Senior Finance Manager

present of AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Helical in London is seeking a Senior Finance lead to own accounting, compliance and reporting across two entities while preparing the company for a funding round. You will manage day-to-day finance operations, build budgets and models, and design scalable processes that will grow with a rapidly developing AI-driven biology company.

Strong communication with investors and non-finance colleagues is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong accounting foundation with hands-on scale-up experience.
• Ability to build budgets and financial models.
• Experience in multi-entity consolidation and reporting.
• Clear communication with investors and non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Own accounting, compliance and reporting across two entities.
• Prepare the company for a funding round.
• Manage day-to-day finance operations and set up scalable processes.
• Ensure accuracy and clear communication to investors.

Skills

Accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial reporting

Communication

Tools

FinOps tooling

Automation tools

Job description

Finance & Legal · London, England, United Kingdom · Full-time · Senior level

The first full time finance hire, owning accounting, compliance and reporting across two entities while preparing the company for a funding round. A strong candidate brings a real accounting foundation plus hands on scale up experience, can build budgets and models, and is comfortable doing the day to day work while setting up processes that will scale. Accuracy, ownership and clear communication to non finance colleagues and investors matter as much as technical skill.

How it fits the AI era

Much of the routine finance operations work, from payables and invoicing to expense handling, can be automated, and the posting explicitly asks for an automation and AI first approach. What stays human is judgement: interpreting variances, explaining numbers to investors, running due diligence and designing controls that fit a growing company. The role sits where tooling speeds up the work but accountability for the numbers remains personal.

How it builds AI experience

This role offers a chance to put AI tools into practice by automating finance operations end to end, which builds hands on experience with the FinOps stack and workflow automation. Because the company works on computational biology models, the finance hire also gains exposure to how an AI native company operates and reports to investors. Building fluency with AI tools and simple automated processes before applying would strengthen a candidacy.

Worth showing

• Multi entity consolidation
• Budget and forecast models
• FinOps tooling

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About Helical

Helical provides a virtual computational laboratory that post-trains biological foundation models for target identification and biomarker discovery.