Finance Director (Fixed term, 6-9 months)
We are looking for an interim Finance Director who can lead on the delivery of robust financial infrastructure and process improvements to the business.
About Us
Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory.
By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.
Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.
Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has acted as plaintiffs' experts in the most consequential financial cartels and market manipulation cases of the past 10 years.
About this Role
The Finance Director role will be responsible for delivering robust financial infrastructure and process improvements to the business and helping us position Fideres for a period of rapid scaling and growth.
Key Responsibilities
Some notable responsibilities will include:
- Manage accounting process improvements and controls and put forward recommendations on automation of processes
- Identify and roll out improvements to our financial systems/technology, processes and controls (i.e. accounting, time tracking, billing systems)
- Identify providers who can provide international payroll services, to serve all of our international offices
- Consolidate and rationalize our banking needs
- Negotiate with finance providers/banks any required lending facilities
- Oversee our internal financial and business wide reporting including forecasting and budgeting
- Identify and roll out necessary improvements to consolidate our international accounting needs
- Review our systems for tax filing
- Provide recommendations on our legal business structure model and scaling for profitability
- Work closely with our Head of People and COO to align hiring plans with financials needed to make management decisions
- Lead and mentor the Finance team
Key Skills and Attributes
The successful candidate will have:
- A track record of scaling up SMEs
- Prior experience of working for an international business, ideally with a US presence would be advantageous
- Proven experience as a Finance Director
- Experience of international business structures
- Ability and willingness to be both strategic and hands-on
- Commercial and intellectual acumen
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Able to handle relationships and change management sensitively
- Incredible attention to detail
- Ability to mentor the team
- Department
- Back Office
- Locations
- London
Why Fideres
Fideres’s vision is to become the leader in litigation-only economic consulting globally, free of corporate conflicts.
Following years of growth, over the past two years Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in France and Germany.
We are looking for candidates, who are committed to Fideres’s strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company’s expansion.
Our Benefits
Transparent Pay
We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.
Continuous Learning
We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon-holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.
Benefits
We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.
What We Offer
You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.
We offer flexible working hours and hybrid remote working, competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.
We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.
Our Application Process
Applying
To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.
Pre-Interview Assessments
Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required.
Interviews
For the majority of our roles, we have a three stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client) and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally it is a chance for us to get to know each other better.
A typical interview process would look a bit like this:
- First Interview: Technical with a team member
- Second Interview: Cultural fit interview
- Final Interview: Technical interview
Questions
If you have any questions about our process, please contact us at careers@fideres.com.