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Accounts Payable & Receivable Manager (6 Month FTC)
at Curve London in London (Published at 18-09-2024)
Curve was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life.
That’s why Curve puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. We help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live.
With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one beautiful place.
We’re developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise.
Welcome to Curve. On a mission to help you live inspired.
Curve is looking for a Accounts Payable & Receivable Manager who is passionate about accelerating the growth of our business further. You’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of Curve, by providing insights for day-to-day business decisions, working along our roadmap of future opportunities and developing our financial capabilities.
You will have prior experience in accounts payable and accounts receivable and be looking to enhance your career in an exciting new role. In return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast-paced career with an excellent benefits package. If you want to join a winning team and thrive in an environment where we always put the customer first then we want to hear from you.
Key Accountabilities:
- Day to day supervision and line management responsibilities of the Sales Ledger Team and Purchase Ledger Team to ensure the teams run efficiently.
- Develop Accounts Receivable and Payable dashboard of KPIs.
- Working closely with the Group Financial Controller to ensure transactions are performed in line with company policies.
- Develop a strong understanding of Curve’s cost base (vendor terms & contracts).
- Work with the Vendor Management team to ensure proactive engagement with Curve’s suppliers.
- Support cash-flow forecasting process through anticipating future payment schedules & material one-offs
- Overseeing testing of system upgrades to the Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger.
- Supporting Financial Control with reconciliation queries on the ledgers.
- Ensuring daily bank and system uploads complete successfully and in a timely fashion
- Posting transactions from source data and clean reconciliations of accounts and ledgers related to the accounts payable and receivable and banks.
- Ensuring all bank transactions are reconciled in a timely manner
- Raising weekly accounts receivable statements and ensuring the timely receipt of cash from external rewards partners and other businesses
- Processing customer refunds in a timely manner
- Ownership of the accounts payable processes to drive efficiencies and harmonise procedures for ease of training, cover and support
- A sound and practical understanding of the VAT rules, standard rated, zero rated and exempt- and why it matters for invoice coding
Accounts Receivable
- Ensure collection of cash in a timely manner, management of aged debt and limit the company’s exposure to bad debt.
- Building customer relationships including site visits to customers where necessary.
- Ensure all accounts operate within their credit limits as prescribed by our credit insurance company.
- Regular debt reporting to Group Financial Controller
Accounts Payable
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of invoices and payment runs.
- Oversee processing of weekly wages payroll information
- Ensuring new supplier accounts are set up correctly ensuring compliance to internal procedures.
- Regular review of the Creditors reporting to Group Financial Controller.
Cash Management
- Weekly bank reconciliations
- Posting cash entries into the accounting system
- Cash monitoring
Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 8+ years of total experience
- AAT Qualified, part qualified or QBE in accountancy or with accounts payable management experience
- Experience managing small teams
- Core payments experience highly preferred (ideally card payments, acquiring bank, issuing bank, card network, fintech company)
- Strong analytical and organisational skills,
- Knowledge of Netsuite big benefit
- Experience with process improvement and proficiency with spreadsheets,
- Proactive, collaborative with partners, strong communication skills and tenacity for improving the way things are done
- Experienced in GAAP, financial accounting and strong knowledge of reporting standards
- Working knowledge of VAT
Benefits:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Bonus days off for Learning & Development, Mental Wellbeing, Birthday, Moving House & Christmas
- Working abroad policy (up to 60 calendar days per year)
- Bupa Health Insurance (YuLife)
- Life insurance powered by AIG (5x Annual Salary)
- Pension Scheme powered by “People’s Pension” (4% Matched)
- EAP (Mental health & wellbeing support, Life coach, Career coach)
- 24/7 GP access (Smart Health via YuLife)
- Annual subscriptions to Meditopia & FIIT for your mind and body (via YuLife)
- Discounted shopping vouchers (via YuLife)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Ride to work scheme & Season ticket loan
- Electric car scheme
- Six nights of Night Nanny for new parents
- Free Curve Metal subscription for you and your +1
