Director of Finance, Legal

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Finance and legal leader funding Newxel’s AI-native engineering delivery transformation. Structuring new markets, investor reporting, and service-to-product economics across Europe.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the fundraising process end to end, including the investment story, financial model, data room, investor pipeline, negotiations, and closing
  • Serve as the primary finance contact for investors between funding rounds
  • Design and execute entity, licensing, and tax structures in new jurisdictions, starting with the UAE
  • Deliver structural options with timelines, costs, and a recommendation
  • Own group P&L, cash flow, and forecasting
  • Build the financial model around service versus product unit economics, R&D and intangible asset capitalisation, and pricing and margin architecture across delivery locations
  • Lead the distributed Finance and Legal team
  • Establish standards and build the company’s reporting cadence
  • Own multi-jurisdiction tax and compliance
  • Own contract architecture, including MSA, IP assignment, and non-solicitation
  • Own ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications and GDPR compliance

Requirements:

  • CFO or Head of Finance experience in a company of 100+ people, in a service or product-service business
  • Experience scaling a business globally across multiple locations and jurisdictions, with headcount or revenue growing several times while employed there
  • Experience rebuilding business economics as the business grows
  • Hands-on experience raising capital through equity, debt, or strategic investment, with ability to provide stage, size, investors, and personal role specifics
  • Experience setting up legal entities from scratch in at least two jurisdictions, including structure choice, licensing, tax and transfer pricing, and banking
  • Experience leading Finance together with Legal
  • Investor-level English together with Ukrainian or Russian
  • Based in Europe
  • Strong plus: experience in IT outsourcing, staff augmentation, EOR, or ODC
  • Strong plus: IAS 38 and intangible asset capitalisation
  • Strong plus: VC- or PE-backed company experience and board reporting
  • Strong plus: UAE, DIFC, or ADGM experience
  • Strong plus: M&A