Finance and Accounting Manager
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Job Description & Responsibilities
Bullshark is looking for a dynamic Finance and Accounting Manager to lead our financial operations and strengthen our back-office function. This role is central to maintaining financial discipline, ensuring compliance, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the company.
You’ll manage everything from day-to-day bookkeeping to management reporting, budgets, and cash flow planning, while also driving process optimisation and automation. Beyond finance, you’ll play a key role in client onboarding, contract management, and supporting our consulting teams on ERP implementations and financial compliance.
The ideal candidate combines hands-on accounting expertise with a strategic mindset - someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, embraces innovation, and contributes to the maturity and growth of Bullshark’s financial function.
Responsibilities:
1. Financial Operations
• Manage daily bookkeeping, payroll, bank reconciliations, and VAT returns
• Handle FS5 preparation and ensure compliance with tax obligations
• Oversee client billing, debtor chasing, and cash collection
• Maintain accurate management accounts for timely visibility of company performance
2. Reporting
• Develop clear financial reports, including client profitability, cash flow, and company performance
• Build and maintain reporting dashboards with a focus on automation and data-driven insights
• Ensure reporting frameworks are scalable, accurate, and actionable for management
3. Funding and Government Grants
• Identify and prepare applications for government funding schemes and financial support
• Ensure compliance with grant requirements and reporting obligations
4. Financial Planning and Strategy
• Lead the development of budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections
• Provide financial insights and recommendations to guide management decisions
• Manage the company’s investment funds, primarily focused on treasury bills and bonds, ensuring optimal returns while maintaining risk control
• Support tax planning and long-term financial structuring
5. Administration and Back Office
• Manage client onboarding beyond compliance ensuring full setup across Bullshark’s systems for seamless operations
• Draft, review, and manage legal and commercial contracts in collaboration with external advisors
• Maintain efficient back-office systems to support company operations
6. Project Costings and Quotes
• Prepare accurate project costings and client quotes with project managers and consulting leads
• Ensure project financials align with profitability goals and client expectations
• Advise on pricing strategies and structures for Bullshark's services
7. Strategic Contribution and Financial Function Optimisation
• Refine financial processes to increase efficiency and reduce manual work through automation
• Identify opportunities to enhance overall financial performance
• Deliver insights that enable smarter, data-driven decision-making across the business
8. Client Services
• Collaborate with Bullshark’s consulting teams on ERP implementations and financial systems projects
• Advise clients on accounting processes, compliance, and financial best practices
Qualifications required
Applicants must ideally be in possession of a University degree in Accounting or ACCA. We may consider applicants without the above qualifications, but having relevant experience.
Experience required
Requirements:
1. Technical Skills & Experience
• 3–5 years’ experience in finance, accounting, or auditing (audit/accounting firm background preferred)
• Strong experience in service-based businesses is required
• Experience working with SaaS businesses is a plus
• Hands-on knowledge of bookkeeping, VAT returns, payroll, and management accounts
• Proficiency in Xero or equivalent accounting software
• Advanced Excel expertise: ability to build complex models, automate reporting with formulas/macros, and manage large datasets with accuracy
• Solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
• Experience working in multi-company groups and consolidated reporting
2. Process and Optimisation Skills
• Proven ability to streamline processes through automation and optimisation
• Experience implementing reporting frameworks that drive clarity and accountability
• Ability to design workflows that reduce manual workload and improve accuracy
3. Personal and Professional Attributes
• Tech-savvy, curious, and open to innovation
• Detail-oriented with strong organisational skills
• Analytical thinker with the ability to turn data into actionable insights
• Proactive and solutions-driven, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communicator with the ability to manage both internal teams and client-facing interactions
Work Place
On-site
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