Hybrid Finance Manager

at Omnea

• Job title: Finance Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Finance Manager at Omnea responsible for overseeing financial planning and controls during rapid scaling operations. Joining at an exciting time with significant growth potential.

Responsibilities

• Do the accounting and close the books for our UK and US entities (we do not use outsourced parties for this);
• Handle VAT and Sales Tax matters, and work with Cooper Parry for our annual accounts, audit, and corporation tax filings in the UK, and with CLA to do the same for our US entity;
• Take care of our in-house business as usual processes, working with our Ops juniors to process payroll and payables, and bill and collect from our customers;
• Build out our automation stack, and work with our revops team to automate things like our billing processes;
• Once ramped & running on the controller/accounting side of the house, work with our CFO on scenario modelling and forecasting, and prepare inputs for Board and Investor reporting
• Help refine and iterate our transfer pricing and intercompany mechanisms
• Help monitor and steer the metrics that roll up into our financial story, and work with teams to help us navigate towards our desired outcomes

Requirements

• You'll be a qualified management accountant or accountant with relevant training from a top company, and ideally prior experience in VC-backed SaaS.
• You're highly commercial, and believe the goal is to get the best outcome for the company, not the cleanest slate of work for the finance team!
• You're smart and can wear many hats, zooming into the details of the accounting and up again into the bigger picture for forecasts and fundraising - a master of juggling lots of things at once.
• You're willing to be very hands on - we don't outsource, so you're happy to do the bookkeeping and billing as well as the board pack! The job is whatever it takes to get the job done!
• You're excited to automate and learn, build, and implement new tools that keep us running effective, efficient, and lean.
• You have a good knowledge of VC-backed companies and SaaS (extra bonus: sales-led enterprise SaaS), and a good sense of 'how the sausage gets made' in companies like ours.
• You have a good knowledge of the ins and outs of UK & US companies and the myriad little nuances that this set up involves (we are UK top-co, US subsidiary)
• You're excited and able to operate at pace and in ambiguity, with good judgement and clever instincts, and can operate across competing and changing priorities
• You work hard & care lots about your work. You care deeply about the work you do, and having a reputation for competence and excellence, and put in the time and dedication to get to that outcome.
• You’re an outstanding communicator; verbal, and written, you are able to be clear & concise in ensuring everyone knows what they need to.

Benefits

• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes • Our team previously built Tessian (backed by Sequoia; acquired by Proofpoint) and we’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, Accel, Point Nine, and First Round