Finance Operations Manager
Reports to: Financial Controller
Team: One direct report (Finance Assistant)
Type: Full-time, 12m Contract
The Role
As Triptease's Finance Manager you will own a broad operational finance remit across our international group, working closely with the Financial Controller and leading the Finance Assistant. You will be responsible for the accurate and timely execution of day-to-day finance operations- spanning payroll, AP, cashflow, VAT compliance, cost analysis, and balance sheet reconciliations while also playing an active role in improving and automating the processes that underpin them.
This is a hands-on role for a part-qualified or qualified by experience accountant who takes pride in accuracy, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and has an eye for spotting where automation or smarter processes can remove manual effort and create material efficiencies.
Main Responsibilities:
- End-to-end management of the payroll process, ensuring accurate and timely execution across all entities.(UK, Spain, Portugal, USA, Singapore and contractors)
- Oversight of the AP function, ensuring invoices are processed, approved and paid accurately and on time.
- Assisting the FC and the FD to deliver a migration to Rippling for HR and Payroll and then a migration away from Xero to a more sophisticated finance system.
- Processing of Sales Tax and VAT submissions.
- Pensions, Payroll & PAYE control account reconciliations
- Wages analysis to support headcount reporting and cost control.
- Preparation and maintenance of cost analysis files, identifying variances to budget and providing clear explanations.
- Accruals for missing costs
- Working with the marketing team to record expected income and costs and cashflow timings.
- Daily oversight and management of the Finance Assistant.
- Ad Hoc duties such as responding to operational finance queries from across the business as and when they arise.
- Supporting ad hoc projects and analysis as directed by the Financial Controller or wider finance leadership.
Requirements
About You
Essential skills:
- Qualified by experience or Part-qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). Actively working towards full qualification is preferable by not essential
- Solid hands-on experience across core operational finance — payroll, AP, VAT/sales tax.
- Experience working within a multi-entity or group structure.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Curious about how AI and automation can improve finance processes and keen to apply this in practice.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Clear and confident communicator and a positive, proactive, can-do attitude with a strong work ethic.
Benefits
Benefits
Perks & Benefits — At Triptease, everyone's contribution matters. We offer a range of benefits to support wellbeing, flexibility and personal growth, including:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Salary exchange pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
- Monthly wellbeing allowance to support health and wellness
- Annual learning budget
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Life event leave and volunteering days
- Cycle to Work and Tech schemes
- Weekly office breakfast and snacks
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