Finance Manager (Remote)

Echobox; City Of London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech company in London is seeking a Finance Manager to lead financial reporting and strategy. The ideal candidate will have a strong educational background, relevant experience, and excellent analytical skills. This role offers competitive benefits including team events and a supportive working atmosphere. Join a dynamic team dedicated to innovation in the publishing industry.

Benefits

Free breakfast

Weekly team lunches

Team events and activities

Pension contributions

Generous annual leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years experience in a relevant role.
• High degree of competence with spreadsheets.
• An ability and desire to learn new skills quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage financial reporting and strategy.
• Ensure new contracts are correctly entered into CRM.
• Manage supplier contracts and negotiate with suppliers.

Skills

Fluent written and spoken English

Strong self-review skills

Excellent attention to detail

Strong time management

Strong analytical skills

Education

Minimum 2.1 degree from a top-tier university

Tools

Xero

HubSpot

Job description

About Echobox

We are a fast-growing, research-driven company building an artificial intelligence that helps online publishers overcome the challenges they face every day. Using novel AI, we are revolutionising the publishing industry and have a track record of building things that others have ruled out as impossible. Leading names from around the world rely on our product every day, including The Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, Vogue and many more.

Our team is our best asset. We work with extremely smart and talented individuals, who all enjoy a high degree of responsibility and independence in structuring their work.

Do you think you have what it takes to be part of Echobox? We'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Finance Manager to lead and manage our financial reporting and strategy, while working closely with our CEO & Founder, Commercial and Revenue Operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance/Accounting: monthly and quarterly investor reports, payroll, maintaining our financial model, calculating bonuses, grant applications, R&D tax credit (with an external consultancy), HMRC stock options valuations (for EMI)
• Control: ensuring that the details of new contracts are entered into our CRM system correctly
• Procurement: managing supplier contracts (e.g. rent, utilities), software renewals, insurance renewals, negotiation with suppliers
• Strategy: helping develop business plans for future products, market sizing, pricing strategies

Requirements

• Minimum 2.1 degree from a top-tier university
• Minimum 2 years experience in a relevant role
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Strong self-review skills and a commitment to accuracy and quality assurance
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong time management and ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure
• An ability and desire to learn new skills quickly
• High degree of competence with spreadsheets
• Strong analytical, assessment and problem-solving skills

Preferred Requirements

• Experience using Xero and HubSpot or similar accounting/CRM software
• Experience running multi-country payroll
• Familiarity with the publishing industry
• Experience in a fast-paced SaaS or tech environment

Benefits

Our employees enjoy free breakfast every day, coffee, drinks and snacks all day, everyday. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we order food for our weekly team lunches where everyone gets together for an hour of fun. We have regular team events (dinner, bowling, karting, poker nights, board-games etc.) for our team to get to know each other outside of work. Professionally, we host in-house conferences and an annual summer camp for all our global employees who are flown to and hosted in London. We ensure that all our employees also get pension contributions, the latest tech, generous annual leave and an amazing office with a balcony overlooking Notting Hill.