Finance Assistant

About Faculty

Faculty transforms organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-led AI. 

We are Europe’s leading applied AI company, and saw its potential a decade ago - long before the current hype cycle. 

We founded in 2014 with our Fellowship programme, training academics to become commercial data scientists. 

Today, we provide over 300 global customers with industry-leading software, and bespoke AI consultancy for retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental organisations, as well as our award winning Fellowship. 

Our expertise and safety credentials are such that OpenAI asked us to be their first technical partner, helping customers deploy cutting-edge generative AI safely. 

Our high-impact work has saved lives through forecasting NHS demand during covid, produced green energy by routing boats towards the wind, slashed marketing spend by predicting customer spending habits, and kept children safe online. 

AI is an epoch-defining technology. We want people to join us who can help our customers reap its enormous benefits safely.

About the role

We are seeking a Finance Assistant to join the Faculty Finance team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in financial processing, primarily around Accounts Payable. The majority of this role will be spent working with our Accounts Payable system, managing the inbox, liaising with suppliers, overseeing regular payment runs and investigating differences between our Accounts Payable system and our accounting software. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented and relish the challenge of solving reconciliation-type problems as they arise. You will work closely with the wider Finance & Accounting team, especially during our month-end process. This is an opportunity to be part of an agile, embedded finance team in a high growth tech business delivering both consulting and product.

What you’ll be doing

• You will manage the Accounts Payable inbox, ensuring emails are dealt with promptly.

• Processing invoices, verifying details and approvals before payment.

• Assisting in managing employee expense claims, ensuring compliance with company policies.

• Conducting regular reconciliation of bank statements to ensure consistency and accuracy in financial records.

• Contributing to the month-end process, especially around balance sheet reconciliations to ensure our AP system agrees to our accounting software.

• Assisting in the preparation of financial reports and statements, and providing general support to the finance team with ad-hoc tasks as needed.

Who we’re looking for

• Individuals with a demonstrable interest in pursuing a career in finance and accountancy.

• At least 1 year in a finance and accounting role, or a related degree.

• Ambitious individual with a desire to qualify for a professional accounting certification, such as ACA, ICAS, or CIMA.

• Enthusiasm for finance systems, processes and the associated reconciliation and problem-solving skills to make them work seamlessly.

• Ability to be flexible, respond quickly to change and adapt priorities in the context of a dynamic tech company.

• Willingness to contribute to the finance team as a whole, including setting team priorities, identifying issues and problem solving.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with team members and external stakeholders.

What we can offer you

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.