Chief Financial Officer

Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance Leader

Viseven is an AI-native Intelligent Experiences Enabler for life sciences, helping pharma and biotech organizations move from fragmented content operations to connected, compliant, and measurable omnichannel engagement with HCPs and patients. By combining proprietary technology with agentic AI and strategic consulting, we support the full content lifecycle: from creation and MLR validation to localization and omnichannel publishing. Our clients include Top 50 life sciences, pharma, biotech, and medtech companies around the globe.

Mission: Lead the company's Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance functions, driving financial performance, commercial and pricing discipline, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring effective resource allocation, sustainable growth, and long-term profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic and Financial Planning: Partnering with the CEO and leadership team to shape company strategy, evaluate business opportunities, and translate strategic objectives into financial plans, targets, and resource allocation decisions; overseeing the company's financial plans, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and effective resource allocation.
• Business Performance Management: Establishing and managing the company's business financial performance management framework, including KPIs, management reporting, variance analysis, and corrective action planning in partnership with business leaders.
• Commercial Finance and Pricing: Owning the financial terms of the commercial offer: reviewing commercial contracts and statements of work, and supporting Sales and Delivery on the financial part of client proposals, including prices, discounts, payment terms and commercial risk; building pricing and commercial models for new services; leading the periodic review of global price lists together with the commercial organization.
• Funding and Investment: Managing capital allocation, financing, and fundraising activities, and overseeing M&A transactions where applicable.
• Financial Systems and Processes: Developing and implementing financial systems and processes that are efficient, accurate, and scalable, ensuring timely, accurate, and actionable financial and business performance reporting to support data-driven decision-making across the company.
• Financial Analysis: Conducting financial analysis, identifying trends and variances to evaluate the company's financial performance, identifying and implementing opportunities for improvement; evaluating business performance drivers, profitability, cost efficiency, investment returns, and proactively recommending actions to improve business results.
• Stakeholder Communication: Liaising regarding financial results, forecasts, risks, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, investors, and board members, as applicable.
• Tax and Finance Compliance: Overseeing financial, accounting, and tax compliance ensuring appropriate governance and management of legal and regulatory risks.
• Legal and Contract Management: Overseeing the Legal function: client, supplier and partnership contracting and the contract register; employment, subcontractor and relocation legal support; corporate governance and the holding structure; counterparty due diligence; and the data privacy, ethics, IP and ESG programmes, including the related certifications and audits.
• Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating financial risks, incl. currency risk, market risk, credit risk, and operational risk.
• Cash Flow Management: Monitoring financial runway and developing financial scenarios to support business planning and ensure sufficient liquidity. Owning liquidity forecasting and day-to-day liquidity management, including the payment schedule and the working capital position; managing banking relationships and mandates across all group entities; sourcing, negotiating and operating trade and supply chain finance facilities, including early payment programmes with clients.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in corporate finance, accounting, auditing, controlling, or a related field, including relevant experience managing financial processes or teams.
• SaaS business experience (desirable): Experience in a SaaS or subscription-based business, with a strong understanding of recurring revenue metrics, unit economics, and growth and profitability drivers.
• Strong understanding of financial frameworks, accounting principles, financial controls, and core finance processes.
• Proven experience in developing or improving finance functions, financial processes, and reporting systems.
• Business partnering: proven ability to influence strategic and operational decisions, challenge business assumptions, and drive performance improvements through cross-functional collaboration.
• International experience: Experience managing finance, accounting, and tax matters across multiple jurisdictions.
• Commercial finance: experience in pricing, deal structuring and commercial contract review, and in partnering with a sales organisation on proposals, discounts and payment terms.
• Treasury and banking: experience managing bank relationships and mandates in several jurisdictions, and securing working capital, trade finance or debt facilities.
• Legal function oversight: experience leading or directly overseeing an in-house legal and compliance team in a multi-jurisdiction group.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, influencing, and organizational skills.
• Strong leadership capabilities and experience managing teams, driving change, and improving operational effectiveness.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Strategic, critical, and holistic thinking, with a focus on business value and sound financial decision-making.
• Upper-intermediate to advanced English proficiency.
• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field, or an equivalent qualification.

Why Viseven?

Purpose in Every Service

Your work will contribute to solutions that help pharmaceutical companies bring innovations to market faster and improve how healthcare information reaches people globally. We build technology with purpose — because better communication can lead to better health outcomes.

Care and Connection

We believe great work happens when people feel supported, trusted, and connected. At Viseven, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and genuine care are part of everyday work — for our teammates, clients, and communities. From charity and sustainability initiatives to an inclusive and supportive environment, we grow stronger together.

Grow and Go Beyond

We encourage bold ideas, ownership, and continuous growth. Whether it's leading new initiatives, shaping products, or expanding your expertise, you'll have the opportunity to make a visible impact and evolve alongside a global organization.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation with performance-based salary reviews
• Professional and career growth opportunities in a global environment
• Flexible work format with remote opportunities
• Paid time off (18 business days) and sick leave according to company policy
• Family leave (3 paid business days) for important life moments
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
• English language courses
• Professional development through forums, conferences, and learning programs
• Team-building activities and corporate events
• A collaborative international team where your ideas matter

Grow your expertise while shaping communication for the world's leading pharma brands. Over 50% of our team has been with Viseven for 5+ years. Join us!