Finance Manager

🇬🇧 Up to £65,000 per year, on a full time permanent contract 
🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!   
🏖 33 Days Paid Leave and Benefits
✨ Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports 
💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools 
 

ABOUT US

We have two distinct businesses (but with unified processes), which means real variety in the finance function: 

We’re 200+ people, remote-first, and we operate with startup pace backed by established-company stability. We adopt new tools and ways of working proactively — including AI across the business — and we expect every function to pull its weight there. Finance is no exception. 
Storyteller is our fast-growing SaaS business, enabling companies (think major global sports brands) to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. This brings a different financial profile, product economics and growth-stage dynamics. 

Storm Ideas is a forward-thinking media agency, founded in 2008, working with globally recognised clients across the US TV and entertainment industry. We produce content at scale, deliver operational services, and sit at the intersection of media, technology, and creativity.  

It’s a rare combination that keeps the work interesting and develops a broader skill set than a single-entity role. 
Embracing Future-Facing Technology 

The finance function is changing fast. AI and automation are absorbing the routine work — reconciliations, variance analysis, management account prep — that used to fill most of a finance team’s week. 

We’re not looking for someone who sees that as a threat. We want someone who sees it as an opportunity to spend their time on work that actually moves the business forward: strategic analysis, cash flow optimisation, commercial decision support, and building finance systems that scale without headcount. 

You’ll own the entire finance function across two businesses — a 200+ person media agency with major US entertainment clients and a fast-growing sports focused SaaS platform. You’ll work independently, move quickly, and be expected to automate yourself out of the mundane so you can focus on what matters (this part is key).  Importantly, you won’t be alone – you'll be supported by 2 experienced Finance team members, with some assistance also from our Client Services team. 
What You’ll Do
  
Strategic Finance & Decision Support 

• Surface and give leadership the numbers they need without waiting for month-end 
• Create actionable analysis for the board — not slide decks full of backward-looking charts, but forward-looking insight that drives decisions 
• Own financial strategy with a focus on tax efficiency and long-term fiscal planning 
• Model scenarios for business decisions: new hires, different growth outcomes, client profitability 

Core Finance Operations 

• Ownership of cash flow management and forecasting 
• Manage day-to-day accounting: billing, AP, AR, cost accounting. But the expectation is that you’re automating the repetitive elements, not drowning in them 
• Lead management accounts preparation and ensure reporting accuracy at all times 
• Develop finance policies, internal controls, and compliance that are lean and proportionate to our scale 

Automation, AI & Systems 

• Identify and implement automation across finance workflows — we expect you to be proactively eliminating manual processes, not maintaining them 
• Use AI tools (LLMs, skills, automation platforms) to accelerate reporting, analysis, and routine finance tasks 
• Build scalable, documented processes that don’t depend on you being in the loop for every step

What We're Looking For

• ACA/ACCA qualified with 2+ years’ post-qualification experience 
• Proven ability to work independently and own outcomes — you don’t wait for instructions 
• Comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders and presenting financial analysis to non-finance audiences 
• Demonstrable experience automating or significantly improving finance processes (not just identifying problems — fixing them) 
• Genuine, active engagement with AI and automation tools — we’ll ask you about this in the interview 
• Strong commercial instinct: you understand that finance exists to support business decisions, not to produce reports for the sake of it 
• Ability and aptitude to build basic automations or AI workflows 

Nice to haves

• Experience in a media agency, start up or tech company 
• Experience with high-growth or scaling businesses where processes were being built, optimised and automated, not just maintained 

WHAT WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR 

If you see AI as a fad, prefer manual processes because “that’s how it’s always been done,” or believe the finance function’s primary value is producing retrospective reports — this isn’t the right fit. We need someone who wants to build the future of this function and is genuinely excited by that, not to preserve the past. 
BENEFITS 

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS 

• 33 days’ holiday 
• High end laptop - macOS or Windows! 
• Top of the range monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and gel rests 
• Paid training to further your skills 
• Annual Flu inoculation 

• Up to £700 to spend on a chair, desk or any other necessary workspace equipment to kit out your home office. 
• £750 budget every two years to choose your own mobile phone + monthly mobile contract paid for 
• Enrolment in workplace pension scheme with matched employer contributions 
• Money towards glasses with Specsavers 

AFTER 1 YEAR 

• Access to the Cycle to Work scheme 

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• 30-minute introductory call with Ben, Head of Operations 
• Finance exercise (compensated) designed to assess practical skills and approach 
• Final 1-hour interview with Ben and Louise, CEO of Storm Ideas