Financial Controller

London, England, United Kingdom

10/18/2024

Salary: £70,000

Hiring Manager: Peter Mildon, COO and Co-founder

Location: Old Street London, 2-3 days per week in office

About you:

Our Finance team provides the right information for the business to make the right decisions. We’re looking for an experienced and ambitious Finance professional, who knows how to provide sound financial control as well as how to efficiently distribute key financial information to the broader business. This role reports into the COO and is responsible for a team of 3, owning the information that they produce and ensuring it is understood and acted upon by the rest of the business.

This is an exciting time to join VivaCity. It provides the opportunity to learn and grow from holding the business to account against plan, in a business that is scaling across the UK, US and ANZ and seeking to achieve profitability in 12 months’ time.

What you’ll be doing:

Reporting:

• Assisted by your team, production of timely and accurate management accounts to support Executive team in monthly Board meetings with investors
• Periodically review reporting processes, focussed on provision of quality insights with an efficient process that keeps reporting overhead manageable
• Work with external accountants to produce annual statutory financial accounts
  
  
  

Business partnering:

• Active part of management team working with ‘Heads of’ to ensure shared understanding of financial consequences of business decisions
• Assisted by your team, produce simple monthly financial reporting & KPIs to management team
• Routinely review expenditure across the business, and work with management team to drive operational and cost efficiency as we scale internationally
  
  
  

Cash flow management:

• Management of weekly cash flows against a Budget
• Work closely with Manufacturing team to plan stock purchasing forecasts, and actioning these plans to ensure efficient management of working capital
• Approval of supplier payruns and monthly payroll (produced by external provider)
  
  
  

Compliance:

• Oversight of annual regulatory requirements, ensuring regular filing deadlines are met across our UK, US and ANZ presence.
  
  
  

What we're looking for:

• You must have experience of working for Finance in a scale up (e.g - post Series A), and have demonstrated value add from a broad Finance role
• Any FP&A experience will be highly valued, but is not essential - we’re happy for this role to gain such experience in the role
• You are an excellent communicator, knowing how to place financial topics in a broader context
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
  
  
  

What we offer:

• 25 days of holiday
• Flexible working hours and work from home
• Up to 30 days per year work from abroad
• Up to 3 flexible bank holiday days
• £200 total working from home budget
• £850 per year learning and development budget
• Enhanced parental leave
• Up to 3 ‘childcare’ or ‘dependant’ days per year
• Mental health support through Spill
• Discounted gym memberships through GymFlex
• £50 per person per quarter team social budget
• Additional entertainment budget and company parties
• Office food and drinks
• Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction
• Eye care vouchers
• Seasonal Flu jabs
• Cycle to work scheme
• Payroll giving through salary sacrifice
  
  
  

You don't need to have done all of these things before, but to excel in this role, you will need to be keen to learn and comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. If you're close to what we're looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

We know that diverse ideas and perspectives drive innovation and make us better. We are creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. We're an equal opportunities employer and all applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, or social background. If you need any reasonable accommodations to help you perform at your best during the application process, please let us know.