Location: Hybrid or Remote

Working Pattern: 12 days per month; 2 days per month on-site if possible

Rate: Up to £425 per day

Contract Term: 10-12 months

The Role

This is a hands-on finance role at Sprout.ai, liaising with the CFO on deliverables. You'll own the full scope of finance operations: managing our outsourced accounting function, running payroll across UK and international teams, overseeing invoicing and credit control, and keeping on top of treasury, FX and tax compliance.

You'll also be closely involved in the numbers that drive decisions. That means producing monthly management accounts and forecasts, supporting the annual budget process, and helping present financials to the CEO and senior leadership team. Across the business, you'll be the go-to person for anything finance-related.

We're looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) who thrives on autonomy and takes real ownership of their work. You should be someone who's just as comfortable deep in a balance sheet reconciliation as you are talking through the numbers with senior stakeholders. If you want a broad, varied finance role where your work has a visible impact on a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Finance Operations

• Manage the running of the outsourced finance function which takes care of finance operations including bills, payments, PAYE, VAT, bookkeeping and Payroll for UK and international employees (38 in total).. This includes management of our outsourced accounting suppliers who perform bookkeepping services..

• Expense and credit card processes - oversee/manage credit card expense and staff expense process for floats and personal claims.

• Invoicing and Credit control - Manage the issuing and tracking of sales invoices (currently nine customers). Oversee the credit control process. Co-ordinate response on difficult payers where required, and update the team where necessary.

• Treasury and FX - monitor cash liquidity to ensure sufficient operational funding and interest yield, while managing foreign exchange exposure through hedging partners.

• Sales Commissions, maintain the sales commission schedule - calculate, pay and account for Sales Commissions.

• Tax and compliance - co-ordinate operational tax issues, in conjunction with external accountants; together with the CFO, manage the production of statutory accounts and any statutory compliance; manage tax schemes e.g. VAT return, R&D tax credits etc; assist with onboarding of new employees. Prepare yearly data for P11Ds and PAYE Settlement Agreements.

Reporting

• Monthly reporting - manage the production of monthly management accounts, post journals and carry out balance sheet reconciliations. Together with the CFO, update and review the monthly finance forecast and reports. Deliver reports for presentation to the CEO and SLT.

• Year End accounts - Ensure all year-end trial balances are accurate and fully reconciled for the external Accountants to produce Statutory Accounts.

FP&A

• Budgeting and forecasting - together with the CFO, draft the budget timetable and capture the strategic objectives; manage the annual budget process meeting with senior management and where required investors to draft the annual budget. Update the Forecast on a monthly basis.

Corporate and Other

• Share Options - maintain the Share Options schedule and grant share options every quarter with getting an HMRC valuation.

• Finance Policies - maintain finance policies and update as necessary.

• Ad hoc - support the business and leadership team with ad hoc analysis as required.

• Available to respond to any finance related queries.

Software in use at Sprout.ai

• Xero

• Fathom, for reporting

• Airwallex, for spend management

• Payfit, for payroll, soon to be rolled out.

• Notion, for planning, project management and documentation.

• Slack, for communication.

Requirements

• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

• University degree in a related field.

• At least three years of experience, ideally in an early-stage software environment.

• Strong Excel super-user - confident with vlookups, pivots, consolidation, sumif, etc.

• Commercially aware - comfortable making decisions with the business’ best interests in mind.

• Confident communicator, both verbally and written, with gravitas and ability to lead meetings with senior management.

• High EQ, with a track record of building strong internal and external relationships.

• Structured and focussed, with strong prioritisation skills.

• Deadline-driven with a bias for action.

• Highly autonomous, and able to deliver results with minimal supervision.

About Sprout.ai

Founded in London in 2018, Sprout.ai was born from a simple belief: insurers should be there for policyholders in their time of need. Long delays, manual processes and outdated systems meant customers were often left waiting weeks for outcomes at their most vulnerable moments. We set out to change that.

Today, Sprout.ai is redefining insurance automation for insurers. Acting as the intelligence layer at the heart of operations, we bring advanced AI, digitisation, and data-driven processes to transform how claims and underwriting decisions are made.

Our mission is to make every interaction between insurers and policyholders accurate, fast, and fair, and our vision is to become the world’s most trusted insurance intelligence partner, powering billions of safe, explainable decisions for global insurers.

Sprout.ai integrates seamlessly into existing systems to deliver real-time claims automation and actionable insights, enabling expert teams to focus on complex cases with speed and empathy. Insurers use our platform to overcome legacy challenges, cost pressures, fraud risk, and regulatory demands, achieving tangible results including:

• Up to two-thirds of claims processed automatically

• 99% accuracy

• Significant gains in customer satisfaction and operational efficiency

Backed by leading insurers and recognised with industry awards and ISO 27001 certification, Sprout,ai is the insurance intelligence automation platform injecting insights into claims and underwriting — changing insurance, for good.