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# Financial Operations Lead at Solve Intelligence

- **Company:** Solve Intelligence
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** $135k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solveintelligence/c08da7ba-3367-469b-b343-e05c35b08966

## Job description

At Solve Intelligence, we're building something people actually want - and we have the revenue and traction to prove it.

## 🏗️ THE ROLE: FINANCIAL OPERATIONS LEAD

Less than 24 months since launch, we are adding 7 figures of ARR per month, we have raised ~$60M USD, and we are quadrupling headcount this year. We've built a world-class team of AI PhDs, engineers, and patent attorneys. Now, we need a high-energy, ambitious Financial Operations Lead to help us scale to $1B+ ARR.

You'll be our first dedicated finance hire, based in London and working directly with the founders.

Until now, finance has not been run by any single person. Your job is to own it end-to-end: get the fundamentals running flawlessly, then build the processes, tooling, and budgets that scale us to 100+ people across our three offices (London, New York, and Munich) and our continued revenue growth.

This isn't a CFO-strategist role, and it isn't bookkeeping.

It's for a hands-on generalist who understands accounting deeply, executes relentlessly, and is happy to go invoice-by-invoice in the morning, build the company budget in the afternoon, and model financials in the evening. You'll do things that don't scale at first to learn the business inside out, automate them away with tooling and AI, and grow into a true business partner to Sales and Marketing — the person with a 360° view of Solve.

What you'll own:

- Payments (AP): Own supplier payments end-to-end — approval workflows, invoices paid on time, duplicates and double-payments caught before they happen — and lead vendor negotiations on everything from software to office space.
- Billing & Collections (AR): Own customer invoicing across our 1,000+ law firm and enterprise clients. Partner with RevOps to collect our backlog of overdue invoices fast and keep cash flowing in.
- The Monthly Close & Metrics: Run our external accountants to an accurate, on-time close every month. Own our financial metrics — definitions, reporting, the single source of truth — and work hand-in-hand with the CEO on communicating them to the board and investors.
- Processes & Tooling: Design and implement our finance stack from scratch. Approvals, procurement, spend management, billing, and more. Choose tools that scale and automate aggressively with AI.
- Budgets & Financial Culture: Work directly with the founders to build our first budgeting and approval processes (hiring, marketing, conferences, offices, etc) and partner closely with every team. Help the founders instil a culture where money is not free.
- Modelling & Big Decisions: Build the financial models behind our biggest calls — office leases, hiring plans, marketing budgets — and get stuck into special projects like M&A (we've already made two acquisitions this year).
- International Finance: Own the finance side of operating and expanding across three countries (and counting): budgets for new office setup, transfer pricing, and international tax, working with our external advisors.
- Cash & Treasury: Steward the ~$60M we've raised: payroll and vendors always paid, cash put to work safely.

## 💡 ABOUT SOLVE INTELLIGENCE

We are the fastest-growing startup transforming Intellectual Property. Our AI platform handles everything from invention harvesting and patent generation through to litigation and licensing.

- Growth: 20–30% MoM revenue growth; 8 figures of ARR just ~2 years since launch.
- Market: 600+ IP teams across 6 continents, including Tier-1 firms like DLA Piper, tech giants, and boutiques.
- Impact: Users report 50–90% efficiency and quality improvements.
- Backing: ~$60M from Y Combinator, 20VC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and the founders of top companies like Stripe, Perplexity, Tinder, Deel, Hugging Face, and Canva. See our Series B announcement https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog/post/solve-intelligence-raises-40m-series-b-to-build-ai-for-patents-and-launches-charts.

## 👋 WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You'll be joining a founding team with deep pedigree:

- Sanj https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanj-ahilan-844b33137/ (CRO): PhD in AI (Gatsby Unit, UCL), ex-Huawei R&D, former lead at Magic Carpet AI (acquired).
- Chris https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-parsonson/ (CEO): PhD in AI (UCL), published researcher, ex-Dyson and Alan Turing Institute.
- Angus https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-parsonson/ (CTO): MEng Computer Science, ex-Qualcomm and Coremont (Brevan Howard).

## 🚀 WHO YOU ARE

We are a high-performance culture. To thrive here:

- You get your hands dirty: You'll happily go line-by-line through invoices, the CRM, and the bank to make things clean — then automate the process so it stays clean.
- You're detail-obsessed: Duplicate invoices, overdue payments, wrong pricing — nothing gets past you.
- You have high agency: There's no playbook and no finance team behind you (yet). Give you an ambiguous problem and you'll work it out: find the mess, own it, fix it.
- You're a business partner, not a back-office cop: You work close to Sales, Marketing, and the wider team, helping everyone spend smarter and move faster. You know the highest-leverage thing finance can do here is accelerate growth — nudging our treasury yield from 2.7% to 2.9% is not the job.
- You're all-in: Solve is fast and intense, and this isn't a 9–5. You get passionate — even obsessive — about the problems you own.
- You're ambitious: You'll do the dirty work now because you want to build the finance function as we scale.

