Financial Controller – AI Enabled Finance Operations

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🔥 4 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Pencil

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

💰 $2.8M Seed Round - Pencil on 2020-04

Artificial Intelligence • Marketing • B2B

Pencil is an AI-driven creative platform for marketers and brands. It uses generative artificial intelligence to produce ad creative (images and video) and concept variations designed for performance marketing and e-commerce advertisers, helping teams scale creative production and test many ad variants quickly. Pencil is positioned as a B2B tool for marketing teams and agencies.

📋 Description

• Own and continuously strengthen the internal control framework across P2P, O2C, payroll, and expenses • Run a recurring monthly operational hygiene review • Give final review on management accounts, revenue recognition, and AP runs • Perform first review of monthly payroll ahead of Head of Finance approval • Own monthly workings for internally developed costs and ensure appropriate audit controls • Own cash flow forecasting and treasury, including final sign-off on bank payments • Provide senior judgement and support on complex revenue recognition, AP, and cost management questions • Own escalation relationships involving banking queries, calls, and vendor/software ownership • Own the finance function's AI usage policy • Streamline finance operations by leveraging AI • Build the controls and process layer as Pencil scales • Ensure monthly close, cash flow forecasting, audit controls, AP, revenue recognition, capex, and AI workflow automation meet success measures

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified accountant, must have UK experience (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA) • 5 years of finance experience, including 2 years of industry experience • Experience owning financial controls and process in a fast-paced scaling business, ideally SaaS or tech • Comfortable managing cash flow independently, including bank payment sign-off • Track record of making and standing behind senior judgement calls (accruals, revenue treatment, risk) rather than just reviewing others' work • Confident working with modern finance tooling (Xero, ApprovalMax, Maxio or equivalent) • Demonstrable AI skills to optimize finance workflows and efficiency

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days PTO plus public holidays, although we operate a Flexible Time Off scheme • Health insurance / private medical cover • Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development • Remote - work from anywhere in your home country • Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy • Flexible working hours