Senior Finance Manager

Ryft Pay Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity options

25 days holiday

Hybrid working from Manchester

Team socials

Autonomy in a fast-paced role

Zusammenfassung

Ryft Pay Ltd is seeking a Senior Finance Manager in Manchester to own the month-end close, ensure balance sheet integrity and lead a small finance team. You will drive process improvements, automate where possible and partner with the Financial Controller on year-end, VAT, and audits.

You will manage the close timetable, produce management packs, and maintain strong internal controls in a fast‑growing FCA-regulated payments business.

Qualifikationen

• Fully qualified accountant with strong technical accounting foundation.
• Demonstrated ownership of a month-end close and management accounts pack.
• Experience in high-volume transactional environments with large data sets.

Aufgaben

• Month-end close and management reporting.
• Own the month-end timetable end to end with increasing volumes and complexity.
• Prepare and review the monthly management accounts pack for review by senior finance leaders.
• Review journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations for accuracy.
• Maintain balance sheet integrity with timely reconciliations and control reviews.
• Collaborate with client funds and reconciliations teams to reflect positions in the ledger.
• Oversee purchase, sales, expenses and payroll journals with documented controls.
• Design and implement scalable processes; remove manual steps and automate where possible.
• Support VAT, year-end and audit with accurate schedules; contribute to budgeting and forecasting.
• Lead and develop the finance team, setting standards and providing technical escalation.

Kenntnisse

Month-end close ownership

Balance sheet discipline

Line management experience

Excel proficiency

Cloud accounting systems

Data analysis in high-volume env

Ausbildung

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Tools

Excel

Cloud accounting platforms

Jobbeschreibung

About Ryft

Ryft is a regulated payment facilitator and authorised payment institution building the infrastructure layer for modern commerce platforms.

We enable marketplaces, SaaS platforms and multi‑party ecosystems to embed and monetise payments natively. Our technology handles onboarding, compliance, orchestration, split payments and revenue sharing, allowing our partners to focus on growth while we manage complexity.

We are now entering the next phase of scale, expanding into new verticals and building a category‑defining embedded payments platform.

About the role

This is a hands‑on Senior Finance Manager role within a fast‑growing finance team at an FCA‑regulated payments business. Reporting to the Financial Controller and leading a team of two, you will own the monthly close and the integrity of the balance sheet and take day‑to‑day responsibility for how the finance team runs.

A significant part of this role is being involved in building the processes that do not exist yet and automating the ones that still rely on manual effort.

This suits a fully qualified accountant who has already owned a month‑end close in their own right and wants to step up into genuine team leadership - someone comfortable in the detail, working at pace, in a business whose volumes and complexity are growing

quickly.

Key responsibilities

• Month‑end close and management reporting

• Own the month‑end timetable end to end, maintaining a disciplined and efficient close as transaction volumes and complexity grow

• Prepare and review the monthly management accounts pack, ready for review by the Financial Controller and Finance Director

• Review the journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations prepared by the team, taking responsibility for the accuracy of what is issued

• Take full ownership of balance sheet integrity, ensuring accounts are reconciled monthly, reconciling items are resolved promptly and appropriate review controls are maintained

• Work closely with our client funds and reconciliations team, ensuring the positions they produce are reflected correctly and promptly in the ledger

Process build, systems and controls

• Take ownership of finance processes across the transactional cycle - purchase ledger, sales ledger, expenses and payroll journals - ensuring controls are documented and consistently applied

• Design and implement new processes for activities the business has not had to account for before, getting them right at the point of introduction rather than retrofitting them later

• Identify and remove manual effort, making the case for change where a process works today but will not scale

• Embed scalable financial controls as the business grows, ensuring key processes are appropriately documented, evidenced and reviewable

Supporting the wider finance function

• Support the Financial Controller on VAT, year‑end and audit by providing accurate, reconciled figures and supporting schedules to deadline

• As you establish yourself in the role, we expect the remit to broaden, with increasing ownership of areas such as VAT, year‑end, audit and other technical accounting matters

• Contribute actuals, cost driver insight and practical input to budgeting and forecasting

• Escalate technical and judgement‑based issues promptly, with a clear recommendation rather than an open question

Team leadership and development

• Line manage a Management Accountant and an Assistant Management Accountant, review their output, set the standard for quality, and act as the first point of technical escalation before matters reach the Financial Controller

• Coach and develop the team, supporting professional study and creating opportunities for them to take on more

Skills - must haves

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a strong technical accounting foundation

• Demonstrable ownership of a month‑end close and a management accounts pack in their own right, not solely preparing components of someone else’s

• Strong balance sheet discipline, with real experience owning reconciliations and driving breaks to resolution

• Line management experience, or clear readiness for it - able to review others work

• Experience in a high‑volume transactional environment, comfortable working with large data sets and reconciling between systems

• Strong Excel skills and confidence with cloud accounting systems

• Process‑mind­ed and hands‑on - comfortable getting into the detail, identifying processes that will not scale, and implementing practical solutions rather than simply highlighting problems

Skills - nice to have

• Payments, fintech or other FCA‑regulated financial services experience

• Hands‑on involvement in systems implementation and change

What We Offer

• A genuinely developmental Senior Finance Manager role - you’ll take ownership of the day‑to‑day finance operation from the outset, with the opportunity to broaden your remit into technical accounting and other areas as the business scales

• A chance to shape the future of payments at a high‑growth fintech

• Hybrid working from our Manchester office and flexible hours

• Meaningful equity options

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Regular team socials and offsites

• A fast‑paced working environment with genuine responsibility and autonomy