Financial Controller

Twenty-Four Recruitment Group is delighted to be working with a £7m turnover Technology Start up company that is about to expand its SAAS business internationally. They are seeking a qualified (ACCA/CIMA) Accountant to work directly with the CFO by leading and overseeing the financial operations and the ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationships, including the internal and external client teams, and preferred partners.

Type: Full Time or Part Time

Pattern: Hybrid

Duties:

• Overseeing the day-to-day finance operations work of our Finance Manager, part-time Finance Assistant and bookkeepers to ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting and a smooth and efficient month-end reporting process (including oversight, when required, of bank reconciliations, payment runs, payroll, pensions, balance sheet accounts and reconciliations, intercom reconciliations and cash collection/credit control).
• Leading the production of our monthly global management accounts including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries.
• Advise on how best to evolve and improve our reporting and KPI choices to best support our analysis of company performance against objectives and to support business decision making.
• Leading the financial planning process and owning the company’s financial modelling, building financial models and cash and P&L projections/scenarios for the Board and investor, driving continuous improvement in forecasting and budget modelling.
• Managing our revenue recognition policy and process, reconciliation of revenues and cash with our key partners and control of accounting for prepayments and accruals.
• Managing media agency value discounts and all commission/payments working with the senior sales directors.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Ad hoc requirements as needed in Finance including support as required with managing the set up of infrastructure and legals within new areas of geographic expansion.
• Working with our third-party advisor's on the company’s annual R&D claim and year-end accounts.

Key Skills:

• Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• Strong demonstrable experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and proficiency with Excel and Google sheets
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail
• A self-starter, capable of taking the initiative, and understanding quickly
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationships, including the internal and external client teams, and preferred partners

Desirable but not essential:

• Experience in tech/SaaS and/or at a high-growth start up/scale-up and/or with a company with an increasingly international footprint
• Experience in the media sector egadtech, martech, media owner, agency, brand owner
• Experience with our existing finance operations tech stack (Xero, Float, Payfit, Pleo, Telleroo, Hubspot)

TwentyFour Recruitment is an equal-opportunity employer. If your skill set and experience match the above ad then please apply today and if your CV is shortlisted a consultant will contact you to discuss the next stage of the recruitment process.