Finance Associate - London, United Kingdom - Freetrade

Freetrade
Freetrade
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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We're here to change that.- We're a technology company that brings simple investing to everyone.

We've built a beautiful app to buy and sell shares and ETFs in a fluid, mobile-first experience.- We're building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing.

Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes.- In 2023, we'll be launching across the EU, following our successful launch in Sweden.

We'll also be transforming our product, developing new features and introducing new products.

In the UK, we now have over 1.4m registered users, offering a range of products like the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and our premium plan, Freetrade Plus.

Our growth has all been possible because of the backing of a passionate group of over 15,000 crowdfunding investors. As we've scaled, we've also raised money from world-class growth investors including Left Lane Capital, Molten Ventures, and
- _L_ Catterton.
  • We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog. here._
Please note we are not accepting agency CVs

You will:

  • This role will work cross functionally in the Finance department and have the opportunity to gain broad finance experience and training whilst studying towards professional qualifications. This individual will be expected to execute processes with diligence and attention to detail as well as to utilise their own unique view to enhance the quality of the operational finance environment.
  • Daily cash management and cash flow forecasting built in Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel, including foreign exchange to ensure our subsidiaries are appropriately funded
  • Maintenance and development of periodic liquidity risk monitoring and reporting
  • Ongoing maintenance of bank mandates, administration and banking relationships
  • Ensure bills are accurately recorded and prepare weekly payment runs to ensure suppliers are paid on time
  • Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships with internal budget owners and external vendors and ensure any questions or issues are resolved promptly
  • Responsible for reconciling cash transactions in our bank accounts to our internal records, both during the month and as part of the monthend close process
  • Support with accruals, prepayments and the preparation of audit standard monthly balance sheet reconciliations
  • Working closely with our Senior Financial Accountant to maintain intercompany accounting records
  • Ownership of Finance KPI framework & reporting and monitoring
  • Support the wider Finance team with a range of business processes and tasks when required

About you:

  • 12 years of experience in a similar Finance role and are studying or want to start studying for your professional qualifications either: ACCA, CIMA or ACT.
  • You have strong excel/ IT skills and are interested in learning new systems.
  • You have a high level understanding of Finance risks and processes, and are keen to develop your technical skills.
  • You are a proactive person at work and have a strong sense of ownership
  • You can work independently and thrive in a fastpaced working environment where you can act on, and share ideas.
  • You have a structured and systematic way of working, as well as excellent time management.
  • You have strong attention to detail.
  • You are passionate about Finance and are keen to help and support the team and wider business with project work.
  • Equally capable of delivering independent work with a large degree of self sufficiency as well as collaborating as part of the wider team.

Benefits:


  • We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.
  • You'll have a stake in the company you're building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
About Freetrade

Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable.

We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more.

Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we're hiring.


Department
Finance


Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time


Location
London


Workplace type
Hybrid


Reporting To
Sam Skerrit
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