by Cara Lewis | Feb 23, 2026
Aberdeen (Hybrid) | Full-time, Permanent | Market-leading Salary + Excellent Benefits
Are you a hands-on Management Accountant who enjoys owning the full finance function?
Do you want to be part of a small, growing technology business where your work genuinely shapes decisions and supports growth?
What’s here for you?
DDK Positioning is a specialist technology company delivering innovative positioning and navigation solutions to the oil & gas and space sectors. We work with high-profile partners and operate with a compact, agile team where everyone has visibility and influence.
This is an opportunity to join a small but ambitious business at a key stage of its growth. As our Management Accountant, you won’t be tucked away in a large finance team – you’ll work closely with multiple departments in the business, as well as working directly with the CEO, Finance Director, and Operations Director, and playing a central role in how DDK plans, invests, and scales.
What’s the role?
This is a full-time, permanent role based in Aberdeen, with hybrid working (2–3 days per week in the office). The position holds responsibility for the complete financial operations of the business. You’ll take ownership of management accounts, forecasting, statutory reporting, and day-to-day finance operations, while supervising the Bookkeeper. This is not a pure compliance role – you’ll be expected to provide meaningful financial insight, support scenario modelling, and help identify opportunities for process improvement and cost efficiencies as the business grows.
Key responsibilities include:
- Financial reporting
- Preparing accurate and timely monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations
- Producing financial reports for senior management, the Board, and external stakeholders
- Assisting with annual statutory accounts in collaboration with external accountants
- Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements
- Managing Companies House administration
- Financial operations & control
- Overseeing customer invoicing and managing debtors
- Managing monthly payment runs, payroll, and P11D reporting
- Submitting quarterly VAT returns via Xero
- Maintaining the Xero trial balance and strong internal controls
- Identifying opportunities for cost efficiencies and process improvements
- Forecasting, analysis & collaboration
- Maintaining and enhancing financial forecasting and cash-flow models
- Supporting scenario modelling for strategic decision-making
- Updating dashboards covering KPIs and financial performance
- Supervising and supporting the Bookkeeper
- Acting as the primary finance contact across the business, communicating clearly with non-finance stakeholders
Who are we looking for?
You’ll be motivated by working in a small, fast-moving environment where you’re trusted to take ownership and manage priorities independently. Previous experience working in a small/medium sized business would be preferable, but if you’re working in a large corporate and you want to work in something more dynamic, we’d welcome that conversation too.
Essential experience and skills:
- Relevant accounting qualification (or working towards one: MA, CA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Strong management accounting and operational finance experience
- Proficiency with Xero and strong Excel skills
- Experience managing day-to-day finance in a small to medium-sized business
- Excellent attention to detail and analytical capability
- Confident communicator able to work closely with non-finance stakeholders
Desirable experience:
- Technology, software, or development-led business background
- Exposure to global operations or funding organisations
- Financial modelling and scenario planning experience
- Experience supporting investment or funding activity
Why choose DDK Positioning?
Working at DDK means being part of a small, specialist team where your contribution really matters. We offer:
- Market-leading salary & Comprehensive benefits package including private health, dental and more.
- Hybrid working (2–3 days per week in our Aberdeen office)
- Direct exposure to senior leadership and board-level decision-making
- Full ownership of the finance function with appropriate senior support
- A collaborative environment where autonomy, trust, and initiative are valued
- The opportunity to support and influence a growing, globally focused technology business
Don’t meet every single requirement?
DDK Positioning is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. If this role excites you but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every point, we’d still love to hear from you.
by Cara Lewis | Jul 9, 2025
Technical Manager | DDK Positioning | Aberdeen | £Competitive + Outstanding Benefits
At DDK Positioning, we’ve developed proprietary GNSS technology that delivers positioning accuracy better than 5cm globally. Our exclusive partnership with Iridium Satellite Communications gives us unique capabilities. Working with our hardware, firmware, and cloud-based processing systems, you’ll be at the forefront of precise positioning technology.
