Director of Finance – UK

Location: United Kingdom
Department: Finance
Posted: July 17, 2025

At Tide, we are building a business management platform designed to save small businesses time and money. We provide our members with business accounts and related financial services, but also a comprehensive set of connected administrative tools from invoicing to accounting and adjacent commercial solutions.

Launched in 2017, Tide is now used by over 1million small businesses across the world and is available to UK, Indian and German SMEs. Headquartered in central London, with offices in Sofia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Berlin and Belgrade, Tide employs over 2,000 employees.  

Tide is rapidly growing, expanding into new products and markets and always looking for passionate and driven people. Join us in our mission to empower small businesses and help them save time and money. 

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

It’s exciting times here at Tide, we are scaling and developing our product offering at a phenomenal rate and have made our first step into our ambitious plans towards international expansion.  We need someone to be proactive, take hands-on initiative, exhibiting extreme ownership to build out best in class financial reporting and financial control function.

As our new Director of Finance UK, you’ll report to the VP of Finance and be responsible for the financial controllership of the Tide’s UK operations and Group reporting.

 As a Director of Finance UK you’ll be responsible for: 

• Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of monthly P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, annual financial statements, regulatory and investor reporting
• Maintaining best practice documentation of accounting policy and papers for material transactions and revenue recognition
• Legal entity control and consolidation
• Building robust financial control processes and strengthening internal control framework, including all related policies and procedures
• Ensuring proper books and records for all financial transactions
• Managing relationships with external auditors and outsourced accounting providers, including for regional offices in Europe
• Collaborating with other departments on accounting and tax matters as well as coordinating with internal product engineering teams and consultants on R&D projects that are eligible for tax relief
• Collate financial data for the preparation of corporation tax and VAT returns, ensuring compliance with tax legislation 
• Regular reporting of financial performance, financial risk, financial control, taxation, ESG and other topical matters to the Finance & Audit Committee
• Identifying opportunities to streamline and improve accounting processes, operations and systems.
• Growing and developing a highly motivated and talented financial control team

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:  

• Senior Financial Leadership: recent experience at a Senior/Director level managing financial control in complex, multi-country, multi-entity organizations
• Industry Expertise: Proven track record in financial services or technology (FinTech, payments, banking, lending) is preferred 
• Scale-Up Environment: You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment and have the desire to take ownership of critical financial operations and drive results
• Technical Proficiency: Strong financial acumen and technical accounting skills (IFRS/UK GAAP). Experience with statutory audits of financial services companies
• Professional Qualification: ACA or equivalent professional finance qualification
• Strategic & Operational Agility: Ability to transition seamlessly between strategic oversight and hands-on execution
• Stakeholder Management: Confident communicator with senior stakeholders, capable of autonomous work
• Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead and develop teams of 20+ staff

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: 

• Flexible working options
• Share options 
• Group Life Insurance 
• Vitality Health Insurance, with a proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing
• 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
• 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
• We invest in your development with a £1,000 professional L&D budget per year 
• Pension contributions: 
  • Tide will pay 3.00% of your pensionable earnings (capped to an annual salary of £44,030, known as qualifying earnings) into your pension each pay period
  • If you salary sacrifice at least the minimum contribution (5% of banded earnings), Tide will boost its contribution to 4% of banded earnings (up from 3%).
• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as:
  • Nursery: We’ve partnered with YellowNest to help reduce nursery costs — you could save up to 47% on fees! 
  • Cycle to Work: We’ve partnered with GCI to make the most of the Green Transport Plan Initiative and associated tax concession offered by the Government.
• Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Sabbatical leave 

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING: 

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.