Financial Controller, LemonEdge
Low-code development platform for financial services
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Low-code development platform for financial services
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals with innovative technology, intuitively solving their problems to improve the ROI on their most important commodity: time.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a high-calibre, hands-on controller who wants real ownership, breadth, and proximity to senior leadership in a scaling SaaS / FinTech environment
- 7-10+ years’ experience in accounting / financial control roles
- Experience operating across multi-entity, UK & US environments
- Background in SaaS, FinTech, or high-growth technology companies strongly preferred
- Proven hands-on ownership of controls, billing, payroll coordination, and core finance operations
- Xero experience (essential)
- Payhawk or similar expense management platform experience
- UK payroll experience essential; US payroll coordination strongly preferred
- Strong Excel capability, including:
- Multi-entity reconciliations
- Pivot tables and lookup formulas
- Cash flow and balance sheet analysis
- Audit-ready schedules and workpapers
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified preferred
- Qualified by experience (QBE) candidates with strong SaaS / FinTech background will be considered
- Experience operating in multi-entity, UK & US environments highly valued
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Financial Controller to act as the right hand to the Global Head of Finance & SVP, owning the day-to-day financial operations of the business across the UK and US
- This is a high-trust, high-exposure role working directly with the most senior finance executive in the company on a daily basis
- The Financial Controller will be deeply embedded in decision-making, execution, and operational control, ensuring financial accuracy, discipline, and scalability as LemonEdge continues to grow
- Own and maintain robust financial controls across UK and US entities
- Maintain general ledgers in Xero, including journals, accruals, prepayments, and reconciliations
- Ensure consistent application of accounting policies across jurisdictions (UK GAAP / US GAAP, as applicable)
- Produce monthly management accounts with variance analysis and clear commentary
- Support year-end statutory accounts, audits, and financial reviews in both regions
- Ensure balance sheet integrity with fully reconciled accounts at all times
- Own end-to-end accounts payable across UK and US entities
- Manage expenses via Payhawk, ensuring policy compliance, approvals, and spend visibility
- Prepare and execute multi-currency payment runs
- Maintain strong approval controls, segregation of duties, and cash discipline
- Own UK payroll processing and coordinate US payroll with external providers
- Partner closely with HR on starters, leavers, benefits, equity changes, and compliance
- Reconcile payroll journals, taxes, pensions, benefits, and statutory deductions
- Ensure payroll accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness across both regions
- Own customer invoicing across UK and US entities
- Own deferred revenue schedules, billing accuracy, and AR ageing
- Own revenue reporting and reconciliation in line with company policy
- Partner with Commercial and Delivery teams to resolve billing issues and discrepancies
- Ensure clean linkage between contracts, invoicing, revenue recognition, and cash collection
- Own and maintain strong financial controls across all finance operations
- Own UK VAT return filings, reconciliations, and submissions
- Own US sales tax filings, coordinating closely with external advisors
- Support audits, statutory filings, and regulatory requirements
- Document, standardise, and continuously improve finance processes to support scale
- Act as a key operator for Xero, Payhawk, payroll systems, and related finance tools
- Partner with the Global Head of Finance on system improvements and automation
- Help standardise finance workflows and controls across regions
- What success looks like in the first 12 months:
- UK & US month-end close completed within 5–7 business days
- Fully reconciled balance sheets at all times
- Zero payroll or compliance errors
- Clean audits with no material findings
- VAT and sales tax filings delivered accurately and on time
- High confidence in finance data across the leadership team
- Work directly with a newly appointed Global Head of Finance & SVP during a critical growth phase
- Act as the right hand to senior finance leadership with real ownership and influence
- Own finance operations across two core regions (UK & US)
- Build scalable financial foundations in a high-growth FinTech
- Collaborative, low-ego, high-accountability culture
Salary benchmarks
Our take
LemonEdge is the first low-code development platform designed for financial services. And with low-code projected to reach $44.5B by 2026, the company is well-positioned to enjoy considerable growth over the coming years.
LemonEdge is a disruptor specialising in back- and middle-office technologies and its tools are designed specifically for financial services. It's fully customised platforms and single applications can also be built 80% quicker than more traditional approaches, and can manage complex accounting processes financial data and transactions.
CEO Gareth Hewitt previously founded and sold two successful start-ups, and this proven reputation appeals greatly to investors. The company seeks to shake up the previously stagnant sector of back and middle-office technology. LemonEdge is a new and promising competitor compared to the industry's existing legacy providers and has enjoyed several rounds of funding from the likes of TechNation and is now looking to ramp up its impact by expanding on a global level.
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Company
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Gareth Hewitt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Software Engineering at Edinburgh University. Founded two companies before founding LemonEdge, in 2020.
Jamie Nascimento
(Co-Founder & CCO)Studied AI at Edinburgh University. Worked with large multi-national brands before running a creative agency and then starting LemonEdge in 2020.
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