## 🛠️ WHAT YOU BRING

Must-Haves:

- 5+ years in finance or finance-heavy operations at high-growth tech companies — e.g., FP&A lead/head, finance ops, or a generalist operator with a finance spike — now hungry for broader scope.
- Deep fluency in accounting — you can run external accountants to an on-time close — without needing to be an accountant yourself.
- A track record of implementing finance processes, tooling, and automation that scale with a fast-growing company.
- Strong modelling skills across budgets, forecasts, P&L, and cash.
- Exceptionally clear written and verbal communication.

Preferred & Nice-to-Haves:

- First/early finance hire experience: You've built a finance function from scratch — or been the #2 to a great CFO/VP of Finance at a scaling startup and seen what good looks like.
- Procurement & negotiation: Experience negotiating vendor contracts and pricing.
- Treasury: Experience managing cash and liquidity at scale.
- Multi-entity experience: Exposure to international operations — consolidation across entities, transfer pricing, or international tax.
- Accounting foundation: An accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or fundamentals from banking, consulting, or VC — since battle-tested in a scrappy, hands-on environment.
- STEM background: A technical or quantitative degree (maths, CS, physics, engineering, etc.) — bonus points if you can write a bit of code.
- Tooling mastery: Experience with modern finance stacks (e.g., ERP/accounting, spend management, billing & AR systems), and experience leveraging AI across everything you do (Claude Code/Cowork, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc).

🎁 WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

- Compensation: Competitive base + significant equity — true ownership in a high-growth startup.
- Founding Impact: Be finance hire #1, build the function from the ground up with the freedom to spot and prioritise what matters most, and grow into leading it as we scale.
- Support: Full visa sponsorship and private medical insurance.
- Perks: Free meals and the chance to work with the smartest minds in AI.

Ready to own the financial engine behind the rocket ship? Apply now. 🚀

## About Solve Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Solve Intelligence provides an AI-powered platform for patent drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting, trusted by over 500 IP teams globally.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – raised $55M total from Y Combinator, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, and others)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (with offices in New York, US and Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Chris Parsonson, Sanj Ahilan, Angus Parsonson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal technology (intellectual property and patents)
- **Target customers**: B2B – IP law firms, in-house corporate legal teams, and independent inventors
- **Mission**: To make the patent process faster, cheaper, and higher quality by leveraging AI breakthroughs, covering every step from drafting to grant and litigation.

## Products & Services
- **Patent Application Drafting**: AI-assisted interactive drafting of full and partial patent applications (standalone, continuation, divisional, CIP, and design). The AI adapts to the user’s writing style and supports figures, chemical structures, and biological sequences.
- **Office Action Response (Prosecution)**: Collaborative drafting of responses with AI-generated claim amendments, arguments, and built-in citations to file wrapper documents and case law.
- **Claim Charts**: Interactive generation of invalidity, SEP, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and portfolio analysis charts. The AI provides multi-source citations and transparent logic per cell.
- **Invention Harvesting**: Standardized invention disclosure forms, customisable question sets, and a central dashboard to track submissions and inventor status.

All products are delivered as a SaaS platform with strict security guarantees: no AI model training on customer data, SOC 2 Type 2 / ISO 27001 / ISO 42001 / GDPR / CCPA compliance, data stored and processed locally (US, Europe, etc.), and AES-256 / TLS 1.3 encryption.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$55M** (Series A $12M, Series B $40M, plus seed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch), Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, Operator Collective, Visionaries
- **Notable Customers**: DLA Piper, Siemens, Perkins Coie, Amgen (among 500+ IP teams across six continents)
- **Growth Signals**: Team size of **43** (as of mid-2025); launched a new Claim Charts product; reported 60–90% efficiency gains by customers; active hiring across engineering, AI, and legal roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Uncompromising confidentiality**: No customer data used for AI model training; sandboxed per client; no third-party monitoring.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, CCPA; data localization and encryption in transit/at rest.
- **Domain-specific AI**: Built by a team combining patent attorneys, AI PhDs, and software engineers; the AI understands patent law nuances, supports multi-source citations, and adapts to individual writing styles.
- **End-to-end coverage**: Drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting in one platform, reducing the need for multiple tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continue building out features for the full patent lifecycle (including litigation support).
- **Global reach**: Growing presence across the US, Europe, and Asia, with customers on six continents.
- **AI quality**: Deepening the AI’s ability to handle complex technical content (e.g., chemical structures, biological sequences) and improving citation accuracy and transparency.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Work on AI that directly improves patent quality and speed for the world’s top IP teams. The founders are PhDs in machine learning with a track record of publishing at top AI conferences.
- **Team**: A mix of AI researchers, software engineers, and patent attorneys – a rare combination that fosters cross-domain learning.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid/remote-friendly roles available; offices in London, New York, and Munich. Some roles are open to “any (new grads ok)”.
- **Compensation**: Salaries range from $70K to $250K (depending on role and seniority), plus equity.
- **Culture**: Emphasis on trust, transparency, and innovation. The company is Y Combinator-backed and growing fast (43 employees, actively hiring).

## Sources
1. [solveintelligence.com](https://www.solveintelligence.com/) – Product descriptions, security guarantees, customer testimonials, and feature pages.
2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence) – Company overview, founding team, funding ($55M), team size (43), batch (Summer 2023), and job listings.
3. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/solve-intelligence) – Headquarters location, industry, and employee count (39–43 range).
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/solve-intelligence) – Total funding amount ($55.1M), patent filings, and company financials.

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