Role specifics

• Salary range: £60,000 - £75,000
• Reporting to: Chief Finance Officer
• Key stakeholders: Directors /Team heads across the business
• Organisation Framework Level 4
  

About you/ Job Summary

At Clue, we’re seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and experienced Financial Controller to join our finance team. You will bring a strong understanding of financial management, reporting, and strategic planning to ensure our financial operations run smoothly and efficiently. You thrive in a fast-paced, scaling environment, and enjoy working with cross-functional teams to support growth and operational excellence. With a strong eye for detail, you are able to oversee and improve financial processes, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance at all levels. You have an analytical, problem-solving mindset, with curiosity and commercial acumen to help drive value across the wider business.

You are an effective communicator, capable of presenting complex financial information in an understandable and actionable manner. You are adaptable, with a hands-on approach and a strong sense of ownership over your work. Most importantly, you have a passion for supporting a growing company and using your financial expertise to help shape its future.

Key Accountabilities

• Implement necessary processes to improve efficiency across the finance function
• Ensure the smooth running of daily financial operations
• Work closely with the CFO on Ad-Hoc projects
• Monthly financial reporting
• Cash Flow forecasting and budgeting
• Take a business partner, collaborative approach when working with stakeholders across Clue
• Ensure compliance to financial and tax regulations
• Oversee monthly payroll processes
• Lead audit, R&D tax claim & ESG reporting
  

Key role measures

• Accuracy of financial records
• Timely month close process
• Clean audit report
  

Experience and skills

Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

• Solid knowledge of standard accountancy and finance best practices

• A practical understanding of management accounting principles and techniques
• Solid IT skills, including strong Excel skills, proficiency in Sage Intacct and Xero accounting software or similar experience with a CRM system such as Salesforce
• In-depth knowledge of budgeting and financial forecasting
• Strong analytical skills to effectively analyse financial reports
• A strong understanding of tax regulations
• Experience in a SaaS / Scale-up environment would be desirable
  

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us more about yourself. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We believe that seeing the world from all sorts of angles makes life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you an individual, like your identity, age, ethnicity, religion, ability and background, are things that we choose to celebrate and support.

We are a scale-up company, and as we continue to grow, we are passionate that having a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace will remain at our core. We are creating an inclusive environment where our people can thrive.

Our values are aligned and at the heart of everything we do. We are respectful, united, rigorous, relentless and ethical.