The Role
Own day-to-day finance operations, including the shared finance mailbox, AP/AR processing, subscription billing, reconciliations, debt chasing, invoicing, overages, payment runs, month-end close support, VAT returns, and statutory filings. The role uses Xero, HubSpot, Stripe, Sigma, and Claude, and works closely with the Senior Finance Manager while offering a path toward broader finance responsibilities.
Summary Generated by Built In
Zinc is growing fast, and our finance operations need to keep pace. Right now, day-to-day AP/AR, mailbox management and debt chasing sit with our Ops Analysts — brilliant generalists, but not finance specialists, and it's pulling them away from the work they're best at.
We're hiring a Finance Assistant 🧾 to take full ownership of this. You'll be the person who keeps invoices moving, mailboxes clear, and debtors chased, turning a process that currently takes days into one that takes hours. It's a hands-on, detail-heavy role to start, working closely with our Senior Finance Manager, with a genuine path into a broader finance career for the right person.
We're hiring a Finance Assistant 🧾 to take full ownership of this. You'll be the person who keeps invoices moving, mailboxes clear, and debtors chased, turning a process that currently takes days into one that takes hours. It's a hands-on, detail-heavy role to start, working closely with our Senior Finance Manager, with a genuine path into a broader finance career for the right person.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Own the shared Finance Mailbox, responding to and resolving queries daily 📩
- Handle daily AM-Ops requests, acting as the finance point of contact for the Account Management team
- Manage subscription creation and billing setup on a weekly basis.
- Run weekly reconciliations across accounts
- Own debt chasing, working proactively to keep debtor days down.
- Deliver the monthly invoicing cycle and manage overages.
- Owning accounts payable end-to-end — processing supplier invoices, raising payment runs, and ensuring correct coding, approvals and timely payment
- Help close the books to a tight cadence: OPEX by WD1, revenue by WD3 🧾
- Assisting with VAT returns and other routine statutory and compliance filings.
- Use Zinc's tools (Xero, HubSpot, Stripe, Sigma) day-to-day — and lean on AI tools like Claude to work efficiently, rather than defaulting to manual spreadsheet work 💻
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
- 6 months - 1 year of experience in a finance role such as AR Assistant, Credit Controller, AP Assistant or Finance Assistant (this is the perfect finance 2nd job! ⭐️)
- Working knowledge of Xero (or similar accounting software), reconciliations and month-end close (accruals, prepayments, VAT)
- Comfortable adopting AI tools (we use Claude) as part of your everyday workflow we're more interested in how you think than how fast you are in Excel
- A university degree is enough - we don't require a professional accountancy qualification
- Diligent with a genuinely high attention to detail, small errors in this role have real knock-on effects
- Personable and proactive, you'll be chasing people (customers, colleagues) regularly and need to do it with tact
- Real ambition to build a career in finance, this role will be grunt-heavy for the first six months but there is huge scope for growth, the right person will be willing and keen to take this opportunity with both hands!
What we offer 🍉
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About
Who are Zinc? ⚡️We believe in better background checking: making them easy, instant and delightful - for candidates and HR teams across the world 🌎. Founded in 2017, we've grown year-on-year, reaching the Times Top 100 fastest growing businesses, the Deloitte EMEA fast 500 and winning the 2026 HSBC x WIRED Award in the Trailblazers Category.But we're not all work, our founders Luke and Charlotte are hot on being a culture first business. By this, we don't just mean an active calendar of company and team events (although these are great! 🍻 🥂🍕🎯) - our culture is defined by respect, fostering support for new ideas, promoting flexible work environments and operating with autonomy and low ego. 🔥💥❤️It's not just us who think they've done a stellar job - we've won awards for being a Top Place To Work in 2025 and 2026 from Tembo and SeedLegals 💚What are our values? 🧩🧩🧩Our values are: Pragmatism, Integrity, Empathy, Collaboration, Empowerment and Speed. We call them the PIECES that make Zinc (see what we did there 😂).How do we work? 🧑🏽💻👩🏼💻👨🏿💻We operate on a hybrid working model, with everyone coming to our Shoreditch Offices on Mondays and Thursdays, and working from home on the others. We believe this is a great balance between having space for deep work and in-person collaboration ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Skills Required
- 6 months to 1 year of experience in a finance role such as AR Assistant, Credit Controller, AP Assistant, or Finance Assistant
- Working knowledge of Xero or similar accounting software
- Experience with reconciliations and month-end close, including accruals, prepayments, and VAT
- Comfort adopting AI tools such as Claude in everyday workflows
- University degree
- High attention to detail and diligence
- Personable and proactive communication style
- Ambition to build a career in finance
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The Company
What We Do
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards, offering automated pre-screening employment software for HR and recruiting teams to verify candidates' backgrounds and hire at scale.
