Part-Time Finance Operations - Remote

Bold Bean Co; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing finance team in the United Kingdom is seeking a detail-oriented finance professional to manage accounts payable and receivable, ensuring compliance with UK regulations. This role is crucial for maintaining financial integrity, involving month-end processes, budgeting, and leveraging bookkeeping tools. If you are proactive and organized, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Experience managing accounts payable and receivable.
• Familiarity with month-end processes.
• Knowledge of UK VAT and GAAP regulations.

Responsibilities

• Process supplier invoices and ensure timely payments.
• Manage aged receivables and reconcile discrepancies.
• Maintain financial inbox and prepare budget reports.

Skills

Detail-Oriented

Proactive Problem-Solver

Process-Minded

Tools

Xero

Moss

Dext

Job description

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a finance professional who is driven by impact and detail-oriented to help us build a rock-solid, efficient finance function that supports our growth and keeps our numbers in excellent shape.

Your role:

Accounts Payable Management

• Be the go-to person for supplier invoices - processing everything efficiently through our expense management system, Moss.
• Chase up internal approvals, ensure accounting categorisation is spot-on, and get our suppliers paid on time.
• Own the weekly payment run and reconcile bank statements like a pro.
• Keep our Spanish subsidiary in sync by managing AP across both regions.

Accounts Receivable Management

• Keep an eagle eye on aged receivables and chase down outstanding payments.
• Liaise with customers for remittance details and ensure their ledgers balance out.
• Reconcile deductions, debit notes, and other mystery items to keep the AR ledger squeaky clean.

Financial Operations & Compliance

• Help keep teams accountable by sending out budget spend reports each month.
• Prepare and file VAT returns.
• Be the master of the finance inbox - making sure nothing slips through the cracks.

Month-End Processes

• Take ownership of our monthly reconciliations: AR, AP, bank accounts, and online platforms like Shopify.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for Head of Finance review.
• Post key month-end journals, including prepayments and accruals.
• Send out monthly audit trails to budget holders and help keep our numbers audit-ready.

Who you are:

We see the below as a guide for you to see whether you’d thrive at Bold Bean Co with regard to your strengths in behaviours, experience and passions. Of course you may not tick all the boxes (that’s fine) but we’d still love to hear from you if you think you’d be great in our team.

Behaviours:

Detail-Oriented & Diligent: You have a natural instinct to spot inconsistencies and love getting into the nitty-gritty of the numbers. Accuracy is your default setting, and you take pride in delivering work that’s clean, clear, and audit-ready.

Proactive Problem-Solver: You don’t wait to be told - when you see something off, you’re already on it. Whether it’s a mismatched invoice or a late approval, you take initiative and work quickly to get things back on track.

Process-Minded & Organised: You find satisfaction in keeping systems running smoothly. You’re the type of person who keeps the inbox zeroed, the deadlines met, and the files named properly. You know that great finance operations is all about the small details adding up.

Experience that will help in this role:

• Familiarity with bookkeeping tools and finance platforms such as Xero, Moss & Dext
• Comfortable managing core finance processes like accounts payable, payroll prep, or bank reconciliations
• Exposure to month-end processes, including posting journals and reconciling ledgers
• Background working in a finance team in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up
• Knowledge of UK financial regulations i.e. VAT, UK GAAP