Group Finance Manager

Kallidus Recruit; Northern Ireland; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Totalmobile, a fast-growing PE-backed SaaS business in the UK, seeks a Finance Manager to strengthen controls, oversee payroll, and drive robust reporting for scale. You will partner with FP&A and Operations to improve visibility, support audits, and shape a scalable finance function.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will lead month-end close, consolidate multi-entity reporting and play a key role in finance transformation while ensuring accuracy and timely reporting across the group.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent credentials.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience preparing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience in a SaaS, subscription, technology or high-growth business environment is highly desirable.
• Experience in a private equity-backed, investor-led or scale-up environment would be advantageous.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment with evolving processes and systems.
• Excellent attention to detail and clear communication with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly management accounts with accurate commentary.
• Assist month-end close with journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
• Consolidate financial statements across the group, including multi-entity and multi-currency reporting.
• Maintain and improve the financial control environment and approval processes.
• Support cash flow reporting, working capital management and liquidity forecasting.
• Collaborate with FP&A and Operations to improve financial visibility for decisions.
• Assist with annual audit preparation and respond to audit queries.
• Oversee end-to-end payroll processes including pensions and deductions.
• Prepare payroll reporting and headcount analysis for management accounts.
• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives, systems automation and process improvements.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Financial systems proficiency

Payroll processing experience

SaaS metrics awareness

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite

Sage X3

Sage Intacct

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

We are seeking a high-calibre Finance Manager to join a fast-growing, private equity-backed SaaS business with turnover of approximately £80m.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this role will support the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting while helping to strengthen controls, improve processes and build a finance function capable of supporting the next stage of scale. The role will also oversee payroll processing and payroll reporting, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time and that payroll information is properly reflected in management reporting and statutory submissions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the production of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, consistency and clear commentary.
• Assist with the month-end close process, including journals, accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Help prepare consolidated financial statements across the group, including multi-entity and, where applicable, multi-currency reporting.
• Maintain and improve the financial control environment, ensuring appropriate policies, procedures and approval processes are followed.
• Support cash flow reporting, working capital management and short- to medium-term liquidity forecasting.
• Partner with FP&A and Operations teams to improve financial visibility and support decision-making.
• Assist with annual audit preparation and manage audit deliverables, queries and supporting schedules.
• Oversee the end-to-end payroll process, including payroll inputs, approvals, reconciliations, reporting, pension and benefit deductions, and liaison with external payroll providers where applicable.
• Prepare payroll reporting and analysis for management accounts, including salary costs, commissions, bonuses, employer taxes, benefits, headcount reporting and payroll-related accruals.
• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives, including systems optimisation, automation and process improvement.
• Provide ad hoc analysis for the Senior Finance Management team, including KPI, SaaS metrics and performance reporting.

Candidate Profile

• Qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent credentials.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience preparing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience in a SaaS, subscription, technology or high-growth business environment is highly desirable.
• Experience in a private equity-backed, investor-led or scale-up environment would be advantageous.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment with evolving processes and systems.
• Strong Excel and financial systems skills; experience with NetSuite, Sage X3, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics or similar ERP platforms would be beneficial.
• Experience with payroll processing, payroll controls and payroll reporting, with an understanding of PAYE, pensions, benefits and payroll-related reconciliations.
• Commercially aware, with an interest in SaaS metrics such as ARR, revenue retention, churn, CAC, gross margin and EBITDA.
• Excellent attention to detail, sound judgement and the ability to communicate clearly with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

• Month-end reporting is delivered accurately and on time, with fewer manual adjustments and stronger supporting analysis.
• Balance sheet reconciliations, controls and audit trails are robust, well documented and consistently maintained.
• Payroll processing, payroll reporting and related reconciliations are accurate, timely, well controlled and clearly integrated into monthly reporting.
• Finance processes become more scalable, automated and fit for a PE‑backed business preparing for continued growth.
• Stakeholders receive clear, reliable financial information that supports commercial decision‑making and investor confidence.

At Totalmobile, we want our employees to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. We are committed to an inclusive workforce that fully represents many different cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints. We are dedicated to supporting inclusion and diversity at Totalmobile. We actively celebrate colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.