Accounts Assistant

Butternut Box; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the pet food industry seeks a Finance Assistant to join their Core Finance function in London. This role provides a fantastic opportunity for a graduate looking to begin their career in finance by participating in financial reporting and process improvement. This is ideal for someone eager to learn and own daily finance operations while engaging with various teams within the organization.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

5 paid learning and wellbeing days per year

£500 personal development budget

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Discounted gym access

Qualifications

• Graduate with an Accounting or similar degree.
• Eager to study towards AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification.
• Accounting experience within the workplace (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Support with weekly and period-end close processes.
• Gain a firm understanding of the drivers of our P&L.
• Own day-to-day finance tasks such as payments and bank reconciliations.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Attention to Detail

Proactive

Education

Accounting or similar degree

Tools

Excel

SAP

Job description

We’re looking for a curious, analytical, and ambitious individual to join our Core Finance function and play a key role in our day-to-day finance operations. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone looking for their first finance role (or early in your career) with plenty of learning, variety, and cross-functional exposure along the way. You will be part of a high performing team and quickly gain a well-rounded view of how the company operates from within a function thatneeds to understand and interact with all aspects of the business.

You’ll report directly to our Management Accountant but collaborate with lots of different teams across Butternut. You’ll be set on a steep learning trajectory, gaining experience incore financial reporting, management information and process improvement.

In this role, you can expect to…

• Support with weekly and period-end close processes.
• Make sure our weekly and period-end reports land with the right people, right on time.
• Gain a firm understanding of the drivers of our P&L, and utilise that to support decision-making across the business.
• Use your analytical brain to dive into data and provide meaningful, clear commentary.
• Get hands-on experience with all parts of the reporting process — from stock and payroll to journals, balance sheet reconciliations, and investor updates.
• Be tasked with improving processes and supporting with our scaling efforts.
• Own day-to-day finance tasks such as payments, expense claim management and bank reconciliations.
• Support the wider Finance team with key projects and other ad-hoc tasks– for example: Audits, VAT returns and international expansion readiness.

A bit about you:

• Graduate with an Accounting or similar degree.
• Excel is your happy place — especially when it comes to building reports or digging into analysis.
• You’re confident challenging the status quo when needed and you will flag if you see something you believe to be wrong.
• You like to understand the 'why' behind any task assigned to you.
• You’re proactive, organised, and bring a keen eye for detail to everything you do.
• You're curious about AI and the impact it will have on Finance in the months and years to come - you're the type of person who will engage with the technology and try to apply it to improve your productivity.
• Eager to study towards AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification.
• Accounting experience within the workplace (nice to have, but not a dealbreaker)
• You’ve worked with SAP or SAP B1 (nice to have, but not a dealbreaker).
• A love for all things dogs!

A bit about us:

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK and Europe - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

• Initial call (30 minutes): Introductory chat with the Talent Team
• Take home task: This will be sent to you via email and will be used to understand your technical skills.
• Technicalinterview(60minutes):Remoteinterviewwhereyou’llbeaskedanumberofscenarioandcompetencybasedquestions.
• Final interview (60 minutes) : In person interviews in our office in White City where we will want to understand how your personal values align with our business values.
• This team works 3 days per week from our West London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) and 2 days from home. This is non negotiable, so please only apply if you’re within a reasonable commute of London.
• Wereservetherighttoclosethepositionifwereceivealotofapplications.We’reasmallrecruitmentteamsodobearwithus-weaimtorespondtoallapplicantspersonally.
• We are not looking for recruitment agency support for this role.
• The role will be open for a maximum of 2 weeks, so we'd encourage you to put in your application as soon as possible!

A bit about what we offer.

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support your learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Co-working office space.
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through My Gym Discounts
• Lots of office dogs(Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

️A few things to note:

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmentalperformance.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

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