Finance Controller, Lantum
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Healthcare workforce management platform, reducing spend, admin and empowering healthcare staff
Job no longer available
Healthcare workforce management platform, reducing spend, admin and empowering healthcare staff
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where healthcare doesn’t have a workforce crisis by transforming how healthcare organisations and the workforce work together.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who brings strong ownership, sound judgement, and a collaborative leadership style
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven experience owning the finance function in a scaling or complex organisation
- Strong background in management accounts, controls, audit, and compliance
- Experience leading, developing, and performance-managing finance team members
- Comfortable balancing hands-on operational work with higher-level analysis and decision support
- Strong systems mindset, with experience driving process improvement and automation
- High attention to detail, proactive problem-solver, and confident communicator
- Experience in SaaS, healthcare, or regulated environments is a plus
- Please note, we can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK
What the job involves
- The Financial Controller is responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and control of Lantum’s financial operations and reporting
- This role owns the end-to-end finance function below CFO level, ensuring high-quality management reporting, strong financial controls, and clear cashflow visibility to support decision-making across the business
- This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll lead the day-to-day finance team, drive continuous improvement across processes and systems, and act as a trusted finance partner to senior leadership
- You’ll combine operational delivery with accountability for financial performance, governance, and team development
- Own and sign off accurate, timely monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow)
- Lead the month-end close process, including journals, reconciliations, and review of team outputs
- Own and continuously improve financial controls across all finance processes
- Lead VAT, tax, statutory reporting, audit, and R&D tax credit processes end-to-end, coordinating with external advisors and auditors
- Own rolling cashflow forecasting and daily cash visibility, proactively identifying and escalating risks
- Lead AP and AR functions, strengthening controls, improving collections, and reducing aged debt
- Own banking relationships, mandates, payment controls, and cash governance
- Line manage, coach, and performance-manage the finance team, setting clear expectations and standards
- Review work produced by the team to ensure accuracy, consistency, and high-quality delivery
- Build a high-performing, well-documented, and resilient finance function
- Drive continuous improvement across finance processes, reporting, and ways of working
- Lead finance system upgrades, automation initiatives, and tooling improvements
- Own ad hoc financial projects, reporting enhancements, and process rollouts
- Partner with the commercial team on framework reporting, tenders, and financial inputs
- Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders, providing clear insight and recommendations to support decision-making
Application process
- Talent Screen: A short introductory call to get to know each other and answer initial questions
- Hiring Manager Interview: A deeper discussion with your potential future manager to explore your experience and approach
- Challenge interview: A practical scenario designed to bring your technical, problem-solving, and leadership skills to life, involving multiple stakeholders
- Values interview: Meet more of the team to explore alignment with Lantum’s values and ways of working
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The NHS is facing huge financial pressures. An area that's been targeted in recent years is the billions the NHS spends on sourcing temporary doctors, known as locums, largely via agencies which take large fees.
Lantum's business model has changed since launch. It was originally a marketplace which helped healthcare providers connect with vetted temporary staff when they found gaps in their shifts. It has since become a wider platform for NHS workforce management.
Their software helps healthcare organisations fill the maximum number of shifts, by enabling them to manage their own network of clinicians and introducing them to new clinicians in the area. In 2021 they supported over 3,000 healthcare organisations, saving the NHS over £30 million.
Having already introduced the service for smaller clinics, they now aim to introduce it to hospitals as well as expanding the service to all healthcare professionals – including nurses and receptionists.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$15m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$0.8m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $28m
Company benefits
- 🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme
- 🎗 Charity Day - the opportunity to make a positive impact in our community
- 🖥️Home office set up - £200 stipend towards home office equipment to support remote working
- 🏠Hybrid work structure - 3 days in the office per week
- 🌈A vibrant and fun WeWork office space
- 💆♀️Health Cash Plan: - Cash refunds for physio, dental, and other health related costs - An Employee Pricing Program that grants you access to special, non-public discounts to gyms and top retail brands - Plus access to a 24/7 counselling and support helpline
- 🧓Pension - Lantum matches 4% of your salary into your pension pot!
- 🌴Holiday - 25 days holiday + 1 additional day of birthday leave
- 🧠Wellbeing Support - Access to Spill, a mental health support app and 1 day wellbeing leave
- 🌱£500 Learning and development budget each year to drive your own development
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Melissa Morris
(Founder & CEO)Melissa is a former McKinsey Consultant, NHS London strategist and NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow, passionate about transforming healthcare through workforce innovation.
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