At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.  

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne. 

We are looking for a part qualified Assistant Management Accountant to join the financial control team. Working closely with the financial controller and other team members, you will have the opportunity to get involved in a variety of transactional and month end accounting tasks.

What excites you

• Preparing monthly journals such as accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and intercompany across all entities
• Collaborating with other teams including AP and management reporting ensuring smooth end to end financial processes
• Ownership of key balance sheet accounts, ensuring reconciliations are completed monthly and any variances are resolved on a timely basis
• Assist the annual audits in preparation and providing requested documents
• Provide cover for bank reconciliations
• Supporting the Financial Controller / Head of Finance as required
• Support ad hoc projects as and when required

What excites us 

• ACCA/CIMA part-qualified
• 2-3 years of accounting experience
• Intermediate excel / google sheet skills
• Experience of month end processes
• Ability to prioritise time and stay organised in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with multi-currency balance sheet reconciliations
• Ability to produce accurate work and consistently deliver to reporting deadlines
• Knowledge of NetSuite or similar accounting packages
• Team player but ability to work independently

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Equity -all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution 
• Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work. 

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022;

Female Employees - 46%

Ethnic background - 32%

Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%

Neurodivergent - 9%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report 

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here. 

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