Junior Accountant (SaaS)
Kandidate, United Kingdom
Job Description
Location: Spaces, London (Currently remote)
About you
You are at the early stage of your career and have the ambition and drive to progress at speed.
You like working in a fast-paced environment. This is where you thrive.
You learn new things quickly and are always striving to better yourself and improve.
Maybe you are currently working for a large organisation and you feel you are just another headcount in the business. You want more. You want to work for an exciting new SAAS player in the market that can offer you an accelerated career path, continuous growth and that can make you feel valued for the work you do every day.
You want to make an impact. If this is you then please read on
About the role
Supporting the Head of Finance this is a chance for an ambitious Junior Accountant to own the day-to-day Finance (Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Bank Reconciliations) while also getting heavily involved in significant process improvement and system implementation projects. There will also be plenty of exposure to the Sales and the Customer Success teams providing Business Partner support and ad-hoc analysis.
With the growth planned over the next 3 years, the Finance team will be integral to the strategic scaling up of the business and offer a lot of opportunities to progress your career.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day Finance Operations of the business (owning Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Payroll, Expenses Management, Benefits)
- Work with the Customer Success team to assist with billing queries
- Managing the Credit Control function by working alongside the Sales and the Customer Success teams
- Continuously improve processes and strive to automate and find efficiency gains where possible (Xero/Chargebee/Chartmogul)
- Manage Bank Account and Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Work closely with Sales teams to ensure effective customer onboarding from a Finance perspective (Chargebee)
- Increasingly support the Head of Finance with month-end (accruals, prepayments, posting adjustments)
- Assist with Year-End reporting
- Work with the wider business on multiple ad-hoc projects (e.g. driving cost efficiencies, centralising IT storage etc)
- Managing the procurement of equipment
About us
We are an award-winning VC backed SaaS platform providing content marketing software to thousands of customers, with high growth plans and a vision to become the number one content marketing platform in the world.
With over 2,000 users globally ContentCal is chosen by leading brands and SMEs for our innovative content planning, collaboration and publishing features.
Requirements
The skills, attributes and experience you must have:
- 2+ years experience managing Credit Control, Purchase and Sales Ledger (Accounts Payable and Receivable) within a SAAS environment
- Curious, proactive, and keen to solve problems
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Real desire to learn and progress quickly
Skills, attributes and experience it would be nice for you to have:
- Active studier (ACCA/CIMA)
- Experience working with Xero, Chargebee, Chartmogul or similar SAAS based platforms
- Demonstratable experience of ‘going above and beyond’ and improving processes
- Experience getting stuck into wider operational projects and process improvement
Find out more about us at ContentCal:
- Website https://www.contentcal.io/
- Culture https://www.contentcal.io/about/our-story/
- Blog https://www.contentcal.io/blog/
- Podcasts https://www.contentcal.io/podcast/
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ContentCal/
- Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-ContentCal-EI_IE2237900.11,21.htm
Benefits
What you get
- A competitive salary (disclosed at screening interview stage)
- Flexible and remote working contracts (depending on the role)
- 25 days holidays excluding bank holidays
- Spaces/Regus office benefits
- Perkbox benefits
- Pension scheme
- Health insurance option
- Company laptop