Senior Accountant

Summary

Join Primer, a leading unified payment infrastructure company, as a Senior Accountant and play a pivotal role in building our in-house finance function. Oversee key financial cycles, prepare journals, process accounts payable and receivable, maintain general ledgers, and perform monthly and quarterly closing activities. Collaborate with other departments to investigate reporting issues and ensure timely and accurate financial reporting. This role requires 7+ years of relevant experience, exposure to Big 4 audit, and a strong understanding of IFRS. We offer a fully remote work environment, competitive share options, uncapped holiday, co-working space access, and a generous learning budget, among other benefits. We encourage applications from diverse candidates, even if they don't meet every requirement.

Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience in a relevant position at a software or digital service company
• Exposure to Big 4 audit, accounting, and risk reviews
• Previous experience with Revenue Recognition accounting principles for complex and usage-based B2B contracts
• Qualified accountant with strong understanding of IFRS
• A proactive, “can do” attitude and commitment to continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Oversee key financial cycles, including Order to Cash, and Revenue Recognition
• Journal preparation including accruals and prepayments
• Processing AP and updating of ledgers; verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling accounts payable and receivable
• Maintaining general ledgers and end-to-end month end processing, including balance sheet reconciliations
• Performing weekly AR collectability process
• Communicating with Primer's clients for outstanding AR collection
• Performing and driving monthly and quarterly closing activities
• Ensuring statutory accounts are closed in a timely fashion and in accordance with UK GAAP
• Developing internal management accounting reports and providing external audit support; implementing robust financial controls for our entities
• Preparing the business for audit and liaising with external parties
• Partnering with Revenue Operations, People Ops, Treasury, and/or Legal to investigate issues that arise during reporting cycles
• Preparation of VAT returns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience performing analysis (FP&A) in a venture backed and /or SaaS related business environment
• Proficient with NetSuite
• Experience of working with finance systems such as Xero

Benefits

• We are fully remote
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access
• Workations & company retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• ��500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Medical insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)