Financial Controller, series C tech scale up
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Finance
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- £80000 - £85000 per annum + + equity
- Posted
- 06 May 2021
- Closes
- 13 May 2021
- Ref
- JN -042021-2563972
- Contact
- Camilla Strachan
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Digital
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Be responsible for management of the day-to-day accounting
- Support the projected exponential growth with technical and leadership skills.
Client Details
- This client is revolutionising the world of video with clever, pioneered and patented technology
- With an extensive and committed shareholding, the company recently raised £20m+ in a Series C round
- 70+ people in London and in Asia and growing
- Central London offices
- Established for over 10 years with impressive investors and shareholders
- With ground-breaking technology, a fast-paced environment and major growth plans, there's never been a better time to join this company
Description
- Initially part of a lean team, you'll be exposed to senior management, and as the business grows your position will require a finance team to be built around you to help scale up the business to several times its current size
- Manage the full month-end process to trial balance in a timely and accurate manner with the help of the accounting assistant and any future team members
- Hands-on posting of regular journals, complex accounting transactions, adjustments and reviews
- Consolidation of subsidiaries accounts on a monthly basis
- Optimise the existing accounting systems (Sage 200, expenses tools, PO tools) and prepare for company's next stage of growth
- Drive the annual full statutory audit under IFRS, liaising with auditors to a timely sign-off
- Progressively take the lead in defining advanced accounting policies for R&D, intangibles capitalization, funding, revenue recognition etc
- Support the CFO in the annual budget preparation with analysis, historicals and liaising with all Departments managers
- Actively forecast and manage cashflow, manage AP and AR and stock for maximum working capital efficiency
- Ensure the Group discharges all its financial, statutory and tax compliance obligations within the required deadlines and support tax compliance, analysis and planning across the Group
- Support the fund-raising efforts and investors relations with ad-hoc analysis and reports
Profile
- The successful candidate will be a qualified chartered accountant with strong technical accounting and finance operations management experience.
- The candidate will need to demonstrate a flexible and entrepreneurial attitude to work, the ability to work on several significant pieces of work concurrently, and the ability to build relationships at all levels, with finance and non-finance colleagues
- You should be comfortable working autonomously while coaching your line reports and supporting the CFO and Executives
- You will have experience and passion for working with owner-managed businesses and scaling-up SMEs but had exposure to large company's operations and best practices in order to lead in the implementation of a finance team and processes that can manage the expected growth.
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge (IFRS, leading audit preparation)
Job Offer
- On offer is full exposure to the inner workings of an ambitious international "start-up" with complex financial operations and aiming for an exit in the next few years with plenty of space for a candidate that wants to grow in knowledge with the company