Financial Controller – Part-Time

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Evaluate and modify finance systems, models, controls, and processes to meet the company's current and future requirements.

• Manage the month-end schedule and coordinate with the outsourced finance partner.

• Analyze monthly management accounts, encompassing revenue, costs, accruals, prepayments, deferred income, and significant judgments.

• Identify any missing invoices or incomplete data.

• Address issues across the organization, maintain an action log, and ensure that corrections are made prior to the CEO's review.

• Oversee and update the rolling cash-flow forecast.

• Lead the annual budgeting and regular re-forecasting process.

• Model the cash and profit impacts of hiring, changes in customer timing, investments, and various other scenarios.

• Create the financial section of the board pack, along with the supporting spreadsheets and presentation slides.

• Articulate performance, cash status, runway, forecasts, SaaS metrics, risks, and decision-making insights.

• Supervise commission plans and calculations to ensure that approved commissions are paid accurately and punctually.

• Provide financial analysis to support commercial and hiring decisions.

• Report directly to the CEO and work approximately two days a week.

⛳️ Requirements

• Qualified accountant, preferably ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.

• Experience as a Financial Controller or in a similar hands-on finance position.

• Background in a growing SaaS, technology, or other recurring-revenue business.

• Strong management accounting expertise, including month-end reviews, accruals, prepayments, revenue recognition, and variance analysis.

• Capability to create and maintain cash-flow forecasts, budgets, and scenario models.

• Proficient in preparing clear financial information and commentary for boards or senior leadership teams.

• Comfortable overseeing an outsourced bookkeeping or accounting partner while maintaining internal control over the output.

• Familiarity with SaaS metrics such as ARR, bookings, revenue, gross margin, retention, and cash runway.

• Advanced spreadsheet skills and the ability to enhance an existing model without adding unnecessary complexity.

• Capacity to investigate missing invoices or incorrect accruals.

• Proficient in communicating financial information clearly and constructively challenging assumptions with senior colleagues.

• Ability to work effectively in a part-time capacity.

• Experience in enhancing finance systems, models, controls, and processes as the company expands.

• Additional desirable qualifications include experience in venture-backed scale-ups, SaaS finance, board-pack preparation, commission calculations, annual budgeting, rolling re-forecasts, start-up or scaling technology company experience, coordination of year-end accounts/tax/payroll/compliance, and support for commercial decision-making.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful share options.

• Health insurance.

• Enhanced pension.

• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.

• 25 days of holiday, pro-rata (excluding bank holidays).

• Remote-first working environment.

• Work-from-home budget.

• Learning and development budget.

• Dental coverage.

• Eye-care support.

• Co-working space budget.

• Wellbeing allowance.

• Travel insurance.

• Electric car scheme.

• Access to the latest AI-powered tools and technologies.

• Some benefits are calculated pro-rata based on working hours.