Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer? Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before? Are you looking for a values led company that cares about the growth and development of its employees?
Elliptic is looking for an energetic, and ambitious finance professional to help with the day to day of the finance function for this high-growth SaaS business. This person will work closely with all the finance team members to help establish and look after various accounting and financial control processes and bookkeeping. As such this person will play a central role in a function that drives the growth of the business by continually improving speed and integrity of management information for teams throughout the business.This offers a rapid learning curve with increasing understanding and ownership of all finance processes under the guidance of and reporting to the Finance Manager and clear career-progression opportunity.
You will also benefit from a growth mindset environment including close attention to career development, as well as on-going learning about the role, wider industry and personal development.
What you will do:
This person will enjoy the satisfaction of ensuring everything is precisely entered into the system via hands-on bookkeeping. As the first point of contact for the finance team, you will also be exposed to commercial finance gaining experience in SaaS business models.Reporting to the Finance Manager, your responsibilities will include:
- Management of account inbox & helping with queries across different teams
- Accounts receivable -
- Raising invoices (one-off, new wins and recurring), receiving payments, sending customer statements and responding to customer billing queries
- Navigating the CRM (Hubspot) and Contract management system (Juro)
- Ownership of the Credit Control function - automated reminders and escalations are sent weekly from Satago but this triggers customer billing / contracting queries which require response and / or escalation to our internal customer team
- Daily monitoring of banks accounts, reconciling incomings and outgoings in Xero
- Reviewing employee expense claims in Expensify / Tipalti
- Supporting the offshore outsourced partner with
- Accounts payable - processing and timely paying of invoices
- Credit and Virtual Cards management, support and monthly reconciliation
- Preparation of bank batch payment instructions for approval
- Assist with the production of Monthly Management Accounts
- Understanding of accruals, prepayments and fixed assets
- Supporting and working with local accounting, payments and corporate services providers in US, Singapore and Japan
- Following and adhering to established and new process and suggesting improvements to enhance the financial control environment
- Maintain and update detailed process notes and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for key financial tasks, ensuring clarity, compliance with current policies, and alignment with team workflows
Requirements
As well as being energetic, trustworthy and dependable with exceptional attention to detail, the ideal candidate will always look to improve on accepted norms, and should possess the following traits:
- Finance / accounting degree
- At least 2 years working experience in a similar finance role
- Experience with the following systems (Google suite (gmail, google sheets / docs / slides etc, Slack, Xero, Hubspot)
- Extensive experience with the following accounting cycles
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Bank reconciliations
- Some exposure to preparing month-end journals (e.g. accruals, prepayments etc.) and balance sheet
- Excellent communication and team-working skills
Bonus Points for:
- Tech sector and SaaS industry experience
- Experience working with the repeating sales invoice functionality within Xero
- Exposure to some of the following systems
- Tipalti
- Satago
- Brex
- Telleroo
- Stripe
- Experience invoicing customers on long term contracts
> How we work:
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
> Learning & Development:
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
> Vacation/ Leave:
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
> Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 cryptocurrency for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
