Systems Accountant / Architect

Wanted: Systems Accountant / Architect (Finance)

Real scope for tangible impact, competitive salary, huge staff discount, an amazing culture of freedom and responsibility, and a total lack of corporate nonsense.

12 month fixed-term contract

About us:

We’re a multi-award-winning drinks and technology start-up on a mission to disrupt the drinks industry.

We’re re-imagining online drinks retail from the ground up, using cutting edge technology and fanatical customer service to build a company we want to be customers of and create unexpected delight as we help people explore, buy and enjoy high end whisky and other spirits.

In everything we do, we are disruptive innovators; it’s baked into our DNA to challenge orthodoxy and received wisdom wherever we find it.

We’ve grown a lot since we were just a few kids in a shed with big dreams, but we haven’t lost our hunger to build something great, and we’re looking for people who have the same passion for making things better to join us on that journey.

In the last 10 years we’ve become the number 1 player in our industry, but we’ve barely gotten started. We’re excited about the future and we’d like you to come and help us build it!

The role:

This role is incredibly broad and suited to someone who is happy to work in a pacey, shackle-free start-up environment where there is an opportunity to really get under the skin of how we operate, work with hugely talented developers but also get involved in the nitty-gritty of coding and building out new systems.

Everyone here has the same job description, to ‘make Master of Malt successful,’ so we’re looking for someone who won’t stand on ceremony, live in a pre-defined box and instead get stuck in to get things done. We have no need for a transactional robot here, we’re on the hunt for someone who questions things beyond belief and wants to build something which really changes the world (or our world, at least)

You’ll be at the forefront of revolutionising our finance solutions, spotting opportunities where others see barriers and rolling your sleeves up to design, code, build and evaluate industry leading Finance systems - Architecting how financial data is recorded, stored and flows across the enterprise, as well as how it is reported.

Primary tasks and responsibilities

• Working with the Finance Leads, Identify improvements, opportunities to automate and grow the finance ‘product’ for our business internally. 
• Architect, Build and Develop Leading financial systems that fully enhance our business growth and success
• Delivering project support, training and general guru status for  system rollouts
• Design and support  end user UAT
• Manage projects whether these be individual like coding and setting up new functionality, or multi-disciplinary,  as required.
• Develop quality user training documents and support internal staff post implementation
• Thorough testing of systems to ensure correct operation and capabilities, ensuring you are the knowledge source for all of your work, no one knows the systems you build better than you do.
• Act as a true business partner to the non-finance teams, predominantly supporting the e commerce/ direct to Consumer  division to support on going commercial support
• Play a key role in commercial and strategic finance project work on an ongoing basis
•  Support the Finance Director with any ad-hoc process improvement projects

About you:

• You want to build bespoke,  cutting-edge financial systems and an all-star team that can do what others can’t;
• You don’t seek out a point of escalation and delegation, you ARE the point of escalation and delegation. You see an issue, improvement opportunity or chance to improve and you take it - getting your hands dirty to make things better
• You are highly intelligent, tenacious and motivated. You’re utterly intolerant of corporate rubbish and mediocrity;
• You have a positive can-do attitude, you learn fast, and relish a challenge. You question things and need to understand them on a deep level;
• You are exceptionally curious and creative – solving hard problems is what gets you out of bed in the morning;
• Produce process notes where appropriate to maximise the workflow, eradicate chance of error and give comfort to the users their doing it right
• You love efficiency and hate waste in all its forms – you relentlessly automate and eliminate repetitive tasks. You’re extremely proud of how little manual repetitive work your department does and you build a culture of continuous improvement;
• You question everything and are obsessive about deeply understanding everything around you – if you’re buying a new accounting system then you will know more than the person selling it to you;
• You understand that finance systems are at the heart of a well run company and expect to be an active participant in the success of the business rather than a passive service provider. 

Our ideal candidate has:

• Software Developer / coding experience within Financial Systems
• Experience of building systems from scratch, from idea through to delivery
• Has architected and  implemented Financial Systems within a start-up, high growth business
• A strong finance background, possibly qualified but certainly able to converse as if qualified given the time you’ve spent in the financial world
• Understands what makes finance tick, and able to see the bigger picture when it comes to what your systems can enable and achieve
• Project Management experience, or diverse teams including Finance, engineering, leadership teams and more. 
• A Hacker Mind-set - you try things and have experience of operating within companies free of set role boundaries and pre-defined process. 

Benefits

We’re all about boundless curiosity, so you’ll discover loads of opportunities to spark your creative flair and work along-side unreal talent who all have the same job description, to ‘Make Atom Successful.’ Trust is at the epicentre of all that we can do, so you’ll work in a transparent and honest environment where we have each other’s backs, and be free of aging corporate policies and rules.

Life here’s about so much more than pay and benefits - you might get a slightly higher salary if you cram onto an expensive, crowded commuter train into the city, but you’ll struggle to find a company with the flex, agility and unique-ness that we have. In short, we’ve got you covered financially but if money is your main driver, we’re not for you.

We hate waste in all of it’s forms and time is no different, so we’re focused on productivity and output rather than when or where you work, or what you wear into the office - you can come in fancy dress for all we care! This means that although we can’t promise anything, flexible working options are built into our DNA.

Along with the stuff you get for turning up to work each day (think private healthcare scheme, unlimited annual leave, pension, cycle-2-work, eye care, enhanced maternity & paternity leave, free food, drinks and parking at the office), you’ll also get a healthy staff discount on our world-class range (just in case that makes a difference).

We don’t sit still, and there’s a lot more to come... Apply now if you want to join us.