The Role
The Finance Manager will oversee financial operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, preparing management accounts, and supporting strategic decision-making while managing the finance team.
Summary Generated by Built In
About the role:
As a Finance Manager, you’ll lead our finance operations in Austria. You’ll play a key role in supporting our next phase of growth as we scale internationally.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll oversee core financial processes, and provide insight to support business decision-making. You’ll also help embed best practices following our move to Xero, ensuring our systems, processes, and people are set up to scale with confidence.
You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business, bringing clarity to the numbers and helping guide smarter decisions as we grow.
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Key Goals & Objectives:
- Working with the wider global finance team, building capability and confidence across accounts payable, receivable, and reporting
- Deliver accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and actionable insight
- Ensure compliance with Austrian financial regulations (UGB) and EU requirements, including timely Umsatzsteuer (VAT) submissions
- Maintain strong financial control across the business, including oversight of the general ledger and balance sheet
- Support multi-entity, multi-currency operations across Europe and the wider group
- Coordinate payroll with local Austrian/EU providers, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Drive improvements in financial systems and processes, reducing manual work and increasing efficiency
- Support senior leadership with financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic decision-making
- Play a key role in the year-end audit process, working closely with external auditors
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee accounts payable and receivable, ensuring accuracy and smooth day-to-day operations
- Prepare and review monthly management accounts, including P&L and balance sheet reporting
- Maintain and continuously improve financial records and controls within Xero
- Ensure compliance with Austrian accounting standards (UGB) and relevant EU regulations
- Coordinate with external partners, including auditors, tax advisors, and payroll providers
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and implement more efficient ways of working
- Partner with stakeholders across the business to provide financial insight and support decision-making
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience in management accounts
- Relevant accounting qualification (e.g. Bilanzbuchhalter, ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent experience)
- Strong experience producing P&L, balance sheet, and management accounts
- Experience using Xero
- Experience working within Austrian or European financial regulations (UGB)
- Experience managing or mentoring team members
- Confident communicator, able to work effectively with non-finance stakeholders
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Fluent in German and English
Desirable:
- Experience in a fast-growing or scaling business
- Exposure to operations across Europe and/or the US
- Experience working in multi-entity, multi-currency environments
- Experience improving systems or implementing new processes
- Interest in supporting international expansion
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable working with a high level of autonomy
About
Vintage Cash Cow and Arcavindi, exist to create a world where everything has value and nothing is wasted, on a global scale.Together, we form the UK and European operations of the Vintage Group, united by one purpose, one mission, and one set of values.Vintage Cash Cow is our UK operation and the foundation of our business. It’s where our model was built, tested, and proven, making it easy for customers to sell multiple pre-loved valuables in one simple, trusted journey. Arcavindi is our European operation. Built on the same proven model, it takes what works in the UK and adapts it for new markets across Europe, allowing us to scale our impact internationally.While our brands reflect different markets, we are one business, working as one team. Our people collaborate across borders, share ownership of outcomes, and bring the same care, fairness, and common sense to everything we do.Behind the scenes, we are building the world’s largest international trading platform for pre-loved items, powered by expert people, smart data, and a shared belief in the circular economy.Every item we buy is rehomed, reused, or responsibly recycled — keeping valuable materials in play and out of landfill, and ensuring we always treat customers and their treasures with care and respect.
Skills Required
- 3+ years' experience in management accounts
- Relevant accounting qualification (e.g. Bilanzbuchhalter, ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
- Strong experience producing P&L and management accounts
- Experience using Xero
- Experience working within Austrian or European financial regulations
- Experience managing or mentoring team members
- Fluent in German and English
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The Company
What We Do
Vintage Cash Cow is a fast-growing circular economy business on a mission to make it easy and rewarding for people to declutter responsibly.
