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Job Description
Role Description
The ideal candidate will have
Finance Manager
Location: Cambridge (Hybrid)
Salary: £60,000 + benefits
Type: Permanent
The opportunity
This is a chance to step into a high-impact Finance Manager role within a fast-growing, international financial services and fintech environment. You will play a central role in integrating the finances of a newly acquired business, ensuring continuity, strong governance, and alignment with wider group processes.
Alongside this integration work, you will take ownership of core financial operations, deliver clear and accurate reporting, and partner with senior stakeholders to support sound commercial decision-making. The role suits a confident, hands-on finance professional who combines technical strength with a practical, improvement-focused mindset.
If you are looking for visibility, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape processes in a scaling business, this role offers genuine scope for progression and influence.
What you’ll be doing
1. Lead the financial onboarding and integration of a newly acquired entity
2. Maintain robust accounting systems, controls, and compliance procedures across transactions, cash, banking, payroll, suppliers, and client funds
3. Prepare monthly management accounts with meaningful commentary and performance insights
4. Produce statutory accounts and coordinate audits, including oversight of overseas entities
5. Support budgeting, forecasting, operating plans, and variance analysis
6. Monitor performance against plan and challenge assumptions where required
7. Manage cash flow planning and day-to-day treasury activities
8. Oversee accurate data entry and integrity within finance systems
9. Ensure timely tax filings and regulatory reporting
10. Deliver clear KPI reporting for both finance and non-finance stakeholders
11. Drive continuous improvement in financial controls, documentation, and team capability
12. Contribute to wider finance projects and operational initiatives as the business evolves
What you’ll bring
13. Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
14. Around 3–5 years’ post-qualification experience within financial services, ideally payments, banking, or fintech
15. Strong technical accounting knowledge and commercial awareness
16. Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite or Sage
17. A proactive, organised approach with the ability to manage competing deadlines
18. Confident communication skills and the credibility to partner across functions
19. A detail-focused, hands-on style with a natural drive to improve processes
Desirable experience
20. Exposure to cryptocurrency or digital asset environments
21. Understanding of European regulatory frameworks, payment regulation, or card scheme rules
22. Knowledge of e-money or payments product structures
23. Familiarity with CRM tools or operational business systems
24. Ability to engage with technical concepts such as integrations or APIs
Why apply
You will join a collaborative, forward-thinking organisation operating at the intersection of financial services and technology. The culture is ambitious but pragmatic, with a strong emphasis on ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
In return, you can expect:
25. Competitive salary and performance-related bonus
26. Pension scheme
27. Private healthcare and healthcare cash plan
28. Life assurance and income protection
29. 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with additional entitlement linked to service
30. Hybrid working and a supportive, high-trust environment
This is a rare opportunity to step into a visible finance leadership role within a scaling business where your input will genuinely shape how things are done.