Top Finance Manager Jobs in London

Manage the Global Finance Transformation portfolio, overseeing project intake, prioritization, governance, timelines, dependencies, resources, risks, reporting, and executive updates. Coordinate cross-functional Finance, Accounting, and technology initiatives involving enterprise systems, process improvements, and business requirements. Establish consistent delivery practices, facilitate stakeholder communication, maintain RAID and action logs, and ensure projects remain aligned, accountable, and on schedule.

Lead the finance function for a rapidly scaling gaming startup, overseeing accounting, month-end close, treasury, reporting, controls, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, payments, international expansion, statutory reporting, and audit. Partner with product, legal, tax, compliance, and senior leadership to build scalable finance systems and processes.

Supports finance transformation consulting engagements by partnering with clients to assess finance processes, identify inefficiencies, design solutions, and drive change. Contributes to proposals and presentations, manages stakeholders and project deadlines, and builds trusted client relationships. The role requires knowledge of FP&A, record-to-report, procure-to-pay, and order-to-cash processes, along with strong project management, communication, and analytical skills.

Leads finance transformation consulting engagements for clients, including finance operating model design, process redesign, system implementation, governance, and organizational design. Builds trusted client relationships, facilitates workshops, identifies process gaps, recommends improvements, manages stakeholders and project delivery, contributes to proposals, and coaches junior team members. The role requires strong finance process knowledge, project management, communication, analytical, and change management capabilities.

Execute Apollo Research’s day-to-day finance operations, including procure-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles, invoice and payment processing, overdue balance follow-up, transaction recording in Xero, and weekly multi-entity, multi-currency bank reconciliations. The role requires strong bookkeeping knowledge, finance-platform proficiency, meticulous accuracy, integrity, initiative, and at least two years of transactional processing experience. It offers opportunities to develop toward controllership or FP&A.

Lead budgeting, forecasting, reporting, treasury, governance, liquidity planning, financial modeling, and performance analysis for a renewable energy platform. Serve as deputy to the Finance Director and provide strategic recommendations on capital allocation, financing, acquisitions, investments, and integrations. Manage finance workstreams for transactions, engage senior stakeholders, investors, lenders, and advisers, and improve planning and reporting through technology, automation, and AI.

Supports the Finance Manager with financial reporting, P&L preparation, trend analysis, KPI development, data integrity, and operational decision-making. Leads regional Contract Support teams, provides training and guidance, resolves financial queries, manages stakeholder relationships, and drives process improvements. The role requires strong Excel and reporting-system skills, analytical capability, and experience managing or supporting finance teams.

Oversee finance and administration for a stadium food-service operation, including payroll submissions, financial reporting, purchasing, invoices, reconciliations, budgeting, staffing records, compliance documentation, and office support. The role coordinates suppliers, operational teams, and client stakeholders while maintaining financial controls, personnel records, and event administration. Occasional evening and weekend support is required during major events.

Lead collections and customer servicing for a growing car finance portfolio. Build and scale a regulated operations function, manage performance and hiring, ensure compliance with UK consumer credit requirements, develop broker and dealer relationships, oversee commercial outcomes, and partner with engineering to automate operations using AI while maintaining customer-focused human support.

Leads complex finance transformation and integration projects, including cutover, resource and dependency planning, financial data migration, validation, reconciliation, governance, risk management, and stakeholder alignment. Partners with Finance, Operations, and IT teams to coordinate delivery, establish accountability, manage competing priorities, and provide executive-ready reporting. The role requires substantial finance process expertise, insurance industry experience, and strong project management and communication skills.

Leads Finance risk and control governance, including control testing, risk assessments, issue remediation, audit responses, governance reporting, policy reviews, and risk appetite monitoring. Partners with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Technology, and Internal Audit to improve processes, support transformation, and identify automation opportunities. Manages a team, delivers risk training, maintains control documentation, and influences senior stakeholders across a complex organization.

Manage financial planning and reporting for a growing media and conference company. Responsibilities include annual budgeting, cash-flow forecasting, monthly P&L updates, cost optimization, loan review, working capital management, HR financial planning, and supporting sales and operations. The role also involves working closely with the CEO, reporting to investors, and participating in board meetings.

