Senior Accountant
E.L.F. BEAUTY
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Reporting to the Financial Controller; responsible for accurate recording, analysis, and reporting of revenue in accordance with UK GAAP and internal policies.
- Ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition in accordance with UK GAAP for SaaS-based subscriptions.
- Review and analyse customer contracts to determine appropriate revenue treatment.
- Prepare monthly revenue journals, reconciliations, and reporting schedules.
- Manage accounts receivable: invoicing, collections, credit control, raising/approving invoices, reconciling receipts, churn, sending customer statements and responding to billing queries.
- Navigate CRM (Hubspot) and contract management system (Juro); own credit control function and coordinate with Satago and customer teams.
- Perform weekly aged debtors analysis and fortnightly meetings with Director of Success on credit control and churn risk.
- Manage processes with debt collection agencies for churned customers and check ARR reports against accounting system monthly.
- Own the month-end close process for revenue-related accounts; prepare deferred revenue reconciliations, provision for doubtful debt, accruals, and reconciliations.
- Produce revenue variance analysis and commentary; maintain accurate financial records, journals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assist with year-end close and support external audit requests and liaise with auditors.
- Simplify, streamline & automate operational processes; manage finance inbox and queries; daily monitoring of bank accounts and reconciling incomings in Xero.
- Support finance transformation or scaling projects; identify and implement process automation and financial system improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights supporting business decision-making.
- Maintain and update detailed process notes and SOPs for key financial tasks.
Requirements
- Must be energetic, trustworthy and dependable with exceptional attention to detail.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- ACA, CPA, ACCA, CA or equivalent qualification.
- Experience in a scaling tech company
- Strong understanding of SaaS revenue recognition principles and subscription-based business models.
- Experience in closing a month-end including journals, balance sheet reconciliations, analysing and commentating on the management accounts.
- Proficiency in accounting software (Xero / Netsuite) and Google suite (gmail, google sheets / docs / slides etc) and Excel.
- Experience with financial reporting and analysis.
- Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and team-working skills
- Enthusiastic personality
- Bonus: 2+ years of post professional qualification experience (ICAEW, CPA, ACCA, CA) in a similar role.
- Bonus: NetSuite implementation experience / involvement
- Bonus: Crypto / Blockchain industry experience
- Bonus: Exposure to some of the following systems [Satago, Stripe, Slack, Hubspot, NetSuite]
