CFO/Global Director of Finance

Organisation summary (max 150 words)

Educate started life as a publishing company, specialising in education publications, primarily for UCAS. Educate now represents some of the biggest global media brands in the student recruitment sector. Based in the UK, we've been working with over 85% of UK institutions for the last 16 years, helping them recruit students for their courses using a variety of advertising solutions. We now work with institutions throughout Europe, in France, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden to help recruit students globally.

To ensure we always able to offer the best solutions for our clients, our portfolio ranges from print to digital to mobile and social media. We build bespoke campaigns to recruit students at all levels, for all courses from international MBAs to specialist undergraduate courses. Most importantly we provide our clients with quantifiable and results-focused campaigns.

We are the only company to use BBC.com to target international audiences for UK universities, European business schools and MBA programmes. That's an audience of 58mn unique users globally. Brands we represent BBC.com | Facebook | ACCA | Google | Twitter | WSJ | LinkedIn. Our media Edunamic | Edumobile.

Role Summary

• Serve as the architect of our financial health and build the organizational infrastructure needed to support ambitious scale.
• Use finance as a strategic engine for impact.
• Design bespoke financial systems tailored to match each product's unique stage.
• Ensure staffing, systems, and processes match the organization's strategy.

Role Requirements

• Strategic architect with an ability to look beyond numbers and craft financial narratives.
• Obsessed with efficiency and eager to design financial systems that are lean and actionable.