About Jaja
Our Mission: Empowering our customers to buy, borrow, and build—driven by tech, fuelled by data, and built for the future.
Our Company Values: Care Deeply, Adapt & Thrive, Challenge everything, Go for it! Own it, Make it Simple
Jaja is an innovative UK based consumer finance business, leading initially with a digital credit card launched in 2018, and a pipeline of consumer finance solutions in the making.
We are on a mission to redefine the consumer finance experience and liberate customers from needless complexity, wasted time and frustration. Or as we say it, Make Simple.
We will delight our customers – making the customer experience simpler, more enjoyable, more intelligent – treating customers fairly and giving them more control of their money.
Why join us?
This is a chance to make a real impact in a growing business on a mission to change the face of the consumer finance industry forever.
About The Role
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Accounts Assistant to join our finance team. This junior-level role is ideal for someone currently studying towards AAT or looking to begin their accounting qualification.
You will gain broad exposure to core financial processes and play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely financial records.
Key responsibilities:
- Perform daily bank reconciliations
- Administer company credit cards: collect receipts, reconcile statements, and post transactions to the ledger
- Prepare and post accruals and prepayments
- Maintain the fixed assets register and assist with leasehold amortisation
- Post daily Visa settlements journals
- Maintain interest certificates log
- Support payroll finance processes: review monthly payroll variances and post related journals in SAP
- Assist with the preparation of VAT returns
- Assist with other ad-hoc finance and reporting tasks as required
Ideal Candidate
- Actively studying or planning to study AAT
- Basic understanding of accounting principles
- Experience in book-keeping
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks
- Good communication skills and confidence in dealing with internal and external stakeholders
- Eagerness to learn and develop within a finance team
About You
We’re looking for someone who embodies our company values in their approach to work:
Care Deeply – You take pride in accuracy and doing things right, showing care for the details that keep the finance function running smoothly.
Adapt & Thrive – You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment, flexible in handling shifting priorities and willing to take on new challenges as they arise.
Challenge Everything – You're naturally curious, questioning processes to find smarter, more efficient ways of working.
Go for it! – You bring energy and initiative, stepping up when there’s a problem to solve or a new task to tackle.
Own it – You’re reliable and accountable, taking full responsibility for your work and always following through.
Make it Simple – You strive to keep things clear, well-organised and easy to follow — whether it’s managing inboxes or preparing reconciliations.
If you're someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and wants to build a solid foundation in finance while contributing meaningfully from day one, we’d love to hear from you.
What's in it for you?
- The chance to make a real impact in a growing business on a mission to change the face of the consumer finance industry forever
- Competitive salary based on industry benchmarking
- Fully flexible remote hybrid working model
- Option to join our Pension Salary Exchange scheme to turbo charge your pension contributions
- Participation in our annual bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave (FTE) plus UK bank holidays (with an additional day added for each full calendar year worked, up to a maximum of 30 days).
- An extra day off for your birthday each year
- Private medical cover through Vitality
- 4x life insurance cover
- Family-friendly policies with enhanced support
- Free access to our confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Access to various company perks, competitions and recognition scheme
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What We Do
Jaja is on a mission to redefine and simplify the credit card experience, giving people more time to do the things they love. It’s in our DNA. If things are complicated, we fix them. We Make Simple.
We’ve created a simple-to-use app and online service, to simplify how people manage their money in an ever-increasing world of self-fulfilment. We believe in giving our customers the freedom of get things done effortlessly, when and wherever they want.
Jaja is rooted in simplicity and is what drives us every day. Find out more about the Jaja card visit jaja.co.uk #jajayourlife
PARTNERSHIPS
We’re not just stopping with our own credit card. We’ve built a technology platform which enables us to bring life to credit cards and financial products from a range of partner businesses. Applying the Jaja Magic to other brands helps us to ‘make simple’ for even more customers.
We create both co-branded credit cards and co-branded payment solutions for our partners.
Find out more about our partnerships: https://jaja.co.uk/business/
CAREERS
The Jaja Magic is in the mix of our people.
We’re committed to designing brilliantly simple and liberating products. To do this, we’ve built a talented team of problem solvers, proven innovators and finance experts.
We’re expanding, fast. And we’re looking for great people to help us continue our vision and shape the future.
Find out more about our positions here: https://jaja.co.uk/careers/
