Finance Associate

Overview

Our prestigious global client base includes The Times, The Guardian, Le Monde and Conde Nast, and we are looking for an experienced, reliable Finance Associate to join our growing team working directly with our Head of Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance / Accounting: monthly and quarterly investor reports, payroll, maintaining our financial model, calculating bonuses, grant applications, R&D tax credit (with an external consultancy)
• Controlling: ensuring that the details of new contracts are entered into our CRM and invoicing system correctly
• Strategy: helping develop business plans for future products, market sizing, pricing strategies
• Client relationship management: together with our Customer Success team, deal with client inquiries relating to invoicing and contracts
• Legal: insurance renewals, reviewing legal contracts
• Procurement: managing supplier contracts (e.g. rent, utilities), equipment leasing/purchasing, software renewals, negotiation with suppliers

Required Skills And Experience

• Relevant professional experience
• An ability to use data to help guide decision making
• High degree of competence with spreadsheets
• Excellent attention to detail and time management skills
• Strong analytical, assessment and problem-solving skills
• Fluent written and spoken English
• A desire to learn new skills quickly

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Experience using Xero and Salesforce
• Experience running multi-country payroll
• Previous experience in a SaaS company
• Familiarity with the publishing industry

Benefits

We pay competitive salaries to all employees. Our employees enjoy free breakfast every day, coffee, drinks and snacks all day, everyday. Every Monday and Wednesday, we order food for our weekly team lunches where everyone gets together for an hour of socialising. We have monthly team events (dinner, bowling, karting, poker nights, board-games etc.) for our team to get to know each other outside of work. In addition, our global employees enjoy regular company-wide virtual activities, such as online poker evenings and fortnightly coffee catch-ups. Professionally, we host in-house conferences and an annual summer camp for all our global employees who are flown to and hosted in London. We ensure that all our employees also get local benefit contributions, the latest tech and a generous annual leave allowance.