Finance Manager

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Up to £65,000 per year, on a full time permanent contract

🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!

🏖 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits

✨ Working with globally recognisable brands in US Entertainment

💡 All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need

We have two distinct businesses (but with unified processes), which means real variety in the finance function:

We’re 200+ people, remote‑first, and we operate with startup pace backed by established-company stability. We adopt new tools and ways of working proactively — including AI across the business — and we expect every function to pull its weight there. Finance is no exception.

Storm Ideas is a forward‑thinking media agency, founded in 2008, working with globally recognised clients across the US TV and entertainment industry. We produce content at scale, deliver operational services, and sit at the intersection of media, technology, and creativity.

Storyteller is our fast‑growing SaaS business, enabling companies (think major global sports brands) to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. This brings a different financial profile, product economics and growth‑stage dynamics.

It’s a rare combination that keeps the work interesting and develops a broader skill set than a single‑entity role.

The finance function is changing fast. AI and automation are absorbing the routine work — reconciliations, variance analysis, management account prep — that used to fill most of a finance team’s week.

We’re not looking for someone who sees that as a threat. We want someone who sees it as an opportunity to spend their time on work that actually moves the business forward: strategic analysis, cash flow optimisation, commercial decision support, and building finance systems that scale without headcount.

You’ll own the entire finance function across two businesses — a 200+ person media agency with major US entertainment clients and a fast‑growing sports focused SaaS platform. You’ll work independently, move quickly, and be expected to automate yourself out of the mundane so you can focus on what matters (this part is key). Importantly, you won’t be alone – you'll be supported by 2 experienced Finance team members, with some assistance also from our Client Services team.

• Surface and give leadership the numbers they need without waiting for month‑end
• Create actionable analysis for the board — not slide decks full of backward‑looking charts, but forward‑looking insight that drives decisions
• Own financial strategy with a focus on tax efficiency and long‑term fiscal planning

• Ownership of cash flow management and forecasting
• Manage day‑to‑day accounting: billing, AP, AR, cost accounting. But the expectation is that you’re automating the repetitive elements, not drowning in them
• Lead management accounts preparation and ensure reporting accuracy at all times
• Develop finance policies, internal controls, and compliance that are lean and proportionate to our scale

• Identify and implement automation across finance workflows — we expect you to be proactively eliminating manual processes, not maintaining them
• Use AI tools (LLMs, skills, automation platforms) to accelerate reporting, analysis, and routine finance tasks
• Build scalable, documented processes that don’t depend on you being in the loop for every step

• ACA/ACCA qualified with 2+ years’ post‑qualification experience
• Proven ability to work independently and own outcomes — you don’t wait for instructions
• Comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders and presenting financial analysis to non‑finance audiences
• Demonstrable experience automating or significantly improving finance processes (not just identifying problems — fixing them)
• Genuine, active engagement with AI and automation tools — we’ll ask you about this in the interview
• Strong commercial instinct: you understand that finance exists to support business decisions, not to produce reports for the sake of it
• Ability and aptitude to build basic automations or AI workflows

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