As a Finance Team Lead, you'll own the standard of work coming out of a team of management accountants and systems specialists serving ambitious product-based businesses around the world. Your team operates across two fronts: recurring management accounting work for an established client base, and project-based work, particularly ERP implementations and optimizations, where finance, operations, and systems collide. You'll be deep enough in the recurring finance work to set the bar yourself across the lifecycle, and senior enough to grow the people doing it alongside you. The role demands technical accuracy, project discipline, and an instinct for where systems and process design unlock leverage. This is not a conventional finance manager role, and we are not looking for a conventional finance manager. We're looking for someone who leads through doing, execution-heavy, process-minded, comfortable in the work itself, and who understands that modern finance leadership is as much about building leverage through systems, automation, and AI as it is about leading people. The right person sees their team's output as a product to be designed, not just a workload to be managed. This is a real opportunity to shape a finance function, build a team, and operate at the intersection of finance, systems, and modern tooling. Key Responsibilities Team Captain: Lead, develop, and grow a team of management accountants and systems specialists. Set the standard for quality, pace, and ownership. Conduct meaningful one-on-ones, give direct feedback, and create the conditions for people to do their best work. Quality Guardian: Own the review function across the team's output: financial reports, dashboards, client deliverables, variance analyses, project deliverables, and system configurations. Catch what matters, coach on the rest, and make sure nothing leaves the team that doesn't meet the bar. Client Whisperer: Hold senior client relationships across the portfolio. Engage directly with CFOs, founders, and exec teams, translating finance into decisions and decisions back into finance. On project work, become the trusted hand the client knows is holding the steering wheel behind the scenes. Playbook Builder: Design the repeatable workflows, templates, SOPs, and standards the team operates by for recurring engagements. Codify how good work gets done so the team scales without dropping quality. AI-First Systems Leadership: Champion the use of AI across the function. Identify where AI tools can compress workflows, eliminate manual processing, and let the team operate with higher leverage. Lead the team in adopting and continuously improving these systems. Capacity & Throughput: Plan how work flows across both recurring client deliverables and project-based engagements. Who's on what, who's stretched, who's underutilized, and where the bottlenecks are. Keep both client delivery and project milestones on time without burning your people out. Hiring Partner: Help shape the team you'll lead. Interview, assess, and onboard new hires across both the accounting and systems sides. Build a bench you'd want to work alongside. Continuous Improvement: Stay current on finance practices, ERP and finance system developments, AI tools, and industry shifts. Bring the best of what you find back to the team. Qualifications A degree in Accounting or Management Accounting is required. E-Commerce and/or Manufacturing experience is beneficial. CIMA Affiliate, CGMA, CA, or equivalent professional qualification is a strong plus. Typically 5+ years post-qualification experience in management accounting, operational finance, or a related discipline. Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, or managing a finance team. Formal "manager" title not required; evidence of doing the work is. Strong project management instincts: you've shipped multi-stakeholder finance or systems projects from kickoff to handover. Hands-on exposure to finance operations. Direct experience leading or contributing to ERP implementations, migrations, or optimizations is a strong plus. Strong technical foundation in management reporting, financial analysis, multi-entity work, and operational finance. Comfortable across modern finance stacks (Xero or equivalent, Excel at depth, reporting, and BI tools) and excited, not threatened, by AI tools changing how finance work gets done. Demonstrated bias toward systems thinking: you've designed processes, built playbooks, or rebuilt workflows that outlast you. Excellent judgment in stakeholder communication: comfortable in a room with a CFO, a founder, or a frustrated client mid-implementation. Coaching instinct. You enjoy seeing people get better at their craft and have a track record of helping them do it. A track record of finishing things. Project management isn't a side skill; it's the job. Curious, slightly geeky, ambitious. The kind of person who reads about how other teams operate and steals the good ideas. Ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in a dynamic environment. Benefits Competitive compensation package and performance-based bonuses. Comprehensive training and mentorship from experienced professionals. Exposure to a wide variety of industries and international business environments. Opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that directly impact clients' success. Clear career progression path within the firm based on performance and skills development. #J-18808-Ljbffr