Financial Accountant

About Salary Finance

Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK. 

By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people’s lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK’s leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sachs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money. 

Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC’s Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes' list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors. 

Your role in our mission

We are looking for a superstar Financial Accountant to take the company through its next phase of growth. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, you will be responsible for Salary Finance’s financial and regulatory reporting, helping to improve processes and controls to build a best in class finance function. The role will involve great responsibility from day 1 and an opportunity to see the immediate impact of your actions on the development of the business.

What you’ll do

• Manage AP resource to ensure accurate and timely payment processing
• Manage AR resource to ensure accurate invoicing and develop internal processes
• Prepare and post month-end journals as part of the month-end accounts close process
• Own producing the month-end accounts to a high quality, in accordance with the financial control framework and to the agreed timetable
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations, including key control analysis and undertaking variance investigations
• Assist in the annual external audit for four entities, including provision of supporting information and responding to audit queries 
• Produce the Consolidated and Company Annual Financial Statements for two entities.
• Maintain share options register
• Assist in the preparation of annual tax computations
• Prepare quarterly VAT Returns and partial exemption calculations
• Proactively identify areas of process and control  improvement and work with the team to improve and automate processes
• Support the CFO and FC on ad-hoc strategic projects as required

About you

• You are passionate about technology and social impact, and want to help grow a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• You have an analytical mind with a can-do, problem solving aptitude.
• You have experience working in a high growth environment - you will thrive if you are a self-motivated, fast-paced, action oriented, “roll your sleeves up and get-things-done” sort of person who wants to work in a small team where everyone makes a difference.
• You are calm under pressure, can handle changing priorities and are an excellent communicator.

Technical experience required

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of IFRS accounting standards and reporting processes
• Ability to work with others to find solutions to process and accounting issues
• Ability to develop robust controls and reconciliations

Awesome if

• Experience within Financial Services, specifically within consumer lending, or within a regulated environment
• Power BI

Business Skills

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Positive can-do attitude.
• Strong ability to manage high volumes of work and be efficient at prioritising tasks.

Who you are

We embrace our differences, but have some key common values. It’s important to us that you are:

• fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
• responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• dedicated, and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
• empathetic, and truly care about every colleague and customer.
• united, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
• humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.

What do you get for all your hard work?

• Company bonus scheme 💰
• 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday 🎂
• Hybrid working arrangements so you can work from the office and from home with a budget to help you get set up 🏠
• Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships 🤸
• Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and peternity leave 🐶
• Great career development in a fast paced environment 🚀
• Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too!)
• Volunteer days as part of our CSR program 🤝
• More great perks to include weekly snacks, tuckshop, cycle to work, help to save and much more! 🍭

The typical interview process

• Phone call with our Talent Manager - 20 mins
• Video interview with Hiring Manager - 30 mins 
• In person interview with Hiring Manager, Head of Department, Stakeholder, and / or Team - 60 mins

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people’s lives for the better then we’d love to hear from you.

Learn more at salaryfinance.com

Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.