Automata Hiring for Junior Accountant Job at London, England Full Time

Automata is building a world-class automation company and disrupting the Life Sciences industry by creating and deploying fully automated solutions into labs across the world.

We’re changing perceptions that robotics and automation technology is expensive and complex and we’re redefining what it is to ‘work’ by empowering industries to automate previously dangerous, boring and difficult physical work.

The Role

We are looking for an organised and diligent Junior Accountant to own and be responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of bank reconciliations, accounts payable and decentralised spending platform Pleo, among other responsibilities. You will report to our Finance Lead and work very closely with our Finance Manager as well as various teams across the business.

You will have impact from day one and play a key role in supporting a best-in-class Finance function.

This role is not available for 100% remote work, however, we have a hybrid approach to being in the office – 2/3 days per week.

Salary band – £35,000 – £45,000 depending on experience.

The core of your role will involve:

• Bank & Payments: oversee the use of Pleo (both virtual cards and expenses) and manage business cards, manage budgets in our Sunlight L&D spending platform, onboarding and offboarding employees from accounting platforms

• Bank Reconciliations: perform weekly bank reconciliations on Xero, automate the reconciliation process, ensure tax invoices are properly uploaded in the system

• Accounts Payable: be responsible for posting incoming invoices on a weekly basis, assess and improving processes that help the finance team handle the increasing workload

• EOM supplier statements: ensure credit account balances are up to date on a monthly basis and match with supplier records

• System Integration: ensure that the accounting softwares in use talk between each other, investigate integration issues and help integrate new softwares

• Expenses: review and approve employees’ expenses on Xero Expenses/Pleo Pocket, submit for payment on a monthly basis

• Company Policy & Handbook: audit finance ops processes on a regular basis and update the company handbook accordingly to make sure that information is clearly shared across the whole team

• Communication: handle inbound AP & payment questions from team members and redirect them to the right stakeholder when needed

What it takes

• Experience – a good understanding of accounting and bookkeeping experience, knowledge of Xero, Pleo, Spendesk or other similar accounting and spending software

• Accuracy – very organised and with very strong attention to detail, meticulous at e-filing

• Self-starter – proactive, comfortable at setting and taking ownership of their own direction although there will be plenty of guidance and support

• Self-developer – constantly looking for new things and systems to learn and quickly. Finance is continuously developing and the ideal person will need the curiosity to figure things out on their own and get to the bottom of complex problems

• Communication – not satisfied with generic answers, naturally ask lots of questions and keep stakeholders always informed in the most effective way

• Builder – the ideal person will look forward to stress test, improve or re-built processes from scratch to always create something meaningful

• Growth mindset – the ideal person will have scaling in mind in everything they do and be willing to spend time to do things right from the very beginning

We’re passionate about the future of Technology and Robotics and our growing success is built upon like minded individuals who share our passion and want to put their pride in our collective achievements.

We are excited about placing the Finance function at the very core of strategic decision making by understanding products and business operations inside out and by providing timely and impeccable sets of data to key stakeholders.

If this sounds like a good fit, we want to meet you!