We’ve built our Aberdeen headquarters to be a centre for innovation where you’ll work closely with our CIO and technical team. After winning the Innovation of the Year award at the National Technology Awards 2025, we’re ready to push onwards and upwards. Here’s some of what we can offer you at DDK:
✓ Genuine Work-Life Balance – 9-day fortnight (yes, every other Friday off) so you can recharge your technical creativity
✓ Cutting-Edge Technical Challenges – Work with satellite communications, cloud processing, and precision GNSS technology
✓ Small Team, Big Vision – Supportive, low-ego culture – close-knit team
✓ Technical Autonomy – Freedom to make key technical decisions and implement solutions
✓ Work With Industry Leaders – Direct collaboration with Iridium and Topcon on advanced positioning systems
The Challenge
As our Technical Manager in our Aberdeen headquarters, you will:
- Architect and implement complex cloud-based processing systems on AWS
- Lead firmware development for our next-generation positioning hardware
- Provide technical solutions to challenging GNSS processing problems
- Make critical technical decisions on hardware and software architecture
- Drive our technical roadmap with deep understanding of positioning technologies
- Work directly with our CIO to translate innovative concepts into practical solutions
- Train, develop and mentor the technical team to achieve excellence
- Ensure the robustness and performance of our global positioning infrastructure
Your Technical Expertise (you don’t need to tick every box here!)
- Proven experience designing and implementing complex technical systems
- Deep understanding of cloud technologies, particularly AWS infrastructure
- Ideally, some hands-on experience with embedded firmware development
- Software development skills with languages like Python and C++
- Knowledge of real-time data processing and analysis
- Experience architecting scalable, high-performance systems
- Understanding of GNSS/GPS technologies and principles (not essential, we can take you on this journey)
- Technical problem-solving abilities at both strategic and detailed levels
Benefits
We invest in our people with a benefits package designed for modern life:
- Financial Wellbeing: Competitive salary, enhanced pension contributions, life insurance (4x salary), and income protection
- Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical insurance, £200 dental and £100 optical allowance, Employee Assistance Programme
- Time for Life: 30 days holiday (increasing to 33 days at 3 years service) 9-day fortnight, hybrid working
- Lifestyle: Cycle-to-work scheme, tech purchase scheme, development opportunities
- Work Environment: Modern, vibrant Aberdeen office with positive, friendly team
Be Our Technical Compass
DDK Positioning is at a critical growth point, backed by strategic partnerships with industry leaders Iridium and Topcon. We need a Technical Manager who can provide the deep technical expertise required to guide our development, make informed architecture decisions, and ensure our systems deliver unparalleled positioning accuracy globally.
Questions? Contact our talent team – stewart@creegantalent.com
At DDK Positioning, we’re committed to building an authentically diverse team that brings different perspectives to our technical challenges. Even if you feel that you don’t tick every box, please consider applying as there may be another opportunity for you in the business.
by Cara Lewis | Aug 5, 2024
DDK Positioning is leading the way in innovative solutions and technology in the Global Positioning market, and we currently have an opening for a software engineer focussed on helping our systems maintain and improve on their best-in-class performance. The role will focus on embedded feature development, interfacing, production test and system troubleshooting but flexibility is key as our technology base also encompasses AWS cloud and database platforms.
Attitude is just as important as aptitude – so being able to investigate options and, where necessary, use your own initiative to build the required skills is expected. You will collaborate closely with the rest of the technical team to deliver high-quality solutions to our customers. This role reports to the Technical Director.
Required Technical Skills
- Sc. in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a related technical field and ideally 3+ years of related experience.
- Familiarity with ARM embedded development using the Linux platform.
- Experience writing applications in Python & shell scripting.
- An understanding of source control and build systems.
- Proven ability in system troubleshooting.
Desirable Technical Skills
- Experience with Microsoft DevOps within an Agile environment.
- Awareness of real-time systems and programming techniques.
- Expertise in writing & debugging C++ / C & C# programming languages.
- An understanding of/experience in GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems).
- Mathematical programming and algorithm development.
- Experience of Grafana and database management on e.g. PostGreSQL on AWS.
- Python dependency management using e.g. Poetry.
- Knowledge of website development and API programming using tools such as Postman.
