Accounts Assistant

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>💰 £40,000–£45,000</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>📍 Salary based on London. Other locations may vary.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Fanvue is one of the fastest-growing creator monetisation platforms globally. We're an AI-powered, creator-first platform helping creators connect, engage, and earn directly from their audiences at scale. Following our recent Series A, Fanvue has surpassed $200m+ in annual recurring revenue, with triple-digit year-on-year growth, supporting hundreds of thousands of creators and millions of fans worldwide.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Behind the product is a finance function that needs to be as fast and reliable as the platform itself.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>🎯 The Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring an <strong>Assistant Accountant</strong> to own the accounting engine of the finance team: the ledger, the month-end close, and the admin that keeps both clean. Our day-to-day transaction processing is supported by an outsourced bookkeeping partner. You'll own the quality of that work, the reconciliations behind it, and everything between a receipt landing and a number reaching the board pack.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Everything else in finance, reporting, forecasting and investor diligence depends on the ledger being right. You'll make sure it is: reviewing what goes in, reconciling what comes out, and closing the month on time. About a quarter of the role is finance admin. It means running the invoice inbox, chasing receipts and keeping supplier records clean, and it's what keeps the numbers right.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>🚀 What You'll Do</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Ledger and close</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review and own the ledger in Xero, including our outsourced bookkeepers' work on coding, supplier bills and daily bank reconciliations across GBP, USD and EUR accounts</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prepare month-end journals, accruals and prepayments, and the balance sheet reconciliations behind them, so we close by working day 5 with our Finance Manager</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Keep intercompany balances with our US entity reconciled</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reconcile payroll, PAYE and pension control accounts to Rippling each month</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prepare the UK VAT return in Xero for review</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prepare year-end schedules and answer queries from our external accountants and auditors</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Finance admin and communication</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run the invoice inbox, logging, chasing and routing supplier invoices so nothing reaches the ledger without a document</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Chase receipts and missing context from colleagues for card spend, and keep receipt compliance high</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Maintain supplier records and support onboarding, including verifying bank details before anything is paid</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Be the first