Finance Controller - Contract at native

About Us:
native is a game-changing marketplace of experiences twinned with a SaaS platform, revolutionising the student experience and student economy for Students, Students' Unions and Advertisers.

Our marketplace of experiences supercharges the university experience for students with an intuitive discovery platform for both native's own proprietary concert touring as well as all other experiences across SUs. 

Our student advertising platform unifies the student advertising landscape, making it easy for advertisers like GoPuff, Converse and BBC Radio 1 connect with student consumers at scale, while providing additional commercial income for SUs.

Inspired by the founder's desire to help students have the best time at university, native truly enriches the lives of students as well as enabling SUs' to reach their potential. It’s what we call the native win-win-win.

We will look to you to:

• Stand up and run systematic cash collection approach for securing accounts receivables / robustly allocating outstanding invoices to bad debt
• Stand up new manual invoicing incorporating campaign reconciliation from internal inventory team
• Stand up new sales team commissions payment process, incorporating CRM data / progress against quota
• Develop robust baseline for accounts payable before shifting vendors on to new payment schedule to smooth cashflow
• Hand off accruals to external finance team to finalise monthly management accounts 
   

You will:

• Hold a chartered accountancy qualification
• Have repeat experience building new finance processes from scratch in fast paced environments 
• Be a systems thinker with a keen eye for detail 
• Understand how data moves around systems - exposure to working with product or engineering teams is a strong advantage 
• Enjoy working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to streamline processes 

4 weeks, 5 days a week, with option to extend on rolling basis

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are actively creating an equitable environment for everyone at native to thrive.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at native. At native, embracing diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.