Group Finance Manager New Hybrid - London Head Office 2-3 days a week & Remote

ControlPlane is a London-based consultancy specialising in Cloud Native, Kubernetes, and open source solutions, helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures with “secure-by-design” and “secure-by-default” practices. We deliver engineering excellence across cybersecurity, threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security, supporting clients from multinational banks to tech and clouds.

You’ll be at the heart of the finance operations of a scaling tech leader. You will be shaping processes, systems, and financial decision-making across a fast-growing, international business. This hands-on role combines operational responsibility with strategic impact, giving you the opportunity to drive efficiency, ensure compliance, and influence how the organisation grows.

What We’re Looking For in a Group Finance Manager

We are looking for a hands-on Group Finance Manager to take ownership of our finance operations and drive efficiency across the business. Reporting directly into the CFO, you will manage AP/AR, treasury, cash flow, bookkeeping, and management accounts, while ensuring compliance UK and overseas. We are looking for a builder’s mindset. You’ll be deeply involved in finance strategy, optimising systems and processes, implementing cost control measures, and owning our ERP platform, combining operational oversight with strategic insight to support a growing, dynamic organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Finance & Process Improvement: Own and maintain the company ERP system, including leading a planned change from a traditional cloud platform to a modern AI-driven alternative. Lead finance strategy, systems implementation, and process improvements to drive efficiency. Manage cost control initiatives and identify opportunities to optimise spend.
• Operational Finance: Act as a true business partner to key parts of the organisation, including Consulting, Product and Sales & Marketing. Providing key stakeholders in those teams, as well as the Executive Team, with up-to-date information to enable quality decision-making. Manage Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) processes efficiently and accurately. Oversee treasury and cash management, ensuring liquidity and optimal working capital. Maintain management accounts and provide timely, insightful financial reporting. Own the end-to-end VAT and R&D tax credit process, ensuring rigorous compliance while proactively identifying opportunities to improve the company's tax position. Supervise bookkeeping and ensure a 'single source of truth' for all financial data to support our data-driven culture.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensure compliance with UK accounting standards. Oversee and ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations to support our international operations in North America, Europe, and APAC. Support audits and maintain robust internal controls across the group.

Preferred Experience:

• ACA or ACCA qualified (Essential)
• Tech-savvy with experience using ERP and finance systems
• Strong communication skills, able to present complex financial information clearly
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in financial reporting
• Quick learner, adaptable, and capable of working across multiple functions
• Solid understanding of financial reporting, compliance, and accounting principles

ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting edge and passionate business for which to work. Our employees are the heart of our business, which means we care about our company culture and our employees’ wellbeing and progression. Alongside this, as our colleague, you will have the following benefits:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually to reflect growth and impact
• Performance-based bonus
• Pension - Salary Sacrifice available
• 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Private Medical insurance

We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for people of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a good work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who know that “we” is more than “me”, and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. We value low-ego, high-impact individuals. You won’t be micro-managed; you’ll be expected to spot a problem and build the solution. As we grow, you will help us to build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you espouse these values, we want you!