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We’re the world’s first tech platform for flight-free holidays. We help people love their journeys, and are proud to be a certified B Corporation. Founded in March 2020, we’ve sent over 3,000 people away with 98% five star reviews, and regularly appear in mainstream press from the Times to the Guardian. We’re growing 5x year on year, and have no plans to slow down until flight-free travel is mainstream.

We’re looking for a creative, flexible and detail-oriented Financial Controller with a drive to take ownership of the finances of our scaling startup as our first full (or nearly full!) time finance hire. In this role, you’ll play a key part in our financial strategy, leading our budgeting and forecasting processes, developing internal controls and tooling, and managing all financial operations within the company. We're open to hiring you full time or four days per week according to your preferences, and offer remote-first, flexible working.

You’ll report directly to the CEO, supervise the supplier reconciliation and payment work of our two support team members, and collaborate across all departments, providing financial insights that drive our company's growth.

Your key responsibilities

• Leading and managing the company’s budgeting and forecasting processes
• Developing and enforcing internal control policies to ensure financial integrity
• Preparing financial reports and presenting findings and recommendations to the management team
• Collaborating with all departments, providing them with financial analysis and guidance
• Managing all financial operations within the company, including treasury, tax, and financial planning
• Ensuring compliance with statutory law and financial regulations
• Coordinating auditing processes and liaising with external auditors

What we’re looking for

• A qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Experience managing a finance function in a fast-growth SME environment including modelling, forecasting and budgeting
• Comfort with the nuts and bolts of financial management: transactional processing, accounting, tax, reporting, planning and analysis
• Knowledge of financial regulations and accounting processes
• Proficiency in accounting software including Xero
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and management skills

What would be great (but isn’t required)

• Experience building a finance function and systems from scratch
• Knowledge of the travel industry
• Airtable expertise

What we offer

• £50,000 - £60,000 FTE p.a. depending on experience
• Company ownership through equity
• Remote-first, flexible working
  • 20 days wherever: work when you like and where you like for most of the month - we’ll fund a day a week in a coworking space
  • 2 days together: join our team in the London office two days each month including our monthly social
• One cost-price Byway holiday per year
• An annual autumn Away Afternoon and optional Weekend Away in spring

How to apply

Please apply with your CV and a short covering letter. We're more interested in your covering letter than your CV.

We’re eager to receive applications from all backgrounds, including from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The process

If we like your application, we'll set up a 15 minute call for you and Claire, our Interim Head of Finance, to meet each other. After that, there's a short take-home scenario then a technical interview with founder/CEO Cat, Claire, and a member of the support team you'll be supervising. The third and final interview is focused on us getting to know you, and you getting to know Byway. It will be with Cat and Rich (CTO) or Holly (CMO). If that's great, we move to job offer and references!

We offer flexible scheduling for our multi-stage interview process and are open to adjustments based on candidate needs.

Applications close

Monday 31st July 2023.