📍Philippines
Finance Assistant

Ably
📍Remote - United Kingdom
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Summary
Join Ably's growing Finance team as a Finance Assistant! You will manage bookkeeping, handle invoicing and payments, assist with payroll and expenses, and reconcile financial accounts. You'll contribute to the month-close process, strengthen financial controls, and support financial analysis and reporting. This role requires proven experience as a Finance Assistant, strong accounting software skills, and excellent attention to detail. Ably offers a remote-first and flexible work environment, along with equity, enhanced holiday and parental leave, a home workstation budget, a personal learning and development budget, private healthcare, and more.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Finance Assistant, Bookkeeper or similar role, ideally in a fast-growing startup or scaleup environment
- Hands-on experience with accounting software (e.g. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, or similar)
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in all tasks
- Strong time management skills, with the ability to work independently and autonomously
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with the immediate and wider team
- A proactive attitude, with the ability to identify problems and provide solutions
- A commitment to maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive financial data responsibly
Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage bookkeeping. You’ll be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, fixed asset register and preparation of VAT/OSS returns
- Handle invoicing and payments. You’ll maintain revenue records, process customer and supplier invoices and ensure timely payments. You’ll also support and assist customers with invoicing and billing queries
- Assist with payroll and expenses. You’ll support payroll administration, ensuring staff wages are processed accurately and on time, and review employee expenses in line with company policies
- Reconcile financial accounts. You’ll regularly reconcile bank statements, credit card statements, and other financial accounts to ensure accurate reporting
- Contribute to month-close process. You’ll support month-close reporting activities and gain exposure to annual accounts preparation
- Strengthen financial controls. You’ll help maintain and improve financial controls, ensuring compliance with internal processes and accounting standards
- Support financial analysis and reporting. You’ll provide ad-hoc support to the wider Finance team with financial analysis, reporting business insights to contribute to data-driven decision-making
- Optimize finance systems. You’ll help to maintain and enhance the company’s finance tools and software, improving workflows and team efficiency
Benefits
- A remote-first and flexible work environment. UK-based teams come together in person once per month in our London hub (next to Old Street) and we get together as a company twice per year. Aside from that, you’re welcome to work wherever suits best for you
- Equity. We’re a growing start-up and we want all team to members to share in the success of the company through our EMI share options programme
- Enhanced holiday allowance. Our policy provides Ablyans with 28 days of paid annual leave (27 regular days, plus a day off to enjoy your birthday)
- Enhanced parental leave package, so that you can take the time you need to get to know your new family member, rest and recover
- Home workstation budget of £500 on joining (and £150 p/a thereafter), so that your home office is set up to serve you well and that you have everything you need to work comfortably
- Personal learning and development budget of £1000 annually, and 5% L&D time during working hours to focus on improving your skillset
- Private healthcare with BUPA
- Medical cash plan to cover a range medical and dental costs
- Mental wellbeing coaching and counselling from Self Space
- Monthly wellbeing budget via Juno
- Life assurance and income protection
- Access to Tech & Cycle to Work schemes
- Weekly snack allowance for our end-of-week “Need To Know” meeting
- A fully-paid one-month sabbatical after five years with Ably
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