Sr. Finance & Accounting Manager UK (m/f/d)

• HOLY is the soft drink revolution: With our powdered drinks HOLY Energy®, HOLY Hydration®, and HOLY Iced Tea®, you get amazing taste across 50+ flavors while maintaining a good conscience—for your body & the environment.
• Over 2M loyal customers: Started in a shared apartment by three best friends, we have scaled to Europe's fastest growing consumer brand—and our cult-like community, the HOLY Squad, loves it: 4.6 stars on reviews.io speak for themselves.
• From D2C to Global Omnichannel: In less than four years, we've profitably scaled HOLY to more than €150M D2C revenue in DACH, FR, and the UK. Now scaling our retail business, we're on an exciting transition to becoming a true omnichannel rocketship.
• We are still just getting started: Backed by the world's best consumer investors, we aim to revolutionize the soft drink industry and build a generational love brand: tastier, healthier & more sustainable. Our team of 100+ people aims high (Coca-Cola, we're coming for you!).

HOLY is expanding its footprint in the UK — and fast. With strong momentum across Europe, we’re now establishing our UK entity to support our next stage of growth.

To drive this expansion, we’re looking for a Senior Finance & Accounting Manager UK to lead the setup and ongoing management of our UK finance and accounting operations. You’ll ensure our financial processes are robust, compliant, and scalable — enabling transparent reporting, accurate consolidation, and timely compliance across the group.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Entity and Finance Setup: Lead the setup of the UK finance entity, including banking, accounting, and payment infrastructure. Establish compliant accounting processes aligned with UK GAAP and group standards. Collaborate with legal and external advisors to ensure regulatory alignment during entity setup.
• Financial Operations: You oversee and execute day-to-day accounting operations, including AP/AR, payroll liaison, and reconciliation processes. Ensure timely and accurate month-end closing, including accruals, intercompany reconciliations, and group consolidation. Implement internal controls to ensure process reliability.
• Partner and Tool Management: Manage relationships with external accounting and tax advisors. Oversee and maintain finance systems and tools (e.g., Pathways, PSPs, ERP integrations, AP tools). Drive automation and efficiency across finance processes.
• Intercompany & Consolidation: Manage intercompany transactions, settlements, and reconciliations. Support group consolidation by ensuring accurate reporting between entities. Collaborate with central finance on transfer pricing and internal policies.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure accurate statutory filings, VAT returns, and other tax submissions with the support of advisors. Coordinate with central teams to align reporting, audit, and compliance cycles. Collaborate closely with the group’s central finance team in Germany, ensuring alignment across UK and German accounting principles. Maintain up-to-date financial documentation and audit readiness.
• Strategic Finance Collaboration: Partner with teams across HOLY to improve financial transparency and scalability. Provide insights into financial performance, process improvements, and risk mitigation.

• Financially fluent and technically strong: You have 5+ years in accounting/finance with experience of setting up finance operations from the ground up.
• Cross-border understanding: Experience working with international entities is a plus — ideally with some familiarity with German accounting standards or reporting practices (HGB / German GAAP).
• Process builder: You can design and scale financial operations from the ground up.
• Collaborative and autonomous: You thrive in cross-border collaboration while independently managing UK-specific operations.
• Tech-savvy: You are comfortable with finance systems, ERPs, payment platforms, and consolidation tools.
• Analytical and detail-oriented: You ensure data accuracy and consistency across complex financial processes.
• Proactive communicator: You align stakeholders across finance, legal, and operations.

In today's job market, A-players have many options to choose from. As part of our offer, we prioritise providing a productive working environment and opportunities for growth. In addition to competitive compensation, including company shares, you can expect:

• A successful and growing company: Join a company that has been growing profitable and quickly for the last 36+ months and have just raised a series B, while many other e-commerce companies are struggling.
• Huge impact: Enjoy huge impact to shape HOLY’s internationalisation in a top market.
• Awesome team: Join an awesome team of colleagues who are ambitious, funny, down-to-earth, and authentic. Get to know us and see for yourself!
• Top product: Marketing is important, but a good product is essential. Our differentiated soft drinks have won over customers. Check out our reviews.io reviews or contact us for free samples.
• Startup culture: Join a startup culture that values flat hierarchies, fast pace, and personal development. With us, you can make a real impact.
• Perfect setup: Enjoy a perfect setup that includes all the requirements of a modern employer, such as a remote setup (office in London coming soon), flexible working hours, and much more.
• Competitive comp. + equity: Join us at a pivotal stage of hypergrowth. We offer a strong salary and meaningful equity—giving you the chance to share in our current success and benefit from the massive upside as we scale.
• How we support your growth: flexible hours, 28 vacation days, 30 work-from-abroad days, €1,500 learning budget, Urban Sports Club membership, public transport subsidy, and biannual 360° feedback tied to your compensation.

Find out more about HOLY and our team on our careers page. 

As we are experiencing rapid growth and have ambitious plans, the optimal start date for the position is today. Nonetheless, we are prepared to patiently await the arrival of the ideal candidate, recognizing that quality ultimately yields the best results.

1. Getting to know you: You will have a 30-minute screening interview with Luca our Talent Partner, where you will talk about HOLY, the position, your experience and see if our expectations match.
2. Technical Deep Dive: Get to know our finance setup and dive into your experience with Kai, our CFO.
3. Hiring Manager Interview: You will be meeting Dan, our Head of UK.
4. Case study & Advanced Discussion: As soon as you have successfully completed the first interviews, you will receive a case study to complete at home. After a successful submission, the team will discuss your case study with you and answer questions.
5. Founder interview: As a strong cultural fit is important to us, you will have a final meeting with one of our HOLY Founders. This gives both you and us the opportunity for a final check.
6. Job offer and decision: If everything goes well, you will receive an offer and we are ready to embark you this journey together with you!

Typically his process should take around 2 weeks.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send an email to jobs@weareholy.com.

Holy Energy GmbH (HOLY)
Saarbrücker Str. 37
10405, Berlin

Disclaimer
EN: Holy Energy GmbH is an equal opportunity workplace and is devoted to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. If you have a specific need that requires assistant in the application process, please reach out to our People Team at jobs@weareholy.com.

DE:  Holy Energy GmbH ist ein Arbeitgeber, der Chancengleichheit fördert und sich dafür einsetzt, gleiche Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten unabhängig von Herkunft, Hautfarbe, Abstammung, Religion, Geschlecht, Nationalität, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, Staatsbürgerschaft, Familienstand, Behinderung oder Geschlechtsidentität zu bieten. Wenn du spezielle Bedürfnisse hast, die Unterstützung im Bewerbungsprozess erfordern, wendest du dich bitte an unser People Team unter jobs@weareholy.com.