Head of Finance, Financial Manager

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

📋 Description

• Assume complete responsibility for the finance function, establishing priorities, identifying risks and gaps, and creating processes and controls to facilitate ongoing growth.

• Collaborate with the CEO by delivering financial insights, recommendations, and challenges regarding costs, investments, profitability, cash position, and business priorities.

• Lead the internal Finance Controller and manage relationships with external accountants and auditors.

• Oversee bookkeeping, reconciliations, accounting records, supporting documentation, and maintain high-quality financial data.

• Enhance management reporting, including P&L, cash flow, budget vs. actuals, project profitability, margin analysis, and key business performance indicators.

• Develop capabilities for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning.

• Evaluate the financial feasibility of initiatives, investments, projects, and cost-saving opportunities, considering ROI, cash impact, risk, and strategic value.

• Supervise operational finance processes, including client invoicing, payments, contractor payouts, billing data, approval workflows, and receivables.

• Assist with financial operations involving foreign clients and non-resident entities, including international invoicing, cross-border payments, contracts, and financial documentation.

• Coordinate local annual audits, ensuring all necessary information and supporting documents are complete, accurate, and submitted on time.

• Review VAT-related and other accounting or tax documents prior to submission to external accountants.

• Streamline, automate, and document finance processes, controls, reporting workflows, approval procedures, and governance standards.

• Implement automation through advanced spreadsheets, accounting systems, BI tools, integrations, scripts, or AI-assisted workflows.

• Contribute to the future development of BI dashboards and a scalable reporting infrastructure.

• Communicate financial risks, issues, and recommendations to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in finance, accounting, financial control, audit, or management reporting.

• Prior experience in IT, software development, IT outsourcing, SaaS, or another international service-oriented business.

• Proven track record of taking comprehensive ownership of a finance function or a significant finance area within a growing or scaling organization.

• Strong practical knowledge of accounting principles, financial controls, reconciliations, management reporting, audit readiness, and month-end or year-end closing processes.

• Experience in preparing and interpreting management reports such as P&L, cash flow, budget vs. actuals, profitability, and margin analysis.

• Ability to convert financial data into actionable business recommendations and assist leadership in prioritizing costs, investments, and strategic initiatives.

• Demonstrated capacity to make independent decisions, challenge assumptions, and influence senior stakeholders through clear financial analysis.

• Experience working with foreign clients, non-resident entities, international invoicing, cross-border payments, and associated financial documentation.

• Experience managing or supervising finance professionals and coordinating with external accountants, auditors, or other service providers.

• Hands-on experience with finance operations, including invoicing, payments, receivables, approvals, and supporting documentation.

• Strong process-building mindset, with examples of developing or enhancing finance processes that can operate independently of constant personal oversight.

• Proficiency in advanced Excel or Google Sheets for reconciliations, reporting, financial analysis, modeling, and data validation.

• Familiarity with accounting/reporting systems such as QuickBooks Online or similar tools.

• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment where certain processes may still require definition or restructuring.

• Advanced written and spoken English proficiency.

• Previous Big 4 experience in audit, assurance, accounting advisory, or consulting is highly advantageous.

• Hands-on experience coordinating finance, accounting, or audit processes for UK or Cyprus entities is a significant advantage.

• Experience with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau, reporting automation, SQL, scripting, or system integrations is a valuable asset.

• Practical use of AI tools to enhance finance operations, reporting, analysis, documentation, or learning, with a clear understanding of confidentiality and result validation is a strong advantage.

• ACCA qualification completed or in progress is a notable benefit.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Wellbeing budget

• Sport coverage

• Learning budget

• Monthly commute allowance for those visiting the office in Kyiv (Kooperativ)

• 19 business days of paid vacation per year

• Paid sick leaves

• All public holidays are paid days off

• Maternity & paternity leave policy