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Role Context

We are seeking an experienced and confident senior accountant who wants to take their career to the next level. We operate across four countries with more to come. This provides an excellent opportunity for a strong finance professional to build their global experience and skillset. Pupil is a leading spatial technology company. We capture and publish 3D information about real-world interiors on an industrial scale. Our technology is raising the standards of practice around the globe and is set to revolutionise industries by digitising the world’s interiors at an unprecedented level of accuracy. You’ll be joining a demanding, ambitious technology company at an early stage, so we’ll expect you to take ownership and feel responsible for a broad range of activities that will help us succeed. Financial processes will need to be adapted and scaled to meet increasing global complexity and you will play a key role in ensuring a close eye is kept on expenses and performance. We’re looking for an ambitious and hard-working individual with the desire to lead our finance function and be a driving force in the business as we scale.
You should ideally have experience in a startup / scale-up environment, helping a business develop into new geographies and business growth cycles.

Required Experience

• 
  Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA);
• The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of post-qualified experience, ideally in a high-growth business;
• At least 5+ years leading the accountancy function;
• Experience in multiple geographies is preferential;
• Experience in startup / scaleup environment is preferential;
• Strong academic background;
• Mathematical and data-driven approach, with advanced Excel. Ability to use data analytics tools would be an advantage;
• Effective communicator, comfortable working with different teams across the business;
• A strong leader who can hold peers accountable for their department deliverables;
• FX experience;
• Xero experience is beneficial.

You MUST

• Be numerate and fluent in English;
• Have the right to work in the UK;
• Be able to work in our central London office.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary of between £75 000 - £100 000 depending on experience;
• Company pension;
• Vitality private medical insurance;
• Interact and grow in a thriving global team;
• Fast-growing start-up environment where anything is possible;
• Flexible working

Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for day-to-day finance processes: Managing all day-to-day finance processes across the group including revenue recognition, receivables, payments, reconciliations, intra-group transactions and cash flow management
• Internal and external financial reporting: leading preparation of monthly management accounts, variance analysis, annual accounts and quarterly tax returns; regulatory reporting and communication with investors
• Financial Forecasting and Planning: Supporting the maintenance of financial forecasts for the business and working closely with department heads on budgeting and spend management
• Strategic and operational projects: leading and supporting across various projects including group tax strategy and procedures (VAT, R&D), and company expenses, while continuously looking to optimise and improve our financial processes
• Support leadership in financial planning alongside metric/KPI analysis, maintaining an overview of unit economics, operational expenses and runway
• Work alongside the Founders to build budgets, financial models and fundraising strategy
• Manage the external accounting team with regard to all things related to tax, invoicing and payroll
• Manage transactional finance (AP/AR/bank/credit control etc) using technology to automate where possible
• Coach and develop promising accounts assistant
• Oversee tax compliance, accounting, and banking within different geographies & responsible for the consolidation of global entities and intercompany accounting
• Support sales team in target setting and performance management
• Accounting consolidations (across geographies)

Key Working Relationships

• Founders and senior management
• Finance team
• Accountants
• Investors
• Suppliers

More About Pupil and Our Products - Stak and Strat

Pupil is a spatial data company. We capture and publish digital twins of real-world interiors on an industrial scale.
Pupil’s offering is called Stak & Strat. Stak is defining the standard for asset productivity in commercial real estate. Stak offers commercial asset managers and service providers with an all-in-one solution to rapidly create accurate digital twins of assets and use them to unlock potential across the commercial real estate value chain.
Please visit https://stak.co/ to find out more. STRAT is a holistic consultancy and surveying service to support the completion of commercial and residential developments. We work across a wide range of projects, from large mixed-use developments to title deeds for individual units. Please visit https://www.strat.ae/ to find out more.

About us

Pupil is a place for those who think big. For those that want to create extraordinary things and are willing to put in the hard work to bring them to life.

We’re growing fast. And we’re always looking for exceptional talent.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we foster a culture where we are constantly learning, evolving and collaborating to achieve our bold ambitions.

We are committed to learning and stepping outside our comfort zone. We believe in the opportunity to impact the world with transformative technology.

We love the challenge of rolling up our sleeves and building new things from the ground up. Pupil’s culture is a melting pot of diverse, high-energy, mission-focused people that thrive in a challenging environment.