The Company

Synaptec produces the worlds’ only passive electrical sensor networks for high voltage power system monitoring. Synaptec brings together industry experts to devise creative solutions for its customers. Using its patented sensor technology, it provides more detail, intelligence and real-time data, to reduce outages and operational costs.

Synaptec’s Cable Condition Monitoring (CCM) platform is a simple and powerful solution to enable health monitoring of cable junctions and terminations. Using Synaptec’s Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) technology, CCM delivers real-time, high-quality data on the cable screen earthing points and ambient temperature. Integrated and customisable threshold alarms and live measurement data are easily integrated with existing SCADA systems, giving wind farm operators awareness and actionable information on the health and status of terminations.

Synaptec’s management team, board of directors and advisors include former executive leaders from the power sector, renowned academic professors, and highly experienced energy entrepreneurs. Their insight and understanding have been instrumental in growing and developing both the business and its offerings.

The Role

The newly created role of Financial Controller will report to the CEO and work closely with the CFO who has been working on a fractional basis and will naturally exit the business in time. Synaptec is keen to appoint a candidate who is ambitious and can quickly move into a Finance Director/CFO role. This is a key hire for Synaptec as it continues to bolster its leadership team, embarking on a year with a record projected order intake. The appointed candidate needs to be comfortable operating at Board level with regular interaction with senior level stakeholders.

The Individual

Synpatec is a Private Equity backed scale up organisation who are at a key point of their journey. With a record projected order intake for 2025, the Financial Controller will be joining at a hugely exciting and important time for the business and will play a crucial role in strengthening the finance function and being an active member of the management team.

The appointed candidate will need to be sufficiently hands on to ensure a robust finance function is in place through building the right infrastructure to support the business as well as developing the team, focusing on continuous improvement and being a highly effective business partner working closely with the Commercial Director and Operations Team. As the business continues to grow it is important the Financial Controller can continue to develop systems, processes and reporting and support the CEO with improvement projects.

A summary of the key candidate requirements is as follows:

• An experienced and appropriately qualified finance professional with a proven track record of success
• A dynamic, driven and proactive individual who thrives in an entrepreneurial scale-up environment
• Experienced in fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Strong technical accounting skills and fully up to date with relevant legislation
• Excellent communication skills - able to interpret complex financial data to ensure key stakeholders have a clear understanding of the business’s financial health
• A strong relationship builder who is a natural business partner
• Able to work collaboratively and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate tasks efficiently
• Exceptional attention to detail
• A practical understanding of management accounting principles and techniques
• Sound knowledge of standard accountancy and finance best practices
• The ability to implement strong controls and systems across the function and automate where appropriate to create better efficiencies
• Experience of working in Manufacturing and a Private Equity led business would be highly advantageous though not essential
• Experience of working in a scale-up environment would be beneficial
• Highly commercially astute and able to influence commercial decision making
• Strong analytical skills to effectively analyse financial reports
• In-depth knowledge of budgeting and financial forecasting

What to do next

To find out more about the role, please contact their retained advisor, Rutherford Cross by reaching out to Hazel Wynn, [email protected], 07498944280

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.