Finance Transaction Manager (fixed-term contract)

Job Description

Tangle Teezer is a global brand on a simple mission: to give everyone healthier-looking hair with less breakage since 2007. Our gentle brushes are tools for every hair type—from straight to coily—and every routine, helping you go from detangling and blow-drying to styling. Our products are your daily dose of confidence, ready to take on whatever tangles life throws your way.

Tangle Teezer is a proud brand within BIC World, a community of iconic and inventive brands that have created simple, joyful products for over 75 years. As part of BIC World, we're dedicated to reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture thrives on a "roll up your sleeves" mindset, empowering self-starters and innovators to take ownership of their careers and make a meaningful, global impact.

Who are we?

Helping you have healthy hair has been our mane goal since 2007. No matter your hair type – straight, curly, fine, fragile, or coily – our range of gentle brushes will leave you with healthier-looking hair and less breakage. With tools for every stroke of your routine, from massaging to detangling and blow-drying to styling, they’re your daily dose of confidence. So, you can take on whatever tangles life throws your way.

The Role

You will be responsible for leading the organisation’s global financial transaction processes, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash, and intercompany activities. The role ensures that financial transactions are processed accurately, efficiently, and in line with company policies and financial controls. Reporting to the Senior Financial Reporting Manager, the Finance Transaction Manager plays a key role in maintaining strong working capital management, supporting month-end and audit processes, and driving continuous improvement across transactional finance operations.

In this role you’ll get to:

• Lead and oversee global Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant transaction processing.
• Oversee key financial controls including approval of Purchase Orders, resolution of Sales Orders on-hold transactions, and monitoring of transactional compliance.
• Manage and develop the finance transaction team (team of 4), setting clear KPIs, supporting performance development plans, and fostering continuous improvement.
• Manage US and Canada sales tax processes, ensuring accurate application, reporting, and compliance with local tax regulations, with potential involvement in Mexican VAT support where required.
• Manage the month-end close process of debtors, creditors, cash and inventory, including stock analysis reporting and ensuring inventory periods are closed accurately and on schedule.
• Coordinate and support interim audit requirements for transactional finance areas, ensuring documentation and controls are in place.
• Produce and maintain cash flow forecasts and monitor working capital through regular review of aged payables, receivables, and debtor reporting.
• Lead and contribute to finance projects where required, process improvement initiatives, specifically including managing the chargeback project.
• Manage intercompany activities across entities, including invoicing, reconciliations, and resolving cross-entity balances.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders including Finance, Operations, Procurement, and international teams to ensure smooth financial operations.

What we are looking for in you:

• Proven experience managing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions, ideally within a multi-entity or international organisation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting month-end close and financial audit processes.
• Experience leading and developing finance or transactional teams, including setting performance KPIs and managing team development.
• Knowledge of intercompany invoicing processes is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience producing and managing cash flow forecasts and debtor/creditor analysis reports.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and implement process improvements in financial operations.
• Experience working with ERP systems and financial reporting tools to manage high volumes of transactions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across global finance and operational teams.

We know that imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t tick everything on the list — we’d love to hear from you!

What it means to be part of Tangle Teezer:

At Tangle Teezer, being part of our PAC means being Proud, Authentic, and Championing each other every day.

• Proud: We are passionately proud to do things differently, so we perform brilliantly-just like our hair tools.
• Authentic: We welcome everyone as they are, we bring our true selves to work and show up as who we want to be.
• Champion: We are champions of one another, our brand, and our environment.

Join us and embrace these values to help create, innovate, and deliver products that people love—together. To see more about our culture and what makes us unique, click here.

The good Stuff:

For all your hard work and dedication, we have fantastic rewards for you –

• 🕒 Flexible working hours with core hours from 10am to 4pm
• 🏢 Working 2 days in the office and 3 days from home
• 💸 Salary from £55,000
• 🎯Performance-related bonus of 10% based on annual salary
• 🌴 27 days holiday, with the option to buy holiday days
• ❤️ 2 volunteering days per year
• 🌍 10 days working from any location of your choice
• 🎉 Flexible bank holidays—choose the standard bank holidays or swap them for dates that are more meaningful to you
• 💆‍♂️ Free in-office massages
• 👶 Enhanced family policies
• 🌸 Supportive Period & Menopause Policies
• 💼 Enhanced pension scheme
• 🛡️ Life assurance at 4x your salary
• 🏥 Private medical insurance
• 💊 Medical cash plan for everyday healthcare needs
• 🚴‍♀️ Cycle to Work Scheme
• 🎉 Meeting-free Fridays with an early 4:00 pm finish to kickstart your weekend!
• 🐾 Pet friendly office. Bring your furry friend to work with you!

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our hiring process, please let us know at any stage. Ready to join our team? Visit Careers – Tangle Teezer to submit your application.

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.