Senior Finance Analyst - UK

Location: We would like you to work from our office in London, Paris or Vilnius for 2 days per week, joining our team of dedicated professionals and making your mark on the world of B2B e-commerce.

About Hokodo

We’re an international and diverse team, based in London, Vilnius and Paris, working to modernise B2B payments.

• Our B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solution enables merchants to offer credit terms to their business customers instantly, resulting in a 40% average increase in revenue for integrated merchants.

• We are scaling rapidly across Western Europe, with a list of stellar clients and have raised a total of over $50 million to support our goals.

• Join us in our efforts, as we have already made good progress with 50,000+ businesses regularly using Hokodo, but need your support to take us to the next level!

About the Role 

The Finance function at Hokodo encompasses a wide range of tasks, including procuring investment from capital markets, building financing facilities, managing cash flow and banking systems, financial accounting, forecasting, covenant monitoring, liquidity management, and more. 

This position will play a critical role in supporting the finance function by integrating, maintaining, and enhancing systems that streamline financial operations, improve processes to enable accurate and timely reporting across multiple entities. The role will encompass optimising and automating financial processes, managing our financial systems, and ensuring data integrity and efficiency across the finance tech stack to enable the broader team.  The position gives the opportunity to work in a dynamic, high growth environment where you add value every day. 

To excel in this role, you will need strong stakeholder engagement skills, an outcome-focused mindset, and analytical expertise. You will be working with complex data sets, collaborating across teams. This will require someone who enjoys delivering solutions that solve problems.

This role is ideal for someone with a mix of finance, accounting, and tech/automation skills who enjoys working in a high-growth fintech environment. You’ll be responsible for making finance processes more efficient, leveraging technology to improve accuracy, and supporting strategic finance initiatives.

What you’ll be doing - If you get excited by the following, this is the role for you.

• Manage day-to-day operations: Perform standard finance procedures, taking responsibility for their proper execution. This includes managing Accounts Payable and Receivable, Month-End activities like cash reconciliation, payroll processing, budgeting, financial reporting, etc.

• Run and further Automate Accounting Processes: Identify and execute on opportunities for automation in the accounting and financial reporting process, including journal entries, reconciliations, intercompany transactions, and close processes. This is crucial for our reconciliation processes and for accurately analysing and representing our financials within our accounts.

• Process Improvement: Help streamline financial processes, thereby reducing time-consuming manual work and minimising the risk of error

• Partner with the Financial Controller and Broader Function Provide effective support to the Financial Controller on specific projects (such as audit, R&D claims, transfer pricing and tax optimisation workstreams) 

Who we’re looking for

Requirements and skills 

• Finance & Accounting Knowledge – Understanding of financial operations, month-end closing, reconciliations, etc. 

• Data Analysis & Accuracy – Working with complex financial data to ensure reporting accuracy.

• Automation & Systems Experience – Ability to implement automation tools and optimize financial processes.

• Stakeholder Engagement – Collaborating with multiple teams to deliver improvements.

• Strong communication skills in English, written and verbal

• Adaptable to a dynamic, fast-paced, changing business and regulatory environment

• Business-oriented mindset with ability to balance risk and commercial objectives

• Proactive individual with strong analytical and communication skills, attention to detail and problem-solving ability

• Eager to learn and intellectually curious 

• High level of ownership with focus on results and bias for action

• Passion for continuous process improvement, including the ability to innovate and to simplify both finance and operational processes

• Right to work in the location you’re applying for (UK, France or Lithuania)

Nice to have: 

• Fluent French 

• Knowledge and experience of French accounting processes