Head of Finance

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London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech • Software
Mention Me is a MarTech scale-up that empowers brands to harness the exponential power of their fans.
The Role
The Head of Finance will lead the finance team, manage key financial operations, oversee accounting, tax compliance, financial reporting, and FP&A activities. The role involves supporting the VP Finance, handling month-end and year-end processes, and ensuring adherence to tax regulations while developing financial strategies for the company's growth.
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Who we are

Before I tell you more about the role, here's a little bit about Mention Me and what we do.

Becoming a Mentioneer means you’ll be joining our Customer Advocacy Intelligence® movement, which is changing the world of marketing.

Our data-driven Advocacy Intelligence Platform equips brands to drive growth through their fans by encouraging and rewarding personal recommendations.

There’s a good chance you’ve already come across us while online shopping from Puma, Michael Kors, ASOS, Ray Ban, or any other of the 500+ brands we work with.

We’ve delivered more than 5.5m referrals totalling over $2bn in revenue for our clients.

Now, our mission to make all brands think advocacy-first is stepping up a gear, and you might be just who we need to help us.

The Role

Are you a dynamic and experienced finance professional looking to make a significant impact in a fast-growing company? We are seeking a talented individual to join our team as a key player in our finance team. In this role, you will lead and develop our finance team, manage critical financial operations, and act as the right hand to our VP Finance. If you thrive in a high-energy environment and are ready to roll up your sleeves to drive both strategic and operational excellence, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

  • Manage the day-to-day accounting, tax, financial reporting and FP&A operations, leading and developing the finance team and acting as 2IC to the VP Finance.
  • Own the month-end close, including preparation of management accounts and board reporting, ensuring accurate and timely delivery, actionable insights and clear storytelling.
  • Manage the year-end accounts, tax and audit process developing strong relationships with auditors.
  • Produce filings and ensure compliance with all relevant tax regulations; VAT, PAYE, EMI, PSA, US Sales tax returns etc Managing the relationship with French tax advisors including employment tax, CT and VAT.
  • Lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A), including forecasting, budgeting, and cash flow management, working closely with the VP Finance to build out FP&A tools (Mosaic & Maxio).
  • Partnering effectively with internal teams on finance and strategy topics, ensuring that teams understand their performance, budgets and financial performance indicators. 
  • Manage the financial information resulting from our SAP Partnership. Liaising with internal and SAP stakeholders to ensure responsibilities of the agreement are met. 
  • Support the VP Finance on other Ad Hoc projects.

We'd really like to hear from you, if you...

  • Qualified accountant with strong financial control and international reporting and tax experience. (specifically US and Europe). FP&A experience is also desirable.
  • You are high energy and action orientated, willing to roll your sleeves up to get into the details as well as think big picture.
  • Proven experience in a scale up SaaS environment is advantageous. Experience with Xero, Mosaic, Maxio is a plus.
  • Strong communication skills, able to present complex financial information in a clear, simple way to non-finance stakeholders, telling a clear story.
  • You have strong commercial awareness and business acumen, able to influence senior leadership with credibility and gravitas.

What you’ll get:

Here are some of our favourite perks and benefits, but we have so many more!

🏡 Remote and Hybrid working. 

​​🏥 Private medical insurance with Vitality, including: mental wellbeing support, a range of lifestyle benefits and great incentives

👩🏾‍⚕️ Major dental, vision, and life insurance policies.

📚 An annual learning and development budget

🤲🏾 2 Celebration Days: additional time off for you to celebrate religious days, cultural events, birthdays, anniversaries, or any other significant day that’s important to you

👨‍👩‍👧 Enhanced parental leave

🌴 25 days holiday plus public holidays, alongside additional days for being a Mentioneer

🏆 Monthly prizes for being amazing! Values Awards and Customer Love awards, and Founders’ Award for Awesomeness. Win up to £500 cash, vouchers, meals out and trips away.

🤩 Regular social events, from chocolate-tasting and pottery-making to poker nights and picnics

💻 All the up-to-date tech you’ll need (we love Macs)

🫶🏼 Short and long-term disability support

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We celebrate every Mentioneer, exactly as they are. We don’t shy away from breaking down systemic discrimination in society, or from difficult conversations and decisions. We’re committed to being a force for change. You can read more about how we’re doing this and always learning, by looking at our blogs here.

The same goes for our recruitment. We welcome every application, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, physical ability, family structure, socioeconomic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. If you’d like to find out more about diversity and inclusion at Mention Me, get in touch.

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The Company
Boston, MA
150 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Mention Me is a MarTech scale-up that empowers brands to harness the exponential power of their fans.

Since 2013, our Referral Engineering® approach has delivered more than $1.5bn in revenue for 500+ brands including Charlotte Tilbury, Farfetch, Benefit, 1stDibs and Puma. But it’s our people we’re really proud of.

Our Referral Experts have unrivaled knowledge of what it takes to execute a powerful customer advocacy strategy. From getting technical to implementing optimization roadmaps and advising on customer psychology, they’ve got every base covered.

Our vision to make every brand think advocacy-first is supported by our fast-growing partner network, including SAP, Klaviyo and Trustpilot. And we’re backed by Octopus Ventures and Eight Roads, having raised $32m in Series B funding since 2018. Now, we’re expanding into the US to further spread the word about the power of thinking advocacy-first, with our first US office in Boston.

We’re changing the world of marketing, one Referral Engineering® program at a time. Join us.

Discover more: https://www.mention-me.com/

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