Hybrid Working - Office & Remote
We are Circus Street.
At Circus Street, we partner with global businesses to help people learn better and work smarter. We’ve transformed digital skills training by making it interactive, effective and informed by up-to-the-minute expertise.
Our mission is to create a common digital business language.
Our vision is to modernize education, making it relevant in a world of continuous change.
We make it happen by focusing on two things:
- Our People - Be authentically you at Circus Street. We hold great pride in the diversity of our people and have an environment that is based on trust, inclusivity, personalized wellness and connection that encourages us all to flourish and be our brilliant selves. We are proud to have built an award-winning team from all backgrounds who possess the talent, energy and empathy to bring our vision to life. Hear from our people!
- Our Customers - Getting to know our Customer’s business and crafting a learning journey that achieves their goals, delivers the goods, and cements the learning. We work with more than 200 ‘Fortune 500’ brands around the world, with populations ranging from 1,000-100,000+ users.
Job Purpose
As a key member within a small group finance team, the role is central to accurately processing financial transactions and to assist in providing timely and accurate management information to senior stakeholders.
A Day In The Life
Manage the sales ledger:
- Work with the sales team in UK, NYC, Australia and Singapore to raise invoices
- Proactively inform the sales team to chase for PO’s and Client details if needed to raise future invoice
- Raise appropriate journals to recognise sales in correct month and for any split billing of an invoice
- Work with external credit control team to chase customers for any outstanding invoices
- Escalate significantly overdue invoices to sales team and CFO
- Assist sales team to implement and complete vendor set-up processes
- Maintain Invoice Ledger and estimated payment dates for accurate cash flow planning
- Ensure data going into Salesforce is accurate with signed contracts against opportunities.
Manage the purchase ledger:
- Responsible for purchase ledger, which includes posting supplier invoices and ensuring they are approved in accordance with our financial processes
- Work with the Finance Manager to set up payments of all approved invoices on a weekly basis
- Manage employee expense submission, approval and payment process for all entities
Other Accounting tasks:
- Reconcile bank accounts and credit cards for all entities on a daily basis
- Assist with the payroll process, which includes communicating with external payroll administrator
- Manage the Pension and Benefit schemes (Add new starters, remove leavers & submit monthly payments)
- Manage fixed asset register
- Submit US Sales tax returns on a monthly and quarterly basis
- Work with department heads to manage budgets and expenditure throughout each month
- Monitor the bank balances across all three entities, ensuring sufficient funds are available to pay liabilities
- Assist CFO and FM for internal and external Audits
- Monitor procedures and suggest/implement improvements
Month End Reporting:
- Review budgets for each department and compare to actual costs incurred. Raise any variances to budget with department heads.
- Raise appropriate journals for accruals and prepayments
- Maintain intercompany reconciliation sheets and post journals for each entity accordingly
- Calculate and post Deferred Revenue journals
- Review fixed asset reconciliation report on Xero
- Support Finance Manager with producing monthly Management Accounts, KPI reports and any other reporting requirements
You’re good at:
- Part-Qualified Trainee Accountant studying towards a CIMA/ACCA qualification
- Good communication skills; able to communicate effectively with senior finance and non-finance individuals
- Highly numeric with problem-solving skills
- Advanced level spreadsheet skills and PC literacy
- Driven individual with a desire to improve existing processes
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail whilst meeting deadlines
- Preference for experience with Xero and/or Salesforce
- Knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS
Sounds great doesn’t it?
As part of your employment package with us, we’ll give you access to a huge number of benefits and a wellbeing toolkit that reflects the everyday challenges you may come across, to help support you in all aspects of life, whatever it may bring.
Here is a sneaky peek into the kind of benefits you can expect when joining Circus Street…
Circus Street takes a whole person approach to wellbeing, what this means for you is private health insurance from day one, CBT and Nutritional Therapy as an example - none of this ‘waiting to pass probation nonsense’
We believe rest is super important that’s why you’ll get 30 days leave to use as you wish, plus bank holidays, a Duvet Day, and a 4pm finish on Fridays, as well as working from home 3 days a week.
We offer a fair and competitive package for everyone including pension offering, Cycle to Work tax savings and thousands of retail discounts not to mention all the free wellness and social events.
Learning is ‘our thing’, it’s what we do. Our people love to develop themselves personally and professionally. As well as an excellent management training programme and ambitious goals for each individual, we give everyone 6 personal development days to upskill creatively or professionally and 6 volunteering days to give back to causes closest to your heart, as well as group fundraising events.
We deliver big things for our clients and solve important challenges everyday, and we have fun along the way. We’re a really sociable bunch and we love to spend time together. You’ll find us getting together for crafting, games nights, herbal workshops, pottery and maybe even a spa night! Not your thing? You’ll find us in the pub too.
We’re also proud to be recognised in 2021 as one of London’s ‘Top 50 Mid Sized Companies to work for. Get in touch to find out more.