💼 About the role
As a core member of our Finance team, you will play a vital role in keeping our day-to-day financial operations running seamlessly. Working closely with teams across the business, you will support key financial processes, maintain impeccable records, and help drive efficiency.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual looking to kickstart their career in finance, offering hands-on experience alongside full study support for professional qualifications (ACCA/ACA).
⚒️ What you’ll be doing
- Accounts Payable: Process supplier invoices (ensuring accurate coding and prompt approval), manage the AP inbox, resolve supplier queries, and raise ad hoc purchase orders.
- Payments & Expenses: Review employee expense claims against company policy, prepare regular payment runs, and arrange ad hoc payments as needed.
- Reconciliations: Perform bank reconciliations across multiple currency accounts and assist with key balance sheet reconciliations (including prepayments and the fixed asset register).
- Invoicing: Prepare and draft customer invoices for review.
- Month-End & Year-End: Play an active role in close activities and support the preparation and submission of VAT returns.
- Audit Support: Assist with audit preparation by compiling schedules, reconciliations, and necessary supporting documentation.
- Continuous Improvement: Help identify opportunities to streamline processes and contribute to ad hoc finance projects, reporting, and analysis.
🎯 Required Skills And Qualifications
- Education: A degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline.
- Experience: A minimum of one year of experience in a finance role (highly successful university placement years and internships are fully considered).
- Technical Knowledge: A solid foundational understanding of core accounting principles.
- Mindset: Proactive, autonomous, and highly organised with exceptional time management skills.
- Execution: Driven by high attention to detail and a proven ability to meet strict deadlines.
- Ambition: A strong desire to qualify as a chartered accountant (ACCA or ACA).
- Excel: Strong proficiency is essential. Intermediate skills are highly preferable, specifically the ability to confidently use Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs (or equivalent formulas like XLOOKUP).
What We Offer: Premium Study Support
We are fully committed to your professional development and will back your journey to becoming a qualified accountant.
🏆 Some of the perks of working with us:
- Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development.
- A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do.
- Competitive salary and share option scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working, and a working from home budget.
- Private health insurance for yourself and your family.
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and two wellness weeks).
- 50% gym membership discount.
- The chance to work with a spirited, smart, and friendly team!
PQShield is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We’re passionate about talent and proud to foster an inclusive environment; all applicants will be considered regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age.
Skills Required
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business discipline
- Minimum one year of experience in a finance role (placements/internships considered)
- Solid foundational understanding of core accounting principles
- Strong Excel proficiency, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP
- Highly organised, proactive, autonomous with exceptional time management
- High attention to detail and ability to meet strict deadlines
- Ambition to qualify as a chartered accountant (ACCA or ACA)
- Experience with accounts payable, reconciliations, invoicing, month-end and VAT processes
What We Do
Our team is shaping the way our digital world is protected against the threats of tomorrow. In a time when quantum computers will soon be able to break current cryptography methods, we're focused on empowering organizations, industries, and nations, with the ultimate quantum-resistant cryptography solutions. PQShield was selected as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer in 2021, a FAST COMPANY winner 2022, WIRED Trailblazer 2023 and Bloomberg’s Startups to Watch 2023. Our expertise, clarity and care enable us to deliver new global standards alongside real-world, post-quantum hardware and software upgrades - modernizing the vital security systems and components of the world's technology supply chain.
