Summary
Protect & progress your career with ESET.At ESET UK, we’ve grown from a small, family-run operation into a thriving part of a 2,000-strong global cybersecurity leader. As we continue to expand, we’re looking for a Head of Finance & Business Operations to play a pivotal role in driving our continued growth and profitability.
Job description
About the Role
As Head of Finance & Business Operations, you’ll be a key member of the UK leadership team — driving financial excellence, operational efficiency, and strategic growth. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that blends strategic foresight with operational precision.
You’ll take full ownership of ESET UK’s financial health, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and performance across all financial processes — from forecasting and reporting to budgeting, cash flow, and audits. At the same time, you’ll work closely with the Country Manager and senior leadership to shape business plans, analyse performance, and identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
This is a role for a commercially minded finance leader who wants to go beyond the numbers — influencing strategy, driving business performance, and helping steer a fast-growing technology company to even greater success.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and develop the Finance team while providing strategic and operational support to Sales and Marketing, ensuring alignment with ESET UK’s commercial goals.
- Oversee all key financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, financial reporting, and payroll (including commissions). Ensure full compliance with local legislation and global accounting standards. Lead monthly and annual financial closings, managing accruals, P&L reviews, statutory audits, and the preparation of accurate financial statements and management reports.
- Produce timely and accurate financial insights that enable data-driven decision-making across the business.
- Work closely with the Country Manager and Senior Leadership Team to shape annual business plans and budgets that support ESET’s broader growth objectives.
- Track company results against KPIs, providing clear analysis and actionable recommendations to enhance performance and profitability.
- Review and manage commercial contracts, ensuring terms remain effective and beneficial to the business.
- Streamline financial and operational processes, establish clear performance targets, and lead continuous improvement initiatives across the organisation.
- Maintain strong, transparent relationships with auditors, tax advisors, banks, and other stakeholders, ensuring full compliance with financial, legal, and ethical standards.
About You
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years’ experience in a senior accounting or finance leadership role.
- Skilled in producing and analysing complex financial and sales reports.
- Strong knowledge of systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce and Sage Payroll.
- Experience in IT, technology, or cybersecurity industries (desirable).
- Commercially minded, detail-driven, and comfortable influencing at senior leadership level.
- A collaborative leader who builds trust, develops teams, and drives performance.
What’s in it for You
At ESET, we’re proud to be recognised as an “Outstanding” employer in the Best Companies to Work For 2025 list.
You’ll join a forward-thinking, supportive team environment where innovation, growth, and wellbeing go hand-in-hand.
We offer:
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Wellbeing allowance
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + birthday off
- Hybrid working
- Free parking and ESET licenses
Ready to Lead?
If you’re a strategic finance leader looking to make a measurable impact in a fast-growing global tech company, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Apply now and protect your future with ESET.
Benefits
Health & well-being- Health insurance
- Death in service
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Pension
- Perkbox
- Free sight tests and discount on glasses
- Sick pay
- Extra holiday
- Wellbeing Allowance
- Child Birth Allowance
- Marriage Allowance
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Free Parking
- Hot and cold drinks and fruit
- Friday Breakfast
- Christmas PartySummer Party
- Loyalty award
- Employee referral scheme
- Cycle to work
- Tech Scheme
- Christmas Hamper
Primary location
BournemouthAdditional locations
Time type
Full timeTop Skills
What We Do
For more than 30 years we have been here helping to watch over and protect progress. Over a billion users worldwide rely upon ESET’s solutions to stay secure from increasingly sophisticated digital threats. ESET´s award-winning IT security software and services provide protection in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with its software localized into more than 30 languages.
Meanwhile, the world continues to move forward at pace. When ESET was founded, the Internet was in its infancy. Now technology is part of everything we do and is central to the continued advancements in our society. Most of the time technology does just what it is supposed to, but in order to ensure continued progress in the digital age we need someone to question what’s going on in the background.
And that’s why we are here – to continue protecting technology from threats, enabling everyone to fully embrace it’s potential and rely on it.
Put simply - when technology enables progress, ESET is here to protect it.
ESET - Progress. Protected.
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