About Countingup

At Countingup, we’re committed to making it easier to run a small business. We believe that the self-employed should have a simpler way to manage their business. Our solution frees them from financial admin, saves time and money while helping them stay organised with the business insights and tools they need to succeed.

We're a venture-backed fin-tech with ambitious growth plans. Countingup is the leading UK business current account for the self-employed. We’ve helped over 60,000 businesses save time and money with automated accounting and tax.

About the role

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our team. The role will require completion of many of the traditional accounting and bookkeeping tasks across various tools and software (many of the things our product helps the self-employed to solve). This includes day-to-day bookkeeping, supplier payments, monthly payroll and journaling, quarterly VAT submissions and completing our reporting and year-end processes.

Reporting to the COO, the role will also involve strategic projects. Looking to continuously improve internal processes, leveraging technology to ensure we continue to work efficiently and effectively. Traditional accounting will therefore only be part of the role. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with an interest in performance improvement.

The aim will be to improve the performance of the business and ensure spend is aligned to the business goals. There will be the opportunity to shape the role in line with your skillset, interests and professional development ambitions.

• Complete regular bookkeeping tasks
• Manage supplier spend and payments
• Complete payroll, journal entries, quarterly VAT submissions, year-end
• Manage our budgeting, reporting processes and company records
• Improve our accounting and financial management infrastructure (review current ways of working and software and suggest improvements)
• Analyse data to establish what’s working, what’s not and what to do about it
• Work with the COO to find and implement performance improvement projects (big or small)
• Produce clear and concise outputs that speak for themselves
• Be flexible and open to working with other parts of the business to add value. Your expertise (finance and accounting) will be valuable to the rest of Countingup and our product development

About you

• You have excellent attention to detail
• You are highly organised and are able to work remotely without direct supervision
• You are an excellent communicator (written and verbal)
• You are good at building and maintaining relationships
• You like working independently to tackle problems and establish a solution
• You also work well in small teams
• You are continuously trying to improve how you work and the results
• You have excellent numerical skills and data manipulation capabilities
• You have strong communication skills both written and verbal
• You are organised and able to prioritise effectively

Your experience

• We’re open to candidates with diverse backgrounds
• You have Accounting qualification(s)
• You have experience of running payroll
• You are familiar with Employee Option Schemes
• You have great capability with:
  • An Accounting software (eg. Clearbooks or Xero)
  • Google sheets and/ Excel

Behavioural competencies:

We’re a sociable bunch, and we enjoy each other’s company. So it’s important that you’re a great fit for our company culture. These are some of the things we look for:

• Take pride in the work you do and everything you get involved with
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate business and customer problems clearly
• Think independently and not afraid of suggesting new ideas
• Ambition combined with an appetite to learn and improve
• A healthy amount of curiosity for the unknown with a growth mindset
• Respectful, honest and a kind team player

What will you get in return?

• You’ll be challenged whilst being fully supported by a great team from which you can learn
• Exposure to every area of the business. You’ll be encouraged to get involved and make an impact on ways of working
• A transparent and open company culture where employees are consulted on company decisions and direction
• Competitive salary
• Share options after 6 months probation
• Up to 8% pension scheme
• 26 days holiday (plus UK public holidays) with an option to buy or sell up to 5 more days
• Hybrid working (2 days per week in our Central London office)
• High-spec equipment when you start

Countingup are an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this Job Description is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law.