Finance Director – UK & Europe – Inc 500 Cloud Tech Brand

It's our mission to be the world’s favourite marketplace for technology professionals to buy cloud products and it could be your chance to gear up to get this exciting new platform momentum in the UK market! Following our acquisition of a successful UK cloud solutions consultancy we're now hiring our first UK Finance Director, where from our office in Farnborough you will help propel us into the stratosphere.

We encourage you to apply for a role even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points!

Role Info:

Finance Director – UK & Europe – Inc 500 Cloud Tech Brand
Farnborough HQ / Hybrid Remote – M3 Corridor (30-60 Mins From London)
£100,000 – £125,000
Plus Benefits Package

We're listed on the Inc 500
Awarded Best Places to Work 2021
Women in IT UK Awards 2021

Compatibility Traits:

+ Strategic financial engineering and organisational efficiency
+ European Acquisitions experience – multiple entities management/absorption
+ Tax & Audit exposure in UK, and ideally Europe
+ Evaluated / implemented new systems
+ Ability to become a Senior Finance Director for Europe
+ Excited to go on a growth journey, hands on for 6 months, define outcomes

The Finance Director Role:

Reporting to the UK COO and working across the UK, Europe and USA, you'll be working closely with the Founders, the Senior Leadership and the Global Finance Team in a key role overseeing the growth and integration of new entities and further European expansion.

You'll be responsible for end to end finance engineering, building operational efficiencies in the UK and Europe and building team capability. You'll have the potential to progress to an International role as Senior VP of Finance for Europe.

With 2,558% 3-Year Growth, we are a dynamically expanding (800+ employees), and high-energy organisation (Inc 5000 4 consecutive years) with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business.

You’ll have experience of a scaling finance function, and building organisational efficiencies for rapid decision making and integrating new entities while expanding the tools that deliver trusted, real time company data to successful serial technology entrepreneurs and investors priming company growth.

Your Day to Day in this role includes:

* Partnering with Leadership team on business strategy for real time decision-making
* Providing strong business intelligence using data-led presentations to a UK Leadership team
* Managing and developing a local finance team of 3
* Acting as the trusted partner to the US for a European based finance function
* Providing month end reporting to support global General Ledger reporting
* Overseeing and managing the UK financial budgeting and forecasting process
* Providing advice and complying with UK & US Government reporting requirements and tax filings
* Assisting with European acquisition integrations
* Reviewing month end General Ledger close including: account reconciliations, accrual journal entries, depreciation
* Preparing annual statutory accounts and overseeing revenue functions
* Ensuring successful completion of annual external financial audits

Our finance function is carrying the hopes and dreams of all our employees and this is an important role successfully steering our financials during periods of 1000% growth.

With hybrid office/home-work flexibility you'll ideally be positioned within easy reach of our Farnborough office for a few days each week, but free to decide your own work pattern around that.

About You:

You'll be ideal for us if you:

+ Have 5+ years post qualification experience ideally in a high growth, modern technology company
+ Have knowledge and experience of European Tax and Audit advisory services
+ Have worked in a public company or have supported IPO preparation
+ Are professionally certified with one or more of the following: ACCA / ACA / CIMA
+ Have NetSuite (or similar) implementation and/or integration experience
+ 2+ years successful people management, growth and development experience

Salary & Benefits:

+ £100,000 – £125,000 salary
+ 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
+ Hybrid Office/Home flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm
+ Tech set up to support great home and in-office working
+ Private healthcare
+ Dental Plan
+ Life Assurance
+ Income Protection
+ Workplace pension scheme
+ Regular?company and team socials
+ Company Bonus Scheme Eligibility
+ Share Options after qualifying period

In-Office Environment – When we're free of Covid!

+ Amazing Offices with natural light
+ Dedicated desk with laptop dock and two monitors
+ Free on-site parking
+ Shuttle bus from Farnborough Main station
+ Access to on-site gym
+ On-site shower
+ Barista grade coffee machine
+ Fully stocked drinks fridge

What’s in it for you?

There’s plenty of scope for a talented individual to progress quickly in this opportunity or to other internal options as we grow and expand. We have our very own internal academy for personal development plus access to extensive "born in the cloud" mentors available for your growth. We’ll provide the opportunity to stretch and projects to help you thrive and see exactly what you need to achieve to get to the next level. You might even get to exchange work location one day with your colleagues in the USA but even if you can't travel right now we guarantee you'll still have fun!

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Equal Opportunities:

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the UK. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks.

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