? India | Remote | Full-time

? Substantial UK business-hours overlap

? CA / ACA / ACCA or equivalent

? Financial Control | Accounting Operations | International Finance | Finance Systems

? Help build the finance function for Script Assist’s next stage of growth

Script Assist is creating a new Deputy Head of Finance role to add significant senior capacity as we continue to grow, expand internationally and develop into a multi-entity healthcare technology business.

You will work alongside our existing finance leadership , CEO, management team and external advisers, taking substantial responsibility across:

- Financial control
- Accounting operations
- Month-end and year-end
- Management and board reporting
- Statutory accounts, tax and audit
- Finance-team performance
- International and multi-entity finance
- Finance systems and automation
- Process improvement and scalability

This is a broad, senior and hands-on finance role. It is intended for someone who has already operated as a Financial Controller, Head of Finance, Group Financial Controller or equivalent senior finance leader and understands how to run a complete finance and accounting operation.

It is not primarily an FP&A;, commercial-finance or finance-business-partnering position.

You must understand the underlying books, controls and accounting detail—not merely analyse or present financial results.

? About Script Assist

Script Assist is building the operating system for next-generation private healthcare in the UK.

Our software is used by clinics, pharmacies and healthcare operators and already supports tens of thousands of medical cannabis prescriptions every month .

We are expanding into additional private healthcare markets, including:

- ADHD
- Weight management
- Longevity
- Specialist private medicine
- Other complex healthcare categories

We are also preparing for international growth across multiple markets and legal entities. As the business scales, we need a finance function that is:
- Accurate and well controlled
- Capable of closing reliably and on time
- Supported by high-quality management information
- Internationally scalable
- Properly documented
- Efficient and increasingly automated
- Able to support confident decision-making

? The role You will serve as a senior deputy within the finance function, working closely with the existing finance leadership and CEO.

You will help ensure that:

- The underlying books are complete and accurate
- Month-end and year-end close properly and on time
- Balance-sheet accounts are fully reconciled
- Management accounts are reliable
- Revenue is recognised correctly
- Cash is properly understood and controlled
- AP, AR, billing and credit control operate effectively
- Statutory, tax and audit obligations are well managed
- Finance-team work is reviewed to a high standard
- Processes are documented and consistently followed
- Systems are used properly
- Weak or inefficient processes are improved
- The finance function can support international growth

You must be comfortable moving between:

Senior finance leadership

Working with the CEO and management team, improving reporting, supporting decisions and developing the finance operating model.

Detailed financial control

Reviewing reconciliations, investigating balances, challenging incomplete explanations and ensuring that underlying accounting work is correct.

This is not a role where the detail is always somebody else’s responsibility.

? Financial control and month-end

You will take substantial responsibility across:

- Monthly and annual close
- Management accounts




- P&L; review
- Balance-sheet review
- Balance-sheet reconciliations
- Journals
- Accruals and prepayments
- Revenue recognition
- Deferred and accrued revenue
- Cash-flow reporting
- Variance analysis
- Supporting schedules
- Accounting working papers
- Financial controls
- Accounting policies
- Month-end checklists
- Management reporting
- Board reporting

You will help establish clear review standards and ensure that unexplained balances, unsupported journals and incomplete reconciliations are properly resolved. ? Accounting operations

You will work across the complete accounting operation, including:

- General ledger
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Billing and revenue operations
- Credit control
- Bank reconciliations
- Cash management
- Payroll coordination
- Employee expenses
- Supplier and customer accounts
- Bookkeeping quality
- Chart-of-accounts discipline
- Approval controls
- Process documentation
- Accounting timetables
- Review and sign-off procedures

You should understand how every part of the finance operation connects. You must be capable of reviewing the work of accountants, bookkeepers and external providers and identifying where something is incomplete, incorrect or insufficiently controlled.

?️ Statutory accounts, tax and audit

You will help lead and coordinate:

- Statutory accounts
- External audit
- Year-end reporting
- Corporation-tax compliance
- VAT and indirect-tax compliance
- Payroll-related compliance
- Companies House and corporate reporting
- Audit schedules and working papers
- Responses to audit queries
- Implementation of audit recommendations
- Relationships with external accountants
- Relationships with auditors and tax advisers
- International statutory coordination

You do not need to be a specialist in every tax area. However, you must have enough experience to identify risk, challenge advisers and ensure that obligations are completed properly and on time.

