VP of Finance

Conveo (Yc S24)

Conveo (Yc S24)

Accounting & Finance

United States · London, UK · Antwerp, Belgium · Remote

Posted on May 7, 2026

Conveo

Confident decisions in days with AI-led interviews.

VP of Finance

London / Antwerp / Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Sales
Experience
5+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Dieter De Mesmaeker
Founder
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Founder

About the role

What we are building at Conveo

Conveo is the AI research platform enabling fast, affordable, and high-quality consumer / B2B research. Global brands use our AI video interviewer to generate insights across marketing, product, and research teams.

#1 What problem are we solving and why is this an important problem to solve

The current/traditional research methods companies rely on are slow, expensive, and superficial, thereby limiting the quantity and quality of research companies can conduct. Running great research also requires expertise which is a blocker to many companies. That directly affects how well companies understand their customers and how well they can serve them.

#2 The team you will join

You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people. We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives. Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.

#3 How we operate

  • We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve. That means we humbly go the extra mile every time.

  • We work hard and we have fun.

  • To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.

About the Role

We are winning Fortune 500 clients at warp speed while expanding internationally and growing our team.

As VP of Finance, you will be the full owner and architect of Conveo’s finance function — owning end-to-end responsibility for converting Conveo's finance function into a bulletproof and scalable operation with necessary controls to scale through Series B and beyond.

Through this role, you'll be the strategic designer, owner, and guardian of Conveo’s financials, be a core part of our leadership and work with the founders across all divisions, and drive the discussions for every significant call on capital, revenue and expenses, hiring, and growth. You

This role is for an expert in financial leader with a strong balance of strategic finance and accounting, excited to build out the function and team.

This role is for someone who has ideally led, set up and owned the full finance function for a startup/scaleup before — and wants to do it better, faster, and at a company that could define a category.

Your Mission

Main responsibilities of your team

  • Finance function architecture — design and optimise the finance function from 1 to 100 (team, responsibilities, financial systems, internal controls) that will allow Conveo to scale from ~45 today to 150+ people in only the next months

  • Finance team building — Build out the team to professionalise Conveo’s finance team

  • Financial Operations — Design and then manage your finance team to own AP/AR management, VAT, transfer pricing systems

  • Monthly close — Lead the team to structure the closing process of the books with our Big Four partner

  • Financial strategy & planning — Lead scenario analyses, KPI tracking

  • Cash & runway mastery — Give the company and investors real-time clarity on cash burn, scenario planning, and liquidity management, enabling fast and confident decision-making

  • Investor & board reporting — Own financial reporting for board and investors, financial due diligence/support in future fundraising, and build financial credibility that unlocks Series B

  • Funding — Help prepare the company for Series B, additional ways of financing

  • Business orchestration — Own hiring plans, ESOP plans, pricing, deal economics, capital allocation

What we're looking for

Must-haves

  • 10+ years of strong experience across financial operations, accounting, audit, or financial control

  • Leadership experience, having led a team of financial controllers, accountants,.. at venture companies

  • Experience of accounting and financial control experience at a startup/scaleup, ideally having set up the entire accounting system / ERP and books from scratch

  • Strong SaaS metrics understanding and FP&A experience

  • Fluent in English

Mindset

  • Builder — creates accounting system with operational focus

  • Low ego — able to lead but also willing help with the grunt work

  • Precise — strong eye for detail and numerical accuracy

Bonus

  • Familiarity with Belgian and/or UK local reporting/accountancy

  • Part of Series B or C fundraising as financial controller/accountant/financial ops manager

  • Experience with multi-entity consolidation

  • Managed financial operations for a startup before (accounting, ERP systems, AR/AP management, compliance)

  • Experience with 409A, R&D subsidies, tax administration, transfer pricing

What success looks like

  • Automated and efficient ERP/accounting-system with up-to-date figures and 100% accuracy

  • Conveo financially sound and prepared for Series B

  • Books closed on time every month, without exception

  • Keeping A/R and A/P on track in real-time

  • Live burn, runway, and KPI dashboard

  • Financial model actively driving decisions

Why join us?

  • Conveo closed its Series A round — with backing from Tier 1 investors

  • Design and own the finance ops function from Series A to Series B and beyond

  • Fortune 500 clients with exposure through industry events across the globe

  • Competitive compensation (including equity)

  • Rapidly growing organisation with offices across London, Antwerp, New York, and upcoming cities

About Conveo

Our story so far:

Founded in 2024 as a better way to conduct qualitative interviews, Conveo quickly gained traction after going through the Summer 24 Y Combinator batch where we saw significant interest from Consumer Goods companies. After raising our $5.3m seed round, we executed closely with our customers to build the best qualitative market research platform centered around AI-moderated interviews. Since then we’ve expanded our scope, grown our team, and Today, we're seeing incredibly strong adoption and usage across Insights, marketing, innovation, and strategy teams in industries like: Consumer goods, Retail, Pharma, technology, and consumer services.

Background

  • We help companies understand their customers, giving us virtually unlimited market potential. The market research industry is valued at approximately $100B, with qualitative solutions representing a $30B opportunity. With AI enablement, this market is expanding rapidly. This is an infinite horizon problem.
  • Experienced team. Our head of research was the founder of a market research company with 600+ employees, our CEO previously co-founded a $75m ARR startup as CTO. Our commercial and operational teams bring their operational excellence from McKinsey, while our sales leadership includes former VPs from Ipsos.
  • We believe in forging deep collaborations with our customers. In just 15 months, we've landed deals with some of the world's largest companies that are quickly expanding their work with us, including Unilever, P&G, AB InBev, Nestlé, Google and many others. We are seeing many brands switch to us from our competitors. We’re a growing team passionate about solving real-world challenges in customer research, enabling companies to make user-informed decisions. We're looking for driven senior engineers who love working on complex systems, care about solving problems for users, and are excited to shape the future of AI-driven customer insights.