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Financial Controller

About Apron

Apron was started by a group of people who’d spend years building products for global fintech companies. But there was one big problem no one was solving. Business payments. The kind that buy tomatoes, tools, and till rolls. The kind that keep suppliers happy and business booming. The kind that should be super simple to make and manage, and yet, aren’t. Payments eat up valuable hours every week for both businesses and the accountants and bookkeepers who help them.

This is a problem that’s affecting entrepreneurs. Florists and financial analysts. Brewers and brand strategists. The kind of people who build things, break things, change things. Imagine what they could do with this time instead. What would they come up with? What would they create?

That’s why we built Apron as a payments powerhouse. We flip the payment experience from blocking business to boosting it. Apron pulls all things payments together – weaving into your workflow, collating conversations, turning hours into minutes. So you can put those hours to better use – plan the future, take a walk, call your mum.

We are backed by Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation of Visionaries Club and the founders of Melio and Klarna.

Who we’re looking for

Apron’s in house finance function is just getting started, it aims to enable and safeguard the business as it grows and scales at pace, before that though it needs humble, passionate and team players, who share our values, to come on board for the journey.

We’re building it from the ground up and that means there’s all sorts of varied tasks to get stuck into, your priority will be ensuring financial control is built with solid foundations, which can be scaled as the Group is formed and expands. This will focus on reporting, controls, audits, management reporting and regulatory compliance and reporting.

Initially it will be a small team, you’ll manage one accountant and report into our finance lead, whilst also working closely with the Finance Strategy specialist on future proofing the business. The team will likely grow with the business, assuming we all make sure of its future successes. All of this means we really believe it's an exciting time to join and develop yourself with both the team and company.

We’re therefore looking for hungry and highly ambitious finance individuals who want variety, exposure and the ability to shape the future path of the function as it scales, whilst maintaining strong day-to-day core controller responsibilities.

What you’ll be doing

Financial Reporting and Control, preparing and reviewing monthly financials, preparing annual financial statements, building control processes and handling audits;
Management Accounting, reviewing and approving journal entries, substantiations and reconciliations;
Reconciliation reviews will be key, these will come in the form of both Safeguarding (CASS) Regulation and key material items, such as Revenue;
Own intra group accounting, consolidation and group reporting from end-to-end.
Operational Finance tasks, such as, approving pay runs, reviewing & approving payroll and drafting policies from accounts payable and much more.
They’ll be a number of automation projects in the future too, get ready to roll your sleeves up and get stuck into these.
What’s an accountancy role without tax, corporation tax, VAT, payroll and more taxes are all in scope;
Own, with the finance lead, the annual audits process, providing the goods to our auditors when required;
Coach, manage and develop finance staff members at all times;
All of the above and more require processes to be drafted and implemented, your opinion counts when shaping massively how these look.

What you'll need

Must-have

5+ years of experience in Financial Control or Reporting Roles.
You should be a qualified accountant with post qualification experience.
FCA Regulation, specifically Safeguarding or CASS experience is crucial.
Experience working with Xero is also important.

Nice to have

Background in Payments / Tech / Regulated entities is nice but not essential.
Prior experience in aspects of corporate tax reporting is nice but not essential.
Basic SQL knowledge is nice but not essential.
Exposure to Group Structures and their reporting/ consolidation will definitely help.