Finance Assistant

Diffblue; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic start-up revolutionizing software development with AI. As a part-time Finance Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in our Finance team, gaining hands-on experience while contributing to innovative projects. This position offers the opportunity to develop your career in finance, with support for accounting qualifications. Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including health plans and share options, while being part of a collaborative team that values diversity and growth.

Benefits

Competitive package including share options

Private health and dental plans

8% non-contributory pension

Life insurance & Income Protection schemes

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays

Flexible working

Annual eye tests and contributions towards glasses

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proficient in Excel and general accounting principles.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Booking and coding supplier invoices and completing payment runs.
• Monitoring costs against budget and managing customer invoicing.
• Assisting with month-end transactions and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Excel proficiency

General accounting principles

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Integrity

Education

Qualification in Accounting (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

Department: Finance

Location: Oxford

Description

Description
Diffblue is a fast growing start-up changing the way software is developed using Artificial Intelligence.

We’re looking for a part-time Finance Assistant to join us at Diffblue for 22.5 hours / week (spread across 5 days), reporting to the CFO. This is a remote role with a monthly visit to the Oxford office for company meetings and as needed.

About the role

Diffblue is entering a new stage of growth and we’re looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Finance team. This is a new position and offers you a chance to develop a career in Finance, working as part of an experienced, friendly, professional and high performing team. We would like to support the successful candidate to take on a wide variety of tasks, setting them up to have a strong knowledge base on which they can build their career with us.

You will also have an opportunity to pursue a qualification in accounting via the apprenticeship scheme (if you qualify) or a part contribution towards the course.

What you’ll do

• Booking and coding supplier invoices and completing weekly payment runs
• Ensure invoices are approved for payment
• Monitoring costs against budget
• Customer invoicing and cash collection
• Ownership of expenses and credit cards
• Analysis of monthly aged creditor reports - highlighting and resolving issues
• Assist with recording month end transactions
• Key internal and external stakeholder management and communication
• Maintain good finance documentation that can be searched easily
• Liaise with the outsourced accountants on finance matters
• Ownership of the finance mailbox, dealing with supplier queries
• Improving and implementing processes to drive efficiencies and best practice
• Any others tasks as required suitable for the role
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

These are the skills we’re looking for. Even if you don’t tick every box, but feel you’re right for us we’d still love to hear from you.

• Proficient skills in excel
• Knowledge of general accounting principles
• Good with numbers and great attention to detail
• Well organised and efficient (completer-finisher)
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• At a minimum you should have started your Qualification in Accounting - ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Industry-specific experience or experience in similar Finance Assistant role is requires, while start-up experience is desirable
• Recognise the importance of teamwork, you will be a good team player, always willing to help and support
• Genuinely enjoy what you do that resonates through the positive attitude, the initiative and curiosity that you demonstrate in wanting to learn and contribute
• Open to feedback, proactive, a fast learner, prepared to try new things, improve processes and willing to get your hands dirty
• Due to the nature of this role, high levels of integrity and managing confidentiality is critical
  
  

Benefits

You’ll get to work in one of the hottest tech startups in the world of deep tech AI for code, applying state-of-the-art program analysis and synthesis technology to tough problems faced by development teams at the world’s leading companies. At Diffblue we offer flexible working with regular opportunities to collaborate and meet the team in person in Oxford.

Company benefits include:

• Competitive package, including share options
• Private health and dental plans (including 24/7 virtual GP service, additional cancer care and mental health cover)
• 8% non-contributory pension
• Life insurance & Income Protection schemes (including additional medical, wellbeing support)
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays
• Enhanced family-friendly benefits
• Flexible working
• Annual eye tests and £50 contributions towards glasses
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice - childcare and pension scheme

While we expect the future of work to continue to be a hybrid model working both remotely and in-office, we do have a great environment in our Oxford-based head office, which includes:

• Beautiful open-plan space with lots of natural light.
• Your own dedicated workspace with laptop, dock & monitor.
• On-site shower changing and facilities.

More about Diffblue

We build products that have the potential to improve the experience of every software developer in the world. By using Artificial Intelligence to write unit tests, we are helping teams do more and better testing, sooner in the DevOps pipeline. Our product Diffblue Cover automatically writes unit tests for Java applications using AI, mimicking human-written tests but working 250 times faster than a human – and it never gets bored or makes a mistake. Each time Diffblue Cover runs it creates a new baseline ensuring tests are always up to date without the need for developers to maintain them manually.

Diffblue spun out of the University of Oxford in 2016 and received the largest AI Series A funding in Europe in 2017, and a second funding round in December 2021. We’re backed by the University, our customers and leading venture capital funds. We promote an environment in which we support and learn from each other. We strongly believe that diversity is important for a modern business, and that when different opinions, backgrounds and life views meet, better results are obtained.