Financial Accountant

About this role

Responsibilities

• Own defined month-end close activities across one or more entities, ensuring journals, schedules, and reconciliations are completed accurately and on time.
• Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations and supporting documentation, and contribute to month-end review commentary where required.
• Support group reporting requirements, including consolidation preparation and intercompany processes (depending on the close cycle and priorities).
• Assist with audit and statutory processes, including preparing supporting files, responding to queries, and helping build high-quality year-end packs.
• Support compliance activities across tax, regulatory, and statutory filings, including preparation of information and first drafts where appropriate.
• Help review, document, and improve finance policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure they remain robust and scalable.
• Contribute to improving finance systems and workflows, including automation of recurring close tasks and support for future tooling/ERP improvements.
• Partner with colleagues across Finance and the wider business to resolve queries efficiently and to continuously improve the quality of financial information.
• Provide analysis and insights that support cost management and good decision-making, including variance analysis and investigation of unusual movements.
• Support ad hoc projects as needed, including preparation of information for grants or other finance submissions.
• Working pattern: Hybrid, with 2 days per week in our Sandyford office
• Candidate Profile

Requirements

• Newly qualified or recently qualified ACA/ACCA (or equivalent relevant experience in industry).
• Strong technical fundamentals and a clear understanding of balance sheet control and reconciliations.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Highly organised, with a track record of following through and raising issues early when something looks off.
• Strong attention to detail and pride in producing accurate, well-supported work.
• Clear communicator and collaborative team player who works well across functions.
• Proficient in Google Workspace, particularly Google Sheets.
• What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days
• You can independently deliver your assigned month-end workstreams to agreed deadlines with clean backup and minimal rework.
• You have built strong working relationships across Finance and key stakeholders.
• You have improved at least one recurring close or reconciliation task through better documentation, a clearer process, or automation.
• What you get
• We’re a growing startup and we understand that amazing incentives will attract amazing talent. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer unparalleled opportunities for career growth. If you’re smart, ambitious, and hard-working, we’ll do whatever it takes to make you a Flipdisher!
• Some of our incentives include:
• 🏡 Hub Model: We encourage a healthy blend of hub and home working.
• 🌴 25 Days Holiday: Enjoy 25 days of holidays per year plus plenty of company get-togethers!
• ❤️‍🩹 Healthcare Coverage: Comprehensive healthcare coverage for UK, Ireland, and US-based employees.
• 🎭 Team Meet-Ups: Regular social events and team meet-ups.
• 🦄 About Flipdish
• We’re Flipdish, an Irish unicorn (valued at over $1bn), serving independent restaurants in a world transformed by tech. No matter how fast Flipdish has grown, we’ve evolved around our customers and their needs. We’re not just an end-to-end ecosystem of technology, but a team committed to supporting people in the food industry.
• We go to great lengths to understand our customers (check out our C-suite on work experience). We’re food industry natives. We’ve worked in busy kitchens and run busy restaurant franchises. We don’t just help our customers deal with real life problems, we give them a way of competing with the big chains, growing on their own terms, and falling back in love with what they do.