Senior Financial Controller
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support the EU Head of Finance in managing core finance operations. You will lead accounting and financial close, maintain balance-sheet controls, establish controls and SOPs, prepare tax data, oversee external providers, manage EU tax compliance, represent finance at the Risk and Compliance Committee, and automate finance workflows including SAP usage.
Requirements
- 8+ years of finance experience
- End-to-end accounting
- Month-end and year-end close
- Statutory GAAP reporting
- Statutory audits
- Regulated financial services or fintech
- UK GAAP
- IFRS
- SAP
- Service provider management
- Financial controls
- SOPs
- Finance workflow automation
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end accounting cycle and financial close under Lux GAAP and UK GAAP
- Maintain monthly balance-sheet controls and substantiation
- Establish financial controls and SOPs for a regulated Payment Institution
- Represent finance at the Risk and Compliance Committee
- Collate financial data for corporation-tax preparation
- Manage relationships with fiduciaries, tax advisers, and statutory auditors
- Manage multi-jurisdictional EU tax compliance
- Automate finance processes and optimize SAP usage
Benefits
- Annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Paid and unpaid sabbatical options
- Private health insurance with dental care
- Mental wellbeing services
- Paid volunteering and development days
- Annual learning and development budget
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership
- Multisports card
- Monthly food vouchers
- Daily breakfast, coffee, tea, and juices
