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About Smartwyre
Smartwyre delivers commercial software (SaaS) to agricultural input businesses – the manufacturers and distributors of seeds, chemicals and fertilizer. These companies, which range from multinational enterprises to smaller, family-owned retailers, are based in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Our solutions help them manage pricing, incentives and transactional information in order to improve their business performance and better serve the world’s farmers.
Today, Smartwyre consists of a team of approximately 75 full-time professionals organized across our Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Data Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Corporate functions.
We’re a “remote-first” company with core teams in Denver, CO; Raleigh-Durham, NC; and London, United Kingdom. Come join us!
About The Role
Smartwyre is hiring for a Assistant Accountant to join our finance team reporting to the VP of Finance. The role will ensure the smoothly delivery of all accounting activities whilst supporting the VP of finance with key process improvement projects. This is a brand new role and is a great opportunity for someone to joint he VP in building a robust and high achieving finance department to support a growing tech company.
The role does include study support and is based in the office in Farringdon one day per week.
Your Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a month end process that includes reconciliation files and internal reports.
- Be responsible for all Account Payable duties that include posting invoices and actioning approved payments, check expense claims submitted and bank statements.
- Be responsible for all Accounts Receivable duties: raising customer invoices according to the customer contracts and order forms and Credit control;
- Create and develop a Revenue and Contracts file with Deferred and accrued revenue calculations.
- Produce monthly management packs and group consolidation files.
- Produce company forecasts.
- Be responsible for management of all Finance systems and tools.
- Assist in production of next year’s budgets.
- Assist in implementation of a new Finance system.
- Liaise with external accountants in finalising year-end accounts.
- Produce various reports and analysis for the business as required.
- Assist in state tax registrations in the US.
- Be responsible for all tax and compliance submission in a timely manner.
- Be involved in the Global payroll processing.
- Other administrative duties as assigned.
Our Ideal Candidate
You will be an AAT Qualified or PQ CIMA, ACCA or ICAEW accountant. We are willing to offer a study support package to continue working towards becoming a qualified accountant.
Ideally, you will have experience in working for a similar business to Smartwyre; startup/scale up tech company and understand the challenges that come in a fast-paced work environment.
We are a multi entity company and US accounting exposure is required.
We will be implementing a new finance system in the next 12months and experience in implementing/using NetSuite or other ERP systems is beneficial.
You can be based anywhere in the UK however you will be expected to come to the office in Farringdon once a week.
What we offer
Competitive salary
Healthcare
401k contribution match
Remote working culture
We strongly encourage our employees to plan two consecutive weeks away every year. That’s in addition to other time off. You’ll come back more focused, with fresh perspective and new ideas.
Please not we are currently not hiring candidates that reside in any of the following US states: CA, OR, WA, NV, AZ, NY, MA, IL, MI, NJ, CT, OH. However if you are open to relocation the please still apply and include that in your application.
