Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
We're a venture-backed health-tech business on a mission to help people take control of their health, with strong growth behind us and big plans ahead. As we build out our finance function, we're looking for a commercially minded Finance professional to help shape how it operates. Reporting to the Finance Lead, you'll own day-to-day finance and provide support across the business. You'll work closely with our B2B team, a fast-growing side of the business with big expectations ahead. We're a small team that supports each other, but we also need someone who can work independently and take initiative. You'll have real ownership of your work, with the freedom to improve how things are done. This is a role you can make your own, with broad exposure across the business and room to grow, all while doing genuinely meaningful work.

Responsibilities
Run the day-to-day finance function, keeping things accurate, timely, and well-controlled. Own the month-end close and monthly management accounts, including balance sheet reconciliations and revenue recognition. Manage cash flow. Deliver monthly reporting and commercial analysis, including variance analysis and ad hoc deep-dives, to present performance and insight clearly. Partner closely with the B2B team, supporting their finance needs, ensuring on-time payment and no revenue leakage, with revenue reporting at the contract level. Support the budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A cycle, partnering with the Finance Lead on planning and decisions. Manage the annual audit, acting as the main point of contact for auditors and ensuring a smooth close. Build and improve the processes and controls the finance function needs as the business scales. Work across teams to provide insight and support decision-making.

Why Second Nature?
Obesity has become a global epidemic; in the UK, £9 billion a year is spent on diseases like type 2 diabetes (10% of the NHS budget). Most of this is preventable through sustained lifestyle and habit change. Second Nature is here to help people take control of their health by combining behavioural science, technology, and incredible people. Our digital habit change programme, delivered via mobile and web apps, helps people improve their lifestyle, lose weight, and reduce their risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes. We've positively changed the lives of over 250,000 people and are rated 'Excellent' by over 7,000 members on Trustpilot. We are growing quickly and are now a profitable business. We are one of the few consumer health brands commissioned by the NHS and leading health insurer Vitality Health. We are a leading B2C provider of GLP-1 medication-assisted weight loss programmes and one of five NICE-approved providers to deliver these services within the NHS in the future. Our team members stay with us for an average of 4.3 years.

Experience
- Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, and controls
- Proven experience owning a month-end close end-to-end
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experienced in using accounting software (Xero preferred)
- Experience across the FP&A cycle: budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Relevant industry experience in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment

About you
- Takes ownership, spotting what isn’t working and driving it to a better outcome without being asked
- A sharp critical thinker who questions assumptions and digs into the “why”
- Works independently and makes decisions while knowing when to pull in support
- Commercially minded, linking the numbers to what’s happening in the business
- Adaptable, staying effective as priorities shift
- Communicates clearly with finance and non-finance people alike
- Organised and reliable, juggling priorities and hitting deadlines

Qualifications
Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)