Finance Manager

Finance Manager LocationLondonAddressLondon, LondonEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentFinance🚀 We’re on a mission to make real estate transactions smarter, faster, and friction-free. 🏢 Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, yet the legal processes and tools behind it remain slow, manual, and underinvested. Lawyers must review dense documents line by line and piece together information across silos, all while clients demand faster, more transparent due diligence. 🤖 That's where we come in. Orbital Copilot is the AI assistant built exclusively for commercial real estate law. Developed with former practicing real estate lawyers, it accelerates complex due diligence by up to 70% while delivering legal-grade precision. 💰 We’ve just raised a $60m Series B to accelerate our UK/US expansion.🤝 We're trusted by leading firms like Goodwin and BCLP to remove the busywork so legal teams can focus on what they do best: applying sharp legal judgment, delivering standout client service, and getting deals over the line faster. 💡 Working at Orbital means joining a team that's reimagining how real estate transactions get done - moving fast, working collaboratively, and giving people the ownership to make a real impact from day one.THE ROLEThis is a hands-on, build-first role to establish robust financial controls and scalable processes as we scale across the UK and US following our $60m Series B. Operating within a cross-border, high-growth SaaS business, your primary mandate centres on group reporting, compliance, and audit cycles with focus on building scalable infrastructure rather than maintaining existing processes. You'll achieve this by working hand in hand with the Finance Director to design and embed rigorous accounting policies, internal controls, and optimised end-to-end workflows.This is a London-based, hybrid role. You'll work closely with the core finance team and report into the Finance Director.WHAT YOU'LL OWNFINANCIAL CONTROL & TECHNICAL ACCOUNTINGYou will:Define, document, and implement accounting policies under UK GAAP (FRS 102), including revenue and cost recognition for our SaaS contracts, across our software products and services (with secondary alignment to US GAAP for our US entity where required)Design and embed a rigorous internal control environment, including cost-accounting procedures and reconciliation workflows fit for higher transaction volumesMap, optimise, and enforce an airtight, end-to-end B2B order-to-cash and billing process, from quote through to cash collection and reconciliationSYSTEMS, PROCESS & AUTOMATIONYou will:Work in partnership with the rest of the finance team for the configuration and enhancement of the full quote-to-cash lifecycle (CRM, billing, revenue recognition, collections, and reporting across HubSpot, and Rillet) to support higher-volume data processing as we scalePlay a central role in our finance system migration from Xero to Rillet (an AI-native ERP), helping configure, embed, and get the most out of the new general ledgerDeploy and manage automated, multi-state US sales tax compliance tools (e.g. Avalara), ensuring seamless integration with core billing enginesReview existing workflows to identify operational bottlenecks, designing automated solutions to eliminate manual interventions across billing and reconciliation cyclesGROUP REPORTING, COMPLIANCE & COMMERCIAL SUPPORTYou will:Help strengthen and accelerate the month-end close, including monthly group consolidations and variance analysisAssist with cross-border statutory compliance, including US multi-state sales tax, the UK R&D tax credit application process, and US corporate tax requirementsSupport year-end group and regional external audit processesPartner with the People and RevOps teams to ensure the headcount, payroll, and billing data feeding finance is accurate and consistentWHAT YOU'LL BRINGQualifications: Qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), ideally with 1 to 3...