The Assistant Controller supports the financial control function, ensuring accurate reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance across the business. This role works closely with the Financial Controller and senior finance leadership to manage month-end close, audit processes, and continuous improvement of financial systems and processes.

What You’ll Do

• Support the month-end and year-end close processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist in producing monthly management accounts and variance analysis
• Maintain and strengthen internal financial controls and processes
• Support the preparation of statutory accounts in line with IFRS/UK GAAP
• Partner with auditors during external audits, providing documentation and resolving queries
• Help drive process improvements and automation within the finance function
• Collaborate with FP&A and other teams to ensure alignment on financial data
• Monitor and analyse financial performance, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Support ad hoc projects, including system implementations and scaling finance operations

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or equivalent experience
• Big 4 trained
• Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS or UK GAAP)
• Experience in a fast-paced or high-growth environment (ideally SaaS/tech)
• Excellent attention to detail with strong analytical skills
• Proactive mindset with the ability to improve processes and work collaboratively

Your Role:

We’re looking for a practical, delivery-oriented Financial Systems Manager to own Cognism’s finance software stack, integrations and automation. You’ll be responsible for the finance systems that power core finance cycles including Quote-to-Invoice, Procure-to-Pay, Forecast-to-Budget, Hire-to-Retire, Compliance-to-Control and Asset-to-Depreciation. Our CRM is Salesforce and our ERP is NetSuite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and run the finance systems roadmap - design, implement and maintain systems and integrations.
• Lead vendor selection, implementation and integration projects.
• Automate core finance processes and build reconciliations between our CRM, ERP and other systems.
• Maintain data integrity, master-data governance and monitored integrations.
• Create requirements, specs, and run UAT; deliver training and documentation.
• Act as first-line escalation for system incidents and own release/upgrade cycles.
• Collaborate with Finance, IT/Engineering, RevOps, HR and external vendors

Key Requirements:

Must have:

• 7+ years hands-on experience managing finance systems in a SaaS environment.
• Strong NetSuite experience (configuration, integration, reconciliation) and Salesforce familiarity.
• Expertise with middleware/iPaaS and APIs.
• Technical fluency with data (SQL/CSV/transforms) and automation (scripting/RPA).
• Track record running vendor implementations and delivering cross-functional projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management, documentation and training skills.

Advantageous:

• NetSuite admin or consultant certifications.
• Experience with subscription billing, FP&A tools, HRIS and AP automation.
• Accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or SOX experience.