Accounts Assistant in London

£30,000 - £35,000 📋 Finance 🏬 London Hybrid

Location: London (Hybrid 2 days per week in office)

native has been building for 10 years, but we're still very much a startup: fast-moving, ambitious, and building with intent. We're creating the infrastructure that connects students, Students’ Unions, universities, and advertisers through a managed marketplace.

Our goal is to deliver for students by increasing student engagement while enabling Students’ Unions to secure sustainable funding. For advertisers, we offer meaningful, measurable routes to student audiences. The more aligned these incentives are, the more defensible and scalable our business becomes.

The Opportunity

We're hiring an Accounts Assistant to support the day-to-day running of the Finance Function by processing financial transactions accurately and on time. This is an ideal role for someone with 1-2 years of finance experience who is looking for develop a career in accounting and may be studying towards an AAT qualification.

What you’ll be working on

As an Accounts Assistant you will be responsible for the following responsibilities:

Purchase Ledger

• Process supplier invoices accurately and promptly

• Match invoices to purchase orders and delivery notes

• Prepare supplier payment runs

• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve invoice queries

• Set up new supplier accounts

Sales Ledger

• Raise customer invoices and credit notes

• Allocate customer receipts

• Assist with credit control and follow up overdue balances

• Reconcile customer accounts

• Support customer onboarding and customer queries resolution

Bank & Cash

• Perform daily bank reconciliations and matching

• Post bank transactions into the accounting system

Expenses & Payroll Support

• Process employee expense claims

• Assist with payroll administration by providing payroll data and reconciliations

General Finance

• Ensure VAT compliance and correct VAT claims made with HMRC

• Maintain accurate accounting records, filing

• Respond to internal and external finance queries

• Support audits by providing requested documentation

• Ensure compliance with company policies and financial controls

What we’re looking for

You’ll bring vision, structure, and operational discipline to a fast-growing function. You know how to scale people-driven operations and balance commercial priorities with quality, compliance, and culture.

Specifically, you will bring:

• Proven experience in an accounts role or finance role at a similar level

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy across all finance tasks

• Excellent Excel skills (including SUMIF, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP and Pivot Tables)

• Good organisational and communication skills

• Ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines and have a proactive mindset to problem solve

Required skills & experience

We are committed to lifting everyone up. We seek to enable people’s best work by optimising for freedom with accountability. You’ll get the most out of this role if you can bring:

• Experience using accounting software such as Xero, DEXT or Expensify. Although this is not essential it would be desirable to have this experience.
  

Whats in it for you

💰 Base Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

🏡 Remote-first role in the UK

🏫 Pension contributions of 5%

🏖️ 25 days off (excluding bank holidays)

🎂 Day off on your birthday

📈 Share Options for all

👨🏽 💻 Work from home set-up budget

🚂 Season Ticket Loan Scheme

👶 Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are actively creating an equitable environment for everyone at native to thrive.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at native. At native, we embrace diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.