management accountant London, England
Job description
Globally, 80% of workers don’t have a desk or an office. These workers are the backbone of the global economy, the people we interact with every day in stores, on buses, in our hospitals, delivering our parcels, and maintaining our buildings. The current generation of workplace technology doesn’t fit their needs, Blink enables those people to be productive, informed, and engaged while on the move.
We've built a fresh approach to an old problem. Our goal is to be the #1 choice for the mobile enterprise, to build the workplace "super-app" that brings together in one place the people and information that matter.
What will you be doing?
This is an exciting and career changing role for an ambitious and innovative professional who would like to gain exposure to many different aspects of finance in fast growing company.
With responsibility for our month end management accounts preparation, compliance lodgements and playing an integral role in business partnering, you will be able to work alongside the Head of Finance to develop your skills. Responsibilities Include:
Management Accounting and Business Partnering
- Working alongside the Head of Finance to improve and embed processes of other departments.
- Work alongside the Head of Finance to assist in the annual budget and forecasting of Opex.
- Analyse existing budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain discrepancies.
- Playing an integral role in finance transformations, continuously seeking opportunities to streamline and improve our processes.
- Working with the team to ensure the monthly management accounts across the UK, US, Aus and NZ are accurate and complete, continuing to build upon the existing system of checks and controls as the business grows.
- Conduct Cash flow analysis and forecasts
- Managing the transactional processes of each region with the junior management accountant, including overseeing AR and AP.
- Plan an integral role in ensuring that we are compliant with all relevant accounting standards in each region.
Statutory reporting and compliance
- Play an integral role in the preparation of annual statutory accounts for each region
- Play an integral role in our first year audit
- Preparation of sales tax computations and other indirect taxes across each region
- Monitor compliance with all taxes and other compliance obligations across each region, especially the US.
- Maintenance of intercompany recharges, loans and repayments.
- Exposure to R&D calculations in the UK.
- Preparation and submission of investor reporting
About you
We're looking for someone who wants to take ownership of key parts of our finance function. The successful candidate will be autonomous, resourceful, inquisitive, and a fast learner, with outstanding attention to detail. You’ll be able to pick up new concepts quickly and work alongside a highly motivated team. We’re also looking for:
- Recently qualified CIMA, ACA (or equivalent)
- Previously owned the month end process
- Exposure to audit
- Experienced in preparing consolidated accounts
- Exposure to financial reporting and compliance experience, US experience advantageous
- Experienced executing and delivering at pace with high attention to detail, high-quality work standards of your own and of others in the team
- Strong excel skills
- An analytical and problem-solving mindset to understand, challenge and ask relevant questions
- Good organisational skills, prioritisation and an effective project manager
- Solution-orientated- evidence of playing a key role in process improvement and driving the team to find better ways of working
About us
We're a motivated and ambitious team, we're all different, but these traits tie us together. We work closely as a team and genuinely value each other's opinions. Most of all, we try and learn as much as we can from one another, through knowledge sharing and healthy debate.
What we offer
You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of! Benefits include:
- Hybrid working in a convenient central London office
- 25 days a year off (plus public holidays!)
- Learning & development focus, plus mentorship options. We’ll do everything we can to get you to the top of your game
- The equipment needed to do a great job
- Private healthcare, Ride2Work and pension scheme
- Social events (Company getaways, lunches, breakfasts, nights out)
At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age or veteran status.
