8 Financial Operations jobs in London
Financial Operations Analyst
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Join Ligentia!
We are seeking a Financial Operations Analyst (known internally as a Service Delivery Analyst) to play a vital role in our Service Delivery team. This is an operational financial role that's crucial for the smooth running of our freight operations, focusing on the financial aspects of shipments, ensuring accuracy and accountability.
Your Role:
- Managing Invoices: Handling incoming supplier invoices (Accounts Payable) and ensuring correct costs are passed on.
- Ensuring Accurate Pricing: Helping to set up and manage accurate buy and sell rates in our system (CargoWise) so we can invoice customers correctly.
- Customer Billing: Raising invoices for customers, including "bulk" weekly invoices.
- Financial Checks: Double-checking profit margins on shipments and verifying all services have been correctly billed to clients.
- Month-End Processes: Playing a key part in month-end activities to ensure all financial data is accurate and compliant, contributing to budget targets.
- Finding Opportunities: Identifying missed revenue or opportunities to improve profitability through detailed auditing of files.
- Query Resolution: Managing any questions or issues related to Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable.
- Data Integrity: Maintaining accurate financial records, including accruals and WIPs (Work in Progress).
- Collaboration: Working closely with our operations teams and overseas partners to ensure smooth financial processes and communication.
What You'll Need:
Essential
- Circa 1-2 years of experience in a similar fast-paced support or administrative role, or a role with a strong financial/data focus.
- Strong organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- A proactive and positive approach to change and meeting deadlines.
- Good IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
Desirable
- An interest in data.
- Experience with CargoWise.
- Experience within the supply chain or logistics industry.
Why Ligentia? Why now?
Accelerated growth in one of the most dynamic industries you can imagine. Brilliant customers including some of the world’s leading retailers and best-known brands. A tech vision and roadmap that will turn heads for all the right reasons. And colleagues with high commitment and unrivalled knowledge, combined with low ego. A flexible work environment that is collaborative, stimulating and shares genuine feelgood for the work we do together. However you look at it, Ligentia is a great place to be right now.
Ready to join us? Apply now!
Ligentia requests that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to us unless expressly requested to do so by a member of our People team. Any CVs sent to us on an unrequested speculative basis will be ignored.
Ligentia will not be liable for any fee or commission payments claimed by a recruitment agent in respect to the employment by us of a candidate whose CV was sent to us on an unrequested speculative basis.
Senior Consultant - Strategy & Operations - Financial Services
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Miryco Consultants are working with a boutique consultancy seeking a highly energetic, skilled and experienced Management Consultant to join their growing team. This role is perfect for a professional earlier on in their career looking to immediately make an impact by helping shape, design and implement business strategies that drive operational excellence for financial services clients.
Responsibilities:
- Work with client leadership to define long-term strategic goals and assess market, customer, and competitor dynamics.
- Design effective organisational structures that support agility, accountability, and strategic delivery
- Design target operating models (TOMs) that integrate functions and promote scalable, effective operations.
- Lead or support finance function transformation, focusing on structure, roles, and operating model design.
- Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, including senior executives and crossfunctional teams.
Experience:
- 2+ experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, or a related role.
- Experience in designing and implementing target operating models within Financial Services.
- Bachelor’s degree from a leading university.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in complex, fast-paced environments and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Please note, should you not be contacted within five working days of submitting your application, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisting for this position. We will, however, be in touch should there be any other opportunities of potential interest suiting to your skills.
For similar opportunities, follow Miryco Consultants on LinkedIn.
Senior Operations Specialist (Financial Advice)
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About NOVA
NOVA is a Fintech start-up that is disrupting the financial advice market.
We're on a mission to transform the way wealth management and financial advice are provided to clients across the UK. We are using technology to improve how we all interact with our finances and, behind the scenes, dramatically lower our costs. This means that we can reduce our fees and open up advice to a broader audience. Using our own Lifeline technology, we are helping our clients make smarter financial decisions.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Senior Operations Specialist.
You may already work in an administration role and are looking to take the next step to develop your skills, or perhaps you are a Paraplanner looking for an operational role where you can apply your technical knowledge.
As a Senior Operations Specialist, you’ll play a key role in owning day-to-day operations - you will play a crucial role in delivering all the operational aspects that create our exceptional customer experience.
