Financial Analyst

present of AI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Encord in London is seeking an entry-level Finance & Legal assistant to support a small finance team with supplier payments, customer invoicing, bookkeeping, VAT returns, expenses, and month-end reconciliations. Precision and timeliness matter in every task.

The ideal candidate has 1–2 years of hands‑on finance or accounting experience, a solid grasp of payables, receivables and invoicing, and a knack for spotting manual steps to improve.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of hands-on finance or accounting experience.
• Solid grasp of payables, receivables and invoicing.
• Comfort with spreadsheets and basic accounting tools.

Responsibilities

• Running supplier payments and customer invoicing.
• Bookkeeping, VAT returns, expenses and month-end reconciliations.
• Spotting manual steps and proposing improvements to workflows.

Job description

Finance & Legal · London · Full-time · Entry level

This role is the operational backbone of a small finance team: running supplier payments, customer invoicing, bookkeeping, VAT returns, expenses and month end reconciliations accurately and on time. A strong candidate has one to two years of hands on finance or accounting work, solid grasp of payables, receivables and invoicing, and real comfort in spreadsheets. The posting also wants someone who spots manual steps and improves them rather than just following them.

How it fits the AI era

The core accounting work stays human in judgment and accountability, but the tools around it are shifting toward AI native finance stacks, which the posting names as an advantage. Much of the routine reconciliation and data entry can be sped up or partly automated, so the value moves toward checking outputs, designing cleaner workflows and explaining numbers to other teams. Accuracy and ownership matter more, not less, when systems do more of the processing.

How it builds AI experience

At a company whose product is data infrastructure for physical AI, this role offers a close view of how a fast growing AI business actually bills, spends and reports. AI experience would come from working with AI assisted finance and spreadsheet tools, improving billing and expense workflows, and learning how finance supports teams building multimodal AI products. Building that means getting hands on with automation in reporting and reconciliation and understanding the company's product enough to partner with the teams around it.

Worth showing

• Bookkeeping and reconciliations
• Accounts payable and receivable
• VAT returns and invoicing
• Spreadsheet and finance tools

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About Encord

A data platform that helps AI teams manage, label and clean the video, sensor and image data that trains robots, self-driving cars and other physical AI systems.