Little Journey

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own day-to-day financial operations, including payroll, invoicing, A/P and A/R, bookkeeping, VAT and tax, ensuring transactions are accurate, timely, and well controlled across both the UK business and the US subsidiary.
• Ensure financial, corporate, and regulatory compliance, including timely statutory reporting, adherence to UK and US regulatory requirements, and oversight of audits, tax planning, and financial risk management.
• Lead cash flow, working capital, and treasury management, maintaining liquidity, forecasting cash requirements, and ensuring the business is well positioned to fund operations and strategic investment.
• Manage outsourced bookkeeping partner and external advisors (as needed).
• Improve finance processes, systems and controls, improving the quality, speed, and usefulness of financial information as the business scales.
• Own financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, providing forward-looking insight to support strategic planning, growth initiatives, and operational decision-making.
• Deliver high-quality financial reporting and analysis, including monthly management accounts, board reporting, financial modelling and scenario planning, improving understanding of unit economics and key financial levers.
• Act as a trusted finance business partner to the senior management team and departmental leaders, translating financial data into clear insights, challenging assumptions where appropriate, helping teams grow their financial understanding and ensuring cost controls.
• Support capital strategy and fundraising activity, working closely with the CEO and COO on fundraising (including financial modelling, and investor due diligence support), investor reporting, and debt or equity financing.

Finance Lead