Job Description
Scale-up Payments Business Central London
£30,000-£35,000 + Study Support
Absolute Recruit is partnering with an ambitious payments scale-up in Central London to recruit an exceptional graduate into its finance team.
This is an opportunity to work closely with experienced finance professionals, take responsibility for business-critical work and build your career through a two-year growth and development plan, with professional accountancy study support.
The opportunity
You'll join a lean, ambitious finance team where your work will have a visible impact. From the outset, you'll help ensure financial data is accurate, transactions reconcile and the business can rely on its daily financial controls.
You'll receive practical training and guidance from two Financial Analysts, giving you the support to learn quickly and develop a strong understanding of how a payments business operates.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Performing daily data and safeguarding reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and following them through to resolution.
- Completing corporate bank reconciliations.
- Monitoring the accounts payable inbox and ensuring invoices are captured in the accounting system.
- Using existing reconciliation tools and checking the accuracy of their outputs.
- Helping identify ways to make processes more accurate and efficient.
Your two-year growth plan
The business wants someone who is keen to develop beyond their starting responsibilities.
Over two years, the aim is to combine hands-on finance experience with supported progress towards a professional accountancy qualification such as ACCA or ACA. You'll build your technical knowledge, develop greater independence and take on more responsibility as your capability grows.
You'll benefit from study support, exam leave and planned preparation time, alongside day-to-day guidance from the finance team. As you develop, there will be scope to explore broader responsibilities within finance and the growing business, based on your strengths, performance and available opportunities.
About you
We're looking for a high-achieving graduate with the curiosity, discipline and ambition to build a career in finance.
- An excellent academic record, including strong A-level results or equivalent.
- Ideally, a first-class degree in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or another analytical or scientific subject.
- Strong numerical reasoning and the ability to spot inconsistencies in detailed information.
- A careful, organised approach and a willingness to investigate when something doesn't look right.
- Confidence learning new systems, utilising AI and working with data.
- A clear interest in professional accountancy study and long-term development.
- High standards for your own work, with the confidence to ask questions and take ownership.
A placement or sandwich year would be valuable, but previous finance experience is not essential. Academic ability, attitude and potential matter most.
What's on offer?
- £30,000-£35,000, depending on experience and academic profile.
- A two-year development plan within an ambitious payments scale-up.
- Professional accountancy study support, including exam leave and preparation time.
- Close support from an experienced finance team.
- Meaningful responsibility early in your career.
- A Central London office.
- Hybrid working: three days in the office and two from home, following an initial three-month office-based training and probation period.
- Working hours of 9:00am-5:30pm.