- Knowledge of AWS/IAC technologies such as Terraform.
- Experience with interfacing / testing electronic hardware e.g., serial port data connections.
Personal Qualities
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to clearly communicate ideas and solutions to others.
- Good time management skills with an ability to prioritise, multi-task and work under pressure.
- Work well on your own initiative and as part of a team.
General Responsibilities
- Working in accordance with the DDK Integrated Management System (IMS) and Core Values: Integrity, Passion, Teamwork, Innovation.
- Proactive in proposing, defining, and implementing beneficial change in the Company.
- Keeping an ever-present focus on health, safety, and the environment.
- Conducting self in professional manner as an ambassador for the Company.
- Demonstrating a commitment and drive to develop self and others.
- Being flexible to take on any other duties (within reason and skillset) that the business may require.
This role may be suitable for fully remote personnel which would be considered on a case-by-case basis. Home locations reasonably close to DDK’s office in Aberdeen are preferred to allow mostly office-based or hybrid working.
by Cara Lewis | Mar 7, 2023
DDK Positioning is leading the way in innovative solutions and technology in the GNSS market. Key to our success is our relationships with our partners and in order to maintain and grow these we currently have an opening for a full time Account Manager. The role will focus building and expanding on new and existing relationships, being the main focal point for our partners whilst assisting in growing their client base and facilitating the adoption of the DDK service globally.
This candidate is required to have an in-depth knowledge of the GNSS / Survey Industry and how the services are utilised in Marine and Land applications to ensure the end clients and partners have a good knowledge on how to promote to the market and increase the market adoption.
This role reports to the Commercial Director.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining lasting customer relationships with key partners. Promoting DDK Positioning and gaining intelligence with a view to securing profitable/strategic sales wins and emerging market opportunities.
- Assisting in the formulation, documentation, and planning of sales and bidding strategies, including the review of specifications, formulation of clarifications, presenting innovative solutions to challenges, developing competitive advantages and determination of target price points.
- Gathering intelligence on competitors’ assets, strategies and creating a value proposition biased toward DDK Positioning products and services.
- Regular reporting of key information to the DDK Management Team. Recording all meetings and opportunities into DDK Positioning’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
- Attendance at specific technical conferences and exhibitions which may include the creation and presentation of whitepapers.
- Heavily involved in the DDK Product Management function, capturing and managing technical feedback from partners and market along with associated commercial considerations.
Qualifications & Experience
- Professionally qualified/degree educated (in relevant field) but can be offset by professional experience.
- An excellent understanding of the competitive landscape and intimate knowledge of the GNSS / Survey market sector including a core technical understanding of GNSS technologies and solutions.
- Detailed understanding of the potential business within the marketplace gained through previous experience as a Sales Account Manager / Customer Relationship Manager or Business Development Manager.
- An extensive proven track record of profitable revenue generation in the services sector is essential.
- Commercial and contract awareness/experience is necessary.
Personal Qualities & Skills
- Ability to listen to the customer’s needs and propose best-fit solutions.
- Manages customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance;
- Excellent networking, negotiation, and influencing skills are essential with the ability to qualify customers, overcome objections and close a sale. Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
- Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Be self-driven with the tenacity to work independently. Able to receive direction and apply imagination to completion.
- Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Demonstrates good presentation skills;
- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Ensures that regular consistent communication takes place within the area of responsibility.
General Responsibilities
- Working in accordance with the DDK Integrated Management System (IMS) and Core Values: Integrity, Passion, Teamwork, Innovation.
- Proactive in proposing, defining, and implementing beneficial change in the Company.
- Keeping an ever-present focus on health, safety, and the environment.
- Conducting self in a professional manner as an ambassador for the Company.
- Demonstrating a commitment and drive to develop self and others.
- Travel to all partner sites globally to capture feedback, build relationships and assist with sales opportunities. This will include occasional overnight stays of varying lengths.
- Being flexible to take on any other duties (within reason and skillset) that the business may require.
This role may be suitable for fully remote personnel which would be considered on a case-by-case basis. However, home base locations in close proximity to DDK’s office in Aberdeen is preferred.
