Little Journey

Finance Lead

Little Journey

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Leeds • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £85,000 - £92,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a senior finance role (e.g. Finance Lead, Head of Finance), with end-to-end responsibility for the finance function in a growing business at a similar stage (Start-up / scale-up, Series A / B)
  • Experience supporting a B2B business, ideally with exposure to different revenue models
  • Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, budgeting, and cash flow management, with clear ownership of outputs and quality
  • Demonstrated ability to define, analyse, and improve profitability, including developing a clear understanding of margins, unit economics, and financial performance across different parts of the business
  • Track record of producing high-quality board-level reporting, including clear narrative, insight, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making
  • Experience working as finance leader for a PE/VC portfolio company
  • Exposure to fundraising, investor reporting, or financial (and customer) due diligence, supporting senior leaders through investment processes
  • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience
Benefits
  • Gross salary: £85-92K per year for FTE
  • EMI share options
  • Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice)
  • 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
  • £500 annual training budget
  • £200 home working budget (one-off)
  • Flexible working with core hours
  • Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial operationspayrollinvoicingbookkeepingVATtax planningfinancial reportingfinancial modellingcash flow managementbudgeting
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationanalytical skillsstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationinsight generationfinancial understandingcost controltrustworthiness
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA