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Salary: GBP 45,000 - 50,000 / annual
FluoRok is an Oxford University spin-out developing breakthrough technologies for safer, more sustainable, and cost-effective fluorochemical production. The company is backed by leading venture capital investors and operates from ARC Oxford, a premier science and innovation campus with cutting-edge R&D laboratories and pilot-scale manufacturing facilities. Applications span batteries, pharmaceuticals, crop protection, and advanced materials.
As a Management Accountant, you will play a key role in building and strengthening FluoRok's in-house finance function as the company scales from venture-backed innovator to industrial leader. Working closely with the Head of Finance, you will implement systems, processes, and controls that underpin a high-performing finance organization.
Initially, you will support the finance transformation programme and transition to internally produced reporting. Over time, you will take ownership of month-end close, management accounts, cash reporting, reconciliations, tax compliance, and day-to-day finance operations. This is a unique opportunity to make visible impact, work closely with senior leadership, and help shape the financial foundations of a fast-growing deep-tech company.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting transition to a fully in-house finance function by improving financial records, data structures, processes, and controls
- Building and maintaining scalable accounting schedules, working papers, month-end checklists, and reporting packs
- Supporting configuration and optimization of Xero, Dext, ApprovalMax, and other financial systems
- Managing month-end timetable and preparing journals, accruals, prepayments, depreciation, fixed-asset schedules, and balance-sheet reconciliations
- Reviewing ledger integrity, coding, cut-off, and supporting evidence
- Preparing monthly management accounts, cash and working-capital reporting, financial KPIs, and variance analysis
- Supporting budgeting, reforecasting, and development of manufacturing, inventory, project, and capital-expenditure accounting
- Overseeing purchase and sales ledger accounting, invoice coding, VAT treatment, and supplier records
- Preparing supplier payment runs, reviewing employee expenses, and completing bank and card reconciliations
- Monitoring and reporting daily cash balances
- Preparing VAT returns and supporting reconciliations
- Coordinating payroll changes, maintaining payroll and pension records, and reconciling payroll-related control accounts
- Documenting finance processes, controls, and timetables
- Coaching and supporting the Accounts & Administration Assistant on daily transactional processes
Requirements:
- Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA)
- Experience preparing management accounts and supporting month-end close processes
- Strong understanding of journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, and financial controls
- Working knowledge of VAT, payroll accounting, and cash reporting
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with cloud-based accounting systems (e.g., Xero) desirable
- Clear and collaborative communicator, eager to further develop skillset
- Well organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Analytical, proactive, and comfortable working at pace in a fast-growing technology scale-up environment
