Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Work from home, but some office time may be required (London)
Salary: £38,000-£45,000 (depending on experience)
Purple Goat is an award-winning, ground-breaking marketing agency dedicated to connecting brands with the 1.3 billion people across the globe that have a disability. Over 50% of the team at Purple Goat have a disability, and we of course encourage applications from candidates with a disability, lived experience, or otherwise, for this role.
With clients including Strongbow, Starling Bank, Tesco, Google, TUI, BT and many more, we are looking for a Finance Manager to join the agency and help build out our Finance team.
We are looking for a part-qualified accountant to solely run the finance function for Purple Goat. This stems from day-to-day operational finance tasks including AR and AP processes to completing the full month end process. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn all processes involved in running a finance function for a business, reporting directly into the Operations team. Despite no direct Finance line manager within Purple Goat, support will be provided by the Goat UK Finance Team.
Daily responsibilities:
* Accounts Payable full process – setting up suppliers, creating and sending out purchase orders, receiving invoices, handling supplier queries and running weekly supplier payments.
* Accounts Receivables – client setup, debtor management (invoicing and chasing, and weekly debtors meeting with COO to provide status updates)
* Responsibility for production of end-to-end monthly reporting for Purple Goat, including meetings with the Purple Goat team to determine monthly revenue and margin, allocation and calculation of costs, and certain balance sheet reconciliations.
* Production of monthly accounts with commentary where necessary.
* Production and communication to the relevant individuals within the business of reconciliations to ensure the accuracy of reporting (including Accrued/Deferred Revenue, Campaign Costs, Intercompany)
* Supporting the wider Purple Goat team with ad-hoc queries and requests where required.
Required experience to apply:
* Part-Qualified Accountant
* Strong attention to detail
* Problem solver with the ability to improve processes/ways of working in a relatively fluid environment
* Ability to work independently
* Proficient in Microsoft Excel
Culture and Benefits:
* Work from home
* Work from home set up allowance
* Performance based rewards - appraisals every 6 months to discuss career progression
* Company and Individual training opportunities to support with your personal development
* Company laptop
* Wellbeing allowance
* Work and Social team events - in-person events
* Loyalty holiday allowance accrual