Financial Accountant Industrial Placement

In your year with us, you’ll have kept our accounts payable, expenses, and month-end processes running accurately and on time and supported a year-end audit. You’ll have brought genuine improvements to at least one area of our workflows by streamlining something that used to be manual and time-consuming into something faster, repeatable and auditable. ## To Do This You’ll Own

With support from the team you’ll work towards:

• Supporting the preparation of month-end P&L and balance sheet statements alongside the Financial Accounting Manager
• Preparing and posting accounting journals with accuracy and care
• Managing the accounts payable system and process end-to-end
• Running the expense claims process and keeping it moving smoothly
• Supporting billing and accounts receivable reconciliation
• Helping with the year-end audit process and departmental (Guild) reporting
• Developing new accounting procedures and building data tools — including using AI — to make our processes faster, more accurate, and more repeatable

Your Background

To ensure this, we’re looking for people who have:

• Enrolled on a Finance related degree and are on-track to achieve a 2.1
• A genuine passion for numbers and how they tell a story about a business
• Exceptional attention to detail — you notice the thing that doesn’t add up
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand why, not just what
• The drive to improve how things work, with the organisational skills to follow through
• Confidence with spreadsheets and a willingness to get fluent in new tools quickly
• A love of writing — we have a significant amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write: https://griffin.com/how-we-write)

Bonus Points

It’s a big bonus if you have:

• Any prior work experience in financial services — even brief exposure helps
• Experience using AI tools to manage, clean, or analyse data
• Familiarity with tax concepts or compliance requirements

What We Can Offer You

We are an early stage startup and we’re working hard to expand our benefits package. We’re planning to add to this list in the future. - Salary: £25,000

• Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK
• Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year)
• Options: Own a part of what we’re building together
• Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme
• Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG
• Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva
• Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service
• AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools
• Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment

We’re Remote-First

We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full-time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there’s no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it. ## Under Representation

Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.