ownership of best-in-class financial models with CFO and Exec team for budgeting and performance management purposes (Market size / share / PVE variance analysis capability)
  • Support in the development of a mechanism for more efficient decision making / accountability in the business, in terms of investment and cost choices
  • Assist in the creation of a more rounded balanced scorecard Operations Reviews with functional leaders/Exec team that reflect key financials, commercial narrative and commentary, LTV:CAC analysis, impacts of product roadmap and key future challenges in the numbers
  • Delivering proactive ad-hoc financial analysis to support decision making in areas such as pricing, business casing customer acquisition, and other significant areas of expenditure
  • Assess need to redesign the “chart of accounts”, once built in a way that allows ready identification of key trends and detailed drill down capability simultaneously
  • Working with the Exec team and functional budget owners to ensure that plans, budgets and forecasts are kept up to date and both challenging and achievable
  • Delivery of best-in-class finance partnering to all sector pod leads, commercial leadership and special projects
  • Tight focus on Spectrum.Life position versus peers across a number of metrics, where available, Revenues, margins, customer acquisition etc. and have a detailed knowledge on our competitor intelligence when relevant, particularly when setting budgets
  • As opportunities arise provide support and leadership in the any financial due diligence, as it pertains to the business

REQUIREMENTS:

  • 3-4 years commercial finance or finance business partnering experience
  • Qualified accountant
  • The finance business partner must have an innovative, customer-centric approach to their role with the mental agility to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
  • Excellent written communication skills with experience of report preparation for Exec team up to Board level
  • Takes full ownership of areas of own responsibility and is totally delivery focused
  • Team player and ability to work on own initiative
  • Highly motivated and takes a proactive approach to problem solving
  • Results oriented, with the ability to take decisions quickly when necessary and the resilience to challenge/be challenged
  • Ability to both collaborate and influence cross functionally and at all levels within the Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong analytical ability and excellent numerical skills, with strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritise to meet business needs
  • High energy with a “can do” attitude, a positive demeanour, a sense of purpose and the ability to have fun and adapt to the Spectrum.Life culture

DESIRABLE:

  • Experience with hyper growth organizations a bonus, with flexibility to create pragmatic and innovative solutions to complex business problems
  • Proven track record in maintaining Business and Finance relationships that can be called upon to deliver for projects of agile nature
  • The potential to take on increasingly senior roles within Spectrum.Life.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WORKING AT SPECTRUM.LIFE?

  • Full time permanent contract
  • Competitive salary (Dependent on experience).
  • In-office, remote or hybrid working options
  • 25 days annual leave
  • 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing supports
  • Extensive list of employee perks and benefits https://app.box.com/s/3z3nm97sd53ggz5fx7epjml4l7sn4sn7

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