Finance Manager

Your mission

Papercup is revolutionising the world of media through state-of-the-art AI dubbing technology, making videos universally accessible regardless of language. As we expand our horizons, we are in search of an experienced and autonomous hands-on Finance Manager to join on a 12 month FTC with the potential to go perm.

Your profile

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with required accounting practices
• Financial planning, analysis and reporting for the company
• Preparation of monthly and annual financial documents
• Improving and refining financial operations of a fast-growing organisation
• Producing month end, accounts reconciliations, expenses and accruals and management accounts
• Working with the Sales team on reporting and forecasting
• Creating, maintaining and administering company budgets
• Financial administration of the company
• Payroll, pension and employees travel & expense reimbursement
• Conduct reconciliation of the company's bank accounts and credit card activities
• Preparing purchase orders in accordance with requests for materials
• Perform all activities related to the accounts payable function: including reviewing, coding, and administering payments
• Preparing payments file each week for supplier goods and services
• Preparing Quarterly VAT returns (Xero)

Experience:

• ACCA qualified
• Top 10 Accountancy Firm experience preferred
• Be a competent and experienced user of Xero accounting software
• Strong experience with FP&A
• Strong experience of financial reporting, accounting principles (UK GAAP/IFRS) and tax compliance
• Strong knowledge of cash flow, budgeting, forecasting and modelling
• Ability to review commercial contracts
• Comfortable working with senior leadership and external Accountants
• Have experience using Google Sheets, Excel and have generally strong IT skills
• Maintain strong team working and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be flexible and adaptable within the environment of a small and changing team
• Be a methodical process-driven person, with passion for accuracy and excellence
• Be a proactive, self-motivated individual capable of working on their own initiative in a constantly changing and pressurised environment and fast-developing company
• Start up/Scale up experience strongly preferred
• Have worked alone or within a very small team, able to be autonomous and hit the ground running
• Able to identify improvement opportunities, suggest improvements and action change
• Strong attention to detail

Why us?

We really care about our people - culture matters deeply to us and we are committed to building a company that people are proud to work for

Apart from all this good stuff, what else do we offer?

• Competitive salary up to £70-80k
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Flexible working options, 2-3 WFH
• Private medical cover or a monthly wellness bonus
• Food and fun: free snacks, Tuesday breakfasts, monthly team socials, annual offsites, the best Slack banter you can find