Finance Assistant

Posted May 26

Job description

About Us

Olsam is revolutionizing the consumer goods industry. We buy category-leading Amazon FBA brands and grow them into something even bigger. With our in-house expertise, we launch these brands onto global marketplaces, develop new products and create better partnerships.

Built by a team with deep e-commerce and finance experience (Amazon, Deloitte, Rothschild and more), and backed by some of Europe’s leading entrepreneurs, we hire remarkably driven individuals that thrive on building a company that is disrupting e-commerce. Every Olstar has a high-impact and highly visible part to play in our success story. We work best when we work together. That’s why, we only hire people who share the same ambition and integral sense of community that we have. If this sounds exciting to you, let’s talk.

Responsibilities

We're looking for an ambitious, fast-paced finance assistant to join Olsam as a full-time contractor to:

  • Support with month-end closing processes on accounting systems.
  • Prepare month-end reconciliations, cost breakdowns, journals, and updating schedules.
  • Partner with the supply chain team to review stock holdings, landed cost allocations, and purchase orders.
  • Reconciliations of stock holdings.
  • Posting of warehousing, freight, duty, and transport invoices, as well as preparation from payments.
  • Complete ledger reviews to ensure the correct allocation of transactions, accruals and prepayments.
  • Support on day-to-day invoice processing and bank reconciliations
  • Support, maintain, and improve internal ERP system policies and procedures.
  • Work with the finance team to complete the Audit.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the finance function, and refine processes and procedures as we scale.

Job requirements

  • Experience working within an accounting role, part qualified to relevant professional qualification.
  • Experience with preparing month end closing working files, payment run, various bank statements, P&L reconciliations.
  • Excellent at working with Excel.
  • Highly organised with task management.
  • Passionate about continuous improvement, demonstrating an ability to test, learn & iterate.
  • Ability to manage and prioritise workload and achieve effective results in a growing environment.
  • English language proficiency (Dutch desirable)

Desirable:

  • Experience in a high-growth start-up/scale-up, retail, and e-commerce consumer goods.
  • NetSuite experience will be an advantage.

Olsam is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK. If you identify as having a disability and meet all of the criteria set out in the job description, we would like to support you through the interview stage. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

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