You'll own the numbers from monthly close to Series B data room, working directly with our Co-founder & COO. You'll be the most senior finance person in the company, and you'll build the automation layer yourself. Deliver, and there's a real path to CFO after Series B.
It's a builder's role, not a caretaker's. We've put the full package, the first-year goals and the equity maths on this page, so you can decide with the same information we have.
Our platform models flooding, heat, storms and eight other hazards for any location on Earth to 2100, and translates them into expected annual loss, adaptation cost and return on resilience. Banks, asset managers and insurers price, lend and report on it.
Regulatory alignment: CSRD, TCFD, SB 261, SEC · Offices in London (HQ) and New York · Certified B Corp · ISO 27001:2022 · ISO 14001.
Resolves location and attribute accuracy at scale so every portfolio starts from a trusted asset foundation.
Physical climate risk. CMIP6 scenarios to 2100, 11+ hazards, AAL/EAL per asset and portfolio.
Quantifies adaptation CapEx and the expected ROI of each measure.
Downtime and lost productivity caused by heat, flooding and wind.
$18m Series A led by Google Ventures, June 2024. Next milestone: Series B. That is why this role exists.
"A game-changer that accurately quantifies and addresses the impact of climate risk."Roni Hiranand, Principal, Google Ventures, on the day of the raise
The TechCrunch headline says it best: the founders mortgaged their house to keep the company alive before the Series A. Lukky Ahmed (CEO) spent nine years in risk and transformation at HSBC; Kamil Kluza (COO) brings over two decades in climate risk analytics, trading and regulatory compliance.
Banks, insurers, asset managers and real estate owners who price physical climate risk using our numbers.
We can no longer rely on historical data.Lukky Ahmed, in "Disasters spur investment in flood and fire risk tech" TechCrunch
Climate X's founders mortgaged their house to stay afloat. Now they've raised an $18M Series A.June 2024 The Insurer
El Niño could drive $2.8 billion in flood damage to California buildings, Climate X estimates.Exclusive, November 2026 CBRE
CBRE expands climate risk assessment capabilities with Climate X agreement.Customer announcement
So far, Finance has been a capable Finance Manager with a co-founder co-piloting the board deck, investor report, cashflow and 2027 budget. That's worked, but it won't scale. Three things need to change, and they're the job.
Monthly close, investor and board reporting, efficiency and liquidity management ahead of 2027 profitability, the receivables facility and the budget currently take a Finance Manager plus the COO. You take all of it off the COO's desk.
Our ledger is already agentic and the budget is being automated. Nobody in Finance owns that automation layer yet. You will, with help from our in-house AI engineer when priorities allow.
Data room, cohort and ARR reconciliation, burn and runway story, covenant compliance. Investor-grade from the start, so the founders aren't redoing it at midnight.
Monthly close by working day 5, management accounts, 13-week and 52-week cashflow, investor tear sheet and board pack. Own the financial model and the annual budget.
Own the banking relationship end to end: cashflow, the monthly compliance certificate, liquidity calls and the receivables facility.
Daily cash position, accounts payable and vendor rationalisation.
Extend the agentic ledger, finish budget automation, automate monthly commentary. We measure this in hours removed per month, and we'll want to see the number.
Cohort data, ARR bridge, GRR/NRR reconciliation with Customer Success and RevOps, R&D tax credit, cap table support.
Lead the Finance Analyst. Replace manual payroll processing with a process by Q1. Finance partner to Sales, Customer Success and R&D.
| Area | You own | Working with |
|---|---|---|
| Close and reporting | WD5 close, management accounts, board pack, investor tear sheet | COO, Finance Analyst |
| Cash and liquidity | 13/52-week cashflow, bank relationship, receivables facility, compliance certificate | COO, bank, lender |
| Automation | Agentic ledger, budget automation, commentary automation | Finance Analyst, AI engineer |
| Series B | Data room, ARR bridge, cohorts, GRR/NRR, R&D tax credit, cap table | Founders, RevOps, CSM, advisers |
| Business partnering | Commission letters, payroll process, revenue recognition | Sales, CSM, R&D, People |
January close delivered solo. Reporting cadence unbroken. Handover from the outgoing Finance Manager fully absorbed.
