Finance Operations Specialist
About the job
- Three to six years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Controlling, FP&A, or a similar environment.
- A solid understanding of core accounting and finance principles.
- Practical experience with accounts receivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, and month-end processes.
- Experience working with accounting systems and financial data.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
- Fluent English.
- Ability to work from the Barcelona office three days per week.
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining sight of the bigger picture.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Take hands-on ownership of the end-to-end month-end closing process.
- Manage invoice processing, supplier reconciliations, coding, and payment runs for accounts payable.
- Oversee invoicing, customer reconciliations, and ageing reports, and take an active approach to collections.
- Manage day-to-day bookkeeping, journals, accruals, prepayments, and deferred revenue or income.
- Perform accurate bank, balance sheet, profit and loss, and general ledger account reconciliations.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements or automation.
- Navigate enterprise resource planning systems and use advanced Excel skills to manipulate, reconcile, and extract value from large datasets.
- Experience working in a multi-entity or international environment is highly desirable.
- Fluent Spanish is highly valued.
- Exposure to variance analysis, management reporting, and tracking finance key performance indicators.
- Exposure to monitoring bank positions, cash forecasting, executing payments, and handling foreign exchange.
- Exposure to financial planning and analysis or annual budgeting processes.
About the company
Cledara helps businesses control and optimize their software subscriptions. It provides a subscription management platform that centralizes SaaS spend, tracks usage, and enforces internal policies. Through detailed analytics and dashboards, companies gain visibility into all subscriptions, enabling cost optimization and better decision-making. The platform supports multiple currencies and working across global teams, with pricing tiers based on users and features. Cledara differentiates itself with end-to-end spend governance, global reach, and a focus on reducing unnecessary SaaS costs while improving operational efficiency. The company aims to help organizations manage software investments more effectively and achieve measurable cost savings.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$24.3M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cledara’s August 2026 blog says AI spend is surging across thousands of vendors.
- The company launched Apple Pay for Spend cards and expanded unified SaaS, travel, business spend.
- July 2026 pricing and hiring updates signal active product monetization and customer acquisition.
What critics are saying
- Ramp, Payhawk, Torii, and Vertice bundle adjacent workflows, compressing Cledara’s pricing power.
- A free API and Apple Pay features strengthen retention, but also commoditize differentiation quickly.
- If spend-management giants absorb SaaS controls, Cledara becomes a feature, not a company.
What makes Cledara unique
- Cledara’s July 2026 API exposes subscriptions, transactions, and invoices across every plan.
- Its virtual-card workflow ties each SaaS subscription to control, cancellation, and accounting.
- September 2026 hiring in London shows it is still building GTM execution.
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Benefits
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Health Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Wellness Program
- Professional Development Budget
- Hybrid Work Options