Finance Manager

About Flown

FLOWN helps people work better. We do this by giving our members tools to focus, and tools to recharge their focus.

Our platform offers a holistic approach, based on all the scientific research into what helps us become more productive, creative and fulfilled.

FLOWN is led by successful serial entrepreneur, Alicia Navarro, founder of Skimlinks (acquired by Connexity April 2020), and backed well-known entrepreneurs and angels such as Greg Marsh (OneFineStay), Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise), Tom Allason (Shutl).

About the Role

FLOWN is looking for a fully remote, freelance, part time (1-2 days per week) Finance Manager to help shape up the company's finance function and support with our finance modelling and reporting.

We're looking for someone who is happy to be hands-on where necessary, but is also strategic and able to produce finance models, Board packs, and reports and insights. We’re additionally looking for someone who has experience in managing content subscriptions for a SaaS product.

We’re happy to explore a range of different working patterns - please just let us know what you’re looking for when applying!

Responsibilities

Here's some of things you'll be be supporting:

• Managing the accounting and bookkeeping process, working closely with our external accountants where necessary, and/or bringing things in-house if it makes sense to.
• Owning our solution for membership subscription fees, credits, and cancellations. Working with our Product and Tech teams to optimise our subscription payments tools and processes.
• Being the point of contact to resolve any subscription/payment issues - putting processes in place to ensure this scales as we grow.
• Helping to design and implement the requirements and processes for B2B2C subscription fees.
• Maintaining the company’s financial forecast model and reporting regularly on revenue, cashflow and expenditure. Partnering with key stakeholders across the company to ensure that the modelling assumptions are reasonable and current.
• Producing reports and providing insights that inform the company on key metrics such cost per property acquisition, return on investment per property, average booking value, member LTV etc. Providing recommendations on how to leverage or optimise these metrics.
• Preparing Board packs and supporting with other investment related activities e.g. EMI options, due diligence etc.
• Applying for R&D tax credits and other innovation grants.
• Supporting on strategic tasks related to VAT, international set-up, and fundraising (with support from advisors where required).

Requirements

We think you’ll need the following experience and qualifications in order to succeed in the role:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in managing the finance function for a fast-moving SaaS environment.
• Experience using and setting up Xero and Stripe to handle subscriptions.
• Experience with B2C and B2B2C (preferred).
• Strong analytic ability, good understanding of SaaS business metrics, and a proficiency in GoogleSheets.
• Relevant accounting qualifications.

In addition, here are the core attributes we think you'll need to succeed in the role:

• Clear and collaborative communicator - you understand that your financial reports enable management to understand what's working and what needs to change. You actively solicit information to improve your understanding, and are able to produce reports and recommendations that are easily understood.
• Organised, resilient, with a high attention of detail - you thrive in a fast-paced team, prioritise a busy workload, juggle multiple tasks, and work to quick-turnaround deadlines. You are unfazed when there's a lot on your plate, things are ambiguous, or curveballs are thrown your way. You are meticulous in everything you do.
• Analytical - you are comfortable manipulating and presenting data in a way that has meaning for non-financial team members.
• Tech savvy - you are comfortable using a range of different tech tools, products, dashboards, integrations. Whatever you don’t know, you’re confident you can learn.
• Passionate, with no ego - you are passionate about FLOWN's mission and are keen to develop the company's financial capabilities. You are happy to switch between hands-on and strategic.

Benefits

We want to practice what we preach, and build a company and team that works creatively and productively. Here are some of the benefits you'll gain from this role:

• Scope and influence - you're joining the founding team and will be involved in shaping our product, what we do, and how we work.
• A focus on deep work - we exist to support deep work among our members, so we support our staff in developing their own distraction-free deep work practice.
• A strong team - we are led by a proven CEO & Founder, and the rest of the team is equally highly experienced.
• Fully dispersed, flexible working - we are a remote-first company, and we've got lots of perks, tools and processes to make sure that works for everyone. We encourage individuals to establish working hours that enable them to work as productively as possible, and we understand that everyone needs a work/play balance.
• Team socials - we get together regularly to collaborate and have fun. We also embed virtual activities and other surprises into our working days