Director of Financial Reporting & Control

Location: United Kingdom
Department: Finance
Posted: March 10, 2025

ABOUT THE TEAM

It’s exciting times here at Tide, we are scaling and developing our product offering at a phenomenal rate and have made our first step into our ambitious plans towards international expansion with our move into the Indian SME marketplace.  We need someone to be proactive, take hands-on initiative, exhibiting extreme ownership to build out best in class financial reporting and control financial control function, including a robust control framework and processes for our global operations.

As our new Director of Financial Reporting & Control, you’ll report to the VP of Finance and be responsible for the financial controllership of the Tide Group.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Director of Financial Reporting & Control you’ll be: 

• Building robust financial control processes and strengthening internal control framework, including all related Policies and Procedures
• Ensuring proper books and records for all financial transactions
• Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of monthly P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, annual financial statements, regulatory and investor reporting
• Maintaining best practice documentation of accounting policy and papers for material transactions and revenue recognition
• Legal entity control, consolidation and intercompany balance reconciliation
• Managing relationships with external auditors, tax advisors and outsourced accounting providers, including for regional offices in Bulgaria, India and Luxembourg
• Collaborating with other departments on tax and accounting matters as well as coordinating with internal product engineering teams and consultants on R&D projects that are eligible for tax relief
• Acting as taxation and transfer pricing SME across the group to support corporate structuring activities.  
• Collate financial data for the preparation of corporation tax and VAT returns, ensuring compliance with tax legislation 
• Regular reporting of financial performance, financial risk, financial control, taxation, ESG and other topical matters to the Finance & Audit Committee
• Identifying opportunities to streamline and improve accounting processes, operations and systems.  Including driving the upgrade of the core ledger and reporting system
• Overseeing the monthly ledger close, cost accounting and accounts payable and receivable functions
• Growing and developing a highly motivated and talented financial control team

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

• Senior Financial Leadership: recent experience at a Senior/Director level managing financial control in complex, multi-country, multi-entity organizations
• Industry Expertise: Proven track record in financial services or technology (FinTech, payments, banking, lending)
• Scale-Up Environment: You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment and have the desire to take ownership of critical financial operations and drive results
• Technical Proficiency: Strong financial acumen and technical accounting skills (IFRS/UK GAAP). Experience with statutory audits of financial services companies
• Professional Qualification: ACA or equivalent professional finance qualification
• Strategic & Operational Agility: Ability to transition seamlessly between strategic oversight and hands-on execution
• Stakeholder Management: Confident communicator with senior stakeholders, capable of autonomous work
• Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead and develop teams of 20+ staff

WHAT YOU WILL GET IN RETURN

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: 

• Flexible working options
• Share options 
• Group Life Insurance 
• Vitality Health Insurance, with a proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing
• 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
• 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
• We invest in your development with a £1,000 professional L&D budget per year
• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution
• Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Sabbatical leave

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.