eCommerce Accounts Assistant – eClarity

HyperGrowth Recruitment; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 31,500 - 38,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote working

Career development and training

Social events

Job summary

HyperGrowth Recruitment is excited to present an opportunity with eClarity for an eCommerce Accounts Assistant. This remote position supports the eCommerce Finance Manager and focuses on precise bookkeeping to provide clients with real-time financial visibility.

The ideal candidate will have a part-qualified accounting background, advanced Excel skills, and experience in a fast-paced DTC/e-commerce environment. eClarity offers a rewarding salary up to £35K and promotes career growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience reporting into an HOF/FD/CFO.
• Experience working within a Retail, Marketplace or DTC/e-commerce business.
• Experience using finance platforms relevant to the industry.

Responsibilities

• Support in auditing client finance functions.
• Daily bookkeeping and reconciliations.
• Build client relationships to minimize requests.

Skills

Attention to detail

Advanced Excel skills

Problem-solving

Continuous process improvement

Relationship building

Education

Part Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

MS Excel

e-commerce / wholesale / finance platforms

Job description

Company Overview

We've partnered with the exciting ecom finance agency, eClarity, as we search for an eCommerce Accounts Assistant to join their scaling team!

eClarity are a remote ecommerce accounting and advisory company, supporting some of the fastest growing and most disruptive brands in the industry currently overseeing a global DTC portfolio of over 700m USD supporting brands such as The Essence Vault, Spacegoods, Druids Golf, Vanquish Fitness, 47 Skin and many many more. In addition, eClarity has raised over 100m USD in debt/equity financing for its portfolio companies over the past number of years. We are building the best DTC finance people in the globe and are a market leader globally in the space.

Depending on the size of our client’s business we deliver our support in a number of ways, from providing fractional CFO services, working hand in hand with the Founder/ C Suite on strategy to a fully outsourced finance function, where we handle all the bookkeeping, payroll, taxes, cross border expansion, FX management, cost management, forecasting, fund raising, commercial advisory, banking structure and more. eClarity is a one stop shop for DTC brands globally to get their finances in order and get strategic financial support.

About the Role

As an eCommerce Accounts Assistant, you will be supporting the eCommerce Finance Manager, ensuring that all bookkeeping is clean, accurate and fully reconciled. Bookkeeping is the foundation of what we do and we obsess over the detail. We strive for real time reporting so that we can give clients financial visibility throughout the month and not just at month end.

We strive for automation and continuously seek improvement efficiencies in everything we do, minimising menial manual processes as we go.

You would be joining us to help with all these things: getting stuck in to build amazing brands, agencies and grow our clients to the next level, unlocked from the solid financial foundations you help them build, turning finance into a really valuable function that gives our clients accuracy, visibility and strategic direction enabling them to make informed decisions at pace. At the same time, you’ll help define, refine and grow our own financial capability, here at eClarity.

Responsibilities

Client Facing

• Support in auditing client finance functions, making recommendations how to improve
• Daily bookkeeping and reconciliations – striving for accuracy
• Enable the business to provide clients with real time reporting – no backlog of transactions
• Build client relationships, minimising client requests so that we can give them their time back
• Review and improve financial processes and controls, encouraging automation efficiencies where possible.
• Support and preparation and delivery of enhanced management accounts and commentary.
• Preparation and delivery of daily, weekly, monthly cash flow reporting.
• Input/support in client fundraising projects.
• Support in the preparation of financial models, budgets and forecasts.
• Input/support in building financial models, budgets and forecasts.
• Ad hoc modelling exercises to support pricing or cost‑saving decisions.
• Replay findings and recommendations back to clients in a way that they understand.

Internal

• Ensuring the accuracy of client invoicing, automating where possible.
• Input / support the credit control process ensuring debtor days are kept within tolerance.
• Input/support in financial performance analysis and recommendations.
• Uphold the company brand and the company values & behaviours.
• Respond quickly to internal requests, setting the standard for internal stakeholder management.

Candidate Profile

• Excellent attention to detail and passion for problem‑solving
• Advanced Excel skills with experience of building and working with complex models and large data sets
• Focuses on continuous process improvement, and driving efficiencies
• Demonstrates a commercial mindset, and understanding of business
• Able to build strong relationships, both with the wider Finance team globally and throughout the business
• Ability to be flexible to changing demands within a fast‑paced business environment

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience reporting into an HOF/FD/CFO
• Part Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Hungry, determined and passionate about making an impact and driving results
• Experience of working within a Retail, Marketplace or DTC/e-commerce business
• Advanced MS Excel and IT skills (familiarity with graphs, VLOOKUPS and Pivot tables)
• Experience of working with scale up organisations
• Experience using e‑commerce / wholesale / finance platforms
• Rewarding salary up to £35K + benefits
• Flexible remote working, you can be based anywhere in the UK!
• Lots of potential for career development and training
• Fun and friendly team with regular socials & opportunity to travel to meet clients
• Opportunity to be a part of one of the fastest growing ecom finance agencies in the UK!