About Apron

Apron was started by a group of people who’d spend years building products for global fintech companies. But there was one big problem no one was solving. Business payments. The kind that buy tomatoes, tools, and till rolls. The kind that keep suppliers happy and business booming. The kind that should be super simple to make and manage, and yet, aren’t. Payments eat up valuable hours every week for both businesses and the accountants and bookkeepers who help them.

This is a problem that’s affecting entrepreneurs. Florists and financial analysts. Brewers and brand strategists. The kind of people who build things, break things, change things. Imagine what they could do with this time instead. What would they come up with? What would they create?

That’s why we built Apron as a payments powerhouse. We flip the payment experience from blocking business to boosting it. Apron pulls all things payments together – weaving into your workflow, collating conversations, turning hours into minutes. So you can put those hours to better use – plan the future, take a walk, call your mum.

We are backed by Index Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Who we’re looking for

Apron’s in house finance function is scaling, it aims to enable and safeguard the business as it grows and scales at pace, before that though it needs humble, passionate team players, who share our values, to come on board for the journey.

We’re building it from the ground up and that means there’s all sorts of varied tasks to get stuck into, from bread and butter accounting, operational finance tasks, cash management, tax returns, scalable process creation, controls and audits… you name it and it probably needs to be done. That’s all before mentioning the regulation that comes with our recently granted EMI license.

We're a small team, so working with the Finance Controller and Finance Strategy team will also be key. All of this means we really believe it's an exciting time to join and develop yourself with both the team and company. 

We’re therefore looking for hungry and highly ambitious finance individuals who want variety, exposure and the ability to shape the future path of the function as it scales, whilst maintaining strong day-to-day core accountancy responsibilities. 

What you’ll be doing

• Management Accounting: from bookkeeping, preparing journal entries, balance sheet substantiation and drafting management reports;

• Operational Finance tasks: such as processing payroll, expense reviews, invoice categorising and all aspects of accounts payable;

• Reconciliation preparation will be key, these will come in the form of both Safeguarding Regulation and general accounting reconciliations;

• What’s an accountancy role without tax? Corporation tax, VAT, payroll and more taxes are all in scope;

• Assisting with annual audits: providing the goods to our auditors when required;

• You’ll have the opportunity to help with operational cash management too if you like;

• All of the above and more require processes to be drafted and implemented, your opinion counts when shaping massively how these look. 

What you'll bring (essential traits)

• At least 3 years of experience in Accounting roles

• In-house background in Tech / Fintech / FCA Regulated entities

• Accountancy qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience

• Experience working with Xero

It will be a plus if you also bring...

• Prior experience in aspects of corporate tax reporting

• Revenue accounting experience

• SQL knowledge