Finance Manager
Salary £ Competitive, based on experience
UK-based - Hybrid working from our London office
Vacancy listed 04/07/2025
Application deadline 31/08/2025
Details
FINANCE MANAGER
Job Title: Finance Manager
Type: Will consider both part time and full time applicants, Permanent
Location: Hybrid (London office)
Reports to: Kathy Adams, CFO
Salary: Competitive, based on experience

About Hoptroff
At Hoptroff, we’re a team of smart, creative, collaborative optimists who challenge the status quo and deliver cutting-edge precision timing solutions globally. We specialise in scientifically measured, digitally coded time, providing innovative plug-and-play solutions that simplify complexity, enhance efficiency, and allow customers to focus on their core expertise. We take care of time so you don’t have to.

With exciting growth ahead, we’re looking for a Finance Manager to support our Finance function and help our CFO deliver all financial record keeping, reporting and other ad hoc support of the wider business.

If you are looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you!

Position Overview
This role requires a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Manager to manage our core financial operations. This role will support the finance function, transitioning it from an outsourced model to an efficient and strategic in-house capability. You will play a critical role in ensuring financial accuracy, supporting strategic decision-making, and enabling sustainable growth across our UK base and US subsidiary. 

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Operations
  • Own and manage the company’s full-cycle bookkeeping using Xero
  • Prepare timely monthly entity and consolidated management accounts (UK and US entities) including all relevant journals and reconciliations
  • Lead timely and accurate invoicing and credit control; coordinate with Sales to manage debtors
  • Manage accounts payable, including vendor payments and supplier relationships
  • Oversee bank and credit card reconciliations

Compliance & Reporting
  • Prepare and submit UK VAT returns and assist with international tax compliance
  • Ensure accurate calculation and payment of sales partner and staff commissions
  • Support external audits and year-end statutory reporting
  • Maintain well-organised digital finance records and documentation

Strategic Finance Support
  • Collaborate with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
  • Support investor communications and future fundraising initiatives
  • Lead or contribute to ad hoc finance projects and process improvements
  • Identify and implement opportunities for automation and efficiency within the finance function
  • Ensure financial controls appropriate to the size of the team are maintained and improved as the company and function grow

Other
  • Carry out additional duties as required by the line manager.

Required Skills & Experience:

Essential Qualifications & Experience
  • Newly or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent); QBE considered with strong track record
  • Strong knowledge of Xero and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, basic formulas)
  • Solid understanding of UK financial regulations and reporting requirements
Desirable
  • Proven experience in a standalone or lead finance role, preferably within a startup or SME environment
  • Experience working with US financial regulations and reporting
  • Previous involvement in investor reporting or fundraising processes
  • Familiarity with CRM or financial planning tools

Role Requirements:
  • Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to financial accuracy
  • High level of initiative, with the ability to work independently and solve problems
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to liaise confidently with internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Commercial mindset with a passion for supporting business growth and improvement
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable in a hybrid working environment.
  • Fluency in spoken and written English.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment 
  • High degree of personal drive and motivation to succeed in growing a company 

Wider Commitments

Hybrid working:
  • We are a hybrid company so that you will be splitting your time between working at home or in our office located in Shoreditch (at least 1 / 2 days per week)
  • Monthly Company sync meetings in the London office as well as team events 
  • Ad hoc customer and stakeholder meetings as required

Continuous Learning:
  • Contribute to both your own personal continuous learning as well as the continuous improvement of others
  • Present at Company Syncs
  • Attend training and events to support you in your role
  • Create shared learnings

General & Ethical:
  • Uphold the vision and values of the company
  • Ensure at all times that Hoptroff works in an ethical way
  • Escalate any people issues to the relevant Line Manager/HR
  • Uphold the brand guidelines of the company, ensuring any documentation you are responsible for is aligned with them

What we offer:
  • Competitive salary and benefits package including EMI Share Options & Private Medical Insurance
  • 25 days holiday (plus Company closedown between Christmas and New Year)
  • Based at a Shoreditch FinTech incubator space. A thriving innovative community, full of like-minded businesses with a full social events calendar, networking opportunities and & dog friendly
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career progression
  • A dynamic and collaborative working environment with cutting-edge technology
  • Involvement in high-impact projects and the chance to work with global customers in the financial and other sectors

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of sex, marital or parental status, race, colour, nationality, religion, belief, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender reassignment.

Eligibility to Work
Applicants must have the current right to live and work in the UK. Proof of eligibility will be required as part of the hiring process.

This job description is designed to provide key information about the scope of the position and does not include a comprehensive list of all skills, tasks, responsibilities, efforts, or working conditions involved.

OUR MISSION
We create certainty through global precision timing

OUR VISION
To be the digital heartbeat of the connected world
As the world is continuously reshaped by rapid technological advances, time is the only certainty. Without it, we have no definites. Only maybes. That's why we inspire a future where every moment is timestamped back to the world's timekeeping authorities. We bring certainty to an uncertain world by precisely recording what happened when. Because time matters.

OUR VALUES
Precision - we deliver accuracy and clarity in everything we do
Innovation - we think differently and push boundaries
Collaboration - we recognise the power of working together
Trust - we build confidence by delivering on our promises
Ambition -  we believe we are changing the world

This job description is designed to provide key information about the scope of the position and does not include a comprehensive list of all skills, tasks, responsibilities, efforts, or working conditions involved.
Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package including EMI Share Options & Private Medical Insurance

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