Finance & Operations Lead

Company Introduction

Hotsourced’s vision is to democratize access to the world’s talent pool. Connecting great employers with great employees across geographic and regulatory boundaries.

Our headhunter and employer-of-record services provide UK companies with easy access to affordable, quality staff around the world.

Hotsourced is a healthy and profitable startup that is not dependent on fundraising for survival.

Operating Principles: How We Work

• Our systems thinking and creative problem-solving ability enable us to design processes and solutions that are a leap ahead of what already exists.
• Our relentless resourcefulness drives us to always do more with less, and continuously improve and iterate these solutions to new heights.
• Our maniacal sense of urgency means that we execute at an extreme pace.
• Our deep caring about our work and the people we do it with drives our empathy, attention to detail and quality of work. We never leave a stone unturned, or mediocrity in our work. Through this, we finish each day able to take intense pride in our work.
• We collaborate and support each other to team success. We never leave a teammate or user behind. Our sum is greater than our parts. And the collective is always more important than the individual.

Role Introduction

Joining as our first dedicated finance hire, you will take full ownership of the company’s financial operations across multiple entities (UK parent company, Indian and South African subsidiaries, and future entities).

You will work very closely with our founder, Andrew Browning, to build and scale a finance function that is accurate, efficient, and designed to scale.

This is not a traditional finance role. Alongside running core finance operations, you will be responsible for designing systems, automations, and processes that eliminate manual work and enable the business to scale without adding unnecessary headcount.

You will act as both a finance lead and a general operator, taking ownership of problems across the business and driving them to resolution.

With this wide scope of responsibilities, you will gain deep exposure to how a global, multi-entity business is built and scaled from an early stage.

Responsibilities - What you’ll be doing:

Financial Operations

• Own accounts receivable end-to-end, including invoice creation, accuracy, and payment collection
• Manage accounts payable, including approval and processing of payments
• Oversee and approve payroll across multiple entities, ensuring accuracy and alignment with invoicing
• Ensure all tax filings and statutory payments are completed accurately and on time
• Maintain accurate financial records and ensure clean, auditable data across all entities
• Maintain alignment between intercompany accounts across all entities
• Ensure accurate recording and reconciliation of intercompany transactions
• Support the development of a clean, scalable multi-entity financial structure

Accountant & Partner Management

• Coordinate and manage external accountants across the UK, India, and South Africa
• Standardise reporting outputs, timelines, and data formats across all entities
• Act as the single point of ownership for all finance-related external relationships
• Ensure accountability and performance from all external partners

Financial Reporting & Forecasting

• Build and maintain clear, accurate monthly reporting
• Track and report on key metrics, including gross vs net revenue, margins, and cash position
• Develop and maintain financial forecasts, including cash flow and hiring impact
• Support decision-making through clear, actionable financial insights

Systems, Automation & Product Development

• Lead the design and implementation of finance systems and automations that enable the business to scale efficiently without adding unnecessary headcount
• Lead the documentation of finance and operational processes, creating SOPs
• Integrate our platform with Xero to automate invoicing and reduce manual work
• Design and implement automated workflows for payroll, invoicing, and financial data capture
• Define and maintain a single source of truth across systems
• Work closely with the product team to design and build new features within our platform that support finance operations
• Continuously identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency through tooling and automation

Broader Operations

• Take ownership of operational problems beyond finance and drive them to resolution
• Improve internal processes across the business
• Support vendor selection, tooling decisions, and operational scaling efforts

Requirements - What you’ll need to succeed:

• Be a systems thinker and creative problem solver
• Very strong intrinsic desire and ability to drive continual process improvement
• Highly resourceful
• Very strong sense of urgency
• Strong organisational skills
• Deep sense of caring toward your work and the people you do it with
• Eagerness to collaborate with others with an orientation for team success over individual
• Fluent level of written and verbal English
• Highly detail-oriented
• Strong operational mindset with the ability to own and solve problems end-to-end
• Ability to design, build, and improve systems and processes
• Strong understanding of finance operations (accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, reporting)
• Comfort working across multiple entities and jurisdictions
• Minimum 4 years experience in finance
• Experience implementing significant automation and systems within the finance function
• Minimum 2 years experience in a startup or high-growth environment
• Experience working with international businesses or multi-entity structures (preferred)
• Experience with tools such as Xero or similar accounting systems (preferred)

Pay & Bonuses - What you’ll get in return:

• Gross annual salary - India: 12 – 18 LPA
• Company laptop provided
• 15 days annual leave + public holidays
• Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling business
• Be part of a fun, dynamic team and work environment

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 08:00 - 17:00 UK ( 13:30 - 22:30 IST)

Development & Progression

• Progress to Head of Finance within 18–24 months depending on performance (tied to key performance indicators)
• Progress to Director / CFO-level role as the business scales, depending on performance
• Work with the founder to define and achieve your own progression goals and targets