Bulbshare Finance Manager

Remote

About the company:

We’re on a mission to solve the world's biggest social and commercial challenges through the power of customer collaboration. Our leading-edge technology and world-class teams help some of the most iconic brands in the world (LEGO, Nestlé, L’Oréal, Samsung) by creating unique online communities that collaborate and provide real-time insights, ideas and content. These customer-led insights fuel new ideas for products, marketing campaigns, content creation and much, much more. As Bulbshare rapidly accelerates its growth, we are looking for an exceptional Finance Manager to join our team and contribute to our mission.

Your role:

Working alongside the Senior Leadership Team and reporting directly to the CEO the Finance Manager will have responsibility for managing all aspects of the company’s finances from day-to-day financial operations, financial planning and analysis, through to Board and investor reporting relations.

Additionally, this is a leadership role and you’ll comfortable consulting with Heads of Department to help them achieve their objectives, as well as wider responsibility for new initiatives as we invest for growth. You’ll also be commercially strong and will relish the opportunity to advise on how we develop the business, in the right way.

Key responsibilities:

As Finance Manager, your key responsibilities will include:

Ownership of all budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes.
Overseeing budgets and ensuring everyone is sticking to them!
Preparation of monthly management accounts
Creation/delivery of monthly board materials and quarterly investor updates
Delivering financial analysis to challenge performance and drive profitability
Building stronger MI and KPI reporting processes
Working with CCO to ensure accurate revenue reporting
Partnering with Founder, Heads of Department, Board and Investors
Managing relationship with outsourced partner responsible for bookkeeping. In-time, potentially bring these functions in-house and build a team
Review of payroll preparation. Processing monthly salaries, monthly settlement of PAYE and annual returns
Supporting statutory reporting requirements
Continual improvement of core processes and controls as we scale
Bank management including payment setup and authorisation approvals
Proactive cash flow monitoring and management of relevant levers (e.g., AR, AP, etc.)
Ownership of other G&A responsibilities such as office, IT, supplier management and procurement processes.

What we are looking for:

Qualifications & Technical Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
Relevant FP&A experience
5+ years’ experience in management accounting
Tech start-up / scale-up experience (SaaS is preferable, however non-essential)
Xero experience preferred but non-essential
Advanced Excel, strong modeller and good with data manipulation skills

Candidate Profile

Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Excellent analytical skills and high standard of numerical accuracy
An effective business partner who can advise, challenge and influence senior stakeholders
Commercially focused and comfortable consulting with teams across the business
Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
Outgoing, social, confident individual
Ability to multi-task
Team player and adds to wider company culture

What’s in it for you:

Hours of work: Full time, however, will consider part time (minimum 3 days a week) for the right person

Experience all the benefits of working within a leading tech scale-up including a broad, challenging, and diverse role, fun and collaborative working environment, strong team culture and an inspiring and ambitious Leadership Team.

Salary range:

£40,000 to £70,000 (based on experience)

You’ll also enjoy…

Flexible location – work remotely or from our offices in London Bridge and Cape Town
30 days holiday excluding bank holidays and Christmas
Potential for flexible hours
Health Cash Plan
Pension
Training allowance for personal and professional development
Other company perks include team socials, regular team events

Contact:

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject 'Finance Manager Application'.