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About the Role
As Finance Manager, you will play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting while providing meaningful insight to stakeholders across the business. You will take ownership of month-end, support budgeting and forecasting, work with international entities, and contribute to projects focused on systems, automation, and improving Finance operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the month-end close, management accounts, journals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Manage and review work completed by the offshore finance team.
- Prepare statutory accounts and support the external audit.
- Maintain strong financial controls and processes.
- Produce monthly KPI and management reporting.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and cash-flow management.
- Support intercompany accounting and international entity consolidation.
- Assist with VAT, corporation tax, and international tax matters.
- Partner with stakeholders to provide financial insight.
- Support systems improvements, automation, AI initiatives, and other finance projects.
Requirements
- Newly or recently qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA accountant.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and/or UK GAAP.
- Good understanding of month-end, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Strong analytical and Excel skills.
- Experience reviewing junior team members' work and improving processes.
- Confidence communicating financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage competing deadlines.
- Proactive, curious, and keen to continue developing.
Skills
- IFRS
- UK GAAP
- Month-end close
- Management reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Tax
- International accounting
- Finance transformation
- Financial controls
- Financial processes
- KPI reporting
- Cash-flow management
- Intercompany accounting
- International entity consolidation
- VAT
- Corporation tax
- International tax
- Stakeholder management
- Systems improvements
- Automation
- AI initiatives
- Excel
- Xero
- AI-enabled finance solutions
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Newly or recently qualified accountant
Education Level
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
Benefits
- 28 days' annual leave plus UK public holidays
- Holiday buy, sell and rollover options
- Westfield Health Cash Plan
- Personal recharge days
- Calm Premium subscription
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- One paid charity day each year
About the Company
- At FutureLearn, we’re passionate about the power of lifelong learning. We help learners from all over the world progress in their careers – and invest in their futures.
- We truly believe that up-skilling is a worthy investment, and we hope to empower our learners to take control of their careers through personalised learning pathways – giving them progress at their fingertips.
- Partnering with 260+ world-class educational partners, including prestigious universities, global brands and industry partners, we offer our 20 million-strong learner community the opportunity to discover and access flexible, high-quality online courses and degrees.
- We’re not here just to teach new skills (although we do that well), we want to help transform lives. FutureLearn is looking to build our teams with people who share our passion for lifelong learning, career empowerment and education for all. If that sounds like you, get in touch. You could help us achieve our biggest goal yet – becoming the world’s best AI-powered, career-based learning platform and OPM.
Equal Opportunity
- We value all the great benefits that diversity brings and encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work – At FutureLearn we are proud to have Diversity and Inclusion at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.