Financial Controller

Financial Controller

Salary: c. £65k

Location - Fully remote

Role Overview

As Financial Controller, you will own the integrity, accuracy, and control of iplicit's financial reporting, while taking a hands-on role in the month-end close, statutory reporting, tax compliance, and overall control environment.

You'll combine strong accounting and control expertise with an understanding of how Finance interacts with our wider systems landscape — including CRM, billing, ERP, and BI tools. Working closely with RevOps, Engineering, and Technical Services, you'll drive automation, streamline workflows, and ensure data consistency across the business.

You will also act as the key link between transactional finance, revenue accounting, and FP&A, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and actionable insights across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Control & Reporting

• Lead all aspects of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting policies.
• Prepare statutory accounts and coordinate the year-end audit process.
• Oversee VAT, payroll processing, P11D compliance, payroll journals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure robust financial controls, segregation of duties, and audit readiness as we scale.
• Support the VP Finance with consolidated reporting, forecasting, and board pack preparation.

Systems & Process Optimisation

• Act as the Finance systems lead — ensuring our ERP, CRM, billing, and BI tools connect cleanly and operate as a single source of truth.
• Oversee Vertice internally, ensuring all teams follow approved procurement workflows and policies, monitoring purchase requests, approvals, and spend to maintain compliance and accuracy.
• Liaise with RevOps, Engineering, and Technical Services to scope and manage automation projects that reduce manual effort (e.g. AP scanning, bank rec, billing workflows).
• Define finance data requirements for new integrations and ensure APIs are configured correctly with appropriate data controls.
• Support the rollout of BI dashboards and other analytics tools, ensuring Finance owns the right datasets and governance.
• Evaluate and recommend system enhancements, workflow improvements, and automation opportunities.
• Maintain documentation of all key financial processes, integrations, and controls.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and support the Finance team, ensuring alignment between transactional, reporting, and systems processes.
• Partner cross-functionally with RevOps, Commercial Operations, and Product teams to ensure consistent data definitions and reporting logic.
• Support change management during finance transformation or system upgrades.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accuracy, and accountability.

About You

Essential

·      ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with 4–8 years PQE.

·      Proven experience in a Financial Controller or senior accounting role within a SaaS or tech-enabled business.

·      Solid understanding of financial controls, consolidation, VAT, audit, and management reporting.

·      Technically confident — able to discuss APIs, data flows, and systems integrations with technical teams.

·      Experience with Power BI, or similar BI/reporting tools.

·      Skilled at managing projects, timelines, and multiple stakeholders.

Desirable

·      Experience with finance transformation or ERP implementation projects.

·      Familiarity with subscription billing models, ARR/MRR reporting, and revenue recognition in SaaS.

·      Exposure to automation tools (Power Automate, Zapier, Make, or similar).

Success in this Role Looks Like

·      Month-end close reduced to ≤5 days with consistent, audit-ready controls.

·      Key finance workflows automated or integrated with minimal manual intervention.

·      BI dashboards providing accurate, near-real-time financial and operational insights.

·      Strong collaboration between Finance, RevOps, and Technical teams — Finance seen as a proactive, data-driven business partner.

Why Join Us?

At iplicit, we're not just building game-changing accounting software — we're creating a uniquely designed company. Recognised as one of the
UK's Best Places to Work
and the winner of
Best Mid-Market and Enterprise Accounting Software
at the Accounting Excellence Awards, we're on a mission to disrupt the market with a product that's intuitive, powerful, and tailored for the real world.

This is no ordinary company — and this isn't just another role. You'll be joining one of the UK's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, working alongside a dynamic leadership team in a business that values precision, autonomy, and innovation. This is a rare opportunity to combine core financial leadership with systems thinking in a company shaping the future of finance technology.

You'll become part of a passionate, collaborative, and forward-thinking team that values ideas, encourages ambition, and makes a real impact. We would love to hear from you if you're seeking a role that could be a career-maker — at a company that's going places.

We offer:

·      Remote worA chance to make a significant impact in a scaling SaaS company.

·      A collaborative, people-first culture where your ideas and voice matter.

·      Remote, flexible working arrangements based on trust and autonomy.

·      Personal and professional development opportunities as we grow.

·      The opportunity to work with smart, driven, and kind people passionate about their work.

This is a rare opportunity to combine core financial leadership with systems thinking in a company shaping the future of finance technology.