As the business grows, you'll have the opportunity to shape your role based on your strengths and interests, whether that means leading teams, driving projects, or owning processes. We’ll provide training and support to help you grow and make a meaningful impact, making this an excellent step forward in your operations career.
It’s an unusually broad role that will suit someone who loves learning. It’s a fantastic opportunity to join a business at the start, and play a key role in shaping our future.
Responsibilities
- Owning operational processes; ensuring excellent delivery and constantly looking to innovate and improve
- ‘Seeing around corners’ - anticipating customer & business needs or risks
- Untangle complex operational problems and come up with practical solutions
- Driving the team to consistently achieve its daily, weekly & monthly targets
- Onboarding new clients & relationship management - (e.g. collecting personal and financial information, talking to clients and executing our recommendations)
- Act as a trusted point of contact for questions relating to operational processes
- Future potential for team leadership
- Ensuring we are compliant with key regulatory requirements
- Acting as a culture ambassador and role model within the company by engaging with colleagues and coming up with new ideas for collaboration
Requirements
- 4+ years of work experience - either financial services or demonstrable transferable skills from a similar industry
- Complete the CII Certificate in Financial Services within 6 months of joining (if you haven’t already)
- A genuine interest in personal finance and motivated to build your knowledge in the fintech space
- A great communicator, able to be patient and empathise with customers and colleagues
- Able to balance professionalism with a sense of fun
- Ability to not just complete tasks but think about how to make them easier and faster
- A quick learner who uses their initiative to solve problems - loves a challenge
- Have strong organisational and time management skills; whilst maintaining attention to detail
- Either a 2:1 in any discipline for university graduates, or non-university graduates who can demonstrate highly relevant experiences
You’ll feel right at home if you’re.
- Helpful: we like people who behave like it is always day one and who remember that without customers, there is no business.
- Straightforward: life is complicated enough. Don’t make it harder for yourself, or for others. Sometimes the simplest approach works wonders.
- Bold: every great business started with a flash of inspiration. If you’ve got a great idea, don’t keep it to yourself
Benefits
- We are a certified B Corp! Join a firm with a genuine purpose and impact on our customers' lives, along with a strong moral code
- Salary & benefits (private medical, income protection, death in service)
- Exam support (we’ll pay for your exams towards the CII certificate and give you a day of study leave for each exam you sit)
- Exceptionally open and diverse, multinational team
- Entrepreneurial, creative environment
- Flexible working with snazzy central London office (20 Farringdon Street)
Diversity & inclusion
At NOVA, values including diversity, inclusion and morality are at the very core of our foundation. We aim to create an environment that accepts each employee's authenticity and celebrates difference. Through our progressive spirit, we empower our employees to express their individuality, allowing each person to feel comfortable bringing 100% of themselves to work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion runs much deeper than statistics and filling diversity targets but rather changing the face of diversity in Fintech as a whole.
Graduate/Entry Level Operations Specialist (Financial Advice)
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About NOVA:
NOVA Wealth is a fast growing start up looking to change the face of financial advice and the way it’s delivered in the UK. We firmly believe that a human adviser needs to be at the heart of every client relationship, however by leveraging technology we can empower our advisers to deliver higher levels of service and cut out a lot of the day to day admin that gets in the way.
At our core, we’re here to build a game changer in the advice industry that delivers better customer outcomes, at a lower cost, for more people. Through customer-centric advisers supported by our innovative Lifeline technology, we empower our customers to go beyond just making smarter financial decisions to living the lives they dream of.
About the role:
We have an exciting opportunity to join the team as an Graduate Operations Specialist. You will be responsible for supporting all aspects of day-to-day operations in the business from onboarding clients to developing and implementing new, more efficient processes. You will need to be proactive and be interested in learning about all aspects of personal finance and how a business operates.
This role will allow you to to kickstart your career in financial planning and you’ll be supported in achieving the CII diploma (Chartered Insurance Institute). This will require dedication from you and a significant amount of self-study.
It’s an unusually broad role that will suit someone who loves learning. It’s a fantastic opportunity to join a business at the start, and play a key role in shaping our future.
