Finance Manager Finance London

Founded from a humble garden shed by Jessica Hanley in 2017, Piglet in Bed is a leading Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) homewares and lifestyle brand that has captured the hearts of customers in the UK and the US with our commitment to quality, comfort, and sustainability. Our range of effortlessly beautiful bedding, sleepwear, and home essentials are first and foremost made for living, designed to give you more time to spend on the moments that matter.

As Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in supporting the growth of our brand. You will be responsible for ensuring robust financial management, accurate reporting, and insightful analysis to enable strong decision-making. This role requires a hands-on and detail-oriented finance professional, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, while balancing accuracy with commercial insight. This role offers the opportunity to develop into Financial Controller as the company continues its growth journey, with scope to shape and strengthen the finance function.

Role: Finance Manager

Hours: Full-time

Salary: £60,000-£65,000 depending on experience

Location: Hybrid working - with 3 days per week in our London office

What you'll be getting up to

Financial Management & Reporting:

• Oversee general ledger management, ensuring all financial transactions are accurately recorded, classified, and reconciled.
• Conduct weekly and monthly balance sheet reconciliations and reviews, identifying and addressing discrepancies.
• Lead the preparation of management accounts, including detailed review vs budget and forecast.
• Deliver accurate and timely month-end and year-end closes from day one.
• Take responsibility for tax compliance, including preparation and submission of VAT returns and ensuring adherence to all relevant UK and international tax requirements.
• Review statutory accounts and tax computations prepared by external auditors.
• Support audits, consulting directly with external auditors to ensure smooth delivery.
• Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with business objectives and providing clear performance insights.
• Provide financial reports, variance analysis, and insights to senior management.

Cash & Working Capital Management:

• Manage weekly rolling cashflow forecast and working capital to support business operations and growth.
• Oversee daily cash activities, including bank balance monitoring and reconciliations.
• Ensure accurate and efficient management of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes.

Business Partnering & Strategic Support:

• Present financial insights and recommendations to leadership and non-finance stakeholders in a clear, actionable way.
• Act as a proactive problem solver, balancing detail with broader business understanding.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate investment cases, commercial opportunities, and cost-saving initiatives

Compliance & Process:

• Contribute to building strong processes and controls that scale with the business.
• Ensure robust internal controls, compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and best practice governance.
• Support the development and optimisation of finance systems to ensure scalability and efficiency
• Champion best practice in financial governance, risk management, and operational effectiveness.

Team & Culture:

• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of two finance professionals, fostering growth and accountability.
• Operate autonomously, delivering to deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment.
• Foster a collaborative and solutions-focused approach across finance and non-finance teams.

Who we're looking for

• Hands-on and detail-oriented with a proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Strong technical accounting skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Strong communicator, able to partner effectively across the business.
• Comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership of deliverables.
• High attention to detail with the ability to balance precision and commercial insight.

Essential:

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven track record as a Finance Manager, ideally at senior level.
• Solid management accounts experience, including variance analysis and commentary.
• Experience in statutory reporting, VAT returns, and external audit processes.

Preferable:

• Experience in a fast-paced, evolving environment (scale-up or retail sector desirable).
• Strong experience using Xero accounting software to manage day-to-day financial operations and reporting
• Multi-currency and international accounting experience (UK and US entities).
• Demonstrated experience with cashflow forecasting and working capital management.
• Strong knowledge of financial systems and Excel modelling.

Why Piglet in Bed?

• We're proud to pay the UK Living Wage, a voluntary measure we're taking to make sure our salaries meet our employees real, everyday needs.
• Our flexible working scheme aims to prioritise your work-life balance, allowing for flexible start and finish times.
• We offer a generous 50% discount on our products alongside multiple bonus schemes, and plenty of chances to get your hands on treats internally!
• Piglet in Bed offers 33 days of holiday annually (pro rata for part time staff), alongside 2 paid days for volunteering and reduced summer hours.
• We offer a rewards & recognition platform where you can get discounts with lots of retailers, along with a full employee assistance programme and 24/7 GP access.
• With our onsite bike storage and shower facilities, Piglet are excited to offer team members access to our cycle to work scheme.

What's next?

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now by submitting your CV and cover letter below. Your personality is way more important to us than perfect grammar, so please consider not using AI in your application - we just want to get to know the authentic you!

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK as Piglet in Bed are unable to sponsor or transfer any visa applications at this time.