Accounting & Treasury Director

Role: Accounting & Treasury Director

Location: DFYNE HQ, 1 Forrest Gate, Uddingston, G71 5PG

Work Location: Onsite

About You:

Are you someone who thrives on building strong financial foundations while helping a business scale with confidence? Do you enjoy combining technical accounting expertise with commercial judgement, ensuring financial reporting is accurate, controls are robust, and cash and liquidity are effectively managed? Are you equally comfortable leading month-end and year-end processes, strengthening governance frameworks, managing treasury operations, partnering with senior stakeholders, and diving into complex accounting or cash-management challenges when needed?

If you're a hands-on leader who can balance strategic thinking with operational delivery, influence at a senior level, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, DFYNE may be the place for you!

About DFYNE:

A picture paints a thousand words… and we’re sure you don’t want to be sat here reading an essay of corporate “about us” spiel…. Seriously, how’re you able to really get under the skin of what we’re about from a few words on a screen. So why don’t you have a look and see what we’re all about for yourself - www.dfyne.com.

About the role – DFYNE Your Career:

First off, it’s best I introduce myself (person behind the keyboard here), it’s not the norm on a job role spec, but I feel it’s important you get introduced to who you may be working with for a long time early on. I’m Luca, Chief Financial Officer here at DFYNE. I’m looking for someone who is going to join the senior finance leadership team and take ownership of the accounting, control and treasury agenda across the business.

You'll lead accounting, treasury and finance operations, providing confidence in the numbers, strengthening controls, improving processes and supporting key business decisions. Working across the wider business, you'll help build a scalable, high-performing finance function fit for DFYNE's next stage of growth.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Accounting & Reporting:

• Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.

• Oversee the general ledger, chart of accounts and overall financial reporting framework.

• Ensure accurate accounting across revenue, inventory, cost of sales, margins, payroll, fixed assets, leases and international operations.

• Produce and review monthly management accounts, balance sheets, cash flow reports

• Maintain strong balance sheet controls and reconciliations

• Develop and enhance accounting policies, processes and controls to support business growth.

• Partner with FP&A to ensure reporting, forecasting and financial data remain accurate, aligned and trusted

2. Treasury, Cash & Liquidity:

• Own cash flow, liquidity planning and treasury operations, ensuring effective management of working capital and funding requirements.

• Develop and maintain cash flow forecasts, providing visibility of cash position, risks and future funding needs.

• Manage banking relationships, treasury controls, account structures and payment approvals.

• Optimise cash management across entities, currencies and international operations.

• Oversee working capital performance across inventory, receivables, payables, taxes and customer refunds.

• Manage FX exposure and support risk management strategies.

• Support financing activities, lender reporting and capital structure decisions.

• Maintain robust controls over intercompany funding, cash movements, payment security and fraud prevention.

3. Finance Control, Government & Risk:

• Own and enhance the financial control framework to support business growth

• Establish and maintain clear financial control standards across reconciliations, approvals, payments, purchasing, and banking.

• Strengthen and monitor controls across core finance processes, including revenue, procurement, inventory, payroll, treasury, and reporting.

• Support corporate governance requirements and provide reporting on financial controls, compliance, and risk to senior leadership and the Board.

4. Audit, Statutory Reporting & Compliance:

• Lead the annual external audit process and act as the primary contact for auditors, ensuring an efficient and high-quality audit.

• Manage the preparation of statutory accounts, financial disclosures, and regulatory filings across all entities.

• Maintain audit-ready financial records, documentation, and accounting papers

• Support the CFO and legal advisers on entity governance, company secretarial matters and the financial aspects

5. Inventory, Margin & E-commerce Accounting

• Own and strengthen the accounting and control framework for inventory across warehouses, fulfilment partners, goods in transit, and returns.

• Stock quantities and values reconcile across operational systems, third-party logistics providers, and the general ledger.

• Oversee inventory costing, landed costs, duties, freight, provisions, write-downs, shrinkage, and stock adjustments.

• Strengthen controls across purchasing, goods received, supplier invoicing, credit notes, and payment approvals.

• Ensure reliable accounting for online sales, payment gateways, refunds, chargebacks, gift cards, discounts, and promotions.

6. Finance Operations:

• Lead day-to-day finance operations across accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, and payroll.

• Establish clear service standards, ownership, and performance measures across core finance processes.

• Ensure supplier payments, customer receipts, refunds, commissions, expenses, and payroll-related processes are accurate, controlled, and timely

• Ensure the finance team delivers a responsive and efficient service to the wider business.

7. Systems, Data & Process Improvement:

• Own the finance systems and process roadmap across accounting, treasury, reporting, and transactional operations

• Improve integration between ERP, e-commerce, payment, inventory, banking, payroll, and reporting tools

• Strengthen data governance, access controls, and ownership of finance systems and drive automation and standardisation

8. Senior Leadership & Decision Support:

• Act as a trusted adviser to the CFO, providing guidance on accounting, controls, liquidity, and financial risk.

• Support strategic and commercial decision-making by assessing financial, control, and cash flow implications.

• Communicate complex accounting and treasury matters clearly and commercially

• Support strategic projects, business expansion, and corporate transactions from an accounting, treasury, and governance perspective.

9. Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead, develop and mentor the financial accounting, treasury, and finance operations teams

• Create clear accountability, objectives, and service expectations across the function

• Create a culture of accuracy, continuous improvement and accountability

• Collaborate with Finance leadership to build a high-performing and cohesive finance function.

• Develop team capability, technical expertise, succession plans and cross-functional resilience.

Attitude:

• Hands-on and proactive in resolving challenges and driving outcomes.

• Calm and confident in fast-paced, evolving environments.

• Pragmatic in balancing risk, governance, and pace.

• Improvement-focused

• Strong people leader

• Resilient and adaptable

Skills:

• Technically rigorous with a strong focus on accuracy, integrity, and high standards.

• Commercially grounded

• Strong people leader

• Forward-thinking

Experience Needed:

• Significant financial accounting and controls experience, ideally within a high-growth consumer, retail, e-commerce, fashion, FMCG, or similarly fast-paced environment.

• Experience operating at senior management level and providing confidence to CFO, executive and Board

• Strong technical accounting expertise, with experience applying accounting policies in complex or scaling businesses.

• Demonstrable ownership of month-end, year-end, statutory reporting, and external audit processes.

• Strong treasury capability, including cash forecasting, liquidity management, banking, foreign exchange, and working capital.

• Strong finance systems expertise, including ERP, treasury, consolidation, and finance workflow tools

• Proven experience of finance transformation, process automation, and improving data quality

• Experience leading and developing high-performing accounting and finance operations team

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• The ability to move comfortably between strategic leadership and detailed technical or operational problem-solving

So, what’s in it for You?

If you’ve made it this far down without being put off, brilliant, I’d love to hear from you. Besides a work family and a great place to work, you’ll have an opportunity to grow with the company, be a part of the journey, and have a vital input into helping continue the crazy growth we’ve already seen.

You’ll be part of a high challenge, high reward culture.

What will aid a successful application with DFYNE?

• Cover letter

• Completed questionnaire

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave

• Casual dress

• Company events

• Employee discount

• Flexitime

• Free parking

• On-site parking

• Sick pay

• Unlimited paid holidays

• Free on-site gym

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Uddingston, G71 5PG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Salary

• Starting from £110,000 annually.

Equality and diversity monitoring:

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