Senior Management Accountant

Summary

Join ZOE's Finance team as a Senior Management Accountant and play a key role in shaping the company's financial future. You will be responsible for owning the payroll process, ensuring efficient business processes, managing financial reporting, and identifying opportunities to enhance finance operations. This role requires a proven track record in management accounting, preferably within a startup environment, and relevant qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent. Experience with SQL, data infrastructure, and IFRS is essential. The position offers the chance to contribute significantly to a rapidly growing company with potential for an IPO, and ZOE is committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Be a proven finance professional with management accountant experience at a start-up who is comfortable with ambiguity and a fast pace
• Have relevant post-qualification finance experience (qualified with CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent)
• Have experience with SQL and data infrastructure
• Have a robust character with the ability to pivot and adapt to changing priorities
• Be a process-minded individual who can identify weaknesses in a process and who are confident to implement change
• Be a naturally a problem solver with attention to detail and scientific approach to data analysis and insight
• Have worked closely with stakeholders in a remote setting
• Be systematic and organised. Have experience in roles with multiple responsibilities
• Have exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Have fantastic Excel Skills and experience within the Google Suite environment
• Have a solid knowledge of IFRS
• Be a great collaborator with a positive attitude who people enjoy working with. Have experience working cross-functionally

Responsibilities

• Own the payroll process - collaborating with our People team, PEO and other external providers to ensure all aspects of this process are operating smoothly and accurately
• Ensure business processes are designed and executed with automation as a key feature, limiting manual inputs through leveraging external software and our own internal data
• Work with our external tax providers to ensure certain regulatory and tax compliance matters are dealt with on a timely basis
• Perform monthly financial reporting, ad-hoc project analyses, and supporting financial models for the Group for both UK and US entities
• Identify opportunities to enhance finance as a function. Support or own the delivery of key projects, ranging from systems implementation to improving processes for a scaling business and controls for audit
• Support enhancement and delivery of insightful reporting to our Exec team, our Board and Venture Capital investors
• Manage year-end queries and support on data requests during the external audit process
• Balance sheet controls; ensuring ownership and communication across teams for key accounts

Preferred Qualifications

Have come from a Big 4 background

Benefits

• Base pay and stock options
• Competitive health insurance and wellness packages
• Inclusive parental policies
• Tailored professional development programs