EMEA Finance Leader

Pax8 is looking for a senior finance professional operating at Head of Finance, Finance Director, or CFO level to join us as Regional Finance Leader EMEA.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility regional leadership role built for someone who loves influencing big decisions without needing a big org chart. You’ll be the finance voice at the table - elevating performance narratives, sharpening investment choices, and helping leaders move faster with better data.

📍 This role can be based in the UK (Farnborough or Bristol) or Germany (Munich).

About Pax8

Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support. With a global partner ecosystem of over 35,000 managed service providers, Pax8 empowers SMBs worldwide by providing software and services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their security. Committed to innovating cloud commerce at scale, Pax8 drives customer acquisition and solution consumption across its entire ecosystem

🧩 Why this role could be exciting for you

🧭 Be the finance voice in EMEA: Partner closely with regional commerce and operational leaders to shape strategy, priorities, and decisions that drive sustainable growth.

📈 Lead planning with confidence: Lead EMEA forecasting, planning, and performance tracking - turning complex data into a clear story leaders can act on.

🔍 Bring performance to life: Translate results into actionable insight — surfacing risks, opportunities, and the “why” behind variance.

🤝 Guide commercial decisions: Support deal desk activity on complex commercial opportunities - helping teams structure deals, evaluate pricing, and protect margin and risk.

🧠 Model what’s next: Build scenario models that guide growth, investment, and profitability decisions across EMEA

🎯 The impact you’ll make

You’ll shape financial direction across EMEA - ensuring the business scales with discipline, clarity, and confidence. Your work will directly influence how we grow revenue, optimise margin, and invest for the future across multiple markets.

✅ What makes you a strong fit

• Extensive leadership-level finance experience operating at Head of Finance, Finance Director, or CFO level in complex, fast-paced organisations
• Proven experience across EMEA regions - navigating multi-entity structures, diverse markets, and varying regulatory landscape
• Deep FP&A expertise - this is essential; you bring a strong planning, forecasting, and performance-led mindset to everything you do
• Ownership across full P&L - including revenue, margin, cost, and deal economics
• Proven experience business partnering with senior executives – influencing strategy, challenging thinking, and guiding high-stakes decisions
• Strong commercial finance capability — with demonstrated experience in deal desk, pricing strategy, and margin optimisation
• Considerable skill in financial modelling and evaluating investment returns in fast-moving environments
• Professional finance qualification (e.g., CPA / ACA / CFA) preferred
• Fluent English (additional European languages a plus)
• We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the criteria. We’re committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills.
• In order to fulfil this role you should be resident in this country with a valid right to work.

If you struggle to get “time out” we’re happy to accommodate early/late conversations and interview times or if you have any queries you can ring the Talent Partner, Victoria, managing this role on +44 117 457 8410 ( please no agencies)

🛡️ Anti‑fraud and candidate authenticity

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships, starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.

By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we’re excited to meet you.

💰 Salary & Benefits

Depending on experience salary of up to £150,000.00

• Long Term Incentive Plan (stock options)
• Bupa Healthcare plan
• Bupa Dental plan
• Health and Wellbeing coaching support
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Pension scheme
• Pax8 "Live Your Best Life" Pass to support your health and mental wellbeing
• Pax8 Cycle to Work Support Scheme Available
• Dedicated time for training and personal development
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Fun and frequent company and team socials

📍 Location & ways of working – hybrid in Farnborough or Bristol

Designated Office in the UK: Farnborough or Bristol UK

Open to other EMEA Pax8 locations - Munich Germany

🚀 What’s in it for you?

There’s extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace whether that’s advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. With 39% internal mobility

You’ll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you’ll also tap into AI‑powered tools, “born in the cloud” mentors, and cross‑continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise.

We’ll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

🌈 Why Pax8?

Our purpose is to help every small business turn their dreams into reality through the power of technology Pax8 is a fast‑growing, dynamic, and high‑energy organisation with a start‑up feel, giving you the chance to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it is personal.

We are passionate, creative, and a little unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best. We:

• Elev8 each other
• Advoc8 for our partners
• Innov8 continuously
• Celebr8 life

🎊 We embody our core values — We before Me 🤝, fostering teamwork and collaboration; Compassionate Candor 💬, promoting open and honest communication with kindness; Light Up Learning 💡, continuously growing and sharing knowledge; Seek to Understand 🔍, valuing diverse perspectives and thoughtful engagement; Do What You Say ✅, ensuring trust and accountability; and Driven by Passion 🔥, bringing energy and dedication to everything we do—as we strive to innovate and empower our partners every day.

You’d be joining a rapidly growing team in an award‑winning business – recognised on the Inc. 5000 list for multiple consecutive years, named a Best Managed Company, and celebrated as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech and for Women.

🔎 Background checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre‑employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks will be completed for UK candidates only, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third‑party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed, all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

🤝 Equal opportunities & privacy

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the UK. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with GDPR best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.

You can read our Job Applicant Privacy Notice here:

https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/

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