Financial Controller

About Heidi

Heidi was born to make it easy for more and more people to discover the power of the mountains. We burst onto the ski holiday market in 2018 (formerly known as Ski Zoom) and have seen exponential growth.

The company came from a desire to fix the lack of flexibility in the winter ski market. We help skiers and mountain lovers discover resorts that are hidden gems alongside the classics, and our clever tech is helping them to do it in a way that suits them best. We're a youthful, challenger brand, with an awesome culture, and we're shaking up a very traditional ski/mountain holiday industry.

Looking to the future, we have huge ambitions for growth. We have grown year on year since 2018 and expect 2026 to be our biggest yet. In that time we came 63rd in the Times top 100 fastest growing UK companies, secured £5.6 million investment and just had our most successful season ever. Key to our future success is also growing the Heidi team with even more brilliant people than we have now.

So we are looking for someone who will be fundamental to the success of our vision and is excited to help us drive that forward.

We're looking for a Financial Controller who can own the numbers end to end, the month-end close, cashflow forecasting, statutory audit, and the controls and systems that let a fast-growing business scale without losing its grip. You'll be the person owning the production of a clean set of management accounts in a timely manner and then sit with a budget holder to explain what the numbers actually mean for their decisions.

You'll lead a team of five covering day-to-day transactional finance, and report directly to Adam, our Finance Director. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role in a business that treats finance as a driver of good decisions, not just a scorekeeper.

• Month-end close and board reporting — own the month-end close, overseeing the team who produce the monthly management accounts, and lead board reporting to deadline. Be the single owner of "are the numbers right, and are they on time".
• Technical accounting and statutory accounts — be Heidi's technical accounting authority. Own accounting policy, the year-end statutory accounts under FRS 102, and make judgement calls on complex areas as they arise.
• Revenue recognition — own the revenue accounting, agent vs principal treatment, deferred revenue on future departures, and supplier accruals. Get this right, keep it right, and keep it audit-ready.
• Tax and regulatory compliance — own VAT (including TOMS), corporation tax and industry-specific reporting to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Manage the relationships with our stakeholders and advisors.
• Cashflow, treasury and financing — scale and own our cashflow forecasting model and process, manage banking relationships and day-to-day treasury, oversee foreign currency hedging, and run covenant testing and lender reporting to keep us compliant with our financing arrangements.
• Financial planning and analysis — raise the bar on our planning and forecasting, partnering with operational budget holders. Turn in-depth analysis of performance, variances and trends into insight stakeholders can act on and support investor reporting and future fund raises.
• Finance systems, automation and controls — own process automation and finance system improvements to enhance scalability, and build out the financial controls environment as we grow. Our finance stack is a big priority and this role leads its evolution.
• Team leadership — line manage five direct reports, ensuring the day-to-day transactional processes run accurately and to deadline through them. Set clear development plans and be a calm, decisive point of escalation for the wider finance function.

• The month-end close is faster, cleaner and more predictable than it was when you arrived.
• Budget holders come to you because your analysis helps them make better decisions, not just because they have to.
• Cashflow is forecast with confidence, and surprises are rare because you saw them coming.
• Manual, fragile processes are steadily replaced with automated, scalable ones — the finance stack keeps…