elasticStage
Technology
FinanceOperationsandStrategyManager
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“Finance Operations and Strategy Manager at elasticStage. Skills: Finance operations, Strategy, Financial modeling, AI infrastructure. Set up finance operating model. Design finance for 10x scale”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive company's top priority strategic projects; Build financial backbone; Build capital deployment processes; Build decentralised financial visibility
Industry & Context.
Translating ambiguous business questions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience, Foundation in top-tier strategy consulting, Foundation in finance, Top-tier financial modelling skills, Track record of building driver-based models, Ability to run value creation projects, Comfort with operational side of finance, Comfort owning data and metrics infrastructure, Analytical capability, Experience translating ambiguous business questions, Comfort operating in ambiguity, Bias toward action, Communicator
Nice to Have
SQL familiarity is a plus, Curiosity to increase technical leverage, Using AI tools to accelerate prototyping, Building AI workflows yourself
What You'll Do.
Set up finance operating model
Design finance for 10x scale
Build driver-based financial models
Connect unit production to outcomes
Build and execute funding strategy
Design and run budgeting process
Build finance strategy for ecommerce
Build investment deployment process
Put in place inventory models
Build working capital discipline
Build structured procurement process
Make finance AI-native
Build AI infrastructure and guardrails
Decentralise financial data interaction
Automate repetitive finance processes
Take on strategic finance projects
Drive pricing strategy
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with commercial; Partnering with product; Partnering with factory operations; Partnering with engineering; Mobilise technical stakeholders; Mobilise non-technical stakeholders
Communication Scope
Lead without authority
Process & Methodology
Opportunity generation, Sizing, Prioritisation, Plan design, Execution
Full Job Description
### **Cutting Edge Music Tech - On-Demand Vinyl Records** We are seeking a **Finance Operations and Strategy Manager** to help us redefine the physical and digital music industry. elasticStage is building the world’s first on-demand vinyl and CD platform, unlocking physical music for the Digital Creator era. By 2030, there will be over 250 million music creators globally, most locked out of physical formats due to high minimum runs and operational complexity. elasticStage solves this through patented on-demand vinyl and CD manufacturing technology, powering a free-to-use platform where creators can produce and sell physical releases worldwide with no upfront costs or minimum quantities. And we are scaling fast: * 100,000+ creators are using the product within our first year of commercialisation. * Aiming for 20X growth by 2027. * Partnerships with SoundCloud and Amuse (with more major partners to come!). * Shipped to over 90 countries. * 4.7★ on Trustpilot and Google. * Recently raised new funding, bringing the total capital raised to £30M. * Just moved to a new office in Kings Cross. As **Finance Operations and Strategy Manager,** you will set up how elasticStage runs financially end-to-end in a future-back, AI-native way. You will design backwards from how the finance function should operate at 10x scale, then build what is needed to get us there. elasticStage is building the future of on-demand physical music manufacturing and fulfilment, scaling through a capital-intensive model that deploys over £15M annually in state-of-the-art facilities, automation, manufacturing machines and R&D to bring our factory of the future to life. This will be driven by a strong finance function. This role is an opportunity to drive the company's top priority strategic projects, partnering closely with commercial, product, factory operations and engineering. The role builds the financial backbone, capital deployment processes and decentralised financial visibility that allow every a
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