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Why Perkbox Vivup?

In an exciting stride forward for both organisations, employee benefits experts Perkbox and Vivup have joined forces to create a world-class benefits, wellbeing, and engagement platform.

With over two decades of combined experience, our goal is to enable more organisations to better support and engage their employees — something which has become essential in the wake of a global pandemic and a hard-hitting cost-of-living crisis.  

From enhancing access to specialist mental health services to helping staff manage the cost of everyday essentials, our combined strengths and best-in-class solutions will create a super partnership that supports employees in all areas of life, at every stage of their career, both in and out of the workplace.

As a combined entity, we can assist more employees than ever before to live and work better through our combined expertise in the public, private, SME, and corporate sectors. Today, we collectively support more than 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations through an enhanced range of benefits and engagement solutions.  Our vision is to create healthy, happy and engaged workforces by reinventing employee benefits. Together, we’re positioned to revolutionise the employee benefits landscape, driving innovation, setting new standards, and shaping the future with transformative solutions that redefine wellbeing.

What You’ll Be Doing

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

• Effectively lead the AP function to support suppliers and minimise cost to the company, maintaining accurate supplier reconciliations and reducing
  unallocated cash

• Effectively lead the AR function to control overdue debt, reduce DSO, and monitor unallocated cash.

• Support the AR function to escalate customer accounts

• Oversee the implementation of a monthly credit control cycle in
  NetSuite

• Responsible for daily treasury duties, reviewing and approving supplier
  payment runs and customer refunds

Accounting, Audit and Tax

• Ensure accurate accounting standards are applied, including revenue accounting, with a good understanding of P&L and Balance Sheet

• Ensure routine accounting information is produced promptly and accurately including monthly management accounts,

• Be the key contact with external auditors and lead the annual external audit close
  - Ownership of annual statutory accounts preparation,
  - Review and approval of monthly journals,
  - Prepare group consolidated financial statements for review by the Senior Finance Team

• Ensure all financial reporting deadlines are met

• Ensure the company and its subsidiaries meet their VAT and Tax
  obligations, leading the Corporation Tax Return preparation process, liaising with the CT provider

• Accurately prepare and oversee monthly balance sheet reconciliations, control

• To ensure financial controls and procedures within the company are robust, sustainable, maintained and continually developed to take account of changing requirements

• Oversee the implementation of new systems and controls as and when required, identifying gaps and contribute to the evolving nature of the finance function

• Support new software implementation (NetSuite)

Other

• Effectively manage and motivate the finance team

• Champion a supportive and high performing culture within the Finance Department

• Other ad-hoc duties as required.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong knowledge of accounting software and software implementation, must have experience of NetSuite

• Fully ACCA/ACA qualified with good technical knowledge

• Experience leading a team

• Excellent communication skills, ability to liase with various levels of stakeholders

• Ability to manage own workload, prioritising and ensuring deadlines are met

• Experience working in a Top 10 accountancy practice

• Experience in audit and preparing accounts

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves 3 main stages:

• Short call with a member of the Talent team
• 30-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member
• Final Interview and task with two members of the team
  

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on talent@vivup.co.uk

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations

We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!