Finance Manager, Echobox
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Content automation platform
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Content automation platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To become the best social media platform for publishers and to build artificial intelligence that understands the meaning of content.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a Finance Manager in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in SaaS, technology, or high-growth businesses (preferred)
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills
- Deep understanding of SaaS metrics and financial operations (FinOps)
- Advanced Excel / spreadsheet skills
- Experience with Xero, HubSpot, or similar systems (desirable)
- Degree (2:1 or above), ideally from a top-tier university
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Highly proactive, detail-oriented, and commercially aware
What the job involves
- We are seeking a commercially driven and operationally hands-on Finance Manager to lead finance, investor reporting, and financial operations in a fast-scaling AI business
- This is a highly visible role working directly with the CEO, combining strategic finance, operational oversight, and cross-functional leadership
- You will own the finance function end-to-end, while also playing a key role in investor relations, financial operations (FinOps), and supporting business-wide decision-making
- Own the full finance function, including management accounts, month-end close, and quarterly reporting
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and detailed variance analysis
- Build, maintain, and continuously improve robust financial models
- Deliver clear and insightful reporting to support strategic decision-making
- Manage R&D tax credit claims with external advisors
- Oversee EMI stock option schemes, valuations, and grant processes
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting standards
- Act as a key point of contact for investors on financial performance and reporting
- Translate financial data into compelling narratives for stakeholders
- Establish and optimise financial processes, controls, and reporting frameworks
- Own cash flow management, working capital optimisation, and cost control strategies
- Monitor SaaS metrics (e.g. ARR, MRR, CAC, LTV, churn) and provide actionable insights
- Improve financial visibility across the business through dashboards and KPI tracking
- Ensure scalability of finance systems, processes, and controls as the company grows
- Oversee payroll processes via external providers, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Support headcount planning and workforce cost modelling
- Collaborate on compensation structures, bonus schemes, and commission frameworks
- Provide financial insight into hiring plans and organisational growth
- Partner with cross-functional teams across the business to lead and deliver end-to-end recruitment operations
- Ensure accurate financial data, contracts, and pricing are reflected in CRM systems (e.g. HubSpot)
- Partner with commercial teams on pricing strategies and revenue optimisation
- Analyse sales performance, pipeline data, and revenue forecasting
- Improve alignment between finance and sales operations
- Manage outsourced bookkeeping and payroll providers
- Lead procurement and supplier management (software, rent, insurance, etc.)
- Ensure operational efficiency, cost discipline, and contract optimisation
- Work directly with the CEO and leadership team in a scaling AI company
- Own and shape the finance function with real strategic impact
- Gain exposure to investors, fundraising, and high-level decision-making
- Be part of a high-growth, product-driven business solving complex challenges
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Echobox is a research-focused company that is revolutionising the publishing industry. Its combination of novel maths, data science, and machine learning techniques provides online publishers with the most advanced technologies to help them excel in their digital strategies to grow their audience.
Instead of simply displaying an abundance of analytics, Echobox looks at a site’s visitor data and, using its own algorithms and machine learning, recommends actions to take, including editorial, to drive additional traffic. Crucially, those recommendations are written in plain English (rather than complex charts or rows of data). It’s that simplicity and emphasis on actionable insights and its potential to put data-driven news publishing in the hands of everybody, not just the larger, better-financed, or more tech-savvy online news operations is Echobox's differentiating factor.
Today, thousands of publishers around the globe rely on the company's automation, including some of the world’s most prestigious publishers. Its technology currently publishes over 10 million pieces of content and reaches billions of readers for their customers each year.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 2015
$3.4m
SEED
Total funding: $3.4m
Company benefits
- Option to work remotely (part-time or full-time)
- Lunch on the company 3 times a week
- Generous annual leave
- Pension contribution
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Latest technical hardware
- Monthly team events
- “Summer Camp” in London where our team, including all our remote employees, are brought together for a week of shared learning, ideating and bonding
- Free breakfast, hot and cold drinks, and snacks all day, everyday
- And More!
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Antoine Amann
(Founder & CEO)Cambridge and LSE graduate, worked in the department of Aerospace & Defence at Financial Times.
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