What You'll Do
- Financial Control & Reporting: Oversee the preparation and delivery of internal and external financial reporting including to banking partners and investors. This will involve monthly management accounts & statutory accounts. Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals fostering a high-performance culture.
- Audit & Compliance: Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors. Manage the year-end audit process, ensuring all schedules and supporting documentation are delivered accurately and on time.
- Systems & Process Improvement: Take ownership of the financial system’s landscape, including leading on financial system integrations. Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and strengthen financial controls.
- Treasury & Cash Management: Oversee the group's cash flow forecasting and working capital management. Ensure robust controls are in place for all treasury and payment activities.
What You'll Bring
Essential Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong technical accounting knowledge
- Advanced proficiency with financial ERP systems
- High degree of IT literacy (including Advanced Excel)
- Demonstrable experience in managing complex group consolidations and intercompany accounting
- Excellent leadership and team management skills, including coaching of junior members of staff
Experience That Will Set You Apart:
- Have worked within a fast-paced, high-growth financial services or technology environment
- Practice background
- Experience in a multi-legal entity business
- A proven history of successfully managing audit processes and building strong relationships with external auditors
- FCA reporting
- Accounting system migrations
Qualifications:
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified with significant post-qualification experience
Package
- Salary £TBC dependent on experience, and enjoy a flexible, 35-hour working week, 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and an extra 1-day holiday after each year of service (max additional 5 days). We offer a pension scheme and enhanced parental leave, healthcare and life assurance plans, annual leave purchase scheme, plus the option for a sabbatical
- The role will be based in Leeds at least one day a week with occasional travel to our London office