Fractional Chief Financial, Operations Architect

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October 31

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Allied Talent Partners

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B2B • Marketplace • Social Impact

Allied Talent Partners is a talent marketplace focused on connecting experienced professionals with climate-related projects and businesses. The company aims to support climate action initiatives, particularly within Africa, by making specialized climate-related talent more accessible. Being incubated by the Three Cairns Group, ATP serves various stakeholders in the climate sector, including infrastructure developers, governmental bodies, NGOs, and consulting firms. Their services include project scoping, tech-enabled matching, and providing back-end support to ensure successful project delivery.

2 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🏪 Marketplace

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Establish financial governance structures, reporting templates, and monthly close processes to deliver reconciled financials within ten business days of month-end. • Implement internal controls for approvals and reconciliations to ensure audit readiness. • Develop cash-flow and runway visibility tools for leadership and investor reporting. • Define the roadmap for migrating from spreadsheets to an integrated finance and treasury management platform for hybrid fiat and digital assets. • Design the client’s internal fundraising tokenization framework, including token structure, vesting, governance, and integration with financial systems. • Coordinate with Swiss legal counsel and other advisors to validate the tokenomics model and ensure compliance with emerging FINMA and MiCA standards. • Deliver a tokenization blueprint and phased implementation roadmap by Q2 2026, outlining key milestones, dependencies, and governance implications. • Coordinate Swiss registration with external counsel, ensuring timely incorporation as an association and roadmap to a foundation structure. • Expand draft internal policies into a comprehensive governance and compliance framework aligned with Swiss and international standards, covering finance, delegation of authority, procurement, audit, risk, data protection, and ethics. • Establish a phased compliance roadmap linking policy priorities to growth and tokenization milestones. • Assess current operational and reporting systems to identify workflow and data inefficiencies. • Define the roadmap for a scalable, cloud-based data and reporting architecture integrating financial, operational, and token metrics (potentially overseeing implementation at a later stage). • Establish data-governance principles for accuracy, traceability, and accountability. • Develop dashboards and reporting routines enabling real-time, data-driven decision-making. • Collaborate with the Operations Lead and Chief of Staff to clarify roles, decision rights, and reporting lines across finance, operations, and tokenization to support effective cross-functional governance. • Define an organizational framework balancing strategic oversight with lean delivery, with recommendations for future structure by mid-2026. • Develop a resourcing plan identifying priority hires or outsourced functions in finance and compliance. • Support leadership in embedding coordination mechanisms (e.g., meeting cadence and reporting routines) to ensure operational alignment within three months of onboarding. • Immediate (0–3 months): Establish monthly close and reporting routines, implement reconciliations, ensure financial visibility and control, and coordinate Swiss registration progress. • Medium Term (3–9 months): Deliver the tokenization blueprint, governance and compliance frameworks, and finance-system roadmap. • Longer Term (9–12 months): Drive institutional readiness for finance and compliance system implementation, finalize governance policies, and establish operational reporting dashboards. • Success metrics: Monthly close completed within 10 business days. 100% reconciled fiat and crypto balances. 12-month runway visibility updated monthly. High priority compliance and filings completed on time, with phased plan for remaining compliance and governance frameworks to be implemented subsequently. Tokenization roadmap ready for implementation by Q2 2026.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of experience in finance, operations, or institutional development within DFIs, impact investors, or financial technology environments. • Demonstrated experience establishing finance, treasury, and governance systems in early-stage or scaling organizations. • Prior experience overseeing Swiss or international regulatory compliance and working with legal counsel on registration or foundation structures is highly desirable. • Exposure to digital assets, tokenization, or fintech-enabled financial operations preferred. • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across finance, operations, and legal functions. • Advanced degree in finance, business administration, economics, or related discipline (MBA or CFA preferred). • Strong understanding of financial controls, reporting standards, and audit processes. • Familiarity with Swiss governance frameworks, international compliance standards, and digital finance technologies. • Proven ability to design and implement integrated financial and operational systems. • Exceptional analytical, reporting, and data interpretation skills. • Mission-driven and deeply motivated by Africa’s energy and climate transformation. • Entrepreneurial and self-directed, with a strong bias for building from the ground up. • Strategically minded and execution-focused, able to translate complex objectives into practical financial and operational systems with clear accountability. • Collaborative across finance, legal, and technical functions, aligning diverse teams toward shared goals. • Adaptable and effective in decentralized, fast-moving digital environments. • Globally minded with strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to build trust across investors, partners, and institutional counterparts.