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Finance Manager (£107,000–£145,000) at Apolloresearch
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Finance Manager
Salary: £107,000–£145,000
Company Description
Apolloresearch.ai is a leading AI safety organization focused on detecting and mitigating deceptive behavior in frontier models. With a growing team of 35 based in London and Europe, they partner with frontier AI labs to shape global safety standards and are currently expanding their footprint to San Francisco.
Job Description
As the second finance hire at Apolloresearch.ai, you will own the end-to-end financial operations and accounting function. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll split your time between hands-on transactional processing and building a best-in-class, AI-automated finance department from scratch to support rapid international scaling and critical safety research.
Location: London, UK
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Why this role is remarkable
- Unique opportunity to build a finance function from first principles without legacy constraints, leveraging an AI-native tech stack and automated agents.
- Compensation is benchmarked to Bay Area rates, offering significant upside and a clear career path toward Financial Controller as the organization scales.
- Join a mission-critical AI safety organization working directly with frontier labs during a period of rapid growth and international expansion into the US.
What You Will Do
- Manage day-to-day financial operations including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, supplier payments, and customer invoicing for a multi-entity, multi-currency group.
- Execute a fast, high-quality monthly close within five working days, producing multi-dimensional management accounts and 13-week cash flow forecasts with scenario analysis.
- Architect and automate manual finance workflows using AI tools and agents to ensure the function scales efficiently ahead of business growth.
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The ideal candidate
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA) with at least two years of post-qualification experience at a small UK company or high-growth startup.
- Proven track record of personally running end-to-end monthly closes and producing management accounts with a focus on balance-sheet-first accounting and transactional accuracy.
- Systems-oriented thinker with advanced spreadsheet skills and experience with cloud ledgers like Xero, Rillet, or Campfire in a high-growth environment.
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