Financial Control Accountant (8 months FTC)
Griffin
About Griffin
Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.
Our context
We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.
The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.
At Griffin, we want to change this.
Our purpose
We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.
But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.
Our culture
Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.
We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.
The Finance team
You'll be reporting directly to our Head of Finance, as well as working closely with other functions of the business. You will have a real and meaningful impact on the success of the Finance function at Griffin, as we lay the foundations of the future of global financial infrastructure. Our vision is that our Finance team plays a central part of the business, somewhere the Board can rely on to support strategic planning. The team are thought leaders in relation to finance, regulatory, planning and strategic matters.
Who are you
The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:
- An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- 2 or more years experience within a finance department in banking, preferably within the UK
- Strong Excel skills
We’re remote-first, and most of your colleagues will not share an office with you on a day-to-day basis. This means you should also have:
- A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
- A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write )
What will you be doing here?
As the Financial Control Accountant at Griffin, you will...
- Process the month-end accounting (currently in Xero) and produce the monthly management accounts (including the forecast)
- Be responsible for the accounts payable function
- Assist with the processing of monthly payroll
- Process and book approved employee expenses
- Be responsible for VAT submissions on a quarterly basis
- Produce other management information, such as cost centre accounting reports
What can we offer you?
We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.
- 25 days off a year (pro rata) + bank holidays and winter break closure
- Flexible, remote-friendly working - including supporting home office setup
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- Coaching and therapy via our wellbeing partnership with Oliva
- Access to a global network of co-working spaces via Desana
This role will have an annual salary of £55,000 - £70,000 (pro rata), depending on experience.
How do I apply?
Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through our what happens next.
We’re remote-first
We have a small London office in Moorgate, but we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About a third of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London, the rest are full-time remote.
Under representation
Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you