Finance Operations and Strategy Manager
No salary listed
Senior
London, UK
HybridOn-site in the Kings Cross office four days a week.
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A
About the job
Requirements
- At least five years of experience, including a strong foundation in top-tier strategy consulting (MBB or equivalent).
- Strong finance foundation and top-tier financial modelling skills, with a track record of building driver-based models.
- Ability to run value creation projects end-to-end autonomously, including opportunity generation, sizing, prioritisation, plan design, and execution.
- Comfort with the operational side of finance, including budgeting, FP&A, variance analysis, working capital management, and procurement.
- Comfort owning data and metrics infrastructure, including defining KPI frameworks, building dashboards, and working directly with data tools.
- Strong analytical capability and experience translating ambiguous business questions into structured analyses, clear recommendations, and operational decisions.
- Curiosity to increase technical leverage over time by using AI tools to accelerate prototyping, automation, and iteration, including building workflows.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias toward action and interest in building and scaling new ways of working from the ground up.
- Ability to lead without authority and mobilise technical and non-technical stakeholders, from individual contributors to the CEO, around priorities and trade-offs.
Responsibilities
- Set up the finance operating model end-to-end in a future-back, AI-native way, designing how finance should run at 10x scale and building the models, processes, and infrastructure to achieve it.
- Build driver-based financial models that feed directly into OKRs and the operating cadence, connecting unit-level production to company-wide revenue, gross margin, contribution margin, and EBITDA outcomes.
- Build and execute the company’s funding strategy across equity, machine and venture debt, and research and development grants.
- Design and run the company’s first formal budgeting process.
- Build and implement the finance strategy for multi-market ecommerce and multi-site manufacturing, including tax and technology such as payments, payout, currency settlement, ERP, and inventory systems.
- Build the investment deployment and tracking process for approximately £15 million or more in annual CAPEX spending across new factory facilities, research and development, machinery, hardware, materials, and software.
- Put in place inventory models covering raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods, and build working capital discipline.
- Build a structured procurement process across hardware, software, and manufacturing materials.
- Build AI-native finance infrastructure and guardrails so every team can interact with budgets and financial data in a decentralised way, and automate repetitive finance processes.
- Take on cross-functional strategic finance projects without a natural owner as they arise, such as pricing.
Desired Qualifications
- SQL familiarity.
About the company
elasticStage provides on-demand manufacturing and distribution for vinyl records and CDs. Artists upload music and artwork; when customers order, elasticStage manufactures and ships directly to the buyer with no minimums or upfront inventory, using a revenue-sharing model. The company uses a patent-pending cold process that does not involve traditional pressing or PVC, opting for PETG and a first-generation recording approach to save energy and reduce chemicals. It differentiates itself through on-demand production, sustainability, and partnerships with major labels and DSPs to help independent artists reach fans directly.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$39M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2016
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Amuse partnered on February 24, 2026, bringing elasticStage to hundreds of thousands of DIY artists.
- EmuBands joined on March 24, 2026, expanding direct-to-fan physical sales without inventory risk.
- Beatportal reported over 100,000 creators and 20-day turnaround times on May 14, 2026.
What critics are saying
- Customer reviews in March 2026 describe scratched vinyl, fingerprints, and slow support responses.
- If quality complaints spread, SoundCloud and Amuse can redirect artists to traditional pressing partners.
- elasticStage still depends on a niche cold-manufacturing process; a defective run damages trust fast.
What makes elasticStage unique
- elasticStage’s on-demand vinyl and CD model removes inventory, minimums, and upfront costs.
- Its August 2026 SoundCloud integration lets Artist Pro users publish vinyl inside SoundCloud.
- The platform ships to 90-plus countries and handles licensing, fulfilment, and customer support.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Remote Work Options
- Flexible Work Hours
- Paid Holidays