Senior Financial Accountant

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Financial Accountant at Tillo, you will be instrumental in scaling and strengthening our finance function within a high-growth FinTech business. This pivotal role demands a commercially minded and technically adept individual who can drive operational excellence, ensure robust financial control, provide diligent compliance oversight, and contribute to team leadership. You will be the guardian of our financial integrity, ensuring accurate reporting, efficient operations, and robust governance, all while actively partnering with the wider business to support our ambitious strategic growth objectives. Your expertise will be crucial in navigating a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a continuous improvement mindset to every aspect of your work.
• • In the realm of **Financial Control & Governance**, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our robust financial control environment. This involves ensuring the utmost integrity and accuracy of our core financial systems, data, processes, and compliance framework. You will meticulously oversee key financial reporting data, processes, and controls, guaranteeing their timely completion, thorough review, and the swift resolution of any discrepancies. A critical aspect of your role will be ensuring strict adherence to relevant accounting standards and internal policies. You will lead the preparation of statutory financial statements, providing essential support for both external and internal audit processes. Furthermore, you will proactively identify, monitor, and manage all group financial risks, conducting appropriate assessments of their impact and developing effective mitigation strategies. You will also support the Group Financial Controller with all company secretarial duties and responsibilities, including accurate reporting and ensuring legal compliance. Continuous improvement will be a key theme as you manage and refine our financial data, processes, controls, and documentation.
• • Regarding **Financial Reporting**, your responsibilities will include the accurate and timely preparation of monthly management accounts. This will involve detailed variance analysis and the provision of insightful commentary to empower informed decision-making across the business. You will review and approve bank and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring their completeness, accuracy, and the prompt resolution of any reconciling items. You will support the Group Financial Controller with crucial board reporting, strategic analysis, and group consolidation requirements, as well as assisting with group and parent company reporting obligations. A significant part of this role is taking ownership of our ERP system (Light), leading finance transformation initiatives, and ensuring its optimisation and development. You will act as the system owner, ensuring the team operates as proficient ERP super users. You will be a driving force behind data and process automation, integration, and process redesign to enhance scalability and enterprise value. A key objective will be to redesign and continuously improve the month-end process, encompassing task lists, schedules, controls, and reporting outputs. You will foster financial discipline through robust financial control and balance sheet optimisation, ensuring strong governance and disciplined working capital management. Ultimately, you will elevate the Financial Reporting function into a centre of excellence, leveraging advanced automation to deliver best-in-class internal and external reporting processes.
• • In **Tax & Compliance**, you will manage the group's tax compliance obligations. This includes VAT/sales tax, corporation tax, R&D tax claims, PAYE, global tax compliance and reporting, and other statutory filings. You will lead key tax projects, such as transfer pricing initiatives. Ensuring all submissions and payments are accurate and made within required deadlines is paramount. You will serve as a key point of contact for external advisors and tax specialists, fostering strong working relationships.
• • For **Finance Operations, Payroll and Insurance**, you will oversee purchase and sales ledger activities, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and strong controls are maintained. You will be responsible for payroll management and reporting, working closely with the Group Financial Controller. Similarly, you will manage group insurances and reporting in collaboration with the Group Financial Controller. Reconciling customer and supplier accounts will be part of your remit, and you will ensure that internal and external queries are resolved promptly and professionally. You will actively seek opportunities to improve data and processes through automation and system optimisation. Maintaining strong working relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders is essential.
• • In terms of **Business Support**, you will provide critical financial insight and analysis to support strategic decision-making, working collaboratively with the FP&A and Treasury & FinOps teams. You will contribute meaningfully to budgeting and forecasting processes and support ongoing finance transformation initiatives and systems enhancements. Identifying and delivering opportunities to drive profitability, improve scalability, and enhance operational efficiency will be a key focus.
• • Finally, in **Leadership & Team Development**, you will lead, coach, and develop the Financial Accountant (TBC), fostering a high-performance culture within the team. You will set clear objectives, conduct performance reviews, and actively support the development, training, and career progression of team members. Promoting collaboration, accountability, and a spirit of continuous improvement within the finance team will be central to your leadership approach.