Finance Manager

Core3 | B Corp™; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Share options

25 days' annual leave

Hybrid working near Reading

Exposure to CFO

Job summary

Core3 is partnering with a high growth UK technology business developing advanced hardware for complex, real world applications. This is an opportunity to join a scaling company where you will help build the financial infrastructure behind rapid growth.

As Finance Manager in Reading (hybrid), you will own core financial control, automate processes, and partner with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting and commercial performance.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA from practice, ideally Audit.
• Willing to move into industry and learn how a technology business is built from the inside.
• Proactive, technically capable and comfortable with detail.
• Industry experience from start-up/scale-up, SME, manufacturing or hardware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own reconciliations, payments and core financial control.
• Support month-end close, management accounts and financial reporting.
• Maintain accurate accounting records and a reliable general ledger.
• Manage accounts payable, receivable and payment processes.
• Automate manual finance processes and build scalable reporting.

Skills

Audit experience

Attention to detail

Financial analysis

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

Are you looking for your first move from practice into a rapidly growing scale up where you can help make a real impact on the companies growth? or looking for your next move in industry from a similar environment?

This is one of those opportunities where joining at the right time could make a real difference to your career.

Core3 is partnering with a high growth UK technology business developing advanced hardware for complex, real world applications.

The CFO said 'ever seen the film Minority report' thats our technology advancement.

The business has moved beyond simply proving its technology. It has secured significant external investment, won meaningful commercial contracts and has a strong pipeline of further opportunities that could materially change the scale of the organisation.

The next challenge is delivering that growth.

They're now looking for a Finance Manager to join the business and help build the financial infrastructure behind it.

Finance Manager | £60,000–£65,000 + bonus + share options | Reading | Hybrid |

Permanent

This could be an excellent first move for a newly qualified accountant coming from Audit who wants far more than a conventional reporting role.

You'll work directly with the CFO and alongside a highly technical team, getting exposure to the commercial and operational realities of scaling an early-stage business.

You'll start close to the numbers. The opportunity is to grow well beyond them.

The Opportunity

The finance function is deliberately at an early stage.

Initially, you'll take ownership of the fundamentals. Reconciliations, payments, month-end, financial control, procurement and reporting all need someone who cares about getting the detail right.

But they aren't hiring someone to spend the next 3 years doing bookkeeping.

As the business scales, you'll help automate transactional finance, introduce better processes and controls, improve reporting and build the infrastructure needed to support a considerably larger organisation.

You'll also have the opportunity to explore how AI and automation can improve areas including finance, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, reporting and risk.

Few roles at this level give you that breadth.

What you'll be doing

Financial Control & Operations

• Own reconciliations, payments and core financial control.
• Support month-end close, management accounts and financial reporting.
• Maintain accurate accounting records and a reliable general ledger.
• Manage accounts payable, receivable and payment processes.
• Strengthen financial controls as the business grows.

Building the Finance Function

• Automate manual and transactional finance processes.
• Improve systems rather than simply inherit them.
• Build better management information and reporting.
• Support audit, tax and financial compliance.
• Partner with the CFO on the finance infrastructure needed for scale.

Commercial & Operational Finance

• Partner with technical and operational teams on budgeting and forecasting.
• Support procurement and supplier processes.
• Track project, development and manufacturing costs.
• Monitor spend against budget.
• Provide financial insight as new contracts and projects develop.

What we’re looking for

The ideal profile is a newly qualified ACA/ACCA accountant straight from practice, particularly Audit, who wants to make the move into industry and learn how a technology business is built from the inside.

You'll be proactive, technically capable and happy working in the detail. You'll also be curious enough to question how things are done and confident enough to find answers when everything isn't already mapped out.

We’d also consider someone who is qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with industry experience, particularly from a start-up, scale-up, SME, manufacturing or hardware environment.

The type of person who will thrive

This business isn't looking for someone who wants to inherit a finished finance function.

They want someone who wants to help build one.

You’ll enjoy technology, solving problems and making processes better. You’ll be comfortable switching between a reconciliation today and a bigger conversation about systems, automation, forecasting or commercial performance tomorrow.

As the company grows, the expectation is that your role grows with it.

What you’ll get

• Discretionary bonus.
• Share options.
• 25 days' annual leave.
• Hybrid working, with at least 2 days per week on-site near Reading.
• Direct exposure to the CFO and senior leadership.
• Significant scope to broaden your responsibilities as the company scales.

The attraction here isn't joining a business where everything has already been built.

It's joining while there's still an opportunity to build it.

You’ll get the funding, commercial momentum and ambition of a serious scale-up, while joining early enough for your work to genuinely influence what the finance function becomes.

If you’re looking for your first move from practice, or you're already in industry and want considerably more ownership, I'd be keen to speak with you.