Finance & Operations Manager | Second Finance Hire at a Profitable, High-Growth Analytics Scale-Up

Harmonic Finance™ | Certified B Corp; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Location: London (1 day in office, 4/5

10% matched pension

Private healthcare

Long-term illness insurance

Gym membership

Job summary

Harmonic Finance is hiring a Finance & Operations Manager to own the core back-office function and work with external bookkeepers and accountants. The role leads month-end close, reconciliations, VAT, payroll, and financial reporting while shaping the operations side, including onboarding, benefits and insurance.

You will report to the Director of Finance & Operations and have clear progression as the company scales, with opportunities to move into FP&A.

Qualifications

• Experience with month-end close and financial reporting.
• Startup/scale-up background preferred, small hands-on finance team.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end.
• Experience with technology to improve processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Month end with external bookkeepers and accountants.
• Intercompany accounting and recharges across the group.
• Year end, VAT returns and tax efficiencies with external advisors.
• Accounts payable end-to-end and monthly payroll.
• Finance systems and controls; roll out expense management system.

Skills

Financial reporting

Balance sheet reconciliations

Tax / VAT

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Tools

Xero

Slack

Zapier

Job description

Finance & Operations Manager | Second Finance Hire at a Profitable, High-Growth Analytics Scale-Up

Harmonic are delighted to be supporting a founder-led, highly cash-generative tech business in the search for a Finance & Operations Manager.

Operating within a specialist, data-led niche, the business has built a market-leading proprietary platform and a highly technical, engineering-led team. With c.30 employees and plans to grow towards 50 by the end of the year, they have recently appointed their first Director of Finance & Operations and are now building out the function to support the next phase of growth.

The Client

A profitable, privately owned technology business working in the sports and data space, built by a small, highly technical team. The business is self-funded and growing quickly, with headcount set to more than double this year, and finance and operations is now being built out to support that growth. The culture is relaxed and trusting: people are given ownership and left to manage their own schedules.

The Role

This is a hands-on Finance & Operations Manager role, owning the core back-office function day to day with external bookkeepers and accountants for support. It covers month-end, reconciliations, reporting, year-end, VAT, accounts payable and payroll, plus the operations side, including onboarding, benefits and insurance.

Why This Role

• Report directly to an experienced Director of Finance & Operations who is invested in your development and will give you real exposure to how the whole function runs
• Clear progression as the business scales, with scope to grow into FP&A and business partnering
• Freedom to modernise how things are done, starting with choosing and rolling out a new expense management system
• Broader experience across finance and operations, building a more commercial profile

What You Will Own

• Month end with the external bookkeepers and accountants, balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting
• Intercompany accounting, including reconciliations and recharges across the group
• Year end, VAT returns and tax efficiencies, working with external accountants and advisors
• Accounts payable end to end, monthly payroll and statutory submissions such as P11Ds
• Finance systems and controls, starting with selecting and rolling out a new expense management system
• Automated workflows and people operations, including onboarding, benefits and insurance renewals

What We Are Looking For

• Part-qualified or fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Industry experience in a startup or scale-up, ideally in a small, hands-on finance team
• Comfortable owning projects end to end
• Real examples of using technology or AI to improve a process
• Operations experience alongside finance, and familiarity with Xero, Slack or Zapier, a plus

The Package

• Location: London (1 day in office, 4 days WFH)
• Benefits: 10% matched pension, private healthcare, long-term illness insurance and gym membership
• Start Date: ASAP, open to notice periods

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.