Finance Director

At Patch, we’re on a journey to scale access to opportunity for our Work Near Home vision, a more accessible world of work and high street regeneration for less commuting, more community.

Our mission is to create opportunity for people, work and communities on every UK high street, empowering millions of people with more sustainable and balanced lifestyles.

We believe this new mix is a new category, which we call Work Near Home. We are also a proud B Corp.

With a strong social focus and huge room for personal growth, keep reading if you’re excited about owning a significant share of this impact alongside our exciting team.

Today we operate 6 sites and are approaching £4m revenue. Every site open for more than 12 months is over 90% occupied, with site margins of 20–30% and rising. Our core revenue comes from long-term offices and short-term coworking. Ancillary revenue, from events, meeting rooms and cafés, is doubling every 6 months. Revenue has more than doubled every year since we were founded 4 years ago.

We are backed by top-tier individuals and funds including Peter Roberts (PureGym), Matt Clifford (Entrepreneurs First), Active Partners (Soho House, Rapha, Leon) and JamJar (Innocent, Runna, Lucky Saint), and are now adding a new round of institutional financing to scale up. With it we are moving into roll-out, targeting 10 open sites in 2027 and expecting revenue to continue doubling with 5+ openings a year.

We see room for hundreds of Patch locations across the UK. Our ambition is to build a national category, as PureGym did for low-cost gyms and Pret did for quick-service and Gail’s is now doing for bakery.

Our radical vision sits at the meeting point of real estate, digital transformation, community spirit, high street retail and social impact. Our team and investors are a diverse and passionate group, all motivated by a vision of inclusive development – and the opportunity to create a more accessible future world of work.

You can read about our vision in our Work Near Home manifesto here.

The role

Your mission: build the strategic and operational finance function that takes Patch from 10 to 50 sites.

Today our finance work is split between operational models, outsourced accountants, and day-to-day budgeting and accounts run by our Director of Operations. You will bring this together into one function, built in your own vision.

You will work closely with the Founder & CEO and at Board level, and you will complete our management team alongside the Directors of Product, Commercial and Operations.

This is a role for someone who wants to build a function and scale a company. It is a career-defining moment, and it could lead to your first CFO position.

What you'll do

• Role modelling the right behaviours to our team and stakeholders. You will be integral to shaping our culture.
• You know what good looks like and are eager to help roll out best practice.
• Bring budgeting, forecasting and reporting into one function, and set the rhythm for monthly management accounts and Board reporting.
• Take ownership of the relationship with our outsourced accountants. Decide what to keep outsourced and what to bring in-house.
• Build a single, trusted financial model covering site-level P&L, cash flow and the roll-out plan.
• Define the KPIs that matter as we scale: occupancy, revenue per site and per sq ft, site margin, ancillary revenue mix, payback and cash runway.
• Put the right systems, controls and processes in place for a multi-site business.
• Lead the financial side of new sites, including lease agreements, deal structures and investment cases with landlords, developers and councils.
• Shape our capital strategy with the CEO, working with investors through the current round and beyond.
• Partner with the Directors of Product, Commercial and Operations on pricing, product, site performance and growth decisions.
• Build the team, tools and governance needed to go from 10 to 50 sites.
• Represent Patch externally to investors, lenders, landlords and partners.

What you'll bring

A personal passion for the impact Patch can have on communities at scale

Experience

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with senior finance experience in a high-growth business.
• Experience in a multi-site, roll-out business (for example flexible workspace, leisure, fitness, hospitality, retail or real estate), with a strong grasp of site-level unit economics.
• Hands-on skill with budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and management reporting, including building these from scratch.
• Strong investment appraisal skills: able to model returns using a range of measures, such as IRR, cash-on-cash return and payback period.
• Fluency across funding options beyond equity, such as debt, asset finance and other structures, and the judgement to know which fits each stage of growth.
• Commercial experience of property: leases, fit-out capex and deal structures.

Attributes

• Builder: you want to create a function, not inherit one, and you are comfortable being hands-on while you build.
• Collaborator: you work as a true partner to the CEO and management team, and you support shared decisions beyond finance.
• Communicator: you can explain numbers and concepts and are at ease with our site teams and members around the country
• Mission-aligned: you care about building a business that strengthens local high streets and communities.
• Curiosity: You want to learn and challenge established norms
• Proactive mindset: You lean into challenges to get them done

What we offer

• The chance to build a category defining business at national scale
• The responsibility finance function from the ground up with a clear path towards CFO.
• A seat on the management team and regular exposure to the Board and investors.
• Membership of a B Corp-certified business with a mission to bring opportunity to every UK high street.