• Driven and ambitious personality
• Excellent communication and team-working skills
• Being organised, methodical and paying attention to detail are your natural strengths
• ACA or internationally equivalent qualified with commercial post qualification experience
• Excellent spreadsheet and presentation skills (Google Suite and Microsoft Office)
• Experience working in Xero and accompanying tools
• Demonstrable commercial and/or entrepreneurial acumen
• Adaptability to operate successfully in a fast-paced environment, delivering on multiple projects with tight deadlines, especially during key reporting periods

Desirable

• Elliptic is looking for a high-calibre, ambitious and energetic finance professional to help spearhead the growth of the Finance function for this high-growth SaaS business
• This person will work closely with the Finance Controller and Finance Assistant to enhance the accounting and finance function in-house, and gradually build-out the Finance team to take close control of bookkeeping and reporting
• As such this person will play a central role in forging a function that truly helps to drive the growth of the business by continually improving speed of management information and insights, and starting to establish valuable finance business partnering to teams throughout the business
• Maintain a strong financial control environment
• Oversee day to day accounting, month-end reporting through to the Management Information and Board Packs
• Budget variance analysis and forecasting
• Manage both the accounts receivable and payables cycles end to end
• Liaise with tax advisors and service providers relating to VAT, R&D and Corporate Tax to ensure tax compliance
• Support the finance controller with the delivery of the year end audit
• Partnering with the Sales Operations team to review and agree monthly Commissions
• Liaising with outsourced payroll providers and Elliptic’s People Operations team
• Automating various approval flows and integrations between finance tools
• Scoping and implementing new tools to create efficiency in processes
• What you will achieve in the first 6 months:
• Drive the process of shortening the days to close management accounts KPI
• Support the financial controller in obtaining all audit sign offs prior to the statutory deadlines
• Perform a deep dive into all processes to identify inefficiencies and be empowered to implement solutions agreed to resolve those requiring most attention
• Build strong relationships within finance and the wider business as a strategic partner