Financial Reporting Manager

Location

Scotland | United Kingdom

Job description

About Us

Snappy Shopper is the market leader in the growing Q-commerce convenience grocery sector, worth £41b in the UK. In addition to our independent retailers, we serve most of the major convenience store players, including Spar, Nisa, Premier and Booker.

Snappy exists to enable local high street businesses to serve their customers online so that local communities thrive, and revenue stays local. Retailers have seen revenue uplifts of between £5k and £120k per month, making the platform mission critical to local business.

This role represents a rare and exciting opportunity to join the business at an incredibly important time, playing a key role in developing the finance function.

Our location

We are a Scottish start-up with 120 colleagues based around the UK and our Head Office is located in Dundee.

This is a hybrid role with occasional occasional travel to Dundee and Edinburgh required.

About the Role

You will work closely with the Group Financial Controller (GFC) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to develop and build a world class finance operation from the ground up to support business growth. As with all high growth start-ups there is a degree of fluidity around this role; priorities and deliverables will shift regularly based on business needs and as such, it's important that you take ownership, roll your sleeves up and get stuck in.

Thus, the responsibilities listed below are directional rather than fixed:

• Work with the GFC and CFO to develop and build a world class finance operation from the ground up to support business growth
• Support the GFC in managing the core finance operation including preparation of the monthly management accounts, board reporting and statutory accounts.
• Own the monthly financial close process by operating both hands on (for example, by preparing reconciliations and posting journals) and reviewing the work of colleagues and peers
• Own relationships with key stakeholders including interdepartmental peers, external auditors and investors
• Take the lead in ensuring the company’s compliance bar is met, including managing external auditors and tax advisors
• Develop and implement scalable, automated financial processes across the business
• Put in place and maintain a strong control environment that protects the business from risk

As a start-up, the future is ever-changing, and you will be involved in wide-ranging projects supporting the GFC and CFO based on business needs.

About You

To do this job well you’ll need to be a professionally qualified accountant with strong accounting knowledge, demonstrated through experience either in a similar financial reporting role, or an audit or accounting background.

Other important requirements include:

• Strong work ethic, resilience and ability to navigate change
• Naturally curious and willing to learn, grow and develop
  
• Low ego and high empathy
• Entrepreneurial mind-set, comfortable in highly ambiguous environment and able to independently take responsibility from day one
• Able to operate in a rapidly changing environment whilst being well-organised, pro-active and deadline driven
• Experience of working in a fast-paced finance team, either in a finance manager or financial reporting role
• Strong accounting knowledge (UK GAAP or IFRS)
• Practical experience with a range of finance software
• Experience of improving systems, tooling and processes within a finance environment
• Experience of working with colleagues outside of finance to ensure the usage of appropriate financial processes
• Experience in a similar high growth technology environment is a strong plus point, but not a necessity

Who you are is as important to us as what you can do. Do these values and behaviours sound like something that would come naturally for you?

• Community: You can understand the wider market and work with colleagues from across the business to reach our Company goals.
• Be Snappy: You’re able to plan and deliver on time and you use data to measure your success.
• Breaking Barriers: You’ll be delivery focused, able to drive results for Snappy Group.
• Craic on: You enjoy working with a mix of people whilst focusing on successful results.

If you think you’ve got what it takes but hesitating…

At Snappy we’re all about Community, from the inside out. We hire great people from all walks of life with a wide variety of backgrounds that make our business stronger. We welcome everyone at Snappy that shares our values.

What’s in it for you

Why should a candidate come and do this role at Snappy? If you’ve not already experienced it, time in a high growth Tech start-up is a whole new adventure! As the Company grows, so will your professional growth as you learn how to constantly apply your learning to scale the business at pace. The challenges and opportunities will constantly change, which means you’ll continually be developing new skills - you won’t get bored or be doing the same old routine. You’ll also be closer to where the action happens than most other companies, with the chance to deepen your commercial acumen and influence in a high-growth sector. For someone who wants to learn and develop, we put no limits on your ambition and personal growth!

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