Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about finance? If so, you might be our Financial accountant.
About us
"Private Equity Insights is the world's leading Private Equity community. We connect and develop more than 240,000 investment professionals across the world, through our platforms, which include conferences, webinars, magazines and news reports.
For more than 10 years, PEI has helped Investors, Fund Managers and CXOs rethink what it takes to fundraise, invest, operate and exit in Private Equity, and does so via online engagement and cutting edge conferences in Singapore, UK, France, Poland & CEE, Benelux, Switzerland, Iberia, Germany, Italy, Nordics and DACH."
Private Equity Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.
What we offer you
As our Financial accountant you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building one of our portfolio companies. By providing you with the ownership of our finances, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:
- To work with a high growth international company with super brands.
- Great prospects of personal growth and development in the company.
- Best in class finance training.
- Ability to make a contribution and gain the recognition.
- Great company culture.
Your Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will vary; however, some of them will be to:
- The role would entail both accounts payable and accounting receivable functions.
- Ensuring daily accounting transactions are posted into Zero.
- Assisting with budget trackers / cost reconciliations for conferences (this will be a new process and requires the careful tracking of invoices).
- Assisting with the production of monthly finance reports across the business,
- Assisting with ad-hoc finance projects and assisting with the implementation of new finance processes.
What we expect from you
You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:
- Have acquired a finance bachelor’s or master's degree with outstanding results (finance exams are a plus)
- 2 + years of experience in finance
- Have an UK work permit
- Have an exceptional attention to detail
- Have excellent problem solving skills
- Are highly process oriented and systematic
Startdate
As soon as possible
The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.
