Finance Manager - 14 Month Fixed-Term Contract

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

About the opportunity

Join our Finance Team as a Finance Manager for a 14 month FTC in Newcastle to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences.We are looking for curious and empathetic people.

Reporting into the Accounting Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial operations across the business. They would lead the month-end close process, including managing accruals, prepayments, revenue recognition, and capitalisation of software development costs. They would oversee intercompany transactions, funding flows, and internal charges, ensuring all journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules are accurate and timely.

Some of the responsibilities for this role include:

• Manage month end processes, including accruals, prepayments, revenue and software capex processes
• Manage intercompany processes, funding movements and charges
• Preparation of journal entries, supporting schedules, general ledger reconciliations and analysis
• Oversight and review of the client liability reconciliations
• Ensure month end reconciliations are complete and accurate within Blackline
• Review and approve junior team member reconciliations and ensure appropriately supported
• Analyse financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and income statement accounts
• Review payroll and ensure correctly coded and understand the key movements
• Work with FP&A in understanding the financial performance and ensure aligned with knowledge of key business movements and respond to FP&A queries
• Assist in preparation of financial statements for local filing
• Work with external/internal auditors in managing company requests
• Review the indirect tax returns (VAT/GST etc) and reconciliation of the returns to the ledger and to Netsuite tax reports
• Review and prepare the analysis of ledger activity for month end reporting and tax analysis
• Work with compliance on the preparation of financial data to support capital adequacy for regulatory entities
• Prepare the regulatory reports in conjunction with the Payment operations team and compliance
• Manage the tactical banking access requirements and access
• Preparation of interim financial statements as required for company structuring/ approval of dividends/cash repatriation etc
• Assist with technical analysis of company activity to assist the tax department with transfer pricing
• Identify process improvement opportunities, develop potential solutions and implement

Location: For this position, we offer a fully remote role, once you are located in the UK and have full working rights.

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our four core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big picture thinkers and doers, people who can be both tactical and strategic, aim high and put people first in everything they do.

Required qualifications for this role:

• Fully qualified AAT, ACCA, ACA, and CIMA or similar
• Interested in a 14 month FTC 
• Strong controls bias and experience
• Strong analytical skills and ability to perform complex analysis and reconciliations
• Experience in assisting in the preparation of statutory accounts
• Experience of managing external audit to tight deadlines
• Proven excel skills to a good standard
• Process improvement and system development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with tactful telephone manner
• Self-driven in seeking resolutions to a high standard

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

What does it mean to work for Xplor? 

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members. 

Some of the perks of working with us: 

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development 
• A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do 
• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer 
• Unlimited access to Linkedin learning, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow 
• Access to mental health support 
• Fully flexible work arrangements 

How to apply? 

To start your application with us, please submit your CV and a cover letter and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your cover letter so that we know you really took the time to read our job ad.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via talent@xplortechnologies.com. 

More about us 

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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