Junior Finance Assistant

Job description

- **Who we’re looking for:** Someone early in their finance career with solid transactional experience, strong attention to detail and a genuine ambition to develop into a broader accounting role. - **The challenge:** We need someone who can take ownership of core finance processes while working through discrepancies and improving processes in a fast-moving, evolving environment. - **Where you’ll work:** This role will be based in our Hove office 2 days a week 🏢 [**The Tillo Difference**](https://www.tillo.io/the-tillo-difference) We're in the business of rewards and incentives, so we know a thing or two about the importance of giving back. We can't grow as a business without growing as individuals, so we are committed to providing a workplace where passionate, driven individuals can thrive. We value collaboration, trust, positivity, and a willingness to learn - only by working as a team will we reach our goals. We’re the market leader in the UK and are active in a number of other markets including USA, Europe, Australia and India. 🌎 ## Job Summary: The role of Tillo’s Finance Assistant will contribute significantly to building a finance team that is operationally fit for purpose for a fast growing, Private Equity backed FinTech business. Focusing on delivering excellent service to customers, suppliers & business stakeholders. ## **Day to day this role will** - Own daily banking reconciliations across group bank accounts in GBP, EUR, USD, and multiple other currencies, spanning several legal entities - ensuring bank balances are understood and accurate, payments are made on time, and inter-company transfers are coded correctly - Process and reconcile multi-currency transactions at pace, applying sound judgement - Produce monthly fixed and variable sales invoices across the group, ensuring billing is accurate, timely, and reconciled to the underlying revenue data - Serve as a trusted first point of contact for finance queries from customers partners, and internal teams - investigating the root cause of discrepancies and implement process change if needed - Manage accounts payable and receivable across multiple entities, keeping ledgers clean and suppliers and customers informed - Take full ownership of monthly balance sheet reconciliations across all assigned accounts. You'll be expected to understand what each balance represents, why it moves, and what an anomaly might signal. Where differences arise, you'll dig in, identify the source, and drive resolution - Prepare month-end journals with accurate supporting schedules and have a clean understanding of the period they relate to - Support internal and external audit processes with well-organised reconciliations, schedules, and documentation - Play an active role in process improvement across the finance function. You'll be joining a finance team that is actively using AI to remove friction from day-to-day processes - so that the team spends less time on the manual and more time on the meaningful. ## **What we’re looking for** **Essential:** - Hands-on experience in a transactional finance team, with exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency environments - Proficient in Microsoft Excel. Experience with cloud-based financial systems (e.g.Xero, NetSuite, Sage, or similar). - Sharp eye for detail — you spot what doesn't add up, you follow it until you understand why, and you don't sign off on something you're not satisfied with - Well-organised and deadline-driven - A proven problem-solver when it comes to reconciliations — you're comfortable sitting with complexity, working methodically through it, and documenting what you found and how you resolved it - Solid grounding in monthly and year-end accounting processes, with the experience to work through them accurately and with minimal supervision - Genuinely invested in your own development and in the people around you —we're building a team that pushes each other forward, and we want someone who contributes to that culture **Desirable:** - AAT Level 3 desirable - Experience within a high volume, high growth or dynamic environment # Benefits We offer all our employees trust and empower our team to work with flexibility and autonomy. We’re a close-knit team and love working collaboratively, with our hybrid model, our team can come together at our fantastic office in Hove, but also focus in their own space. The Tillo team are a motivated bunch and we all work hard to push Tillo forwards, always innovating. We completely understand the importance of work/life balance and offer a supportive and collaborative working environment with the following benefits: - Enhanced annual leave of 26 days per annum (plus an additional day for your birthday 🎂) - Private Medical care through Bupa - Employee Incentive Scheme - Access to Tillo’s Storefront with discounts & gift card vouchers - Hybrid Working - Top spec equipment including laptop, mouse, keyboard, monitor - Anniversary gifts - Monthly breakfasts, drinks, snacks and events - Team Learning & Development budget ## **About Tillo** Tillo makes gift cards, rewards, and incentives simple, efficient, and profitable. Operating in over 37 markets and 25 currencies, Tillo processes billions in gift card transactions through a single, plug-and-go API, powering rewards and incentives for the world’s leading businesses. Backed by Tenzing, Tillo is setting the global standard for digital gift card infrastructure. **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement***We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.*