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About the Role
Apollo Research is an AI safety organization focused on the detection, science, and mitigation of scheming. We collaborate closely with frontier AI companies and foster a culture of truth-seeking, goal-orientation, constructive feedback, and helpfulness. This role is central to evolving the finance function as the business scales, offering significant exposure and a clear path to Financial Controller.
Responsibilities
- Run day-to-day financial operations, including Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.
- Process and match supplier invoices, card expenses, and bank receipts and payments.
- Prepare supplier payments.
- Onboard customers and suppliers, maintaining up-to-date metadata.
- Invoice customers and manage collections.
- Run accounting and reporting processes, including establishing a repeatable monthly close.
- Prepare manual journals and accounting judgments for accruals, prepayments, accrued and deferred revenue, payroll, intercompany, and project accounting.
- Prepare supported reconciliations for every balance sheet account and maintain a quantified risks and opportunities list.
- Produce a monthly financial pack including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements with variance analysis.
- Deliver cash visibility by preparing a weekly 13-week direct cash forecast and reconciling it to actual bank movements.
- Support the Head of Finance in building effective systems, processes, and controls.
- Eliminate, simplify, and automate manual work, processes, and controls at scale, leveraging AI agents and automation.
- Document critical workflows to ensure knowledge transfer.
- Manage the finance tech stack and support the implementation of new systems.
- Manage compliance, supporting the Head of Finance in ensuring adherence to relevant laws and regulations across all jurisdictions.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA) with at least two years' post-qualification experience at a small, UK company.
- Proficient in reasoning through cut-off, accrued and deferred revenue, accruals and prepayments, payroll, and project accounting.
- Experience running monthly closes end-to-end to working day five, with supported reconciliations for every balance sheet account.
- Experience producing multi-dimensional management accounts with variances to budget.
- Practical experience of intercompany accounting and consolidation.
- Experience working with at least one overseas entity (US preferred).
- Knowledge of UK statutory reporting.
- Experience building, materially improving, or repairing a finance process, control, or set of books.
- High-agency, first-principles problem-solving ability.
- Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
- Experience processing invoices, card receipts and bills, and cash receipts and payments.
- Systems-thinking approach to finance.
- Fluent in a cloud ledger (Xero, QuickBooks Online, Campfire, Light, Rillet, or DualEntry).
- Strong spreadsheet skills.
- Ability to validate integrations, imports, mappings, and automated outputs.
- Exceptional attention to detail, integrity, and strong numerical ability.
- Tenacity in follow-up and clear communication with non-finance colleagues.
Skills
- Financial operations
- Accounting
- Reporting
- Compliance
- AI agents
- Automation
- Order-to-Cash
- Procure-to-Pay
- Record-to-Report
- Cash flow forecasting
- Financial systems implementation
- Cloud ledger proficiency
- Spreadsheet proficiency
- Data validation
- Intercompany accounting
- Consolidation
- UK statutory reporting
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-person
- Flexible hours
- Some WFH arrangements
Experience Level
- 2+ years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA)
Salary/Compensations
- £107,000–£145,000
Benefits
- Market competitive salary
- Competitive benefits
- Flexible work hours and schedule
- Unlimited vacation
- Unlimited sick leave
- Up to six months of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings with competitive employer matching
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays
- Paid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences
- A yearly $1,000 (USD) professional development budget
About the Company
- Apollo Research is an AI safety organization that works on the detection of scheming (e.g., building evaluations), the science of scheming (e.g., model organisms), and scheming mitigations (e.g., anti-scheming and control).
- We work closely with multiple frontier AI companies.
- At Apollo, we aim for a culture that emphasizes truth-seeking, being goal-oriented, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and being friendly and helpful.
- We're a team of ~35 in London and Europe, opening a new office in San Francisco, and growing fast.
Equal Opportunity
- Apollo Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
- We are committed to protecting your data, ensuring fairness, and adhering to workplace fairness principles in our recruitment process.
- To enhance hiring efficiency, we use AI-powered tools to assist with tasks such as resume screening. These tools are designed and deployed in compliance with internationally recognized AI governance frameworks.
- Your personal data is handled securely and transparently.
- We adopt a human-centred approach: all resumes are screened by a human and final hiring decisions are made by our team.