What you’ll be doing:
- Onboarding new clients & relationship management - (e.g. collecting personal and financial information, talking to clients and executing our recommendations)
- Owning operational processes; constantly looking to innovate and improve
- Act as a point of contact for questions relating to operational processes
- Maintaining information across multiple systems
- Learning key regulatory requirements and maintaining our compliance
- Become a culture ambassador within the company by engaging with colleagues and coming up with new ideas for collaboration
The successful applicant will be eager to pursue the CII Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning, a pathway to proficiency in offering regulated financial advice. This Level 4 diploma covers investment principles, taxation, retirement planning, and protection products, providing essential skills and knowledge for success in the field.
Requirements
- A genuine interest in personal finance and motivation to build your knowledge in the fintech space
- A great communicator, able to be patient and empathise with customers and colleagues
- Able to balance professionalism with a sense of fun
- Ability to not just complete tasks but think about how to make them easier and faster
- A quick learner who uses their initiative to solve problems - loves a challenge
- Have strong organisational and time management skills; whilst maintaining attention to detail
- Highly motivated with a keen eye for detail - Either a 2:1 in any discipline for university graduates, or non-university graduates who can demonstrate highly relevant experiences
We regret to inform you that NOVA cannot provide sponsorship for students from abroad. Therefore, if you do not have full entitlement to work in the UK, we kindly ask that you refrain from applying for this position. Thank you for your understanding.
You’ll feel right at home if you’re…
- Helpful: random acts of kindness make the workplace a better place so, go out of your way to be helpful, and give people reasons to smile.
- Straightforward: life is complicated enough. Don’t make it harder for yourself, or others. Sometimes the simplest approach works wonders.
- Bold: every great business started with a flash of inspiration. If you’ve got a great idea, don’t keep it to yourself
All applicants are asked to submit a brief cover letter explaining their enthusiasm for pursuing a career in wealth management. Additionally, applicants are encouraged to share any relevant experiences or skills that demonstrate their suitability for the role.
Benefits
- Join a firm with genuine purpose and impact on our customers, along with a strong moral code
- Competitive salary + benefits (bonus, pension, private medical, income protection, death in service)
- Potential to get equity in the company in the future
- Access to Wellness / mental health support (Headspace App + mental health support through private medical)
- Budget for additional learning / cost of exams
- Electric vehicle leasing through salary sacrifice / cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working hours and hybrid remote working after a period of full time office based training (typically 3 days a week working in the office (20 Farringdon Street))
- Exceptionally open and diverse, multinational team
- Entrepreneurial, creative environment
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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FP&A Manager
Location: London
Financial Services
Salary: Up to 110,000
We are partnering with a fast-growing, entrepreneurial financial services organisation that is redefining the way its sector delivers value to clients. Backed by an ambitious leadership team and with a strong track record of growth, the business is now seeking a talented FP&A Manager to join at a pivotal stage in its journey.
Reporting directly to the CFO, this is a standalone FP&A role where you will have real ownership of the financial planning and analysis function, shaping processes from the ground up and working closely with senior stakeholders to drive commercial decision-making. It’s a unique opportunity to join a dynamic, growth-oriented environment where your insights will directly influence the business’s strategy and success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in line with growth objectives.
- Developing and maintaining robust financial models to support strategic decision-making and long-term planning.
- Delivering clear, insightful analysis of business performance, identifying key trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Partnering with senior leaders across the organisation to provide high-quality financial insights and recommendations.
- Tracking and analysing core financial metrics to ensure performance is optimised against targets.
- Supporting and challenging business initiatives with a focus on commercial impact and value creation.
- Enhancing and streamlining FP&A processes, tools, and systems to scale effectively with business growth.
The ideal candidate:
- A qualified accontant (ACA or equivalent) with a proven background in PE-backed environments, ideally combined with strong experience in financial services (broking, insurance, asset management, or related sectors).
- Demonstrable FP&A, commercial finance, or management accounting expertise within FS, with a track record of delivering in fast-paced, investor-driven businesses.
- Advanced financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting skills, honed in high-growth, performance-focused settings.
- Strong commercial acumen, able to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive value creation for investors and senior leadership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence C-suite executives, PE investors, and operational leaders.
- A proactive self-starter who thrives in a standalone role, capable of building robust finance processes from the ground up in a rapidly evolving organisation.
For more information, please apply for this role or contact Harry Turner at .
