Heirloom Fair Legal
Finance Manager
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Heirloom Fair Legal Finance (www.hflfinance.com) provides bespoke financing solutions to regulated professional services, including law firms and insolvency practitioners. Using technology, data and highly efficient processes, we underwrite high-volume, lower-value collateral that traditional lenders often cannot serve economically. Backed by a family office, we benefit from a stable, long-term capital base rather than be beholden to fundraising cycles. Our team collectively has over 100 years of experience in legal services, specialty finance and investment management. As we continue to grow our lending platform and investment vehicles, we are seeking an exceptional, tech-forward finance professional to lead a best-in-class finance function.
Role Summary
This role combines strategic leadership and hands-on execution. Supported by a Bookkeeper, you will own the finance function across two UK operating companies, a US holding company and Cayman/Luxembourg investment entities, delivering monthly statutory accounts, business unit reporting, budgeting, treasury, cash flow forecasting and statutory compliance, while partnering closely with the investment team on portfolio reporting, new transactions and strategic initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys using technology to build a scalable finance infrastructure in a high-growth specialty private credit business.
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Key Responsibilities
Monthly Reporting
- Own the monthly close and prepare accurate management accounts across all group entities.
- Produce board / executive committee packs including KPIs, financial commentary, business unit profitability, budgets and variance analysis.
- Prepare budgets, rolling forecasts, scenario modelling and long-term financial planning.
Bookkeeping and Accounting
- Manage and develop the Bookkeeper, reviewing reconciliations, journals, payroll inputs and ledgers.
- Prepare and file regulatory and tax filings, coordinating with external advisers on annual income tax filings and audits.
- Prepare and issue invoices.
- Maintain robust balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset, accrual, prepayment and intercompany schedules.
Payments and Treasury Management
- Own treasury, liquidity management, payment entering and approvals and rolling cash flow forecasts.
Systems and Controls
- Implement finance automation, AI-enabled workflows, dashboards and improved management information.
Strategic
- Work collaboratively with legal, operations and investment teams to improve commercial decision-making.
- Build a scalable finance function capable of supporting significant growth in financing deployment.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
- 5-10+ years' experience in financial control, management accounting or finance leadership, including 3-5+ years in an investment or investment management company.
- Experience managing multiple legal entities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Excellent management accounting, forecasting, budgeting and treasury skills.
- Strong Excel and financial modelling capability.
- Experience with Xero or comparable cloud accounting systems.
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Highly Desirable
- Experience with private credit, structured finance, or specialty lending investment portfolios.
- Track record of improving finance systems, controls and automation, particularly through the intelligent adoption of technology.
Personal Attributes
- Commercially minded with strong project/time management skills.
- Hands-on, proactive and comfortable operating in a fast-growing entrepreneurial business.
- Excellent communicator capable of explaining financial information to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Naturally curious with a continuous improvement mindset.
- High integrity, ownership and attention to detail.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to shape the finance function of an ambitious specialty finance platform.
- Exposure to private credit, investment management and complex financing structures.
- Meaningful influence over strategic decisions and business growth.
- Competitive salary up to £100K (DOE), performance bonus and long-term career progression.
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