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Unity Advisory is a new advisory firm built by a founding team of exceptional professionals across tax, finance, and technology. We’re reimagining what it means to partner with clients — commercially minded, collaborative, and committed to building better.
Unity Advisory is a new advisory firm built by a founding team of exceptional professionals across tax, finance, and technology. We’re reimagining what it means to partner with clients — commercially minded, collaborative, and committed to building better.
We’re focused on delivering bold, pragmatic solutions for our clients and creating a home for top talent that thrives on ownership, pace, and experimentation. As we scale, we are building a finance function that matches our ambition and gives the business the confidence to move fast - with control, clarity and insight.
We are looking for a highly capable and commercially minded Finance Director to support the CFO in building a high-performing, scalable finance function. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will own the day-to-day finance operations while helping the business make smarter, faster financial decisions.
The ideal candidate brings a balance of strong financial control and process discipline with the ability to work at pace in a dynamic environment. You’ll be instrumental in helping us move from early-stage foundations to a robust, insight-driven finance operation.
Finance Operations & Control
Take ownership of daily and monthly finance operations, including accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, and working capital / cash management
Drive establishment and application of standards, policies and procedures for revenue recognition, reflecting pricing methodologies, data capture and accounting requirements
Lead preparation of monthly and quarterly management accounts, supporting analysis and board packs
Build and maintain financial policies, controls, and procedures that are fit for a scaling business
Own tax compliance and optimisation for current and future entity landscape, specifically including income tax and transfer pricing
Manage VAT, PAYE, and other reporting and compliance activities with support from external advisors
Financial Planning & Decision Support
Support the CFO with budgeting, reforecasting and strategic planning cycles
Provide commercial insight to leadership on performance trends, profitability, and investment trade-offs
Deliver financial modelling and scenario planning to support hiring, service line growth, and capital allocation
Own internal cost reporting and analysis, working closely with the people and hiring teams to maintain headcount visibility
Support the selection and implementation of finance systems as we evolve from start-up tooling to more scalable platforms
Develop a coherent financial reporting framework with clear data ownership and process flows
Define and streamline all Finance activities, with a Technology-led mindset, including month-end, reporting, procurement, expense management, and approval workflows across Finance tools and technologies
Lead preparation for audit, investor reporting and external disclosures
Support regulatory compliance and risk management activities
Support recruitment and onboarding of finance hires as needed
Deputise for the CFO where appropriate in internal and external forums
ACA, ACCA, or equivalent qualified accountant
Strong finance leadership experience in a professional services or consultancy environment
Exposure to early-stage or scaling businesses, ideally backed by private equity
Demonstrated ability to own finance processes end to end and implement improvements
Strong commercial awareness and ability to support strategic decision-making
Advanced Excel / financial modelling skills; experience with finance systems implementation and optimisation in a period of rapid change/growth
Employment type Full-time
Job function Finance and Sales
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