Accounts Assistant

💰 £40,000–£45,000 📍 Salary based on London. Other locations may vary. Fanvue is one of the fastest-growing creator monetisation platforms globally. We're an AI-powered, creator-first platform helping creators connect, engage, and earn directly from their audiences at scale. Following our recent Series A, Fanvue has surpassed $200m+ in annual recurring revenue, with triple-digit year-on-year growth, supporting hundreds of thousands of creators and millions of fans worldwide. Behind the product is a finance function that needs to be as fast and reliable as the platform itself. 🎯 The Role We're hiring an Assistant Accountant to own the accounting engine of the finance team: the ledger, the month-end close, and the admin that keeps both clean. Our day-to-day transaction processing is supported by an outsourced bookkeeping partner. You'll own the quality of that work, the reconciliations behind it, and everything between a receipt landing and a number reaching the board pack. Everything else in finance, reporting, forecasting and investor diligence depends on the ledger being right. You'll make sure it is: reviewing what goes in, reconciling what comes out, and closing the month on time. About a quarter of the role is finance admin. It means running the invoice inbox, chasing receipts and keeping supplier records clean, and it's what keeps the numbers right. 🚀 What You'll Do Ledger and close • Review and own the ledger in Xero, including our outsourced bookkeepers' work on coding, supplier bills and daily bank reconciliations across GBP, USD and EUR accounts • Prepare month-end journals, accruals and prepayments, and the balance sheet reconciliations behind them, so we close by working day 5 with our Finance Manager • Keep intercompany balances with our US entity reconciled • Reconcile payroll, PAYE and pension control accounts to Rippling each month • Prepare the UK VAT return in Xero for review • Prepare year-end schedules and answer queries from our external accountants and auditors Finance admin and communication • Run the invoice inbox, logging, chasing and routing supplier invoices so nothing reaches the ledger without a document • Chase receipts and missing context from colleagues for card spend, and keep receipt compliance high • Maintain supplier records and support onboarding, including verifying bank details before anything is paid • Be the first point of contact for finance questions from the wider team 👀 Who You Are • 2 to 4 years in a finance team or accounting practice, with at least one month-end close owned end to end • AAT qualified, or studying towards or part-qualified in ACCA, CIMA or ACA. We'll support your studies • Confident in Xero or similar cloud accounting software, and comfortable with large data sets in Excel or Google Sheets • Experience with multi-currency reconciliations and high transaction volumes • Clear, friendly written communication. You'll chase people across the company and keep it pleasant • Fintech, marketplace or payments experience is a strong plus ✨ You'll Thrive Here If • A fully reconciled balance sheet gives you real satisfaction • You chase people for answers instead of waiting • You see the admin as part of getting the numbers right, not a distraction from it • You're comfortable in a startup where things move fast around you, even if your work is methodical • You want to grow into a management accountant or financial controller role as the team scales ⚠️ You'll Struggle Here If • You want to work only on the numbers and see chasing colleagues for receipts as beneath the role • You need heavy supervision or detailed instructions for every task • You're not comfortable working with high transaction volumes daily 🌍 Why Join Fanvue? • Sunday Times Be