100 Senior Finance Manager jobs in London

Your new company
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, global consultancy. Having expanded from a small team to over 100 professionals in just five years, the business is known for its dynamic and inclusive culture. With a strong emphasis on innovation, collaboration, and personal development, this organisation empowers its people to thrive and grow.

Your new role
As Finance Manager, you'll report directly to the CFO and play a pivotal role in the internal finance operations. You'll be responsible for managing the day-to-day financial activities across multiple international entities, while driving improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and control. This is a hands-on role that blends technical expertise with strategic insight and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Running month-end close processes across multiple entities and currencies
• Managing bookkeeping, payroll, expenses, and bank reconciliations
• Leading client invoicing and receivables collection
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Coordinating statutory reporting and audit processes
• Partnering with internal teams to support decision-making
• Identifying and implementing process improvements

What you'll need to succeed
You'll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with post-qualification experience in an in-house finance team. You'll have a strong grasp of month-end processes, revenue recognition, and multi-entity/multi-currency. Experience with NetSuite is highly desirable, along with excellent Excel skills and a proactive, detail-oriented approach. You'll be a confident communicator, capable of building strong relationships across the business and contributing to strategic discussions.

What you'll get in return
You'll join a vibrant and ambitious consultancy where your contributions will be valued and your career can flourish. The company offers a competitive salary (£65k), a generous bonus scheme (15-25%), and a comprehensive benefits package including pension contributions, private healthcare, wellbeing support, and regular team events. You'll also benefit from a hybrid working model, with flexibility to work from home and collaborate in a central London office.

What you need to do now
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Your new company

A leading SaaS company focused on securing digital assets is looking for an ambitious ACA-qualified accountant to join their London-based finance team. If you're ready to step out of practice and into a strategic, fast-paced environment, this is your chance.

Your new role

• Financial Reporting & Controls: Lead reporting across multiple regions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with IFRS/local GAAP.
• Manage statutory accounts and coordinate tax filings (corporate, VAT, R&D).
• Act as the key contact for external auditors, resolving issues and ensuring smooth audits.
• Partner with senior leadership to support strategic decision-making.
• Identify and implement efficiencies in reporting and control processes.

What you'll need to succeed

• Must be ACA qualified in audit
• Strong technical grounding in IFRS/GAAP
• Experience with tax (corporate, VAT, R&D), audit, and governance
• Bonus: SaaS revenue recognition and subscription model exposure

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Your New Company
A rapidly expanding business near Twickenham is recruiting for a Finance Manager.( Future Financial Controller) Following a major contract win and the acquisition of two additional companies in a high-growth sector, this organisation is on an exciting trajectory. With friendly offices offering easy access to the station and on-site parking, this is a unique opportunity to join a company that's truly going places. Reporting to the Finance Director, this role offers clear progression to Financial Controller as the business continues to grow.
Your New Role
This newly created Finance Manager position has arisen due to significant business growth. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you will:

• Lead and develop a finance team
• Oversee reporting, management accounts, cashflow forecasting, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Manage payroll, VAT, and compliance
• Administer the Dynamics accounting system and support the development of Power BI reporting tools

As the company expands, this role is expected to evolve into a Financial Controller position.
What You'll Need to Succeed
You'll be an experienced Accountant with a strong background in financial control, management accounts, budgeting, and forecasting. Ideally, you'll be ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified and motivated to progress into a Financial Controller role.
What You'll Get in Return

• Salary up to £60,000
• Hybrid working: 4 days in the office, 1 from home
• Standard hours: 9am-5pm
• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Free parking
• Clear career progression to Financial Controller

What You Need to Do Now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to submit your CV, or contact us directly.If this job isn't quite right for you but you're exploring new opportunities, we'd be happy to have a confidential conversation about your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Your new company
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, global consultancy. Having expanded from a small team to over 100 professionals in just five years, the business is known for its dynamic and inclusive culture. With a strong emphasis on innovation, collaboration, and personal development, this organisation empowers its people to thrive and grow.

Your new role
As Finance Manager, you'll report directly to the CFO and play a pivotal role in the internal finance operations. You'll be responsible for managing the day-to-day financial activities across multiple international entities, while driving improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and control. This is a hands-on role that blends technical expertise with strategic insight and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Running month-end close processes across multiple entities and currencies
• Managing bookkeeping, payroll, expenses, and bank reconciliations
• Leading client invoicing and receivables collection
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Coordinating statutory reporting and audit processes
• Partnering with internal teams to support decision-making
• Identifying and implementing process improvements

What you'll need to succeed
You'll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with post-qualification experience in an in-house finance team. You'll have a strong grasp of month-end processes, revenue recognition, and multi-entity/multi-currency. Experience with NetSuite is highly desirable, along with excellent Excel skills and a proactive, detail-oriented approach. You'll be a confident communicator, capable of building strong relationships across the business and contributing to strategic discussions.

