Financial Operations Manager

Easol is the leading all-in-one ‘experience commerce’ platform built to power experience businesses including festivals, wellness retreats, food and drink, sports and adventure trips. With Easol, experience businesses have complete control to drive more direct sales, retain more revenue, own their data and run their business on their terms.

Easol has deep roots in experiences. The platform was founded by former festival founders, Lisa and Ben Simpson in 2017, after the husband and wife team endured challenges and frustrations first hand while setting up and growing their own experience business including Rise - Europe’s biggest snowsports and music festival and Beyond Adventures - a series of adventure travel experiences in remote locations such as the Sahara desert and the Swedish Archipelago.

The Role

As Finance Operations Manager you'll be integral to the smooth running of our finance processes, and the key contact for our external accounting partner.

You have an innate drive to get to the bottom of any issue and find best-in-class solutions that are ready for scale. You’ll also be key in helping our teams track and understand their performance vs budget.

This role requires a multi-talent who has just the right mix of resourcefulness, empathy and financial acumen.

This is a great opportunity to advance your career in a finance role with the chance to help shape the finance function, early in its development. We’re excited for you to join us and help drive Easol to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the external accountants, as their first point of contact, ensuring they are connected with the business and that the two way flow of information is effective.
• Providing contextual analysis and review to the management accounts, variance analysis and other financial reports.
• Ensuring timely completion of annual compliance and insurance tasks.
• Leading on the collation of inbound KYC requests from our banking and payment partners.
• Managing Easol’s centralised financial knowledge base, documenting, maintaining our internal financial policies and processes.
• Taking ownership of finance software stack and systems including expense management, reporting and approval flows.
• Being central to maintaining and optimising our financial controls as the team grows and brings further processes in-house.
• Providing back up support to the team on mission critical processes such as creator payments and financial KPI reporting.
• Championing efficient best in class financial operations processes and policies
• Being a key point of contact for the wider Easol team on finance queries and questions and triage within the team to ensure timely resolution.
• Ad hoc projects, helping to shape the future of Easol’s internal finance function, building smooth processes that are ready to scale

Qualifications and Requirements

• You have been working in a practice environment and are looking to take your first step into to industry.
• You recently have completed a relevant professional qualification.
• You are a self starter, driven by building things and designing smooth, efficient processes
• You are highly analytical and data-driven with the ability to dissect, reconcile and interpret large sets of data.
• You are highly empathetic and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You appreciate the dynamics of working in a startup or scale-up or any other fast-changing environment.

About You

• You are intellectually strong and able to manage stakeholders at multiple levels.
• You are excellent at conveying financial information and concepts to non finance audiences.
• You find meaning and pleasure in helping others succeed.
• You are hands-on with an attitude that no task is too small for you.
• You have an incredible drive for success and a high work ethic.
• You are process-oriented and always show meticulous attention to detail.
• You love to work in a competitive and fast-paced environment and have a natural sense of urgency. You don't wait around for opportunities to come to you, but you actively seek them out.
• You are a team player who is compassionate, friendly and always seeks to empower others and learn from others.
• You are organised, have excellent time management skills and know what key priorities you need to focus on.
• You are adaptable and have a huge and never-ending desire to learn and improve. Our business is changing and growing fast and along with it are the demands and skills needed to succeed. You believe in the growth mindset and have no doubt that you can learn and develop almost any skill.
• You are passionate about experience travel and adventure. You are likely to spend your holiday’s kite surfing in Sri Lanka, hiking the Nepalese mountains or at an alternative music festival.

What you’ll enjoy about joining our team:

🤗 You'll be joining a close-knit team working together from our East London office, just a 5-minute walk away from the Broadway Market

⚖️ You'll enjoy a flexible working set-up. We balance our desire to be present in the office as often as possible, with the freedom to work from wherever we need to be.

🧠 You'll have real visibility of what's happening in the business. We have weekly company meetings, where we all get together to discuss our wins, learning opportunities, our goals and direction.

🗣 There is an open forum for you to have your say in what we do and how we do it. We empower our team to share their ideas - no egos here!

🌏 You'll have access to our incredible perks, such as a company-funded "deep week", where you can travel to a destination of choice and have dedicated time to focus on a project that is important to you without distraction.

💰 In addition to that, we offer a monthly contribution towards a gym membership and your mobile phone contract, an annual personal development budget, support to choose your own equipment and a lot more.

✈ You’ll have 25 days of holidays, plus public holidays.