? Finance-team leadership

You will work alongside the existing finance leadership to review, support and develop the finance team.

This may include

- Qualified and part-qualified accountants
- Finance managers
- Management accountants
- Bookkeepers
- AP and AR staff
- Billing specialists
- Outsourced accountants
- Payroll providers
- External finance advisers

You will help:
- Set clear standards
- Improve review and sign-off
- Allocate responsibilities
- Establish accountability
- Identify errors and control gaps
- Improve the consistency of team output
- Develop team capability
- Ensure deadlines are met
- Create more reliable and repeatable processes

We are looking for someone who can support colleagues constructively while maintaining exceptionally high standards. ? International and multi-entity finance

Script Assist is preparing to operate across multiple countries and legal entities.

Experience in some of the following would therefore be particularly valuable:

- Multi-entity accounting
- Multi-currency accounting
- Group reporting
- Consolidations
- Intercompany accounting
- Intercompany reconciliations
- Intercompany eliminations
- Overseas subsidiaries
- International month-end
- International payroll coordination




- Overseas statutory reporting
- Group audit
- International advisers
- Central and local finance responsibilities

You do not need to have worked for a large multinational. However, you should understand the additional accounting, systems, reporting and control challenges created by international expansion.

⚙️ Finance systems

Script Assist currently uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central .

Previous experience with Business Central, Dynamics NAV or Navision would be valuable, but it is not essential .

We are more interested in an experienced finance leader who has successfully owned and improved a credible ERP or accounting environment.

Relevant experience may include

- ERP implementation or migration
- Finance-system ownership
- Chart-of-accounts redesign
- Approval workflows
- Reporting improvements
- Data-quality improvements
- Finance integrations
- System controls
- Billing automation
- Reconciliation automation
- Acting as the senior finance-system user

A proven Financial Controller or Head of Finance who has successfully operated other systems should be able to learn Business Central. ? Automation, data and AI

We want someone who is comfortable using technology to improve finance.

Useful experience may include

- Advanced Excel
- Power Query
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- Management-reporting automation
- Reconciliation automation
- Billing automation
- Finance dashboards
- Workflow automation
- No-code and low-code tools
- ERP integrations
- AI-assisted finance workflows
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Microsoft Copilot

The first priority is accurate and controlled finance. However, we also want to build a function that becomes more efficient, scalable and automated as the company grows.

? Management and board reporting

You will work with the CEO, management team and finance colleagues to improve the quality and usefulness of financial information.

This may include

- Monthly management accounts
- Board reporting
- Cash-flow visibility
- Revenue reporting
- Balance-sheet reporting
- Variance explanations
- Entity-level reporting
- Group reporting
- Forecasting and planning
- Operational finance metrics
- Audit and compliance reporting
- International expansion reporting

You must understand the underlying accounting well enough to know whether the information being reported is accurate and complete. ? Relevant previous experience

This role may particularly suit someone currently or previously working as a:

- Financial Controller
- Group Financial Controller
- Head of Finance
- Finance Director within a startup or SME
- Head of Finance Operations
- Head of Accounting
- Deputy Head of Finance
- Senior Finance Manager with end-to-end ownership

Your exact title is less key than the breadth of responsibility you have held. You must have operated at a level where you were personally accountable for:
- Financial control
- Accounting operations
- Month-end and year-end
- Management reporting
- Statutory accounts
- Tax and audit coordination
- Finance systems
- Finance-team output
- Relationships with senior management and external advisers

✅ What we are looking for

You should have

- A full CA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent recognised accountancy qualification
- Approximately 10–20 years of relevant finance and accounting experience
- Previous experience as a Financial Controller, Head of Finance, Group Financial Controller or equivalent senior finance owner
- End-to-end responsibility for a broad finance and accounting operation
- Strong technical accounting and financial-control capability

📌 Deputy Head of Finance – Financial Control & Accounting (India)
🏢 Script Assist
📍 India