Junior Financial Accountant
9 days ago
London
Junior Financial Accountant | Fintech Your new company Our client is a leading fintech organisation transforming the way people manage their finances. With a mission to make financial services simple, accessible, and engaging, this company has developed a cutting-edge, technology-driven platform that delivers exceptional service to individuals and businesses. Backed by strong investment and experiencing rapid growth, it now supports a diverse customer base across multiple regions. With a skilled team and clear momentum toward profitability, the company continues to expand and strengthen its market position. Your new role The client is looking for a pragmatic financial accountant with 1–2 years' experience. This is a great role for someone early on in their career who is ready to take the next step in an exciting start-up environment. Responsibilities include: • Preparation of monthly management accounts for all three trading entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of reporting, alongside variance analysis and trend reporting, • Preparation of payroll in both the UK and Estonia, ensuring compliance with local tax regulations, • Ownership of bookkeeping across all trading entities, • Preparation and posting of month-end journals, including prepayments, accruals, accrued income, etc., • Ownership of month-end balance sheet reconciliations and management of primary balance sheet ledgers (debtors, creditors, intercompany), • Management of finance inbox and ownership of internal and external day-to-day AP queries, • Responding to internal cost and reporting queries from around the business, including from Marketing, Operations and Sales teams, • Assistance in the completion of statutory accounts production and the coordination of annual audit process., • Preparation of supplier payment runs, • Supporting the Finance Lead in other ad-hoc areas including around business partnering, budgeting and forecasting, project accounting, and corporate finance administration, • Strong technical knowledge and experience of financial accounting/reporting and financial processes/controls, • Good knowledge of VAT and UK payroll-related taxes, • Intermediate competency in MS Excel & Google Sheets, • Xero experience essential, • Experience working with accounting systems integrations or automation tools (e.g. expense or payroll software), • Competitive salary, • Hybrid working (2 days in the office), • Free company lunch once a week, and free tea, coffee, soft drinks and snacks!, • Competitive holiday plan