As a Finance & Strategy Lead, you'll drive financial planning and analysis, enhance financial processes with AI, and collaborate across departments to support strategic decision-making.
Finance Operations Manager
π Description
- Own day-to-day accounting and coordinate with local partners on month-end close.
- Manage supplier invoices, approvals, payment runs, expenses, and accounts receivable.
- Support payroll and people-cost processes with payroll providers.
- Coordinate VAT and statutory filings with local partners and support year-end audits.
- Implement finance systems, automate manual work, and document processes and controls.
- Support reporting, forecasting, and other finance needs as the company scales.
π οΈ Requirements
- Hands-on accounting skills reflecting your ability to own the ledger, reconciliations, and close
- Solid knowledge of accounting, VAT, and payroll-related rules
- Experience with modern accounting and finance tools, and a genuine interest in automation
- Strong spreadsheet skills and a good attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal English
- A process mindset, you document and systematize rather than solve the same problem twice
- The autonomy to prioritize your own work without detailed instructions, and the appetite to take on more as Validio grows
- Experience with fast-growing startups or SaaS companies, where you wore several hats and thrived
- Experience with finance system implementation and international multi-entity structures
Full job description
Validio's agentic data management platform automates data observability, quality, lineage, and cataloging, helping enterprises trust and use their data at scale for analytics, AI, and reporting. Serving data and AI-driven enterprises globally, Validio enables them to unlock competitive advantage through high-quality data in the AI era. As our Finance Operations Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of Validioβs financial data, while providing the financial insights and operational support needed to drive informed decision-making and business growth.
Your main task will be to keep the finance engine running day-to-day including through accounting, payments, month-end close, and payroll support, whilst also building the systems and processes that let finance scale with a fast-growing Series A company expanding internationally. Reporting to our Head of Finance, you'll be expected to take ownership without waiting for a playbook, paving a path forward for the processes and your role to grow as Validio grows.
What you'll do
Own day-to-day accounting and work closely with local partners to ensure a smooth month-end close
Run the payment flow end-to-end: supplier invoices, approvals, payment runs, and expenses
Manage the accounts receivable process
Support payroll and people costs together with our payroll providers
Together with local partners in our expanding jurisdictions, oversee VAT and statutory filings, and be a key partner to our auditors at year-end
Drive finance system implementations and automate the repetitive manual work out of our processes
Document processes and build controls that keep us aligned, audit-ready without slowing the business down
Support with reporting, forecasting, or wherever finance needs you next as Validio scales
What you'll bring
4+ years in accounting or finance, ideally combining time at an accounting or audit firm with an in-house role at a fast growing company
Hands-on accounting skills reflecting your ability to own the ledger, reconciliations, and close
Solid knowledge of accounting, VAT, and payroll-related rules
Experience with modern accounting and finance tools, and a genuine interest in automation
Strong spreadsheet skills and a good attention to detail
Excellent written and verbal English
A process mindset, you document and systematize rather than solve the same problem twice
The autonomy to prioritize your own work without detailed instructions, and the appetite to take on more as Validio grows
Bonus points for
Experience with fast-growing startups or SaaS companies, where you wore several hats and thrived
Experience with finance system implementation and international multi-entity structures
Why Validio
Founded in Sweden in 2019, Validio is trusted by data-driven enterprises like Nordea, Canva, and Truecaller. Whether clients are prioritising analytics, AI or agents, data quality is becoming the foundation in relation to which everything else is built. As Finance Operations Manager, you will build the finance foundation of the company defining this space.
Come as you are. We hire for what you'll build with us, and we welcome applicants of every background.
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