Finance Associate (Part time)

Apollo Research is a rapidly growing AI safety and model evaluation company, providing third-party evaluations for frontier AI models. The capabilities of current AI systems are evolving rapidly. While these advancements offer tremendous opportunities, they also present significant risks, such as the potential for deliberate misuse or the deployment of sophisticated yet misaligned models. At Apollo Research, our primary concern lies with deceptive alignment, a phenomenon where a model appears aligned but is, in fact, misaligned and capable of evading human oversight. At Apollo, we aim for a culture that emphasizes truth-seeking, being goal-oriented, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and being friendly and helpful.

About the Role

You’ll be Apollo’s second Finance hire. You’ll work with our Senior Finance Manager to execute the day-to-day engine that keeps Apollo running and convert business activity into consistent, trusted numbers for management and investors. This role starts part-time, about 1.5 to 2 days a week, in person in London. As we double in size over the next 12 months and you show your strengths, your responsibilities and days will increase, with a clear path to a full-time position. This isn’t a side gig; we’re looking for someone who wants to grow with us. You'd be able to help build a finance team from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Run the Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash cycles
• Handle supplier invoices and receipts
• Create customer invoices
• Prepare supplier payments
• Follow up on overdue balances
• Ensure every transaction is recorded accurately in Xero
• Reconcile bank accounts across our multi-entity and multi-currency operations to keep our cash positions accurate every week

Qualifications

• You’re at least part-qualified (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, AAT)
• You understand double-entry bookkeeping intuitively and can visualize how a transaction flows through the ledger without guidance
• You have 2+ years experience in a transactional processing role managing high-volume Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay cycles without letting quality slip

Required Skills

• You’re a wizard with Xero and modern finance platforms like Payhawk, Revolut, Mercury, or similar tools
• You use AI tools daily to work faster and smarter
• You can pick up new AI tools quickly and know when to use them and, just as importantly, when not to
• You are meticulous and spot variances and mistakes
• You act with integrity and meet deadlines
• You are high-agency and take initiative to solve problems
• You are hungry to develop and want this role to become full-time

Preferred Skills

• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team

Pay range and compensation package: £220–280 per day as a contractor at first, moving to a pro-rata salary based on £40–50k FTE in the first 3–6 months.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

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