What you'll get in return
You'll join a vibrant and ambitious consultancy where your contributions will be valued and your career can flourish. The company offers a competitive salary (£65k), a generous bonus scheme (15-25%), and a comprehensive benefits package including pension contributions, private healthcare, wellbeing support, and regular team events. You'll also benefit from a hybrid working model, with flexibility to work from home and collaborate in a central London office.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Kerry Robert Associates is delighted to be recruiting on behalf of a leading hotel group in Southeast London, seeking an experienced Senior Finance Assistant to join their established finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong hotel finance background looking to step into a key support role within a fast-paced and professional environment.

The Role:

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll support the day-to-day finance function based onsite in the hotel. You’ll be responsible for ensuring timely, accurate financial processes and providing essential support in reporting and analysis.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply ASAP!

Fully remote

Start date: ASAP

Salary depending on experience

Located in the UK only

Overview

Driftrock is the leading automotive marketing platform, powering customer generation for 30+ global automotive brands, such as BYD, Toyota & Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai.

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join Driftrock during a time of fast growth. As a Finance Manager, in this hands-on role, you will own the accounts, play a key role in shaping Driftrock’s financial function, billing processes, and ensure strong financial management across the company. 

Your work will have a significant impact on how we manage budgets, optimise cash flow, strengthen reporting, and maintain financial stability as we continue to grow in this critical phase.

We are a growing team of 25+, with teammates across the world in product & engineering, customer success, commercial and operations. In this dynamic environment, you'll play a key role across all departments, helping deliver a world-class service to our customers and removing friction for us to grow. 

We're a remote-first company, but we meet from time to time in person when based in the UK and can provide flexible workspaces to give you the freedom to choose how and where you would like to work each day, irrespective of your location. 

We work with some of the world's biggest brands such as BMW, BYD and Mercedes-Benz, as well as some of the world's leading platforms, such as Meta, Auto Trader and Google. We’re at the cutting edge of demand generation technology with plenty of exciting opportunities to unlock value from data as well as helping speed up the transition to electric vehicles.

This is a fantastic time to join the Operations team at Driftrock. You will be the third hire in the team and come in at a time of fast growth for the company. 

We’re looking for an experienced, detail-oriented finance professional who can take ownership of all aspects of accounting and financial operations, supporting our growth across the business.

You’ll bring proven experience from a fast-paced scale-up environment, with hands-on expertise in accounting, cashflow modelling, analysis, credit control, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a profitable, fast-growing company with a clear vision and strong product-market fit. You’ll play a key role in building robust financial systems, improving efficiency, and guiding strategic decisions. A competitive salary, generous benefits, and a company share-option scheme are included.

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and company finances
• Prepare financial statements and performance reports
• Model and manage cash flow and control spending 
• Ensure tax compliance and regulatory requirements
• Develop financial policies and procedures
• Manage costs and oversee billing operations
• Provide financial insights for strategic decisions
• Coordinate audits and maintain banking relationships
• Automate financial systems and reporting
• Oversee UK payroll and ensure legal compliance and supplier payments
• Track KPIs and report performance to leadership
• Identify and mitigate financial risks
• Collaborate on P&L analysis and client profitability
• Manage statutory filings (Companies House, VAT returns)
• Support international expansion financial requirements

Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) 
• 3–4 years’ experience owning finance functions within SaaS or technology businesses
• Advanced financial modelling skills with a data-driven mindset
• Expert user of Xero and subscription billing platforms
• In-depth understanding of UK tax, VAT, and statutory compliance
• Proven experience managing payroll, benefits, and employment law compliance
• Strong record in budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
• Demonstrated ability to define and track KPIs that drive performance
• Experienced in process improvement initiatives
• Confident communicator with executive stakeholders experience

Benefits

• A holiday entitlement of 24 days, increasing a day each year, capped at 28 
• Budget to attend conferences or courses to further your development.
• Flexibility to take courses or time on personal goals.
• Maternity and Paternity - Family comes first, so we have a package that means you can spend the time you need with your growing family 
• Health plan covering medical cover as well as dental, vision, hearing, mental health, cancer, rewards points and more 
• Share options in the company with favourable option agreements 
• A company pension scheme contribution 
• Discounts and perks with CharlieHR 
• Life Assurance and Income Protection policies  

Employees based outside the UK will not be eligible for this role

We will not be considering any recruitment agencies for this role.

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We process your data for recruitment purposes only. We would like to keep this data until our open role is filled. When that period is over, we will either delete your data or inform you that we will keep it in our database for similar future roles for subsequent 12 months.

