Finance Operations Manager (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract - Maternity Cover)

Improbable

Improbable is a venture builder and technology company creating and scaling businesses in Web3, blockchain, and decentralised infrastructure. We build companies from the ground up and invest in ventures shaping the next generation of the internet. We are developing next-generation networked and decentralised systems that power digital assets, open networks, and Web3-native economies. Over the past decade, we’ve evolved into a global leader in venture building and blockchain-enabled infrastructure, enabling creators, brands, and communities to build and scale decentralised products at global scale. At Improbable, we’re motivated by solving hard, meaningful problems, building technology that is ambitious, durable, and transformative. We are seeking an experienced and highly organised Finance Operations Manager to provide maternity cover within our Finance team. This role will focus on ensuring the smooth running of Improbable’s core finance operations, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, payment runs, bank reconciliations, month-end activities, and finance systems administration. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders across Finance, People, Legal, and Operations. Alongside day-to-day ownership, we are looking for someone who can bring structure, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset; identifying opportunities to streamline manual processes, automate recurring tasks where possible, and play a key part in embedding new tools such as ZIP across our finance workflows. THE OPPORTUNITY ACCOUNTS PAYABLE * Oversee the Accounts Payable process, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and suppliers are paid on time. * Approve supplier payment runs in line with internal approval policies. * Manage appropriate liquidity across the different entity bank accounts ahead of each payment run, coordinating with the FC and VP of Finance to ensure supplier payments, intercompany settlements, and other operational payment obligations can be made on time.. * Act as an escalation point for payment queries and build effective relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders. * Actively support the onboarding and adoption of ZIP, the company's new procure-to-pay automation platform, working with Procurement and Finance stakeholders on process design, testing, user adoption, and post-go-live optimisation to drive further efficiency improvements and embed the system across AP workflows. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE * Oversee the Accounts Receivable process, ensuring customer billing is accurate, timely and appropriately documented. * Monitor aged debtors balances, support collections activity, and act as an escalation point for overdue accounts. * Identify opportunities to simplify billing, reconciliation, and intercompany settlement processes. * Reconcile intercompany accounts and support the regular settlement of open balances. MONTH-END/YEAR-END CLOSE PROCEDURES * Review and sign off month-end close activities across AP, AR and bank reconciliations, and related balance sheet accounts, working with the team to identify bottlenecks and improve the close quality and timelines. * Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations for AP and AR related accounts, investigate and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner. * Ensure financial records remain complete, accurate, and audit-ready. SYSTEMS AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT * Act as a key administrator and super-user for finance systems and associated workflows, including NetSuite, Expensify, Spendesk and ZIP. * Create, improve and maintain process documentation and standard operating procedures. * Identify manual, repetitive, or control-sensitive processes that could be streamlined or automated. * Work with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders to implement practical improvements that reduce errors, improve visibility, and save time. * Drive continuous improvement initiatives across finance operations using existing tools and AI-enabled workflows to improve data quality, reporting, reconciliations and documentation. WHY YOU’RE MADE FOR THIS * You have 3+ years’ experience managing AP and AR in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment. * You are comfortable managing a small team of 2 and overseeing transactional data across multiple currencies, entities, and bank accounts (experience with cryptocurrency payments is a bonus but not required). * You have a strong understanding of accounting principles, enabling you to assess the accounting impact of finance operations activities across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and cash-related transactions. Bonus points if you're ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified, part-qualified, or currently studying towards a professional qualification. * You are an advanced Excel or Google Sheets user and have experience working with finance systems; NetSuite experience is a plus. * You have a track record of improving finance operations processes, whether through better documentation, stronger controls, automation, or smarter use of systems; not just maintaining them. * You are comfortable using AI and automation tools to reduce manual work, interrogate data, draft documentation, or improve repeatable workflows. You can operate in ambiguity, manage shifting priorities, and bring structure and clarity to incomplete information. * You communicate clearly, manage stakeholders well, and know when to escalate. * You are highly organised, ownership driven, and comfortable keeping critical processes running without close supervision. * You are curious, collaborative, and always looking for a better way to do things. Improbable Candidate Privacy Policy

