Financial Controller - Technology sector in City of London

SRM Recruitment are partnering with a research and data SME (circa £10mn) who are looking to attract a Financial Controller/Senior Finance Manager to the business. This role is a 4 day a week in the office position. This is a role for a candidate that relishes working in a scaling business and who wants to own the finance function day-to-day. This is a sole charge position, albeit with support from within BusOps on areas such as AP. It's a hands-on role spanning the cadence and requirements of core finance, systems improvement, and genuine commercial partnership.

Finance operations:

• Oversee accounts receivable and payable.
• Manage external accountants and tax advisors (VAT, statutory accounts, filings).
• Own payroll.
• Improve financial controls, approval processes, and audit readiness.
• Deliver monthly management reporting with variance analysis and actionable narrative.
• Provide finance inputs to annual, quarterly board reporting.
• Support fundraising and corporate finance activity with reporting and analysis.

Planning & forecasting:

• Own the annual budget, run rolling forecasts, build scenario models (hiring, pricing, capacity), and produce forecast-vs-actuals analysis with clear commentary that leadership actually uses.

Commercial & strategic support:

• Provide pricing and deal support including margin and sensitivity analysis.
• Maintain investor-ready models and data packs.
• Support long-term financial strategy with structured analysis.
• Partner with Operations on the finance stack (QuickBooks, Datarails).
• Use AI to minimise manual and repeat work across the finance function.
• Define what leadership needs from BI and reporting outputs.

A practice trained (ACA, CA) with industry experience, or an industry trained (likely ACCA, CIMA) with at least 4 years in a commercial finance or finance business partnering background, ideally in a high-growth or scale-up environment.

Month-end close management:

• Ability to run a reliable, timely close process and ensure accurate numbers with minimal fire drills.
• A track record of building forecasting and reporting cadences that leadership trusts and uses.

Skills:

• Good financial modelling skills — 3-statement models, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis.
• Ability to translate financial complexity into clear narrative and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management across commercial, delivery, ops, and leadership teams.
• Comfort working with imperfect data and a drive to improve it through better definitions, processes, and systems.

In addition, if you have experience of working in a data rich/SaaS environment this is considered a considerable advantage, as is the desire to work in a fast-moving environment.

Bonus points for:

• Experience automating finance processes using AI and other technologies.