Financial Accountant (Process & Automation)

At Zoomo, our vision is to transition every commercial urban mile to light electric vehicles (LEVs) to build sustainable and more equitable cities. To that end, we are building the world’s most convenient, affordable, and safe e-bike platform.

Zoomo has helped transition millions of urban miles to light electric vehicles, built a team of >200 world-class engineers, operators, sales staff and vehicle repair technicians; developed and deployed the world's best last mile delivery electric bikes and fleet management software; and successfully deploys these solutions around the world. We operate across the USA, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia. Zoomo vehicles are used by major players in the food, grocery and parcel delivery segments with partners including UberEats, Doordash, Just Eat Takeaway, Deliveroo, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Amazon, FedEx, Getir, Ocado, GoPuff and many more.

The Role

If you are a proven and qualified accountant looking to jump into an amazing opportunity in global  leading scale-ups and take the next step in your career, this is the right role for you! You will be joining the team at an important point of our journey, where we are reinventing and improving our financial reporting every month and striving to provide numbers faster and more accurately.
Key Responsibilities

• Manage month-end closing process, monthly reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts and timely resolution of variances.
• Assist in preparing monthly management reporting and provide comments on movements.
• Take ownership of the fixed assets and capital expenditure accounting and reporting.
• Ensure that all financial records are accurate and timely for annual audits.
• Manage the indirect tax filings timely and meet all local compliance requirements for their assigned countries.
• Support payroll payments in conjunction with the payroll team.
• Support local operations team on financial requests.
• Identify manual steps in the month-end close and reconciliations and build automations to reduce cycle time.
• Use AI and automation tooling (e.g. AI assistants, Power Query, scripting) to speed up recurring finance tasks and self-serve analysis.
• Own documentation of automated workflows so they're repeatable across the seven-country finance team.
• Work with the wider international finance team, and other team leaders in ensuring an efficient finance team including documenting process improvement.
• Other ad hoc duties as required from time to time.

With 2 years+ of accounting experience, you’ll have a good knowledge of accounting concepts. Your exceptional organisational skills are a given, as is your ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. Additionally, you’ll have:

• University degree in accounting or finance or equivalent practical experience, ideally professionally qualified or working towards it
• Solid understanding of accounting concepts and general ledger maintenance
• Solid understanding of business processes and how processes could scale
• Our team is high-performing and results-driven, and our ideal candidate will have prior startup experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills & time management skills with the ability to effectively manage deadlines and conflicting priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, strong Excel plus hands-on experience with at least one of Power Query, VBA/scripting, or a workflow-automation tool; comfortable using AI (eg. Claude or Gemini) in day-to-day work; genuinely interested in redesigning processes rather than just running them.
• Ability to effectively communicate in a clear and timely manner.
• Ability to effectively operate as part of a wider team towards a common goal of improving the function.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and make decisions where required.
• Fluency in English is essential.
• Xero knowledge/exposure alongside working in a startup environment would be a bonus.

We offer you the chance to be part of a team at the cutting edge of the world’s electrification journey, including:

• Working with a switched-on team that strives to make the streets greener and serve the rider
• Base salary €25,000–€40,000. Offers above €30,000 are reserved for candidates who can demonstrate significant ability in process automation and the use of AI tools.
• Benefit from the company's success, through equity options - giving you ownership in and financial upside to the company’s long-term success
• Global and country-specific benefits packages
• Flexible working that is focused on the delivery of OKRs
• Monthly team outings & events
• Get to know our product by using one of our e-bikes
• Annual learning and development allowance
• Mental wellbeing support

Zoomers currently represent 45 nationalities and we celebrate diversity and inclusion with equal opportunities for all. 

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