Second Nature
Management Accountant - High-Growth Health Tech Start-up (London)
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Finance Business Partner (Commercial Finance) – Second Nature
About the Role
We’re a venture-backed health-tech business on a mission to empower people to take control of their health. As we grow aggressively, we’re building out our finance function and seeking a commercially driven Finance professional to shape its future direction.
Reporting to the Finance Lead, you’ll take ownership of day-to-day finance operations and provide support across the business. Your role requires close collaboration—especially with our rapidly expanding B2B team, whose ambitions are as bold as our trust is in them.
This is a small but impactful team, where autonomy means you’ll directly shape processes and outcomes, unshackled by bureaucracy. You’ll thrive on innovation, gaining broad exposure as the business scales and enhancing decision-making with data-driven rigor.
Responsibilities
Your role balances operational reliability with strategic growth, ensuring financial performance aligns with Second Nature’s mission. Key priorities include:
- Day-to-day finance operations
- Maintain accuracy, timeliness, and robust controls across finance systems.
- Forecasting and compliance
- Lead the month-end close, including balance sheet reconciliations, revenue recognition, and management accounts.
- Partner with the B2B team—a core growth driver—to ensure timely payments, no revenue leakage, and detailed contract-level reporting.
- Analysis and reporting
- Deliver monthly updates and ad hoc commercial insights, such as variance analysis and performance deep-dives, to support decision making.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A, collaborating with the Finance Lead to refine financial planning.
- Audit and accounting governance
- Act as the primary internal contact for annual audits, ensuring alignment and smooth execution.
- Process optimisation
- Continuously improve finance workflows, metrics, and controls for a scalable, efficient function.
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Requirements
Cultural Fit
The ideal candidate embodies:
- Ownership mindset: Anticipates challenges and proactively drives improvements without being asked.
- Critical thinking: Questions assumptions and probes into the "why" behind metrics.
- Independence: Confident to play an autonomous role yet knows when to collaborate.
- Commercial acumen: Connects financial numbers to real business impact (e.g., B2B growth, operational efficiency).
- Adaptability: Thrives in evolving priorities, divides focus accordingly.
- Clarity of communication: Bridges finance and operational teams with precision.
Technical Skills & Experience
Strong candidates will have:
- Qualification: Part- or fully qualified accountant (preferably ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
- Accounting expertise: Deep understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles, and control frameworks.
- Month-end process: Proven ability to execute and own the end-to-end close process efficiently.
- Excel proficiency: Advanced expertisation (e.g., lookup functions, data modelling, macros).
- Software experience: Working knowledge of accounting platforms, ideally Xero.
- FP&A exposure: Experience across budget forecasting, variance analysis, and business modelling.
- Startup/scale-up context: Familiarity with fast-moving environments, a competitive edge in planning and manage operations.
Why Second Nature?
The Challenge
- Obesity and lifestyle-related diseases cost the UK £9 billion annually—10% of NHS budget.
- The irony? Most of these conditions are preventable through consistent habit change.
- Our mission: Reduce the global epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases using behavioural science, technology, and technology.
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We’re Not Hypothetical
- Transformed 250,000+ lives across UK, US, and Europe through our digital habit change programme.
- Garnered 7,000+ 5-star Trustpilot reviews from members who’ve achieved sustainable improvements.
- Trading revenue 3× faster than at our last fund-raise, while hitting clinical outcomes (e.g., reduced BMI, stabilized blood sugar) that rival major policy successes.
Impact on the NHS/Social Sector
- One of the few commercial health brands commissioned by the NHS; partnering with Vitality Health.
- NICE-approved provider for GLP-1 medication-assisted weight loss, slated to scale further within NHS pathways.
Team Culture Highlights
- Employee tenure: 4.3 years (on average), meaning people invest for the long haul.
- Profitability: Early but sustainable growth—Driving atraction reaches the NH fiscal payer gap of inequities.
Benefits
- Competitive rewards: Market-align salary + generous share options, paired with semi-annual performance reviews.
- Flexibility: Hybrid model—3 days remote, 2 days in our West London office.
- Holiday: 25 days (excluding bank holidays).
- Development: £200 yearly budget for professional upskilling.
- Wellness: Salary sacrifice & Cycle-to-Work schemes to support health goals.
- Community: Quarterly in-person outings and socials for team-building.
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