Financial Controller

Your Mission👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

As our Financial Controller, your mission is to keep Bud's financial engine running with precision while we scale internationally and raise our next round. You'll take the reins of an established, well-run finance function - owning everything from a clean monthly close to multi-jurisdiction compliance - and be the steady hand that lets the rest of the business move fast with confidence. This fixed-term opportunity offers broad exposure across the finance function, including supporting our international operations and upcoming fundraising activities, while working closely with our Fractional CFO and leadership team.

What impact you will make

• Own the monthly close end to end - journals, working papers, reconciliations and three-statement reporting - and keep our cash flow visibility sharp
• Run payroll review and commissions across our UK, US and Italian teams, and keep day-to-day finance ops humming: sales invoicing, ARR, supplier renewals, new client contract setup and expense management (Spendesk)
• Lead our regulatory and partner reporting (including NatWest and Bank of Lithuania) and tax compliance across the UK, US and Lithuania
• Support our fundraise hands-on - helping answer investor due diligence questions, keeping the process moving, and assisting on budgets and the raise model
• Be a key point of contact for our annual audit, and maintain our cap table, master options file and share option calculations

Finance at Bud

Finance at Bud is small, fast and close to the action - you'll own a broad remit and see your impact across the whole business. Reporting into our Fractional CFO and working alongside leadership, you'll be the engine room that keeps our numbers trustworthy and our compliance solid as we continue to scale internationally across the UK, Europe and the US. 

Requirements

A bit about you 

• You're a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• You have a solid grounding in month-end close and statutory reporting
• Experience in saas metrics and reporting
• You're happy owning processes end to end and thrive on variety in a fast-moving environment
• You're accurate and detail-minded, but pragmatic about getting things done

Taking it to the next level

• Experience with a first time Big 4 Audit
• Experience in regulated financial services or fintech
• Exposure to a fundraise or audit from the company side
• Experience across multiple entities and currencies
• Familiarity with international payroll, equity schemes (e.g. EMI / share options), or multi-jurisdiction tax (US sales tax, US / Lithuanian corporation tax, transfer pricing)

Benefits

💰Competitive salaries. We have benchmarked this role between £75,000 - £95,000

💰Pension. We’ll match pension contributions up to 5% through our scheme with Aviva

📚Learning & Development Budget. £1,000 a year to accelerate your learning

📈 Career Progression. We have uniquely built out progression frameworks to help accelerate your growth and quarterly R&D days

🧘‍♂️ Mental Health Support. Online therapy and resources through our partners at Spill

🏋️‍♀️ Wellbeing Allowance. A flexi-pot of £50 a month to use towards your wellbeing

🏥 Private Medical Insurance through Vitality

⏳Flexible Working. We trust our team to get the job done and will support various flexible working arrangements as part of our hybrid approach, which includes our 60-day work abroad allowance

🏖️Time Off. 25 days + bank holidays + additional time over the holiday season

🍼 Parental Leave. We offer enhanced parental leave, as well as 5 days of paid fertility leave and 10 days of paid pregnancy loss leave as we know the journey to parenthood isn’t always straightforward. 

🫶 Volunteering Leave. 2 paid days off a year to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you.