Junior Accounts Associate

Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!) 

If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.

Our Mission

Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.

Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility

We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier. 

If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.

The role

We are seeking a Junior Accounts Associate to join our finance team and support the smooth running of our day-to-day operations. This is an excellent opportunity for an accounting or finance graduate seeking to develop hands-on experience across transactional accounting and the monthly close, with a clear path to progress into a broader accounting role over time.

You will work closely with our Finance Manager and CFO, building strong accounting foundations while supporting a growing international business. You'll start with the fundamentals - accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliations and journals - and, as your confidence grows and the team develops, there will be opportunities to take on more across the month-end close and financial reporting.

Above all, we are looking for someone genuinely curious about how a finance function operates - someone who seeks to understand the reasoning behind their work, takes pride in accuracy, and is confident raising questions and suggesting improvements rather than simply waiting for direction.

What You'll Do - Day to Day

This is the core of the role and where you'll spend most of your time, supporting financial operations across our four entities (UK, USA, Singapore, and Canada):

•   Managing accounts payable - coding supplier invoices to the correct nominal and entity, routing them for approval through Omnea, and helping to process payments on time

•   Managing accounts receivable - raising customer invoices accurately and on time, and helping to chase overdue accounts

•   Performing daily bank reconciliations across multiple currencies (GBP, USD, EUR, SGD), investigating and resolving discrepancies

•   Processing employee expenses via Spendesk & Deel, ensuring spend is correctly coded, supported, and approved

•   Posting journals and maintaining accurate, well-organised financial records

•   Keeping customer and supplier data current, reconciled, and auditable, and providing weekly AR and AP inputs for cash flow forecasting

•   Responding promptly to billing and supplier payment queries and escalating issues where appropriate.

Supporting the Month-End Close

Each month you'll take on a defined set of close tasks, completing them accurately and to deadline while building your understanding of the full process:

•   Assisting month-end balance sheet reconciliations under review - starting with bank, AR, and AP, and building toward more complex balances over time

•   Helping to maintain prepayment and accrual schedules - posting monthly releases and raising AP accruals for invoices not yet received

•   Supporting the preparation of monthly P&L and balance sheet reporting, helping to investigate unexpected items and assisting with variance analysis.

•   Completing your assigned month-end tasks accurately and on schedule.

What we're looking for

•   An accounting or finance graduate with 0–2 years' experience in a finance role

•   Studying, or planning to study, towards ACA, ACCA, or CIMA

•   Strong attention to detail and a genuine commitment to accuracy.

•   Well organised and dependable, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadline.

•   A clear communicator who is comfortable asking questions and collaborating with others.

•   Comfortable managing your own workload in a fully remote environment. 

What makes you a great fit

In our remote-first environment, attitude matters as much as technical skill. The people who thrive here:

•   Demonstrate radical responsibility by taking ownership of their work and following through on commitments.

•   Are naturally curious, asking thoughtful questions to understand the "why" behind the numbers, not just the "how."

•   Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and support the wider global finance team.

•   Embrace learning and new challenges, taking on increasing responsibility as they grow.

Tyk operates a culture of radical responsibility. You'll be trusted with real ownership from the start - and given the support and guidance to make the most of it.

Here’s why you should join us:

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays. 
• We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
• Employee share scheme
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Volunteering Days
• Company retreats
• Employee Wellbeing platform

We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!

Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:

• It’s ok to screw up! 

We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!

• The only stupid idea, is the untested one! 

It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!

• Trust starts with you - make it count! 

Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!

• Assume best intent! 

We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act. 

• Make things better! 

Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.

What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/

Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

You can see more about us here https://tyk.io