Outsourced Finance Desk Lead (remote): $1,000 a month from day one + 15% profit share

About the role

Arkscale Ventures is building an outsourced finance desk (bookkeeping, accounting and finance back office work for small and growing companies), and we are looking for the person to run and grow it in a niche they already know. You win client companies, look after them, and deliver the work: bookkeeping, monthly accounts, management reporting, cash flow forecasts and accounting system setup. You lead the desk; we provide the brand, the company set up and the whole back office (website, email, CRM, client terms, invoicing), and we fund the tools and outreach.

The one requirement

You must have a track record of winning your own clients: bookkeeping, accounting or finance back office clients that you found and signed yourself, not only clients an employer gave you to look after, and you can put numbers on it. Applications without that track record are not reviewed.

Pay

- US$1,000 a month from day one, paid whatever the desk earns.

- Plus a monthly bonus of 15% of the desk's profit during the trial period, rising to 30% after it.

Responsibilities

- Win client companies in your niche and agree the scope and monthly fees with them.

- Deliver the work, or lead the people who deliver it: bookkeeping, monthly accounts, management reporting, cash flow forecasts and accounting system setup (Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho).

- Build a repeatable pipeline of clients, and report the desk's numbers each month.

- As the desk grows, help hire and lead the team that works on it.

Hours

Full time, remote, with flexible hours that overlap UK and US business hours.

Who this is for

- You have personally won bookkeeping, accounting or finance clients over the last two or three years, and can tell us roughly how many, who they were, how you found them and the monthly fees they pay.

- You know a niche well (for example agencies, e-commerce or professional services) and want to lead a desk in it, full time.

There are no fees and no investment: candidates never pay anything.

To apply, please answer these three questions in your application:

1. Have you personally won your own finance clients? Tell us about the bookkeeping, accounting or finance clients you have won yourself over the last two or three years: roughly how many, who they were, how you found them and got the first meeting, the monthly fees they pay, and how long it usually takes you from first contact to the first invoice. We are looking for someone who wins clients again and again in a niche they know, not someone with one good story, so the more of the pattern we can see the better.

2. Which niche would you build the desk in, and why do you think you can make it a success?

3. What do you understand this role to be, and why does it interest you?

Applications without these three answers are not reviewed.