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Kurt Geiger | About Us

We are an inclusive, creative footwear and accessories brand powered by kindness. We want to empower our talent to be confident and true to themselves, the London way. London is our home, our heartbeat, and we draw inspiration from the energy and spirit of the city; its diversity and creativity. For over fifty years our team of in-house shoe and accessory designers have been creating authentic, distinctive designs from our London headquarters. The rainbow is our signature. It represents the good energy and love we have for our community and the many ways we collectively express our individual style.

We Are One: For Love | For Diversity | For Change | For Equality | For Kindness  | For Freedom | For Unity Against Racism

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Review of month end journals prepare by other team members
• Prepare and post monthly accruals and prepayment journals
• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare and review monthly cost centre reports for specific areas, identifying and explaining key variances
• Tax compliance
• Ongoing review and improvement of internal controls
• Assist with year-end audit
• Mentoring / training junior team members
• Various other ad-hoc duties within the finance department

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualified or qualified by experience with previous accounting experience in a similar management accounts role (preferably retail)
• Motivated individual with good attention to detail 
• Willingness to challenge processes and costs incurred with senior head of departments
• A strong level of MS Excel skills

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary
• Pension and life assurance
• Gym Discounts
• Retailtrust support
• Enviable discounts
• Harrods Discount
• Monthly half day Friday’s
• And so much more!

Our Culture  

We’re an energic fast-paced brand that embraces progress and strives for innovation. Hard work is rewarded with new opportunities at every level and kindness is celebrated in everything we do. Our summer working hours accommodate a healthy work life balance. Wellbeing is important to our working culture, which is why we nurture a friendly environment for talent to thrive in, alongside a vibrant social community.

Our Stores

The first Kurt Geiger store opened on London Bond street in 1963.  Today, our brand has global appeal and is distributed in hundreds of cities around the world. We operate over 70 stand-alone stores nationwide, including our new flagship store on London Oxford street, and in over 400 stores globally. Beyond stand-alone stores and retail pop ups, our retail partners include some of the world’s most famous department stores.

We Are One: For Love | For Diversity | For Change | For Equality | For Kindness |  For Freedom | For Unity Against Racism

This is no ordinary finance role… If you’re after normality, this isn’t for you!

As one of our fin-business partners you’ll be the glue that holds everything together. Your role will be to:

• Oversee the processing of the day to day transactions ensuring that they are a breeze - say no to manual processes!
• Transform the finance function into a value adding machine, implementing and developing scalable systems and processes
• Work closely with our clients, immersing yourself in their organisations and ultimately become an extension of their team
• Be our first point of contact for your clients and effectively communicate to external stakeholders
• Work across a portfolio of companies, ranging from start-ups to established SMEs

Your day to day:

• Month end: Overseeing month end to ensure all necessary data is captured and processed accurately by our fin-operators.
• Analysis: Producing insight that drives impact and supports decision-making across your portfolio. This will also include storytelling and messaging – so that the numbers, trends, analytics are brought to life.
• Reporting: Managing the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting process – with the latter being key in that your role is to really bring our values to life and help each organisation remain agile and future focused.
• Networking: Building strong relationships both internally and externally across your portfolio so you are the trusted business partner for all things finance.
• Onboarding: Lead on kick-off meetings for new companies.
• Mentoring: Coaching fin-operators across the wider fin-house team and assisting them with their learning and development.
• Projects: Leading on change management projects – whether that is software implementation, reviewing processes or new commercial opportunities for example across your clients or fin-house.

What will success look like:

• You’ll be at the forefront of innovation in the finance function and make an impact on every organisation you support. You’ll be adding value, not just producing numbers!
• You’ll gain extensive experience across a wide variety of industries and sectors working in some of the most exciting start-ups and impact-driven organisations.
• The pace at which your career in finance will progress will be quicker here and we will work with you on a purposeful career development plan, with on-going mentoring.

About fin-house

At fin-house, we're fuelling start-ups, scaleups and SMEs with awesome finance teams.

The problem: The current go to for start-ups and SMEs is outsourcing their finance team to accountancy firms who are very far removed from the business and often simply produce numbers without context.

Our solution: At fin-house we deliver 'in-house'. This means, our clients will have a team IN their business, providing proactive insight, advice and commercial support enabling them to make the right decisions at the right time. We make sure our clients get the finance function they need, when they need it, seamlessly integrated into their business.

You should join us if:

• You want to add value to clients and help them progress on their journey.
• You’re a team player that wants to be part of a vibrant, collaborative and tight knit culture.
• You’re a fast learner who has no difficulty in picking up new technologies and can easily adapt to new situations.
• You have intellectual curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and development.
• You are an excellent communicator and have great people skills with high levels of self-awareness. You love to pay attention to the details.
• You have impeccable time-management and organisation skills.

Requirements

• An accountancy qualification is desirable but we’re willing to consider relevant alternative paths.
• 4-5 years’ experience working in a finance-related role
• Experience with Xero and/or Quickbooks is ideal
• Proficient at Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Experience of working with a portfolio of clients is desirable

Benefits