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About the Role

Valarian Technologies is seeking a hands-on Finance Manager to own finance operations, month-end accounting, and management reporting within a growing, early-stage business. This manager-level individual contributor role requires independent prioritization, stakeholder coordination, and driving tasks to completion, utilizing modern finance software and automation to ensure an effective and lean finance function.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day finance operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, expenses, company cards, supplier onboarding, and payment runs.
• Manage the end-to-end supplier invoice process, including coding, approval tracking, payment scheduling, and supplier queries.
• Own customer and intercompany invoicing, including recurring invoices, recharges, payment tracking, and debtor follow-up.
• Prepare and manage regular payment runs, including urgent and exceptional payments, while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Oversee employee expenses and spend-management processes.
• Maintain accurate accounting records and ensure timely transaction processing.
• Complete regular bank, card, supplier, customer, and intercompany reconciliations.
• Manage recurring payments, subscriptions, renewals, and cancellations, identifying duplicate or unnecessary spend.
• Introduce and maintain practical controls across purchasing, approvals, payments, expenses, billing, and supplier management.
• Ensure finance policies, approval limits, and documented processes are understood and followed.
• Own the monthly close timetable and drive all required actions to completion.
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, payroll, fixed assets, deferred revenue, intercompany balances, and foreign-exchange adjustments.
• Maintain complete and accurate balance-sheet reconciliation schedules.
• Review the general ledger and investigate unusual or incorrectly coded transactions.
• Produce monthly management accounts, including profit and loss statement, balance sheet, cash-flow and runway reporting, budget-versus-actual analysis, departmental and cost-centre reporting, relevant KPIs, and variance commentary.
• Work with the Head of Finance to improve the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of monthly reporting.
• Maintain a clear audit trail and ensure management accounts can be supported by underlying accounting records.
• Support the preparation of investor, board, and other stakeholder reporting.
• Maintain the company budget and rolling forecast in collaboration with the Head of Finance and departmental budget owners.
• Support the preparation of half-year and annual budgets.
• Track spend against budget by department, supplier, and cost category.
• Provide budget owners with clear and timely reporting and follow up on significant variances.
• Review proposed and existing expenditure.
• Support cash-flow forecasting, burn analysis, and runway management.
• Help develop scalable reporting that provides leadership with clear visibility over financial performance and commitments.
• Own the internal year-end process, including maintaining a close plan, preparing schedules, and responding to external accountant or auditor requests.
• Coordinate the preparation and filing of corporation tax returns with external tax advisers.
• Maintain an organized record of tax, statutory, and compliance deadlines.
• Ensure intercompany agreements, invoicing, recharges, and balances are documented and reconciled.
• Support VAT filings and other applicable tax reporting.
• Coordinate payroll inputs, payroll reconciliations, and related accounting entries.
• Oversee pension compliance activities and maintain evidence of required submissions and communications.
• Manage company insurance renewals, information requests, and related administration.
• Maintain accurate, accessible, and well-organized finance documentation.
• Coordinate UK and US option valuation processes with external advisers.
• Maintain accurate records of equity transactions and ensure alignment of documents, approvals, accounting entries, and cap-table records.
• Own or support the implementation and ongoing administration of the company’s cap-table platform.
• Work closely with People, Legal, and external advisers to ensure employee and contractor-related finance actions are completed accurately and on time.
• Take ownership of finance tools and workflows, including the accounting platform, spend-management tools, expense systems, cap-table platform, and finance-related CRM reporting.
• Lead the onboarding, migration, or replacement of finance systems where required.
• Ensure finance-system access, approval workflows, master data, and reporting configurations are appropriately controlled.
• Identify manual, inconsistent, or poorly controlled processes and implement proportionate improvements alongside process documentation.
• Manage system providers and implementation partners and ensure agreed projects are delivered through to completion.

Requirements

• Approximately 4–7 years of relevant experience in management accounting, finance operations, or a broad finance role.
• Experience working in a startup, scale-up, or fast-moving SME environment is highly desirable.
• Demonstrable experience owning a monthly close process and preparing management accounts.
• Experience coordinating external accountants, tax advisers, payroll providers, legal advisers, or other specialists.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, including experience working with reconciliations, management reporting, and financial models.
• Comfortable working in an environment where processes are still developing and where part of the role is to create structure.
• Able to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and dependencies without requiring constant supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to follow up with senior stakeholders and challenge incomplete or unsupported requests.

Skills

• Xero or similar accounting system
• Spend-management platforms
• Expense systems
• CRM platforms
• Cap-table platforms
• UK and US entities
• Cross-border transactions
• Equity administration
• Transfer pricing

Location

• London HQ

Work Type

• Hybrid work setup

Experience Level

• Manager-level individual contributor
• 4-7 years relevant experience

Education Level

• Part-qualified, finalist, or qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA
• Qualified by experience considered

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Equity
• Competitive salary
• Employer pension contributions
• Private health insurance
• In office catering
• Gym memberships
• Hybrid work setup
• Rewarding company retreats and meetups

About the Company

• Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges.
• We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.
• We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company.
• The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data.
• Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organisations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc.
• At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world.
• Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.
• Our culture is built on inclusivity, compassion, and flexibility – we want everyone to be empowered to achieve their goals at Valarian.
• The world is changing, and so is our way of working.
• We trust each other to consistently raise the bar, and we challenge each other to continually reach new heights.

Equal Opportunity

• Valarian Technologies Limited is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran, amnesty, or any other legally protected characteristic.
• We are committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process and providing employment opportunities to all applicants.
• Decision recruitment, hiring, and employment are based solely on qualifications, skills, and experience relevant to the job requirements.