VP of Finance

What we are building at Conveo

Conveo is the AI research platform enabling fast, affordable, and high-quality consumer / B2B research. Global brands use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across marketing, product, and research teams.

#1 What problem are we solving and why is this an important problem to solve

The current/traditional research methods companies rely on are slow, expensive, and superficial, thereby limiting the quantity and quality of research companies can conduct. Running great research also requires expertise which is a blocker to many companies. That directly affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them.

#2 The team you will join

You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people. We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives. Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.

#3 How we operate

• We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve. That means we humbly go the extra mile every time.

• We work hard and we have fun.

• To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.

About the Role

We are winning Fortune 500 clients at warp speed while expanding internationally and growing our team.

As VP of Finance, you will be the full owner and architect of Conveo’s finance function — owning end-to-end responsibility for converting Conveo's finance function into a bulletproof and scalable operation with necessary controls to scale through Series B and beyond.

Through this role, you'll be the strategic designer, owner, and guardian of Conveo’s financials, be a core part of our leadership and work with the founders across all divisions, and drive the discussions for every significant call on capital, revenue and expenses, hiring, and growth. You

This role is for an expert in financial leader with a strong balance of strategic finance and accounting, excited to build out the function and team.

This role is for someone who has ideally led, set up and owned the full finance function for a startup/scaleup before — and wants to do it better, faster, and at a company that could define a category.

Your Mission

Main responsibilities of your team

• Finance function architecture — design and optimise the finance function from 1 to 100 (team, responsibilities, financial systems, internal controls) that will allow Conveo to scale from ~45 today to 150+ people in only the next months

• Finance team building — Build out the team to professionalise Conveo’s finance team

• Financial Operations — Design and then manage your finance team to own AP/AR management, VAT, transfer pricing systems

• Monthly close — Lead the team to structure the closing process of the books with our Big Four partner

• Financial strategy & planning — Lead scenario analyses, KPI tracking

• Cash & runway mastery — Give the company and investors real-time clarity on cash burn, scenario planning, and liquidity management, enabling fast and confident decision-making

• Investor & board reporting — Own financial reporting for board and investors, financial due diligence/support in future fundraising, and build financial credibility that unlocks Series B

• Funding — Help prepare the company for Series B, additional ways of financing

• Business orchestration — Own hiring plans, ESOP plans, pricing, deal economics, capital allocation

What we're looking for

Must-haves

• 10+ years of strong experience across financial operations, accounting, audit, or financial control

  • Implemented and optimised financial systems and controls to bring structure and scalability to a startup

  • Accounting, reporting, financial control, compliance, AR/AP management, audit, and ERP systems

  • Owned monthly close with external auditors

  • Model mastery: three-statement, hiring plan, scenario analysis, and ad-hoc models

  • Has seen at least 1 ERP implementation/migration

• Leadership experience, having led a team of financial controllers, accountants,.. at venture companies

• Experience of accounting and financial control experience at a startup/scaleup, ideally having set