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About the Role
We are looking for a Trainee Accountant to join our financial team. This role offers exposure to many aspects of the finance function in a fast-paced, evolving FinTech start-up. The ideal candidate will have a questioning mindset, a problem-solving attitude, and enjoy teamwork while also thriving with autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrity of the company’s financial information, working closely with the FinOps Accountant to maintain an accurate and well-controlled general ledger
- Manage the month-end close process, ensuring timetables are adhered to, and key deliverables are completed accurately and on time
- Prepare and distribute key management information and reporting packs, providing clear insight into financial performance
- Own our Accounts Payable process, reviewing supplier terms, ensuring payment terms are adhered to and helping optimise our working capital requirements
- Manage the monthly payroll process, working closely with other departments to ensure the accurate processing of commissions, overtime, bonuses, joiners and leavers
- Support the Finance and Capital Markets teams in managing our ongoing requirements with external funding partners, including regular reporting, reconciliations and responding to funder information requests
- Take an active role in the management and ongoing development of our loan tapes, helping ensure loan-level data provided to funding partners is complete, accurate and delivered within agreed timelines
- Develop a strong understanding of our funding structures, loan portfolio and funder requirements, building exposure to the capital markets side of a growing FinTech lender
- Work closely with our Operations team to support the daily loan disbursement process and ensure transactions are accurately reflected across our financial and funding data
- Develop a detailed understanding of how our business operates and how this is reflected across our financial and loan-level data
- Assess and monitor data quality, investigating discrepancies and working with teams across the business to resolve issues at source
- Own the company’s budgeting process, ensuring budgets and forecasts are kept up to date and regularly reviewed against actual performance
- Reconcile transactions and data across our financial systems, identifying and correcting discrepancies
- Research, test and implement new financial tools, including AI and automation solutions, to improve the efficiency, accuracy and scalability of Finance and Capital Markets processes
- Identify repetitive or manual processes across the finance function and proactively explore opportunities to automate them, helping the team spend more time on analysis and decision-making
- Assist with the annual audit and R&D tax credit claim process
- Help develop and maintain clear internal documentation, controls and procedures across Finance and FinOps processes
- Establish strong relationships with stakeholders across Finance, Capital Markets, Operations and the wider business, representing the data and reporting needs of the finance function
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Excel
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Problem-solving
Location
- London
- Manchester
Work Type
- Full-time
- Work-from-anywhere
Experience Level
- Trainee
Education Level
- Financial or accounting degree or part qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
Salary/Compensations
- £35,000–£40,000 gross per annum
Benefits
- 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Additional 1 day off for every two years with the company
- 30 days’ work-from-anywhere allowance
- Bi-annual Bonus (discretionary)
- Health Cash Plan
- Volunteering allowance
- Growth Shares
- Annual L&D budget
- Cycle to work scheme
- 3% pension contribution
- Monthly socials
- Free access to mental health support
- Benefits platform, ‘Thanks Ben’
- Annual £60 cycle allowance for Santander cycles or Evans (via ‘Thanks Ben’)
- Workplace Nursery Benefit
About the Company
- Selina Finance's mission is to provide exceptional value with simple and flexible financial products by building a next-generation digital lender targeting homeowners across the UK.
- Voted as ‘one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK’ by Business Leader Growth 500 for 2025
- Voted top 30 of ‘Tempos 100 best start-ups to work for 2023’
- BCorp Certified
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring 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 that cannot be shown to be justifiable.
- We also welcome and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups and provide feedback to all candidates we interview, even if that feedback suggests another candidate may be a better fit for the role.