Finance Director
Salience Labs · Oxford, CA
FULL-TIME
Posted Sep 7, 2026
Job Description
The Role
As Finance Director at Salience Labs, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring smooth financial operations, compliance, and insightful reporting to support our business strategy. Working closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams, you will lead financial processes and provide actionable insights in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing bookkeeping, ledger accounting, and financial control
- Preparing monthly financial statements, management accounts, and Board presentation materials
- Developing and implementing internal control guidelines, policies, and procedures
- Managing payroll, cash flow, expense processes, and financial close cycles
- Designing and delivering detailed financial reporting, focusing on project-based actuals and cash use against budgets
- Ensuring compliance with payroll, VAT, income tax, and other statutory requirements in the UK, Germany, and the U.S.
- Supporting vendor negotiations and maintaining key financial relationships
- Monitoring and reporting on grant, R&D, and contract expenditures, including preparing and submitting grant reimbursement claims
- Implementing and optimizing finance technology stacks to enhance efficiency
- Collaborating with external accountants, auditors, and payroll providers
- Contributing to strategic projects, including budgeting/reforecasting and share option scheme management
What We're Looking For
- Minimum 10 years of post-qualification experience, including 5+ years in start-up or fast-growth environments
- Proven expertise in financial controllership, IFRS and/or GAAP knowledge, and UK tax/payroll compliance
- Strong proficiency in accounting software, Excel, and financial reporting tools
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively across teams
- A detail-oriented problem-solver who can manage change and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced setting like a start-up
Even Better If You
- Have familiarity with financial regulations and practices in Germany and the U.S.
- Bring experience from fabless manufacturing or high-tech industries like semiconductors
- Have a track record of leading software selection and implementation projects
- Possess leadership skills to drive innovation and growth within the finance function
Salience Labs Limited is a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure.
Backed by over a decade of research from the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Münster in Germany, Salience’s innovative developments in photonic switching technology enable high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics that remove infrastructure bottlenecks for AI workloads.
As Finance Director at Salience Labs, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring smooth financial operations, compliance, and insightful reporting to support our business strategy. Working closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams, you will lead financial processes and provide actionable insights in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing bookkeeping, ledger accounting, and financial control
- Preparing monthly financial statements, management accounts, and Board presentation materials
- Developing and implementing internal control guidelines, policies, and procedures
- Managing payroll, cash flow, expense processes, and financial close cycles
- Designing and delivering detailed financial reporting, focusing on project-based actuals and cash use against budgets
- Ensuring compliance with payroll, VAT, income tax, and other statutory requirements in the UK, Germany, and the U.S.
- Supporting vendor negotiations and maintaining key financial relationships
- Monitoring and reporting on grant, R&D, and contract expenditures, including preparing and submitting grant reimbursement claims
- Implementing and optimizing finance technology stacks to enhance efficiency
- Collaborating with external accountants, auditors, and payroll providers
- Contributing to strategic projects, including budgeting/reforecasting and share option scheme management
What We're Looking For
- Minimum 10 years of post-qualification experience, including 5+ years in start-up or fast-growth environments
- Proven expertise in financial controllership, IFRS and/or GAAP knowledge, and UK tax/payroll compliance
- Strong proficiency in accounting software, Excel, and financial reporting tools
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively across teams
- A detail-oriented problem-solver who can manage change and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced setting like a start-up
Even Better If You
- Have familiarity with financial regulations and practices in Germany and the U.S.
- Bring experience from fabless manufacturing or high-tech industries like semiconductors
- Have a track record of leading software selection and implementation projects
- Possess leadership skills to drive innovation and growth within the finance function
Salience Labs Limited is a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure.
Backed by over a decade of research from the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Münster in Germany, Salience’s innovative developments in photonic switching technology enable high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics that remove infrastructure bottlenecks for AI workloads.
Additional Details
- City
- Oxford
- State
- California
- Country
- US
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