About Save My Exams
Save My Exams is a rapidly growing EdTech business on the lookout for an ambitious Financial Lead.
Reaching up to 2m monthly active users and on our way to 100,000 paying members, all while being bootstrapped and profitable, we’re now on the lookout for an FC to join our Finance Team.
We are passionate about solving challenging and meaningful problems and looking for people who care about making a real difference in the lives of students and teachers.
The Role
Reporting to, and working closely with the CFO, you will be instrumental in leveling up our financial operations and delivering accurate and timely financial information to both internal and external stakeholders.
The Finance Lead will deliver across all areas of accounting and finance, specifically focusing on:
- Ensuring the delivery of fast and accurate financial information to both internal and external stakeholders
- Building new and upgrading old processes and controls to to improve efficiency and preserve value creation
- Compliance with tax, regulatory and any other reporting requirements
This is an amazing opportunity for someone to join a growing Ed tech company and play a key role within the team
Your Responsibilities
Financial Control and Accounting
- Establish best in class controls, processes and internal reporting
- Develop fit for purpose financial systems, with a high degree of data integrity
- Develop and update financial policies and procedures to ensure consistency across SME
- Assist with all aspects of the company’s financial reporting and accounting including:
- Bookkeeping, Treasury, Cashflow AP / AR, Payments, Invoicing
- Ownership of GL’s, accounting system, month end reconciliations
- VAT and other tax compliance
- Annual Statutory Accounts and Audit, Consolidations
- Working with BI to understand trends and performance
- Prepare on-going support analysis of underlying data to support on-going optimisation of business activities.
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Key stakeholder in the company’s budgeting and forecasting activities
- Variance analysis and partnering with teams to understand variances
Systems
- Develop & maintain fit for purpose systems
Other
- Other finance and operational work that assist in the company
- Collaborating across functions with the People and I&A teams to help drive business outcomes
- FP&A support to include assistance with ensuring SME are making decisions and investments based on ROI
- Involvement with ad hoc legal, HR and Corporate law
- Company secretarial
Requirements
We are looking for a self-motivated and detail-oriented individual with a strong background in finance and a passion for education. The ideal candidate will have:
- At least 7 years of experience in finance or accounting roles, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Proven track record in financial planning, analysis, and reporting.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial regulations.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in financial management software and advanced Excel skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
If you are a motivated finance professional looking to make a significant impact in the EdTech industry, we would love to hear from you.
Benefits
Working for a fast-growing education company is a rare opportunity. Our roles are challenging, but working for a highly collaborative and fully remote company comes with amazing advantages and opportunities.
Here’s what we offer:
- Competitive annual salary of 70,000 - 80,000 depending on experience & skills
- 36 days of paid vacation, this includes the UK Bank Holidays but you can take them whenever suits you.
- Paid sabbatical - 4 weeks paid leave for every 3 years you work with SME (in addition to your annual holiday allowance)
- In addition to your salary, we also have Stock Options, so everyone can benefit from our success
- Profit share bonus scheme
- Private Medical & Life Insurance
- £500 annual Learning & Development budget
- Pension contribution
- Equipment budget for equipment you might need to do your job brilliantly
- Flexible working hours: We don’t expect (or want) you to spend every waking hour at work. Our general working hours are 9-6pm, however we have a company-wide principle around Core Hours, which is 10-4pm and you can work at times that suit you and your team
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Remote working: we’re UK based - work from your home or wherever you want, as long as it’s +/- 3 hours within GMT time zone.
- Amazing team: we’re a diverse, talented and friendly group who love what we do.
The Process
If all of this sounds like what you would love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you! So that you know what to expect from us, our hiring process usually involves the following stages:
- Application form
- Phone screen
- 30-minute video call
- Home Task
- Onsite Interview
- Reference check (we would like to speak to your previous managers at this stage)
We aim to review applications regularly, and you will hear either way from us if you are progressing to the next stage within max. 2 weeks of submitting your application (but generally sooner).
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