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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FP&A Manager – London | £80,000–£85,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Are you a commercially minded and qualified accountant ready to take ownership of FP&A in a fast-paced, experience-led business? We’re working with a leading international brand in the hospitality and leisure sector, known for delivering premium customer experiences across a large, multi-site UK footprint. With an ambitious growth agenda and private equity backing, they’re looking to appoint a driven FP&A Manager into a key London-based role.
The Role:
This is more than a reporting role — it’s a chance to embed structure, elevate insight, and influence decision-making at the highest level. The FP&A Manager will act as a bridge between finance and operations, working closely with the senior leadership team to deliver clarity on performance and ensure finance is central to strategic planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end planning cycle including budget, forecast and long-range plan.
- Develop and roll out a fit-for-purpose FP&A framework across group and divisional levels.
- Lead on the development of dashboards and KPIs to support operational excellence.
- Deliver clear, concise commercial analysis that drives profitability and informs investment decisions.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships with senior stakeholders including Operations, Marketing and Technology.
- Identify opportunities for margin improvement and cost optimisation across the estate.
About You:
- A qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with a strong background in FP&A.
- Previous experience in a multi-site, consumer-facing environment (e.g. hospitality, leisure, retail or FMCG).
- A proven track record of building or significantly improving FP&A processes and tools.
- Confident partnering with non-finance stakeholders and presenting at leadership level.
- Strong Excel and data modelling skills; experience with Power BI or similar tools advantageous.
Why Apply?
- Join a highly respected brand with a strong cultural identity and loyal customer base.
- Be part of an energetic leadership team shaping the next phase of business growth.
- Excellent exposure to private equity and transformation activity.
- Competitive package including performance bonus, flexible working and a dynamic office environment.
Apply now or get in touch with Victoria Spencer at for a confidential discussion.
Director - Financial Planning and Analysis
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Pixomondo has an opportunity for a Director Financial Planning and Analysis. Reporting to the CFO, you would be joining our Finance team, where your strategic acumen, financial expertise, and leadership will play a crucial role in the financial infrastructure.
Working closely with the CFO and CEO, you will be applying commercial and financial expertise to strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience working for a prominent accounting firm, valuation firm or private equity firm who wants to take the skills and experience forward and make the move into the Media and Entertainment business.
Specific Responsibilities include:
- Operational Management: Reporting & Analysis, Finance Operations across the group.
- Deliver actionable financial insights through BI tools and predictive modeling.
- Drive pragmatic approaches to solving key complex business problems through data analysis, predictive modeling and machine learning techniques.
- Provide financial, analytical modeling and strategic support business development growth initiatives
- Execute on maximizing and monetizing all domestic and international production incentives.
- Supervise new data management techniques to improve tax credit and production cost forecasting and pacing.
- Liaise with corporate tax, production audit, controllership, production, and government relations teams to ensure proper incentive compliance, government reporting and capitalize on internal tax credit utilization.
- Perform industry due diligence including market research of industry metrics, trends, and competitive analysis
- Partner with the CFO and CEO and finance teams to conduct analysis, craft messaging, and create deliverables for board meetings and key investor updates
- Prepare detailed analysis and commentary for presentations for leadership/senior management.
- Formulate and prepare presentations to share findings and recommendations for divisional and senior management critical to the decision-making process
- Drive complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives that impact all aspects of the business and organization
- Conduct ad-hoc analyses at the request of senior executives
- Champion ad hoc projects and training initiatives to foster growth and knowledge.
- Engage with internal teams, executive leadership, and business units for holistic decision-making, financial planning, and operational excellence.
- Maintain an up-to-date view on market research related to the industry.
Requirements
- Typically 7 years accounting experience including experience in investment banking, valuation, private equity, or corporate / business development.
- Experience in entertainment and/or media desirable but not essential.
- Qualified Chartered Accountant/Qualified ACA / CIMA (UK)/ MBA (USA)
- Private equity experience for 3yrs desirable but not essential.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
- Hypotheses driven and comfortable with ambiguity
- Ability to logically break down approach and assumptions
- Experience developing compelling business cases and presentations
- Deadline-driven, organized, and able to multi-task
- Ability to work in a team and on a standalone basis
- Ability to develop a collaborative rapport with divisional executives and teams
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Confident presenter.
