Junior Management Accountant

Orbital is on an exciting mission to revolutionise global cross-border payments by innovatively combining traditional fiat banking rails with stablecoins over blockchain rails for a variety of use cases. Our class leading B2B payments platform offers multi-currency e-money accounts (corporate IBANs) combined with a suite of digital assets services. Our company sits at the frontier of payments & fintech, by intersecting blockchain and traditional (fiat) financial services, and is leading the way to bridging those two worlds for corporate enterprises globally.

We believe blockchain technology is firmly here to stay, and we want to be the first to bring a combined offering of fiat & crypto payment services under one exciting platform. Learn more about our team and company story here.

What is the purpose of this role in delivery of our mission?

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the key function of this role is to ensure all accounting entries are recorded accurately – running Accounts Payable, through to performing our month and year end close for the Orbital Group. Our accounting software is Xero so experience with this package is preferred.

What are the key responsibilities / activities of the role?

• Ensuring all income and expenditure is correctly accounted for within a robust control environment
• Prepare weekly pay-runs
• Bank reconciliations
• Processing Invoices and recording expenses
• Reconciliation of inter-company accounts, including raising any inter-company charges
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Booking review ensuring entries are booked to the correct legal entity
• Assist with publishing timely monthly financial information and variance analysis
• Input to budgets and forecasts
• Assist with the year-end statutory accounts and audit
• Ad hoc project work as required by a growing business

What is the scope of accountability for the role?

• Prepare weekly pay runs
• Balance sheet reconciliation
• Bank reconciliations
• Ownership of key Legal Entities

What are the essential skills, qualifications and experience required for the role?

• Degree level education
• 3+ years of Management accounting experience
• Strong grounding in Accounts Payable
• Strong skills and experience with accounting software (particularly experience in Xero would be viewed favourably)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and Google Workspace
• Strong technical skills and financial reporting knowledge
• A love of data, technology and analytics.
• The ability to contribute individually, as well as part of the team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail
• Able to communicate clearly and confidently both verbally and in writing with an international and diverse team
• Can work independently in a fast-paced start-up environment. Adaptability to change, comfortable with ambiguity and constant change, able to methodically work through complex problems, set priorities and execute against commitments

What are the desirable skills, qualifications and experience that would be beneficial for the role?

• Experience working with Cryptocurrencies would be viewed favourably
• Professional Qualification in Accounting viewed favourably
• Experience of Fintech industry
• Self-starter – able to approach other members of the business to proactively get answers to any questions you might have