Financial Controller

Nomia is transforming the way organizations manage tail spend procurement. Our AI-powered SaaS platform combines cutting-edge technology with deep human procurement expertise to simplify sourcing, drive compliance, and unlock measurable value. With a fast-growing global customer base and teams across London, Dubai, Singapore, Krakow, Chicago, and India, we’re building a rocket ship for growth, and we’re looking for passionate, high-impact people to join us.

You will play a key role in supporting Nomia on its growth journey, helping to build and strengthen our finance capabilities as we scale. You will combine hands-on financial management with strategic thinking, ensuring we capitalise on opportunities while proactively identifying and managing risk. You will bring strong consolidation experience and confidence in leading financial change, helping to shape a robust, scalable finance function for the next phase of growth.

• Ensure timely and accurate reporting is produced, both regional and consolidated reporting, in accordance with UK GAAP and FRS 101.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls are in place, including implementing new controls and controls documentation.
• Improve the current monthly consolidation process, ensuring monthly revaluations of all foreign currency balances and appropriate tax postings.
• Ensure appropriate revenue recognition is taking place including appropriate deferrals and accruals for both transaction revenue and new SaaS revenue, in addition to a monthly revenue reconciliation process.
• Define and implement the accounting for new business activities including early payment discounts, invoice factoring, rebates and quarterly bonuses.
• Ensure all appropriate costs are capitalised, and create a process for capitalising internal development costs.
• Review the chart of accounts set up to ensure this supports the needs of the business and the level of insight required.
• Support the further development of departmental reporting and management information, and ensure full alignment on the categorisation of costs between actuals and budget.
• Design a new process for quarterly sales commissions, including creating new reporting on performance against targets to calculate commissions, and ensuring the proper accounting treatment in line with accounting standards.
• Seek further opportunities to automate reporting and reduce month end.
• Work with our Data Engineer on data visualisation of reporting and KPIs.
• Additional reporting developments as required to support insight and growth.

• Responsible for overseeing the Group and local entity accounts preparation and audits, ensuring their timely completion, and evaluating new providers.
• Ensure compliance with reporting, audit and tax requirements globally (15+ subsidiaries), including proactively planning for new compliance requirements as we grow internationally, seeking out additional third-party support as needed.
• Review our current outsourced providers and make recommendations on suggested changes with a focus on service level, cost and time managing.
• Lead on the design of transfer pricing and ensure appropriate documentation of transfer pricing & intercompany loans.
• Explore R&D tax credits.

• Oversee AP and AR to ensure timely processing and issuance of invoices, timely payments and collections, and accurate postings.
• Oversee the preparation of accurate weekly and 13-week cashflow forecasts.
• Seek further opportunities to automate AP and AR.

• Lead and develop a small team (2 direct reports and a total team of 7), providing direction, mentorship, and support for professional growth.

• Fully qualified accountant (ideally ACA) with 5+ years PQE.
• Proven experience in a Financial Controller role within a fast growing and global business.
• Strong technical accounting and tax knowledge.
• Hands on experience in management accounting, financial reporting, audit and tax compliance.
• Proven experience and strong knowledge of leading the monthly group consolidation process, including monthly revaluations.
• Proven ability to support and deliver change, implement new processes, and support business growth.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is not required but a bonus.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in complex, fast-moving environments.
• A proactive, self-starter attitude, comfortable with ambiguity and building processes in a scale-up environment.
• Organised, adaptable, and comfortable working with evolving priorities.
• Excellent communicator, able to work effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• Adhere to Nomia’s data protection and information security policies at all times.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in line with Nomia’s core values.
• This is a hybrid role, with three office days per week required, potentially more during training or as requested by your supervisor.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in systems and processes.
• Please note that this role description is a guideline, and duties may evolve over time.