Our Financial Operations Officer is responsible for managing the core day-to-day financial processes of the business, ensuring accuracy, control, and efficiency across all operational finance activities. This role plays a key part in maintaining robust financial processes while providing operational insight to aid decision-making and budgetary control across the business.
This is a hands-on position requiring strong attention to detail, ownership of key financial processes, and the ability to work cross-functionally with non-finance stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Transactional Finance

• Manage the end-to-end Accounts Payable function, including invoice processing, payment runs and supplier management
• Support Accounts Receivable by assisting with invoice preparation, collections, and credit control to optimise cash inflows and minimise aged debt
• Administer and maintain strong control over the Purchase Order (PO) process, working closely with budget holders to ensure proper authorisation and alignment with budgets

Cash and Banking

• Perform regular bank reconciliations, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and discrepancies investigated and resolved
• Manage banking administration, including payment uploads
• Support effective cashflow management through management of pay run preparation

Financial Control and Compliance

• Assist with VAT returns, ensuring accurate reporting and timely submission in line with HMRC requirements
• Support broader compliance activities, including statutory account preparation
• Ensure adherence to internal policies, accounting standards, and regulatory obligations

Reporting and Business Support

• Provide operational finance insight, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to improve financial performance
• Support monthly reporting processes, including preparation of operational reports and variance analysis
• Assist with departmental budgeting, working with budget holders to track spend against budget and highlight variances

Employee Expenses and Cards

• Review and reconcile staff expense claims, ensuring compliance with company policies and accurate posting
• Manage and reconcile corporate credit cards, ensuring completeness, appropriate coding, and timely resolution of discrepancies

Requirements

Essential Skills & Attributes

• Experience in a similar financial operations / finance officer role in an SME environment
• Strong knowledge of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliation
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Proficient using Microsoft excel

Desirable Skills

• Experience using accounting systems (e.g. Xero, Sage, NetSuite or similar)
• Experience using Lightyear or similar accounts payable platforms
• Confident communicator with the ability to work with non-finance stakeholders
• History working in the technology industry

Benefits

About Base Media Cloud
Cloud Native Media Services | Reimagining workflows in the cloud 
Base Media Cloud is on a mission to democratize cloud services for all businesses helping them to store, process and manage content at scale with integrated online media solutions. Base Media Cloud’s one provider model offers affordable cloud storage, media asset management, and media workflow integrations. Each solution includes tailored support strengthened with ISO27001-certified security practices at every layer. We enable our customers to centralize, secure and efficiently index media files in one content hub. 
Base Media Cloud provides award-winning cloud services to a range of clients across multiple industries, including global online video brands like LADbible Group, cutting-edge sports podcasts such as High Performance, and prestigious film and broadcast studios such as Twickenham Film Studios and Narrative Entertainment.  
The culture at Base Media Cloud is a core aspect of the business. The following values underpin the day-to-day working culture at the company: 

• We are bold. 
• We are honest. 
• We are empathetic.
• We are collaborative.
• We are curious. 

Benefits   

• Employer Pension Scheme (we match your pension contributions at 5% every month) 
• Life Assurance Scheme  
• Staff Savings Benefits Scheme 
• 25 days holiday + Public Holidays 
• Experienced training for ongoing professional development  

Base Media Cloud is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, ethnic origin, disability, age or political or religious belief in its recruitment or other employment policies.