Bark.com
About Bark
Bark is the UK’s largest & fastest growing services marketplace, helping people find the right professional for their project in over 1,500 unique categories. The business is comfortably profitable with a proven model but has the feel of a startup with a small team of just over 100 people and most of its work still to do.
We use cutting-edge technology and an extraordinarily talented team of people to solve an age-old problem; how to find the best available professional for any job, every time no matter what the need.
We recently celebrated 6th place in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 of fastest growing private tech companies in the UK. With a presence in eight countries globally and imminent plans for further expansion, you can join us at a genuinely exciting time on this journey.
About the role
We are currently looking for a part or newly qualified accountant in what is an exciting and essential position in the business. You’ll have core technical finance skills, meticulous attention to detail, together with the ability to clearly communicate on month-end, business analysis and operational finance matters. This will be a varied and challenging role so we are looking for someone who either has both the commercial and operational experience of working in finance for a fast-paced, growing business that is trading internationally, or someone who comes from practice.
As our business goes from strength to strength this opportunity will offer a genuine potential to grow with an exciting, young company and be part of a team who are passionate about everything they do. We are an innovative, disruptive business, still at a relatively early stage in its journey – but now with the financial security of an established company – so that you get all of the benefits of working in a start-up environment (ownership, agility, responsibility) but without any of the going concern risks.
Responsibilities
- Assisting with the month-end close along with the monthly group financial reporting
- Group working capital & cash management, including maintaining robust credit control & diligent accounts payable functions
- Daily bank reconciliations along with monthly reconciliation of all card transactions
- Assisting the team with the year-end external audit
- Assisting in the preparation of the annual statutory accounts, including all aspects of FRS102
- Ensuring VAT/GST/Sales Tax compliance in all the jurisdictions that Bark trades in
- Holistic credit-checking-to-cash-receipt process for the group’s international enterprise clients
- Liaising across different departments on a regular basis to understand trends and variances in group trading
- Maintenance of the group’s fixed and intangible asset registers
- Contributing to the maintenance of a robust control environment
- Working cross-functionally to improve efficiency of processes
- Passionate about learning so as to improve your knowledge and expertise
- Suggesting and implementing improvements across the finance function
- General assistance to the team on technical accounting, tax areas, and other ad-hoc projects
Required skills and experience
- Part or fully qualified ACA/ ACCA/ CA, ideally with Top 20 background
- Proficient Excel skills
- Knowledge of Xero an advantage
- Strong written skills and a clear communicator
- Basic or intermediate SQL skills are preferable
- Ability to plan workload along with commitment to deliver against agreed deadlines
- Exceptionally organised with a meticulous attention to detail
- Enjoy working in a team environment with a continuous desire to improve processes
- Prepared to roll the sleeves up
Some of our benefits
- Flexible working policy
- Private health insurance
- Monthly socials and massive parties
- Fully stocked kitchen and weekly team lunches
- Be at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve!
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