- Proficiency with MS Office applications including Excel and PowerPoint and SAP
About Pixomondo (PXO)
PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, creates industry-leading Visualization, Virtual Production, and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. Through its 23-year history, the Oscar, BAFTA, & Emmy-winning creative and technology company has been a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide. The company has consistently created iconic works, from Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning Hugo and multiple seasons of HBO’s Emmy-winning Game of Thrones to the recent House of the Dragon, Amazon’s The Boys, and Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4.
In Virtual Production, PXO collaborates with filmmakers from first drawing to final pixel. Using interactive technology and proprietary software and tools, PXO brings ideas to life by virtually immersing filmmakers in the worlds they imagine, throughout every stage of the creative process.
The company’s LED virtual production work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Reacher, and Amazon’s critically acclaimed Cada Minuto Cuenta.
PXO has seven creative studios in the US, UK, Germany, and Canada.
Benefits
Pixomondo is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
Benefits may vary by location due to regional regulations and company policies.
PXO does not accept resumes from recruiters. Unsolicited resumes are accepted directly from candidates only. PXO will not pay any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.
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Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
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The Assembly Finance team is seeking a detail oriented and driven Senior manager, FP&A.
The Senior manager, FP&A role provides an opportunity partner with key stakeholders across the company. In this position, the Senior manager will Support the Senior Director FP&A with responsibility for ensuring the completeness and integrity of forecasts, budgets, tracking performance, managing monthly operating expenses, and using analysis help drive informed decision making.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the Senior Director FP&A and other business leaders to play a crucial role in planning and assessing the company's performance.
- Manage FP&A analyst.
- Contribute to the development of accounting systems, policies, and procedures.
- Maintain client profitability reporting and forecast.
- Work with Senior Director FP&A and business leaders to maintain revenue forecast and pipeline.
- Work with business leaders and senior director FP&A to plan and carry out annual budgeting and quarterly / rolling reforecasting.
- Work with the accounting team to handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closes, ensuring all expenses are recorded accurately and reconciled to forecast.
- Own cash flow forecasting and management for Assembly Europe working with AP, AR and Billing central services to forecast and manage cash flow.
- Drive operational improvements through automation.
- Collaborate with other key stakeholders to monitor performance, identifying & understanding any differences from our budget plans.
- Build and maintain financial reporting packages and dashboards.
- Conduct research and analysis into issues and questions raised by leadership team to inform decision-making
- Partner with cross-functional teams to help optimise business performance, including identifying trends, gaps, insights, and opportunity areas within the business
About Assembly
We find the change that fuels growth. We're a cutting-edge global agency combining data, tech, and top talent to supercharge the world's best brands. With over a decade in social and environmental impact, we clinched Ad Age’s Purpose-Led Agency of the Year, championing a diverse, purpose-driven culture.
Join Assembly, and you're instantly with 1,600 digital specialists across 30 global offices, pushing boundaries in omnichannel media, data, and tech to drive brand evolution.
Requirements
- ACCA qualified or equivalent
- Prior experience in international, multi-currency environment
- Experience within media or marketing services advantageous
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Understand widely accepted accounting principles and financial concepts.
- Approach tasks with ownership, using analytics to guide decisions and solve problems, rather than just reporting results.
- Seek and implement ways to improve, streamline and automate processes
- Well-organised with strong people skills and ability to evaluate and communicate with Clients and Agency leaders
Benefits
In return for your enthusiasm and expertise, we’ll reward you with an enviable range of benefits that include, 24 days holiday a year (increasing by 1 day/year to a max of 30 with every year of service), a day of birthday leave, early finish Fridays, pension, life assurance, enhanced parental leave and access to perkbox.
Equal Opportunities
Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Social and Environmental Responsibility
At Assembly, we have a responsibility to bring impact into our every day. This means we must always look for ways in which to be conscious citizens in our roles to support society and environmental sustainability. We encourage employees to; be a conscious citizen by actively participating in our organisation's sustainability efforts, help us promote environmentally friendly practices within the workplace, collaborate with community organisations and stakeholders to support initiatives aligned with our company's values, participate in volunteer activities that benefit the community. Employees are also encouraged to make suggestions and evaluate our business practices to identify areas for improvement in social and environmental performance. Employees at Assembly demonstrate commitment to sustainability and inclusivity in their actions and behaviours.