Finance & Accounting Analyst

Want to work for one of the UK’s fastest growing fintechs, that’s powering some of the most innovative and well-known consumer investment platforms around today? You might have heard of companies like Crowdcube and Chip - did you know that they use our technology?

At Seccl, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure of investments and advice. Our software allows ambitious fintechs to quickly get to market with innovative investment or advice products - and helps financial advisers and investment managers to build stronger,more valuable businesses, by operating their own investment platform.

If this sounds exciting to you, then Seccl could be the perfect fit. We welcome unique and diverse talent from all backgrounds.

**About the role**

We’re looking for an ambitous Finance Analyst to join our growing team. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference at Seccl. As part of a small finance function you will find yourself getting involved in a variety of tasks from day one, and you’llbe instrumental in helping the team support the business as a whole.

**You’ll be someone who**:

- Is comfortable and enjoys a bit of variety in their daily tasks
- Has strong numerical and analyticalskills
- Has some experience of accountancy rules and concepts
- Is comfortable working independently and to deadlines
- Has good communication skills and uses their initiative
- Constantly looks to improve upon internal finance processes and build efficiency
- Has an interest in automation and analysis

**It would be nice to have...**

The items listed below would be beneficial for the role but are not absolutely critical:

- Experience of the financial services sector - in particular, an understanding of the requirements of an FCA authorised business
- Knowledge and understanding of a regulatory environment
- Some experience of regulatory capital requirements, as well as involvement with FCA reporting and submissions
- Working understanding of Python scripts to analyse data

**What will you be doing?**

As part of a small team you will be getting involved in all areas of the finance function.

This that on a day-to-day basis you will be involved with:

- Budgeting and business planning
- Cash flow forecasting
- Preparing management and statutory accounts
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Payroll
- Regulatory reporting and capital requirement calculations
- Seeking out ways to streamline many of the existing processes, capturing relevant MI and improving the visibility of this to the wider business

The role will enable you to grow as you gain experience.

**Culture & benefits**

We truly value diversity in our workforce, and we’re actively working on becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We write quite a lot about what it’s like to work here at Seccl - genuine flexibility, an inclusive and friendly team, a beautifulBath office, great perks and benefits... we could go on.

But you don’t have to take our word for it. We were recently voted one of the top 100 places to work in the UK by Escape the City.

If you need further persuading, our current eNPS score of 59 shows that 78% of people who work at Seccl selected 9/10 or 10/10 on how likely they would be to recommend us as a place to work.

Some of this is down to our generous benefits, that include...
- All the usual stuff - 27 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays and religious holidays), cycle to work scheme, an extra day off for your birthday, and pension and life assurance policies
- Genuinely flexible working. Come into the office as much or as little as you choose
- Truly inclusive culture where diversity is a top-level objective
- Heavy focus on mental health and wellbeing. Take the time off you need, and make use of our mental health breakout room in the office, as well as free access to therapists and a Headspace subscription
- Strong commitment to continuous learning. We encourage everyone to spend 10% of their time learning new things, and provide free access to over 10,000 online learning courses via Udemy, which you can use for anything you want (whether professionally usefulor not)
- Generous freebies and discounts through Perkbox (which includes Perkbox Medical, giving access to GP appointments), and a subscription to Rakuten for free movie downloads,
- A genuine commitment to delegated team ownership, a flat structure and massive quest for openness and transparency in how we work and share from the Board all the way down
- Beautiful office in the centre of the stunning city of Bath. A stone’s throw (literally) from the train and bus station

We're also part of the Octopus Group - an innovative, £10bn+ group of companies including Octopus Energy, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Investments. Octopus are on a mission to breathe new life into energy and financial services, and improve the lives ofmillions of people, so it’s great to be under their umbrella.

If you’re thinking of joining us or want to find out more about our work culture, you can also check out our Instagram, LinkedIn and Glassdoor pages.

**COVID-19**

Our recruitment process has moved to 'virtual hiring’ only - and we don’t see this changing anytime soon. This will include video interviews and virtual onboarding... stuff that we’ve all become pretty used to over the past eighteen months.

**Like what you see?** Just send your CV to the People team and one of us will be in touch.