nous - Finance Manager
Requirements
• Around 5 years or more of relevant finance experience, from practice (Big 4, audit or advisory) or a strong industry background. • A clear, demonstrable history of high performance — academic, professional or both. • A STEM or analytical background or degree, and a genuinely analytical mind. • A real love of accounting, and comfort being hands-on in the detail of reconciliations, invoicing and month-end. • High agency and first-principles problem-solving in fast-changing environments. • Qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with at least 2–3 years PQE, or equivalent. • Hands-on familiarity with databases and data tooling — for example Power BI, Looker, Omni, Amplitude or Tableau. Comfortable using modern data tooling beyond Excel and traditional accounting systems like Xero or NetSuite. • Active use of AI tools in day-to-day work, for example Claude Code or similar. • Exposure to high-volume, transactional businesses such as marketplaces, fintech, energy or consumer technology. • Experience building or improving finance processes in partnership with product or engineering teams. • Exposure to a first audit, or to building controls in a scaling business.
Responsibilities
• Own the high-volume reconciliations that sit at the heart of the business, ensuring customer, supplier and provider transactions reconcile cleanly and accurately as customers move between providers. • Manage the invoicing cycle across the supplier and provider base, keeping it accurate, timely and well controlled. • Take ownership of finance operations end to end, including customer payments, provider payouts, supplier fees and other regular payments. • Build automation into finance workflows using modern data and AI tooling, driving speed, accuracy and scale as volumes grow. • Maintain consistent, up-to-date and accurate financial records — being the go-to person on the historical financial source of truth, enabling clear visibility into performance. • Lead the month-end close and prepare timely, accurate management accounts the leadership team can rely on. • Design and embed financial controls across payments, approvals and vendor management, building a robust control environment from the ground up. • Prepare the business for, and help lead it through, its first external audit. • Partner with engineering, product and go-to-market teams to design low-touch, automated finance processes, particularly around reconciliation and data capture. • Provide the finance foundations that support Nous's geographic and product expansion. • Support the Head of Finance on investor reporting and the reporting infrastructure that underpins it.
Benefits
• Compelling packages, including share options with life-changing upside. We’ve raised enough money to pay real salaries. We're building something great together and we all share in the upside. If we win, we win together. • An environment where you can do your best work: • 🏢 A great office set up for lots of collaborative working. We already need more whiteboards • 💻 The equipment / setup / training you need to do your best work • 🤝 A high-context environment with lots of exposure to the big decisions - be in the room when it happens (literally) • 🏡 Flexibility around remote work. If you sometimes just need to get your head down, that's fine • ☕ Very good coffee https://www.nous.co/blog/the-best-coffee-in-the-world • 🍽️ A well-stocked kitchen (featuring a wildly popular toastie maker) so you can always make yourself a breakfast or light lunch on the house • 🎉 Informal social every week, something bigger every month, plus a set-piece event in the summer and again at Christmas - we're not robots! • ✈ 33 days paid holidays (including bank holidays) • 💊 Health and dental cash plans, including an employee assistance programme • 🚴 Travel benefits, including the cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loans • Nous has an office-first culture. That means we encourage in-person working, and most people do work from the office in Farringdon most of the time. We do a lot of brainstorming, problem-solving and interaction within the team and presence makes this more effective. It also helps ensure people have good peripheral awareness and high context. But we are pragmatic not doctrinal about this, and recognise that, sometimes, certain types of work can be better done remotely. • THE ENVIRONMENT • Most importantly, this is a high-performance, high-agency and high-trust technical environment. Nous is intentionally lean and AI-native — not just in its product but as a company. Everyone is expected to use AI to its full potential, whether that's debugging a system, streamlining a workflow or improving how customers are served. Rather than building layers of middle management, we hire smart, high-agency people and give them real ownership. • We're dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace, and we actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Every candidate is thoughtfully considered, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability or sexual orientation.
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