Bookkeeper and Payroll Assistant

We are seeking a Bookkeeper and Payroll Assistant to join our Finance department. Reporting to the CFO, your role will be to assist in the co-ordination of global invoicing, settlements and reconciliation of payments over a number of international businesses. These are both internally with our operational teams and externally with the Compliance and processing departments of our banking partners, Accountants and Merchants. Aiding in the provision of an accurate and seamless process for reconciliation across our accounting platforms, VAT reporting and financial reporting. In addition to this you will be assisting in the validation and processing of a UK Payroll for circa 50 employees.

You'll spend your time

· Collecting data to be used for reconciliations, invoice payments and preparing responses to accountants.

· Assisting in the processing of monthly payroll including expense and credit card reconciliations.

· Assisting in the preparation of financial reports for the Leadership Team.

· Providing support requests from internal stakeholder’s responses in a timely, professional and thorough manner.

· Supporting month end closing and reporting activities, including the delivery of timely account reconciliations over a number of platforms such as Xero & Quickbooks and invoice information to our Accountants on request.

· Maintaining timely and accurate transactional data in the accounting and treasury management system.

· Assisting any treasury related audit queries including internal and external.

· Supporting other finance duties to help the Treasury/Finance team as required.

· Assisting with project work and day-to-day ad hoc finance duties.

Key attributes, skills and experience:

Essential

· Relevant financial qualification.

· 2-5 years’ experience in settlement of multicurrency and international B2B bank settlements.

· Experience of Xero and Quickbooks.

· Experience of UK Payroll processing.

· Understanding of wire and payments processing, cash/liquidity management.

· Ability to identify business impacting incidents and escalate according to the escalation process.

· Highly motivated; can-do attitude with the willingness to continually update knowledge and skillset.

· Ability to prioritise workload to identify the most important and urgent tasks.

Desirable

· An understanding of Electronic Money Institutions (EMI) and other payment products.

· Purchase ledger and accounts payable experience.

· An understanding of Crypto/Blockchain.

· Experience of working in a Fintech environment.

Self-motivation and ability to understand responsibility is essential for this role. Training and support are always on hand, but we expect the successful candidate to identify the tasks, have accuracy and be able to execute on time. Self-management to escalate and manage challenges and delays is key.

Company Benefits

Paid annual holidays of 25 days per annum / birthday holiday if falls on a workday / Company Pension Scheme / Life Insurance scheme / Private Medical insurance with Vitality offering additional perks / Additional wellbeing scheme / Assistance with parking/travel costs / Ad hoc catering and office treats / Office events including Christmas Party.