🚀 #vacancy Chief Financial Officer at Freedom Telecom

About the team:

• Building telecom from scratch in Kazakhstan: fiber optics, 5G FWA, Wi-Fi, with MVNO on the horizon;
• Part of the public ecosystem of Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC);
• Over $200 million in assets, 12+ cities, 37 thousand subscribers, 1800 employees;
• Investment growth phase; goal by 2029 – TOP-3 provider of convergent services and 1 million B2C users.

The team says: My name is Kairat, and I dream of inventing the next generation of telecom. Together with the team, we are building it from scratch in Kazakhstan: fiber optics, 5G FWA, Wi-Fi, with MVNO on the horizon. We are challengers in a market that has been dominated by two classic telecom operators for decades, and I won't claim that our path ahead is crystal clear. Freedom Telecom's personal mission is the cheapest delivered gigabyte in the world.

What you will do:

• Capital raising: preparing for rounds, due diligence, working with funds/banks/investors, deal structuring;
• End-to-end financial strategy and model: FP&A, unit economics (CAC/LTV/ARPU/churn), scenario planning, cash/CAPEX forecasting;
• Treasury, liquidity, and working capital in the investment phase;
• Management and financial reporting under US GAAP and IFRS — a single source of truth for the CEO, Board of Directors, and investors;
• Leading the finance department (~60 people: accounting, FP&A, treasury, corporate finance, reporting, risks);
• Transitioning the finance function to AI.

What is important in a candidate:

• Experience as CFO / Finance Director, preferably in tech and/or in a high-growth phase;
• Proven fundraising and investor relations experience;
• Startup environment, building processes and financial models from scratch manually: FP&A, unit economics, treasury, controlling, US GAAP / IFRS;
• English B2;
• Strategic thinking, ownership, courage to defend financial logic to founders;
• Mandatory – AI skills: daily work in Claude / Claude Cowork / Replit, vibe coding, independent model and dashboard building, implementing AI in reporting and analytics.

What we offer:

• Direct impact on strategy, working with the CEO and the Board of Directors;
• Building an AI-native finance function from scratch to your own standards;
• A culture where mistakes are not punished and people hire those smarter than themselves;
• Salary + performance bonus + participation in business value growth (LTI / equity).

💌 To apply, send your resume + cover letter → to Maxim Beloborodov Bonus points for 1-2 cases of measurable value or a description of how you use AI in finance.