Too Good To Go

🌏 Mission: At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious mission: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. More than 1/3 of all food produced in the world is wasted, which has a huge impact on our planet - 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, to be exact.  🌱 Product: Too Good To Go operates the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, where we connect food businesses with consumers who can buy and enjoy it at 50 %+ off retail value. Alongside our app, we create educational tools, operate an end-to-end surplus food management solution, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste. 📈 Scale: We’re growing fast: Our community of 133 million registered users and 261,000+ active partners across 20 countries, have together already saved 517+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.4M tonnes of CO2e from entering the Earth’s atmosphere!  ⭐️ Impact: We are a certified B Corp social impact company. Too Good To Go was named in Fast Company's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies and World Changing Ideas. We are also honoured to be included in TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies. Most recently, we won Apple’s coveted Cultural Impact Winner.  About the role We’re looking for a BI Developer to join the Parcels Planning team on a 12 month fixed-term contract. This is a strategic BI engineering role focused on designing the reporting architecture, semantic models and data foundations that will enable the Parcels business to scale over the next 18–24 months. The Parcels business is transitioning towards a governed, Looker-centric analytics platform with reusable semantic models, trusted metrics and self-service reporting. You’ll work closely with the Planning, Commercial, Data, Finance and Logistics teams to develop better reporting, improve visibility of performance, and build tools that help teams make faster, better decisions. This is not simply a dashboard development role. You'll be responsible for designing scalable reporting architecture, defining reusable business logic, and building governed analytics products that become core operational assets.  The right person will be able to connect technical capability with business needs. You’ll help us move away from manual reporting, fragmented Google Sheets and inconsistent definitions, towards a stronger, more governed reporting environment. What you’ll do * You'll own the technical design and development of BI products, semantic models and reporting solutions supporting the Parcels business. * You’ll work with the AD of Planning and the wider team to define the reporting and tooling required over the next 12 months. You'll define technical standards for BI development, modelling, documentation and governance, helping establish best practices across reporting and analytics. * You'll design and develop performant LookML models, Explores and dashboards that support commercial performance, forecasting, pricing, inventory optimisation, parcel composition and operational planning. * You'll partner with Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering to influence data models, warehouse structures and transformation logic, ensuring analytical datasets are optimised for scalable reporting. * You’ll help replace manual reporting and Google Sheets-based processes with more scalable, governed and reliable reporting solutions. * You’ll support the development of planning tools that make forecasting, performance tracking and decision-making easier for the team. * You’ll work with Data teams to make sure the right tables, definitions and metrics are available, documented and trusted. * You’ll help improve data governance by creating clear definitions, reusable reporting logic and consistent ways of measuring performance. Requirements * Experience in BI Engineering, Analytics Engineering or modern Business Intelligence development, with responsibility for semantic modelling, governed reporting and scalable analytics solutions. * Strong experience with Looker, LookML, SQL or equivalent BI/data tools. * Experience building dashboards or reporting products for commercial, finance, supply chain, planning, logistics or marketplace teams. * A good understanding of how to translate business problems into clear reporting and tooling solutions. * Strong dimensional data modelling skills with experience designing reusable semantic layers, conformed dimensions and governed KPI definitions. * Experience working with governed reporting environments, including reusable logic, clear definitions and documentation. * Comfortable working with stakeholders who may not always know exactly what they need, and able to shape requirements into practical solutions. * A structured approach to documentation, governance and making reporting easy to understand. * Someone who can balance technical quality with commercial practicality. * Experience with Google Sheets, Apps Script, Python, automation or AI-assisted workflows would be a plus, especially in environments moving from manual tools to more governed BI. What success looks like * Parcels has a clearer, more scalable reporting environment. * Key planning and commercial processes rely less on manual Google Sheets and more on trusted BI tools. * Dashboards are useful, adopted and connected to real business decisions. * Core business metrics are centrally defined, version controlled and consistently used across Planning, Commercial, Finance and Operations. * The team has stronger foundations for future planning, forecasting, pricing and inventory tools. * Stakeholders are able to self-serve more of their reporting needs without relying on manual data pulls. OUR VALUES * We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam. * We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another. * We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple. * We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving. * We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing. BENEFITS * Flexible Work & Time Off * Enjoy hybrid working from our great offices, at home or abroad * Extra parental leave and days off beyond local legislation and the option to take an extra week of unpaid leave * Health insurance and pension plans (subject to country of employment * Additional days off for significant life events * Connection & Community * Regular social events like summer and winter parties * Coffee, snacks and fully-equipped kitchens * Get to know our community with a monthly free Surprise Bag * Paid volunteer time through our Shareback volunteering programme * Get involved and connect with our teammates around the world in our P.R.I.D.E., Women in the Workplace, Global Majority Voices, and Functionally Diverse Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) HOW TO APPLY * We are passionate about recruitment and grateful for your interest! Please carefully read everything written above and check out our website and international media to get a good overview of Too Good To Go. * Submit your Resume and Cover letter in English. * Please note that we only accept applications coming through our platform. Resumes and/or Cover Letters will not be accepted by email or LinkedIn direct messaging. * The application process consists of a short video call with Talent Acquisition, followed by an interview with the hiring manager, and a final interview with the Associate Director of Planning and the Global Director of Buying and Sourcing. A Movement for Everyone We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong. We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Opentable

With millions of diners, 60,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.  Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.   About the job OpenTable, a Booking Holdings, Inc. company, is seeking a 12 month fixed-term Talent Acquisition Partner to join our global team in London. In this role, you will be instrumental in recruiting fresh talent across multiple countries and departments, including Sales and Services, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance & Accounting. You will have a tangible impact on our business by acting as a brand ambassador, driving the full cycle recruitment process, and passionately advocating for candidate experience and diversity and inclusion.   Responsibilities * Own full cycle recruitment responsibilities, continuously sourcing, screening, evaluating, and recommending candidates. * Attract top talent and engage passive candidates through direct sourcing, networking, online databases, social media, employee referrals, and creative programs. * Accurately track progress and maintain tracking metrics for recruiting using our ATS (Greenhouse). * Act as a brand ambassador to build and maintain the OpenTable employment brand. * Build positive relationships with employees across business functions and act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers. * Pipeline talent for future roles.   Minimum Qualifications * 5 or more years of recruiting experience in a fast-paced environment. * Experience prioritizing and leading multiple searches simultaneously. * Demonstrable track record of acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers. * Ability to work autonomously with a sense of urgency. * Local to the London area and able to commute into the office 2 days a week.   Preferred Qualifications * Experience recruiting for roles across the EU * Creative and results-oriented mindset focused on building positive relationships. * Adaptability and flexibility in the workplace. * Ability to communicate, interact, and negotiate effectively across time-zones with a variety of internal clients and external candidates.   Work Environment & Flexibility At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.   Inclusion We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application/interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.