Finance Manager

Finance Manager

£55,000 - £65,000 per year

London

To play an integral role in the finance team ensuring financial operations and processes run effectively and efficiently within DueDil.

About DueDil:

2017 was a great year for DueDil. We launched our new API, Pan-European data coverage, and have continued to grow our customer base; building exciting new relationships and cementing our long-term partnerships with some of the UK’s most well known companies. We are enjoying a busy start to the year as we continue to strengthen our mission: to establish DueDil as the world’s largest source of private company information.

We are now looking towards the next 18 months, which will see us grow from a UK business to one that is truly international. Our vision at DueDil is to be the fuel of a more informed and connected economy. We now have the product, investors and team to make that happen, and would like an exemplary leader to help us deliver that vision.

Finance Manager Role Summary:

The Finance Manager will work closely with the VP of Finance and will have exposure to the Senior and Extended Leadership Teams. You will be responsible for supporting the VP of Finance in achieving alignment of financial shape and targets with business stakeholders, delivering the operating plan, periodic reporting and analysis, and steering the business to deliver the target financial shape.

More specifically, the main responsibilities of the Finance Manager are as follows:

• Responsible for reporting, management accounts, budget/ forecast modelling and analysing sales and revenue.
• Liaising with external accountants in the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring all relevant information is provided to the external accountants on a timely basis.
• Managing forecasting process for the business, planning and communicating required deliverables, ensuring appropriate review of assumptions, results, and timely submission.
• Presenting financial information to the team.
• Producing monthly board reporting, managing timely collation of information from other teams in the business.
• Providing key financial variance analysis and KPI analysis for review.
• Investor reporting.
• Ownership and management of cash flow and cash flow forecasting. Managing receipts and payments.
• Partnering with Sales and Marketing teams.
• Managing annual audit with external auditors.
• Managing R&D tax refund process.
• Management of Financial Force auto-billing and revenue recognition platform. Ensuring invoices are sent to customers in a timely fashion; running monthly revenue recognition; ensuring efficient debtor management.
• Management of payroll operated by external payroll bureau. Review of sales commissions auto-generated from Xactly platform. P11Ds; PSA reporting.
• Management of insurance policies.

What do we really need from this Finance Manager role?

• The Finance Manager will be a qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) with 2-3 years post-qualification experience and will have similar previous experience gained in a Start-Up/ Scale-Up environment.
• Individuals from larger businesses will be considered but must display the innovative and ‘can-do’ mindset required for the role, and a passion for taking on a broad set of responsibilities in a smaller team.
• You will have the ability to work collaboratively, build credibility and influence others.
• You will be an agile learner and dedicated to driving improvements.
• You will be able to demonstrate strong business acumen and perspective beyond the numbers.

If this Finance Manager role sounds right for you, apply now

What DueDil can offer you A genuine opportunity to ensure financial plans are fully aligned to the strategic direction and aspirations of the business. A chance to create actionable insights through financial analysis of business performance to engage stakeholders and guide future business decisions.

The opportunity to develop and implement process improvements to ensure financial processes are effective and efficient.

There is the potential of recruiting and managing a direct report within 8-12 months. This is your chance to really add value and go the extra mile to contribute to the future of DueDil.