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You'll own finance across our UK and Luxembourg entities: accounting, budgets and planning, as well as the processes and financial / operational tooling around them.\nThe role is tailored to someone with an accounting background and startup / scale-up experience who wants to grow with the company as the finance team expands.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn accounting and month-end close across both entities (UK and Luxembourg), including intercompany flows, consolidation, and transfer pricing, in partnership with our external advisors;\nOwn compliance in both countries: statutory accounts, VAT, corporate tax, payroll filings, and annual audits;\nBuild and run the annual budget and a rolling forecast. 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