Year-end statutory accounts and audit fieldwork managed end to end. Investor report and board pack produced without COO edits. Two to three finance processes fully automated. COO materially less involved in Finance.
Series B data room finance section complete. Commission letters and HR/finance records reconciled in Humaans.
Numbers survive diligence without restatement.
The CA(SA) is one of the most rigorous accounting qualifications anywhere, the time zone lines up with UK hours almost perfectly, and we want finance talent that would out-execute most of the London market. We pay in rand, fixed, with equity on the same scheme as our UK team.
What stood out in the people we hired recently, in their own evidence rather than their CVs.
You take raw data to a working tool, then iterate on feedback the same day. You would rather build the reconciliation than request it.
You make your case with evidence, raise structural problems with senior people, and coach teammates rather than quietly absorb their work.
You ground model outputs in curated data, script cross-checks, cache responses for auditability and have a clear view on data confidentiality. Audit-grade matters to our customers, so it matters in our own books.
You've single-handedly removed a process from a company, and you can put a number on what it saved.
We actively build gender-balanced longlists and shortlists for senior roles, and we select on merit against the required skills above.
Up to R1,800,000 gross a year depending on experience, fixed in rand. Not pegged to the pound, so currency moves are our risk, not yours.
Employer contribution of 1.5% of base (about R27,000 a year) on top of salary, paid via our Employer of Record.
One-off grant worth 40% of base at the top of the range, about 410 options at our latest share price. Same scheme and terms as our UK team. 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff.
For the right person there's scope to grow into CFO after Series B, based on performance and what the company needs then. We can't promise it, but if it happens it comes with a pay and equity step-up agreed at the time.
Drag the exit valuation. The maths uses our latest share price and the same illustrative assumptions we give every hire: an exit in about four years and 20% dilution from a future round. All figures in rand at today's rate.
Nothing vests before month 12, then 25% at the cliff and the rest monthly to month 48. The line shows what your vested options would be worth at the exit valuation you picked, with the assumed funding round at month 30 applying 20% dilution to the share price.
Our customers' success is our scoreboard. We turn their risk into clarity and their resilience into returns. We obsess over customer outcomes, not just our output. We win by making our customers win.
We say the thing. To each other, to customers. In a respectful way. And we want to hear it like it is, too. Candour and transparency build trust.
Draft to done, we see it through and push it further. No loose ends. We step up before we're asked.
Optimism, skill and the courage to act first. We build fast, and we build it right. The only difference between hard and impossible is whether we decided to solve it.
We don't win alone. We share what we know and make each other better, because of the diversity we each bring. When it's hard, we find the fun. When we win, we win as a team.
This search runs through our retained search partners. If one of them has been in touch, here's what to expect and what to bring. We'd much rather see your work than read about it.
| Stage | Length | Who | What we test | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Scan | 30 min | Kamil Kluza, Co-founder & COO | Fit, hunger, AI-native evidence, financial services background, South Africa and UK-hours logistics, compensation | Yes or no, same day |
| 2 · Technical | 60 min | Finance and RevOps | Model, cashflow and lender pack; a 15-minute live exercise on a 13-week cashflow with planted errors; ARR and commission data; your AI build, verified | Scored 1 to 4 on evidence |
| 3 · Final | 60 min | People lead and COO | Values, resilience, working directly with a founder, leading the Finance Analyst, the real 2027 budget line, the Series B data room; offer shape and start date | Offer or no |
Two references before offer, one of them a former CEO or COO. We debrief the same day and make an offer within 48 hours.
A short write-up, a repo, a demo or a screenshot. Tell us what it replaced and the hours it removed per month.
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Climate X is an equal opportunity employer. We actively source senior women in finance for this role through SAICA, ACCA and women-in-finance networks, and we select on merit against the required skills above.
Latest 1 February 2027. Two weeks from first call to offer, and we'll keep you posted at every step.
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