Trainee Accountant

About Selina

At Selina Finance, our mission is to give people access to the wealth they have in their homes, and we’re doing that by building a next-generation digital lender – starting with a home equity loan product. More than £2tn equity value is locked up in UK homes, while homeowners still need to rely on high-interest rate consumer loans, credit cards or overdrafts. We believe this is unfair and unnecessary. We offer a financing product unlike anything else out there, one that is as flexible as a current account, as affordable as a mortgage, and as easy to apply for as a consumer loan.

We are building an incredible team and culture of high performance, development, reward and recognition, ready for the next phase of our adventure and this is where you come in!

We have quite a few things to be proud of:

🏆 Voted top 30 of ‘Tempos 100 best start-ups to work for 2023’

🌏 We have 19 different nationalities across our London + Manchester offices

🦄 Series B funded by leading VC funds

🦾 Disability Confident Committed employer
🏆 BCorp Certified

✏️ Rated highly in our employee survey on:

✔Workplace Culture

✔Work Life/Balance

✔Employee Recognition

We’re looking for a Trainee Accountant to join our financial team here at Selina and take ownership of the company’s financial reporting. Working alongside Oli, our Senior Finance Manager and working closely with our Co-Founder Hubert, you will be joining a team with a clear mission. Selina is a fast-paced environment and this role will certainly give you exposure and experience to many aspects of the finance function.   

We’re looking for a candidate who has a keen interest in being part of a growing FinTech start-up that is constantly evolving and improving. You’ll have a questioning mindset, and a problem-solving attitude and love working as part of a team, but also thrive when working with freedom and responsibility.   

What will you be doing

• Own the integrity of the company’s financial information by working closely with the Senior Finance Manager to maintain an accurate general ledger

• Manage the month-end close process, ensuring timetables are adhered to and deliverables are met

• Prepare and distribute key management information packs

• Own our Accounts Payable process, reviewing supplier terms and ensuring payment terms are adhered to, optimising our working capital requirements. 

• Manage the monthly payroll process, working closely with other departments to ensure accurate completion (commissions, overtime, bonuses, joiners, leavers etc)

• Research and propose new financial tools and best practices to help scale the finance function

• Work closely with our operations team to complete the daily loan disbursement process

• Manage a number of the reporting processes to our external funders

• Develop an understanding of how our business works and how this is reflected in our data

• Assessing and tracking the quality of data and working with the team to solve issues

• Own the company’s budgeting process - ensuring budgets are kept up to date and reviewed regularly for variances

• Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data

• Assist with the annual audit and R&D tax credit claim process

• Assist with enhancing the internal documentation on FinOps processes

• Establishing strong relationships with other stakeholders across the business to represent the data needs for Financial Operations

What about you, what do you need to bring/have?

• Experience in a finance role with an understanding of finance operations

• Solid understanding of accounting and financial reporting

• You love problem solving, improving processes with an action-driven approach

• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills both written and verbal 

• Have a strong work ethic promoting empathy and accountability

• Strong Excel and analytical skills

Things that would be nice for you to have (please do not let any of these points prevent you from applying):

• Prior experience at a fast paced start-up/scale-up

• Financial or accounting degree or part qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)

• Experience with Xero, Salesforce and Spendesk

What we offer 

Up to £35,000 base salary, dependent on experience

Bi-annual Bonus

Growth Shares

25 days annual holiday

Annual L&D budget and study support for you to pursue an accounting qualification

Cycle to work scheme

3% pension contribution

Monthly socials

Free access to mental health support via Spill 🧠

A choice of benefits that work for you courtesy of our benefits platform, Thanks Ben 🏋️ ❤️‍🩹 

Annual £60 cycle allowance for Santander cycles or Evans (via Thanks Ben)

Our Values 

Our values underpin how we work together as a high-performing team, driving our growth and success.

✅TakeOwnership - We all act as owners. We make decisions in the best interest of the company. We pride ourselves on solving problems, not finding barriers. We have a bias for action; we move fast and we deliver.

🥇CustomerObsessed - We all act as owners. We make decisions in the best interest of the company. We pride ourselves on solving problems, not finding barriers. We have a bias for action; we move fast and we deliver.

🚀DriveChange - We all act as owners. We make decisions in the best interest of the company. We pride ourselves on solving problems, not finding barriers. We have a bias for action; we move fast and we deliver.

💪EmpowerOurTeam - We believe that collaboration and teamwork are the cornerstones of success and we set up our team for great achievements

We are an equal opportunities employer and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

We also welcome and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented categories, and provide feedback to any candidate we interview, even if that feedback is speaking to another candidate being more suitable for the role.