Chief Financial Officer

Making the Market for Natural Capital as an Asset Class

Full time

Home based with travel to estates across the UK

As our Chief Financial Officer, you'll be at the forefront of a groundbreaking mission to scale Oxygen Conservation's natural capital portfolio to over £1 billion of assets under management by 2030.

Your focus will be leading investor relations and structuring investments while developing scalable financial strategies that attract large-scale institutional investors and family offices. You'll have the support of our exceptional Head of Finance (Alice Bayley) and a high-performing finance team to ensure operational excellence.

You'll develop and deliver a comprehensive financial strategy that supports sustainable growth and ensures robust financial stewardship across our business. From refining the financial narrative to driving operational excellence, your work will underpin the expansion of our portfolio and the scaling of impact in the natural capital sector.

We're searching for an exceptional Chief Financial Officer to lead our finance strategy and help make the market for natural capital as an asset class, ensuring that every decision we make drives lasting environmental and social change.

You'll thrive in a fast-paced, purpose-driven, data-rich environment, where tackling complexity and solving challenges are part of the daily adventure.

You're a strategic thinker who's equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to navigate financial details. With your inspiring vision and ability to build strong relationships, you'll bring an exceptional ability to communicate with investors, stakeholders, and colleagues, combining a deep understanding of financial structuring with a passion for creating impactful, sustainable solutions.

It doesn't matter whether you have come from a traditional finance background or have carved out your own unique path. What matters most is your passion for the environment, your drive to create meaningful impact, and your enthusiasm for working together toward a better future.

What You'll Bring:

• A leader who inspires, empowers, and sets the highest standards for their team to deliver excellence.
• A Finance professional with a proven track record of delivering results in dynamic environments and significant senior leadership and board experience.
• A strategic mindset with commercial acumen, paired with meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage and engage a diverse range of stakeholders - from investors to operational teams.
• A creative problem-solver who's proactive, adaptable, and ready to embrace challenges with humility.
• And yes, you'll need to be genuinely nice too. Whether it's sharing snacks on long journeys or braving the driving rain, you're someone who knows that teamwork and a positive mindset make all the difference.

What we'd love you to do

Investor Relations: Forge relationships with institutional and family office investors to position Oxygen Conservation as a leading opportunity in the natural capital market. Act as the primary spokesperson for investment opportunities, ensuring alignment with mission-driven objectives.

Defining a New Asset Class: Play a pivotal role in shaping the rules, processes, and standards that underpin the emerging natural capital market. Your leadership will help define governance, pricing, and reporting protocols, creating the green infrastructure for a thriving, global nature-based economy.

Structuring and Raising Funds: Develop innovative financial structures and lead capital-raising efforts to attract diverse funding sources, including equity, debt, and hybrid instruments. Ensure that all financial strategies are designed to maximise scalability and impact.

Strategic Financial Leadership: Provide strategic oversight while delegating operational and compliance responsibilities to the Head of Finance and their team. Ensure alignment between financial strategies and organisational goals.

Scaling Impact: Drive solutions to navigate complex financial and operational challenges, enabling our business to expand its market-leading portfolio and maximise impact for biodiversity, communities, and investors alike.

What you need to be awesome

Each role is different. Your location may be different. Your needs might be different. We will work with you to create a role and package that allows you to be incredible. The below details what every role will include, and what we feel every company should provide.

Most of our roles, unless site specific allow you the freedom to work from anywhere in the country, should you need help with this we too will be there to support.

We always want to ensure every member of the team has the right support needed. We are a tight knit team, always sharing, meeting and working together. Although we work remotely from one another the culture we have shaped allows you to never feel alone.

Do What You Love

If you bring a passion for conservation and a care for the environment, we'll support you to create your dream role.

Tools to Perform

We will ensure you are provided with the equipment you need to be incredible in your role.

Our interview process - what to expect

We hire people that are the best at what they do. And just as important as it is to discover if you're a good fit for us, you need to determine if we are a good fit for you.

1. Apply

This is the first step to becoming part of the team. Simply click the 'Apply Now' button to complete our application form, and show us how awesome you are!

CV's are needed, but on their own we don't feel they tell us enough about who you really are. So, we've asked for a 3-minute video from you, to answer just a couple of questions from us.

2. Opportunity to Shine

This role is incredibly important to the future of the business, as such you will get the opportunity to meet a wide range of team, and a number of board members during the recruitment process. We recognise this will take time, but we assure you it will be enjoyable, and we will be respectful of your time throughout.

3. Interview

There are a few key dates to keep in mind and so to keep to our promise of being respectful of your time, please find these listed below:

• Virtual interview with Alice Bayley (Head of Finance) and Andrew Dewar (Head of People) Monday 20th January to Friday 31st January
• Virtual coffee calls with Rich Stockdale (CEO) and David Williamson (Board Member) Monday 3rd February to Sunday 16th February
• Face-to-face interview (at Mornacott, our wonderful estate in Devon): with Rich Stockdale (CEO), Adam Franks (Board Member & Investor), and Fi Milden (Director of Planning and Property) Thursday 27th February
• Final meeting with Benny Higgins (Chairman) and Mark Dixon (Founder of Oxygen House): Monday 3rd March to Friday 7th March

4. Decision

If our passion for what we do aligns with yours and we think you'll be a great addition, we will invite you to join our growing team. If you love what you've learnt we hope you will accept, to be a part of our mission to Scale Conservation.