Founder Associate (accounting background)

Mayday; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options from day 1

Opportunity to travel to Australia and North America

Co-working membership for remote days

Job summary

A dynamic accounting-tech startup is seeking a versatile individual for a generalist role spanning sales, operations, and product insight. This position offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with customers and manage key operational projects while being part of a high-growth SaaS environment. Candidates should have firsthand accounting experience, strong organizational skills, and an eagerness to contribute to customer-driven product decisions. The role comes with a competitive salary of £50-80k and the potential for share options.

Qualifications

• First-hand experience of accounting problems.
• Ability to juggle many tasks efficiently.
• Eagerness to engage in sales conversations.

Responsibilities

• Run product demos and lead sales meetings.
• Own the internal finance function at Mayday.
• Manage various operational projects as needed.
• Support partnership developments with accounting platforms.
• Feed customer insights into product roadmap.
• Build personal and company profile online.

Skills

Experience as an accountant or finance professional

Highly organised and detail-oriented

Excitement about sales and customer conversations

Strong relationship building skills

Curiosity about software products

Proactive and self-starting attitude

Job description

We're an accounting-tech startup building automation and AI to eliminate the tedious manual spreadsheet-based work that haunts in-house finance teams every single month. We serve the mid-market end of SMB: in-house finance teams of 2–10 people. Our mission is to mend month end and enable real-time accounting.

We recently passed £1m ARR and are growing fast after four years in market, doubling our revenue in 2025. We’re in a phenomenal position as category leaders — evidenced by our strategic partnership with Xero and winning Xero’s Global People’s Choice Award, ahead of 1,200+ connected solutions. Our team spans the UK, Australia and South Africa, with the UK and Australia as our largest markets and North America now opened up as a growth focus.

We’re founded by experienced entrepreneurs and backed by elite investors, we’re doubling the team to 24 as we accelerate the next phase of growth.

The Role

You’ll report directly to and work closely with David, our CEO. This is a true generalist role and one of the broadest positions in the company — spanning sales, operations, partnerships, product insight and elements of marketing.

You’ll be at the centre of the business, getting hands‑on exposure to how a high‑growth SaaS company actually operates day to day. The scope will evolve as we grow, but the core of the role is simple: help move the business forward, fast.

For the right person, this will be a genuinely career‑shaping role, with significant responsibility, autonomy and learning from day one — and huge scope to carve out your own path as Mayday scales.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Running product demos and sales meetings (primarily via video) with in‑house finance teams and accounting firms, and converting them into paying customers
• Owning Mayday’s internal finance function
• Taking ownership of a wide range of operational projects as they arise — for example:
• Intellectual property protection
• Selecting and implementing an HR system
• Putting a spend management system in place
• Supporting the development of partnerships with accounting platforms we integrate with, and complementary solutions serving the same customer base
• Feeding customer insight directly into product decisions, helping shape our roadmap as we continue to develop the product
• Building your profile (and Mayday’s) through LinkedIn content, speaking at events and on webinars, and community activity

About You

• First‑hand experience of the problems we solve — you’ve worked as an accountant or finance professional, are fluent in debits and credits, and genuinely enjoy accounting as a discipline
• Highly organised and detail‑oriented, able to juggle many moving parts without dropping the ball
• Excited by sales and customer conversations — you don’t need formal sales experience, but the idea of selling energises you rather than scares you
• A strong relationship builder, comfortable working with customers, partners and internal stakeholders
• Curious and enthusiastic about great software products, and how technology can transform finance teams
• Proactive, self‑starting and hungry to learn — you seek out responsibility and enjoy being stretched

The Details

• Salary £50-80k depending on skills and experience;
• Share options from day 1;
• 1-2 days a week (including Fridays) in person in Central London. We will provide co‑working membership for the remaining days if needed;
• Opportunity to travel to Australia and North America at least once a year
• The global nature of the team plus time differences mean that some degree of early morning or evening calls is unavoidable. We will make sure the weight of those is borne evenly between you and the relevant Australian / South African team members.

Next steps

Please:

• Get in touch [e-mail] (applications via LinkedIn will not be reviewed)
• Include the role in the subject line of your email
• Attach an up‑to‑date CV that includes a link to your LinkedIn profile

In your email, please answer the following questions:

• What excites you about Mayday as a company?
• What excites you about this role?
• Why do you think you’re a great fit for this role?