Finance Manager Finance Remote - UK

Storyteller; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 58,500 - 71,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 Days Paid Leave

High-end laptop and equipment

Paid training

Annual Flu inoculation

Team outings

Job summary

A fast-growing SaaS business in Edinburgh is seeking a Finance Manager on a full-time permanent contract. The role involves managing cash flows, leading financial strategies, and implementing automation across finance functions. The ideal candidate is ACA/ACCA qualified with 2+ years' experience and thrives in a dynamic environment, working with global brands. The position offers flexibility in remote work and a competitive salary up to £65,000 per year, along with benefits like paid training and home office support.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of post-qualification experience in finance.
• Demonstrated experience in automating finance processes.
• Ability to present financial analyses to non-finance audiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage cash flow and financial strategy.
• Own day-to-day accounting tasks.
• Identify and implement automation in workflows.

Skills

Financial strategy

Automation

Decision support

Cash flow management

Stakeholder communication

Education

ACA/ACCA qualified

Tools

AI tools

Financial software

Job description

🇬🇧Up to£65,000per year,on afull timepermanent contract

🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!

🏖 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits

✨ Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports

💻 Working with the latest hardware, techstackand tools

ABOUT US

We have two distinct businesses (but with unified processes), which means real variety in the finance function:

We’re200+ people, remote-first, and weoperatewith startup pace backed byestablished-companystability. We adopt new tools and ways of working proactively — including AI across the business — and we expect every function to pull its weight there. Finance is no exception.

Storyteller is our fast-growing SaaS business, enabling companies (think major global sports brands) to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. This brings a different financial profile, producteconomicsand growth-stage dynamics.

Storm Ideas is a forward-thinking media agency, founded in 2008, working with globallyrecognisedclients across the US TV and entertainment industry. We produce content at scale, deliver operational services, and sit at the intersection of media, technology, and creativity.

It’sa rare combination that keeps the work interesting and develops a broader skill set than a single-entity role.

Embracing Future-Facing Technology

The finance function is changing fast. AI and automation are absorbing the routine work — reconciliations, variance analysis, management account prep — that used to fill most of a finance team’s week.

We’renot looking for someone who sees that as a threat. We want someone who sees it as an opportunity to spend their time on work thatactually movesthe business forward: strategic analysis, cash flowoptimisation, commercial decision support, and building finance systems that scale without headcount.

You’ll own the entire finance function across two businesses — a 200+ person media agency with major US entertainment clients and a fast-growing sports focused SaaS platform.You’ll work independently, move quickly, and be expected to automate yourself out of the mundane so you can focus on what matters (this part is key). Importantly, youwon’tbe alone –you'llbe supported by 2 experienced Finance team members, with someassistancealso from our Client Services team.

About us

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with many globally recognised clients, particularly within sport, so if you're a sporting fan this could be a great fit!

Responsibilities

Strategic Finance & Decision Support

• Surface and give leadership the numbers they need without waiting for month-end
• Create actionable analysis for the board — not slide decks full of backward-looking charts, but forward-looking insight that drives decisions
• Own financial strategy with a focus on tax efficiency and long-term fiscal planning

Core Finance Operations

• Ownership of cash flow management and forecasting
• Manage day-to-day accounting: billing, AP, AR, cost accounting. But the expectation is thatyou’reautomating the repetitive elements, not drowning in them
• Lead management accounts preparation andensure reporting accuracy at all times
• Develop finance policies, internal controls, and compliance that are lean and proportionate to our scale

Automation, AI & Systems

• Identifyand implement automation across finance workflows — we expect you to be proactivelyeliminatingmanual processes, notmaintainingthem
• Use AI tools (LLMs, skills, automation platforms) to accelerate reporting, analysis, and routine finance tasks
• Build scalable, documented processes thatdon’tdepend on you being in the loop for every step

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

• ACA/ACCA qualified with 2+ years’ post-qualification experience
• Proven ability to work independently and own outcomes — youdon’twait for instructions
• Comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders and presenting financial analysis to non-finance audiences
• Demonstrable experience automating or significantly improving finance processes (not justidentifyingproblems — fixing them)
• Genuine, active engagement with AI and automation tools —we’llask you about this in the interview
• Strong commercial instinct: you understand that finance exists to support business decisions, not to produce reports for the sake of it
• Ability and aptitude to build basic automations or AI workflows

Nice to haves

• Experience in a media agency, start up or tech company
• Experience with high-growth or scaling businesses where processes were being built,optimisedand automated, not just maintained

WHAT WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR

If you see AI as a fad, prefer manual processes because “that’s how it’s always been done,” or believe the finance function’s primary value is producing retrospective reports — thisisn’tthe right fit. We need someone who wants to build the future of this function and is genuinely excited by that, not to preserve the past.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS

• High end laptop - macOS or Windows!
• Top of the range monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and gel rests
• Paid training to further your skills
• Annual Flu inoculation
• Team outings and monthly meets

AFTER 3 MONTHS

• Up to £700 to spend on a chair, desk or any other necessary workspace equipment to kit out your home office.
• £750 budget every two years to choose your own mobile phone + monthly mobile contract paid for
• Enrolment in workplace pension scheme with matched employer contributions
• Money towards glasses with Specsavers

AFTER 1 YEAR

Access to the Cycle to Work scheme

Recruitment Process

• 30-minute introductory callwith Ben, Head of Operations
• Finance exercise(compensated) designed to assess practical skills and approach
• Final 1-hour interviewwith Ben and Louise, CEO of Storm Ideas