Bookkeeper

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Pento is building ✨ the most exceptional payroll experience ✨ for companies and their employees. We're an automated solution that cuts out the time and stress of running payroll for growing businesses. We're also a remote-first company, pushing forward how we work for the better. You can learn more about us in our public handbook, Pento Home.
- Please note this role can be either _
- full _
- or _
- part_
- time, and we're open to this role being based in either the UK or Denmark._

At Pento, we're hiring for a Bookkeeper to help us handle our finance administration for both our UK & Danish (DK) entities. You'll work closely with members of our operations team including our COO Sabrina, RevOps Lead Patrick, & Chief of Staff Lauren, to help us keep the wheels turning and the lights on so we can continue to bring our amazing payroll solution to more and more companies.

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**Our levelling \uD83E\uDE9C**

**The expected salary band for this L1 role is a £30-40k full time equivalent.** Titles and compensation at Pento are dependent on our internal levelling (L1-6), which we'll assess and talk more about throughout the interview process.

**A couple of things to note ✍️**:

- If this you opt for our full time role, you'll also help out with light Executive Assistant duties for our CEO Jonas.
- The nature of this role is such that it will be a little busier at the start of the month whilst closing the previous months' books.

**The role you'll be \uD83D\uDCAC**:

- Manage our finance inboxes (billing, expenses, payroll, payables)
- Processing payments & invoices, reconciling transactions in Xero, and communicating with our external suppliers
- Managing the internal payroll process (fortunately you get to use our proprietary software that makes it a breeze)
- Completing & submitting our UK & DK VAT returns
- Raising sales invoices and manage our accounts receivable process, including liaising with our customers, answering queries and chasing payments.
- Liaising with our external UK & Danish accountants when they're preparing statutory annual filings and year-end processes
- Looking after our month-end close, including our journal preparation processes & preparing our monthly management accounts
- Owning the fixed asset register, and our accruals and prepayment registers, & other internal reporting items
- Ad-hoc support with other logistics and administration

**Why you should be excited about this role at Pento \uD83E\uDD29**:

- We believe in modern, automated finance operations, so you'll get to learn about and use our finance stack, including Pento (of course), Stripe, Xero, Younium, Pleo, Cledara, Google Sheets and other finance tools.
- We're remote-first and a lean team, which means we get involved in a much greater breadth of activities, and have much closer business insights and a greater degree of collaboration than similar roles in other companies.

**Your experience ✨**:

- You've either done a similar role before, or you have a good grounding in accounting (e.g. perhaps you have or are doing an accounting qualification)
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
- Good spreadsheet skills and willingness to get into the details
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles and procedures
- Strong command of written English as you'll be independently liaising with customers & suppliers
- You're happy to work quite independently, & you're self-motivated. Because we’re remote-first, we will trust you to take initiative, making sure that you’re working on the most important thing and communicating effectively
- You're comfortable with some ambiguity and open to trying new tools and processes, and adapting with our business as we grow. We’re not as unstructured as you might think () but we are a start-up and change what we’re doing fast if it’s not working.
- You're happy to use Google Translate to figure out our occasional Danish communications (don't worry, they're fairly rare & we have native Danish speakers we can call on, but sometimes it's faster to Google it)
- ** Bonus**: Proficiency in Xero accounting software

**Working at Pento \uD83D\uDDA5**

Our people-first, remote environment supports our team in adopting flexible and tailored ways of working. You can learn more about who we are and how we like to work over at Pento Home.

Our benefits include:

- An equity option plan so you can benefit from our success
- Flexible working, unlimited time off, and gender-neutral parental leave
- Yearly team summits and a stipend to support travelling to work with colleagues
- Mental health support via Spill, one of our most-valued benefits (rated 9.3/10 by the team)
- The opportunity to join an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory

You can read more about our broader perks here.

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