Accounts Assistant

Job description

💰 £40,000–£45,000 📍 Salary based on London. Other locations may vary. Fanvue is one of the fastest-growing creator monetisation platforms globally. We're an AI-powered, creator-first platform helping creators connect, engage, and earn directly from their audiences at scale. Following our recent Series A, Fanvue has surpassed $200m+ in annual recurring revenue, with triple-digit year-on-year growth, supporting hundreds of thousands of creators and millions of fans worldwide. Behind the product is a finance function that needs to be as fast and reliable as the platform itself. 🎯 The Role We're hiring an Assistant Accountant to own the accounting engine of the finance team: the ledger, the month-end close, and the admin that keeps both clean. Our day-to-day transaction processing is supported by an outsourced bookkeeping partner. You'll own the quality of that work, the reconciliations behind it, and everything between a receipt landing and a number reaching the board pack. Everything else in finance, reporting, forecasting and investor diligence depends on the ledger being right. You'll make sure it is: reviewing what goes in, reconciling what comes out, and closing the month on time. About a quarter of the role is finance admin. It means running the invoice inbox, chasing receipts and keeping supplier records clean, and it's what keeps the numbers right. 🚀 What You'll Do Ledger and close Review and own the ledger in Xero, including our outsourced bookkeepers' work on coding, supplier bills and daily bank reconciliations across GBP, USD and EUR accounts Prepare month-end journals, accruals and prepayments, and the balance sheet reconciliations behind them, so we close by working day 5 with our Finance Manager Keep intercompany balances with our US entity reconciled Reconcile payroll, PAYE and pension control accounts to Rippling each month Prepare the UK VAT return in Xero for review Prepare year-end schedules and answer queries from our external accountants and auditors Finance admin and communication Run the invoice inbox, logging, chasing and routing supplier invoices so nothing reaches the ledger without a document Chase receipts and missing context from colleagues for card spend, and keep receipt compliance high Maintain supplier records and support onboarding, including verifying bank details before anything is paid Be the first point of contact for…