Senior Business Assistant (Finance)

Location: UK, London; on-site

Company

hirify.global builds commercially scalable and safe hirify.global robots, including the HMND-01 platform deployed in real industrial environments.

What you will do

• Support the CFO in leadership, board, and finance-function meetings by preparing materials, capturing decisions, and documenting actions.
• Convert discussions into assigned action items, maintain a live tracker, chase owners, and escalate blockers or slippage.
• Prepare pre-reads, briefing packs, agendas, and relevant data and context before key meetings.
• Coordinate input from Controllership, Tax, Treasury, and FP&A stakeholders.
• Review financial reports, decks, and models for errors, inconsistencies, and omissions before they reach the CFO.
• Produce clear meeting notes and summaries while handling confidential business and financial information discreetly.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an EA, business assistant, or similar role supporting senior executives, ideally within a finance function.
• Working understanding of financial concepts and terminology, including P&L, budgeting, and forecasting, sufficient to follow and summarise finance discussions.
• Excellent note-taking and written communication skills, with the ability to turn discussions into clear, actionable outputs.
• Strong organisation skills and proven ability to track and drive multiple action items to completion.
• Experience preparing pre-meeting materials and consolidating data and context from multiple stakeholders.
• High discretion when handling confidential business and financial information.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong proficiency with everyday productivity tools, including Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or a related field.
• Experience supporting a CFO or finance leadership team.
• Experience in a venture-backed, high-growth startup or scale-up.

Culture & Benefits

• Stock options with meaningful upside as the company scales.
• 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days.
• Private healthcare with virtual and in-person care.
• Pension scheme with an 8% total contribution: 5% employee and 3% employer on full earnings.
• Daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in the office.
• Daily collaboration with engineers, researchers, product experts, and founding leadership on AI and hirify.global robotics.