Senior Manager leading accounting advisory engagements for clients, executives, and auditors. Responsibilities include managing project teams, addressing complex accounting issues, supporting IPOs and other transactions, ensuring financial and regulatory compliance, implementing new accounting standards, improving processes, mentoring staff, and contributing to recruiting, client relationships, and business development.

Manages and grows a digital public finance consulting portfolio, developing fundable proposals, partnerships, and new product concepts. Oversees digital product delivery from discovery through rollout, reviews architecture and integrations, and advises on interoperability, security, data protection, and sustainability. Manages project workplans, budgets, risks, reporting, subcontractors, and partners while translating between governments, funders, technical teams, and developers.

Manage credit risk for corporate trade finance clients by conducting underwriting, structuring lending facilities, analyzing financial statements, monitoring portfolios, and leading collections, remediation, and recoveries. Review lending documentation, ensure policy and regulatory compliance, collaborate with legal and risk teams, and guide credit analysts in complex credit decisions.

Leads global procurement strategy for consultancy, audit, financial, insurance, and outsourced services. Develops category strategies, conducts strategic sourcing and complex negotiations, manages supplier relationships, optimizes spend, strengthens governance, and advises senior Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders across a global organization.

Own the company’s financial planning and reporting, including annual budgets, weekly cash-flow updates, monthly P&L analysis, cost optimization, loan reviews, working capital, and HR financial planning. The role supports sales and operations, works closely with the CEO, reports to investors, and participates in board meetings. Candidates should have an accounting background, ideally Big Four experience, and prior senior finance leadership experience in a small or medium-sized business.

Lead implementation of finance systems and integrations across Wise’s global entities. Translate financial requirements for engineering and product teams, coordinate implementation managers, engineers, analysts, and operations specialists, and manage projects from scoping through post-production. Ensure accurate, compliant financial reporting while supporting Accounting, Tax, Reporting, and FP&A. Responsibilities include requirements documentation, project planning, resource allocation, testing, delivery, system integration, and process optimization using LEAN principles.

Lead controllership and financial close transformation engagements: diagnose current-state close processes, design improved reconciliation and task workflows, support FloQast/OneStream/Prophix implementations, manage workstreams and budgets, produce process documentation and training, and build strong client finance relationships to embed sustainable change.

Leads accounting advisory engagements for public, mid-market, and startup clients. Manages project teams, reviews transaction due diligence and financial regulatory deliverables, researches accounting standards, improves processes, and supports implementations. Partners with senior management and Big Four auditors to resolve complex accounting issues. Mentors consultants, manages client relationships, contributes to recruiting and business development, and ensures high-quality engagement delivery.

Leads enterprise-level strategic finance projects, developing financial models, business cases, compensation analytics, product economics, pricing analyses, and workforce strategies. Partners with global finance teams and senior stakeholders to translate complex business issues into actionable recommendations. Presents executive-level insights, manages multiple cross-functional projects, and mentors early-career associates.

Own month-end close, management accounts, balance sheet controls, revenue recognition, budgeting, audits, statutory and tax reporting. Support FCA regulatory reporting, safeguarding and treasury operations, including client-money reconciliations. Manage the Senior Bookkeeper’s work, improve financial processes, and provide analysis and reporting to the CFO and board. The role suits a hands-on part-qualified or newly qualified accountant in a regulated fintech environment.

Leads finance business partnering for Operations and Claims, including FP&A, forecasting, claims performance analysis, financial modeling, resource planning, business cases, management information, governance, and regulatory compliance. Partners with senior Operations, Finance, and Actuarial stakeholders, drives reporting and forecasting improvements, and leads a high-performing finance team.

Leads cross-functional analytical projects and owns a finance operations domain. Responsibilities include defining business metrics, investigating performance drivers, evaluating sales and marketing funnels, managing external specialists, automating finance workflows, and improving operational and compliance processes. The role requires strong quantitative reasoning, systems thinking, vendor management, organizational skills, and the ability to learn accounting or other specialized domains quickly.

Supports commercial teams through financial analysis, KPI reporting, forecasting, scenario modeling, profitability analysis, pricing support, business cases, and long-term planning. Partners with Sales, Marketing, and Product Development to evaluate growth initiatives, communicate financial insights, improve margins, and guide sound commercial decisions. Leads annual operating plans and forecast updates while building cross-functional relationships and presenting performance trends, risks, and recommended mitigations.