Interim Group Financial Controller

Nothing Beats Loving What You Do
Here at GetBusy, we specialise in creating productivity software solutions that make a real difference in people's everyday working lives. Our products, including Virtual Cabinet, SmartVault, and Workiro, are designed to streamline tasks and boost efficiency.

At GetBusy, we're about more than just work. We're committed to your growth, learning, and development. We believe in building careers, not just jobs. By understanding what drives and motivates you, we can help you reach your full potential and shape a future where you can truly thrive with us.

If you want to wake up each morning looking forward to an invigorating challenge, this is the place for you. Passionate, hands-on talent welcome anytime.

The Team

Our finance team is made up of 6 people in the UK, with additional transactional support on the ground in our Houston office. We have one finance team that looks after all things finance - from invoicing and credit control through to all month end and year end processes, reconciliations, budgets and forecasting, consolidation, tax and external and board reporting. The finance team also has significant involvement in project work.

Within the UK team we have three excellent and experienced transactional professionals who take care of our billing, credit control and accounts payable processes as well as day-to-day customer queries.

We also have a qualified group accountant and a qualified finance manager within the UK finance team who support this role to look after everything else. It's a hugely varied role that gives exposure to a breadth of finance responsibilities and offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, fast-growing, multi-currency environment.

Continuous improvement is a key focus for our team and we have implemented best-in-class finance systems to help us to work efficiently and effectively. We are currently using systems such as NetSuite, Adaptive Planning and Budgeting, Payfit and Payhawk and we're always looking to improve the tools we use and the way we use them. We also use our own productivity tool, Workiro, which we think is pretty great.

Our goal is to work at our best, add maximum value to the business and enjoy what we do. Our business is changing all the time, and the right person for this role will be excited by the challenges and opportunities this generates.

The Role

We're looking for a qualified Group Financial Controller to join us on a fixed term contract for maternity cover starting as soon as possible and ending in September 2026.

Responsibilities

• Managing our brilliant team of 5 in the UK and 1 in the US, providing guidance and support. Direct line manager to 2 - Finance Manager and Group Accountant.
• Running the efficient completion of our month end process and delivery of the management accounts and board pack, including cost review.
• Ensuring accurate revenue recognition reporting across our multiple products.
• Working with the rest of the finance team to make sure all balance sheet reconciliations are clean and maintained up to date.
• Overseeing the forecasting of our cash flow on a regular basis and with support from our group accountants making sure we have all the right money in all the right places at all the right times.
• Review and approval of the monthly payroll which is prepared in house on Payfit.
• To build and use reporting from NetSuite and Adaptive Planning and Budgeting to provide business insights.
• Coordinating our budgeting and reforecasting processes to help encourage alignment around financial goals and objectives.
• Being the key point of contact with external stakeholders such as banks and financial advisors.
• Coordinating our half-year and full-year financial reporting, external audit and statutory accounts preparation at group and company level.
• Ensuring we remain compliant with all tax filing obligations in each of the jurisdictions we operate in.
• Act with a mindset of continuous improvement, always on the look out for ways to improve the way the team works and how we could be even better, whilst maintaining tight internal controls.
• Work with the wider team to help maintain our evolving technology stack, always looking for more automated, more scalable and more secure ways of doing things.

Things you will struggle without

• A proven and experienced Financial Controller
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, applied in an accounting context
• Highly numerate with an A-level (or equivalent) in maths or statistics or other numerical subjects
• A qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA or equivalent
• An experienced and effective people manager
• Excellent attention to detail and highly organized
• Have a working knowledge of UK and/or international accounting standards
• Strong software and data skills and a robust working knowledge of Excel
• Experience in process improvement and the setting up, improving and sustaining of processes

Things that are good to have

• Software company/SAAS experience
• NetSuite or Adaptive Planning experience would be a bonus
• Experience of successful hybrid working

What we can offer you

With an emphasis on finding the right work/life balance, we are proud to promote our relaxed and collaborative environment. We live and breathe our mission, which is to make people productive and happy. As the team grows, so does our investment in each team member's personal development. We don't just stop at hiring the best, we continue to nurture and develop our talent so you can get to where you want to be in life.

We offer a range of benefits that have been selected to help support you as you grow, for more information please click here.

Our Values

There is no better way to get a flavour of what we are about than to check out our unique values. Every decision we make, every customer we help, every line of code we write is defined by our company values.

• Every Customer Experience Must Include - A Smile the original and arguably the most important rule
• Show Grit and Make It Happen - Your toughness and perseverance is a better predictor of your success than any other factor. Also, the happiest and most successful people are the ones who persevere. Grit is long-term
• Keep It Simple - If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough, no matter how smart you are
• Better Together - No egos. Best idea wins
• BSU (Blow Stuff Up) - We're out to change the world. We thus need to break from convention and be a disruptor to win
• Data Drives Decisions - We're a data driven organisation. We must be led by our data and are agile to it

GetBusy is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered, which also extends to our potential candidates. We want everyone to feel included and comfortable applying for our roles. We encourage applicants to let us know at any stage of the application or interview process if they require any reasonable adjustments to be made. If you wish to apply for the above role but need the application form modifying please email peopleandculture@getbusy.com so we can look at making any changes.

Product: GetBusy
Role: Finance
Locations: Cambridge
Remote status: Hybrid
Employment type: Contract