Financial Controller
OLIXAI Hardware company
London, United KingdomSenior
Plural
LocalGlobe
Hummingbird Ventures
Entrepreneurs First
Transition
Crane Venture Partners
Finance
About the role
TL;DR
Financial Controller to build and run control, reporting, and accounting engine.
- •We're looking for a Financial Controller to help build and run the control, reporting, and accounting engine at OLIX during one of our most critical periods of growth.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the day-to-day running of financial operations (AP), month-end close, reconciliations, and the management and statutory reporting that keep the business in control as it scales.
- •Prepare accurate, reliable numbers across the business
- •covering all production activities, accounts payable, payroll, capital, share options, transfer pricing, taxes, and more.
- •Support the selection, implementation, and running of our core finance systems (ERP and supporting tooling), helping build lightweight, fit-for-purpose processes.
- •Help establish audit-ready controls and processes from the ground up, and lead our external audit.
- •Partner with our engineering and manufacturing teams to ensure production data flows through cleanly into accounting, controlled, and is both reportable.
- •Provide the clean, reliable data foundation that the FP&A and commercial side of finance depends on.
- •Take on broader ownership over time as the finance function, and your remit, grow.
- •Requirements Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent), ideally trained at a Big Four, now looking for a hands-on role in a fast-scaling business.
- •High horsepower and high energy: sharp, quick to learn, and able to reason to the right answer from first principles rather than lean on an established playbook.
- •Strong technical accounting foundations and a high bar for accuracy and control.
- •Comfortable being hands-on in a small, flat team, owning your work end to end with limited support and infrastructure around you.
- •Fluent in today’s relevant accounting standards (IFRS / UK GAAP), and keen to learn more.
- •Keen to build: you want to help stand up a finance function and grow with it, not run a mature one on autopilot.
Required skills
AccountingFinancial ModelingFP&ABudgetingFinancial Analysis
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Competitive Salary, Equity & Ownership, Proximity Bonus, Retirement Benefits