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Our client is committed to making it easier to run a small business. They believe that the self-employed should have a simpler way to manage their business. Their solution frees them from financial admin, saves time and money while helping them stay organised with the business insights and tools they need to succeed.

They're a venture-backed fin-tech with ambitious growth plans. The business is the leading UK business current account for the self-employed. They’ve helped over 60,000 businesses save time and money with automated accounting and tax.

ROLE DESCRIPTIONS

They are looking for a Finance Manager to join their team. The role will require completion of many of the traditional accounting and bookkeeping tasks across various tools and software (many of the things their product helps the self-employed to solve). This includes day-to-day bookkeeping, supplier payments, monthly payroll and journaling, quarterly VAT submissions and completing our reporting and year-end processes.

Reporting to the COO, the role will also involve strategic projects. Looking to continuously improve internal processes, leveraging technology to ensure they continue to work efficiently and effectively. Traditional accounting will therefore only be part of the role. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with an interest in performance improvement.

The aim will be to improve the performance of the business and ensure spend is aligned to the business goals. There will be the opportunity to shape the role in line with your skillset, interests and professional development ambitions.

ROLE RESOPNSIBILITIES

• Complete regular bookkeeping tasks
• Manage supplier spend and payments
• Complete payroll, journal entries, quarterly VAT submissions, year-end
• Manage their budgeting, reporting processes and company records
• Improve their accounting and financial management infrastructure (review current ways of working and software and suggest improvements)
• Analyse data to establish what’s working, what’s not and what to do about it
• Work with the COO to find and implement performance improvement projects (big or small)
• Produce clear and concise outputs that speak for themselves
• Be flexible and open to working with other parts of the business to add value. Your expertise (finance and accounting) will be valuable to the rest of the business and their product development

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• You have excellent attention to detail
• You are highly organised and are able to work remotely without direct supervision
• You are an excellent communicator (written and verbal)
• You are good at building and maintaining relationships
• You like working independently to tackle problems and establish a solution
• You also work well in small teams
• You are continuously trying to improve how you work and the results
• You have excellent numerical skills and data manipulation capabilities
• You have strong communication skills both written and verbal
• You are organised and able to prioritise effectively

• They’re open to candidates with diverse backgrounds
• You have Accounting qualification(s)
• You have experience of running payroll
• You are familiar with Employee Option Schemes
• You have great capability with:
  • An Accounting software (eg. Clearbooks or Xero)
  • Google sheets and/ Excel