OneClickComply®
Finance Manager (Part-Time)
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Part-time (0.5 FTE) | Sunderland (office-based) | £44,000 FTE — £22,000 actual | Reporting to the CFO
About Us
OneClickComply is changing how businesses think about cybersecurity compliance. We've built a platform that automates the hard parts — technical control implementation, policy generation, continuous monitoring, and real-time audit evidence — so that achieving ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials, and CIS v8 takes weeks instead of months.
We're a multimillion-pound startup, backed and growing fast, based in Sunderland. Small team, no hierarchy, no red tape. We've reached the point where the numbers matter too much to be handled around the edges of everyone else's day job — which is exactly why this role exists.
The Opportunity
This is our first dedicated finance hire, reporting directly to the CFO.
Until now our financial operations have been split between external accountants and people doing it on top of their real jobs. That works until it doesn't — and we've outgrown it. We're looking for someone to take full ownership of the day-to-day finance function and run it properly: clean ledgers, accurate records, invoices out on time, cash in on time, and a CFO who can spend his time on strategy rather than reconciliations.
This is a part-time role and we mean it. 0.5 FTE at a full-time-equivalent salary of £44,000, so £22,000 actual. We're flexible on how those hours are structured — school hours, compressed days, or spread across the week. What matters is that the work is done accurately and on schedule, not when you're sat at a desk.
You'll get real autonomy from day one, direct access to the CFO, and visibility into how a venture-backed company actually runs its finances — from grant claims and investor reporting through to board packs. As the company scales, this role scales with it.
What You'll Be Doing
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Owning the ledgers
- Run the purchase and sales ledgers end to end
- Maintain complete, accurate financial records in Xero
- Keep supplier accounts and subscription spend controlled and correctly coded
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Reconciliation and controls
- Own bank, company card, and petty cash reconciliations
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies rather than carrying them forward
- Build and improve the finance processes and controls we don't yet have
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VAT and compliance
- Own preparation and submission of VAT returns
- Act as our point of contact with HMRC
- Keep us audit-ready and on top of our filing obligations
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Month-end and year-end
- Run month-end close with CFO review
- Prepare accruals, prepayments, and supporting schedules
- Work alongside our external accountants to make statutory reporting painless
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Credit control
- Own credit control end to end — chasing, escalation, and correspondence
- Keep aged debtors tight and flag risk early
- Build professional, constructive relationships with client finance contacts
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Reporting and insight
- Produce management reporting and financial analysis for the CFO and leadership team
- Support board reporting, investor updates, and Innovate UK grant claims
- Help us understand not just what the numbers are, but what they're telling us
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Working across the business
- Liaise with clients, suppliers, and external advisors
- Support the leadership team with ad hoc finance projects
- Be the person the rest of the business comes to with a finance question
What We're Looking For
Above all else: accuracy, reliability, and discretion. You'll own the company's financial records and handle information almost nobody else in the business sees. We need someone who gets it right first time and hits deadlines without being chased.
Essential
- Solid hands-on finance experience — ledgers, reconciliations, VAT, credit control, month-end
- Genuinely meticulous attention to detail and strong numeracy
- Good working knowledge of Excel — formulas, lookups, and building a clean, reliable spreadsheet
- Confidence working independently — this is an ownership role, not a task-completion one
- Strong written and verbal communication — you'll deal with clients, suppliers, and HMRC
- Complete discretion with confidential financial information
- Local to our Sunderland office, or within comfortable commutable distance
Desirable
- AAT qualified, part-qualified, or actively studying — equally happy with qualified by experience
- Experience with Xero
- Previous experience in an SME, startup, or standalone finance role
- Any exposure to grant claims, investor reporting, or board packs
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Why Join Us
- First dedicated finance hire, reporting straight to the CFO — real ownership, not a pair of hands
- Part-time hours that are actually respected, with flexibility on how you structure them
- Exposure to venture-backed finance: investor reporting, grant claims, board packs
- Study support if you're working towards AAT or beyond
- A role that grows as the finance function does
- No red tape, no death by committee
Salary & Benefits
- £44,000 full-time equivalent — £22,000 actual at 0.5 FTE, plus a package well beyond what you'd expect from a company our size.
Equity
- Part of our stocks and share options pool (10% of the company), allocated on seniority and impact
Health and wellbeing
- 24/7 GP appointments and prescriptions for you and your family
- Unlimited telephone, face-to-face, and video counselling
- Virtual physiotherapy and unlimited eye testing
- Virtual gym classes and discounted memberships at over 3,600 locations including PureGym, David Lloyd, and Nuffield Health
- Subsidised health insurance through BHSF from £6.21 a month
- Dedicated care and special needs support
- 25% off 24/7 video vet consultations through Vetster
Generous time off (pro-rata)
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total)
- 10 days company sick leave
- Paid day off on your birthday
- Paid pet bereavement leave
- Half day for your child's first day at school
- Additional discretionary leave when life requires flexibility
Financial perks
- Over 4,000 retail discounts and 40% off cinema tickets
- Free 24/7 legal advice from Irwin Mitchell
- Personal finance and debt advice through Auriga
- Entry to our monthly £1,000 lottery
- Charity fundraising matched up to £250
- Up to £250 towards driving lessons after your first year
- Interest-free loans for travel passes and crisis support
Day-to-day extras
- Unlimited free tea, coffee, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages in the office
- Monthly team meal at a restaurant voted on by the team, fully on us
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