Finance Assistant

About Equals
Equals is the next-generation global money movement platform built for exceptional businesses operating across borders. We bring international payments, embedded finance, and more together into a single connection that simplifies operations and strengthens financial control. With deep expertise and integrated infrastructure, Equals turns financial complexity into reliable solutions.
With our headquarters in London and teams around the UK and Europe, you will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers' needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.
About the role
We're looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Group Finance team in London. You'll be a hands-on part of the month-end close across several group companies, and the role goes beyond transactional processing: you'll own the monthly white-label commissions process, contribute directly to the management accounts and analyse the numbers behind them, so the business understands what's driving performance.
You'll also be responsible for bank postings at journal level, and we want you to make that work smarter. A large part of this role is spotting manual, repetitive processes and automating them, using NetSuite, Excel and AI tools. If you've already driven changes like this, we'd love to hear about it.
This role suits someone with solid finance experience who is studying for ACCA (or is ready to start) and wants a role that grows with them as they progress. Your work will be reviewed and approved by your line manager, and you'll work closely with the Data, Treasury, Operations and European finance teams, as well as the Financial and Internal Reporting teams.
Responsibilities
Month-end close and management accounts
Prepare and post month-end journals in NetSuite to the close timetable, often on working day 1 or earlier.
Prepare prepayments and accruals
Prepare the stock journals and stock
Post revenue entries, including travel cash partner income, open banking payment-processing income and the sales ledger (including recharges).
Complete the profit transfer and close out the accounts receivable
Contribute to the monthly management accounts at group and legal entity level, including professional fees analysis.
Banking and reconciliations
Import bank transactions into NetSuite, post them at journal level and complete bank reconciliations for five entities, leading the work to automate these postings.
Post the client liabilities journal and complete the banking
Prepare APP fraud journals and reconciliations across PLC and
Prepare balance sheet reconciliations (for example salary advances and reward income), investigate and resolve variances, and net off intercompany balances before group
Set up bank payments for payment runs and ad hoc payments, and support the safeguarding of client funds.
Fixed assets
Run NetSuite transaction listings for fixed asset accounts, capture new additions and propose capitalisations for approval.
Post monthly depreciation and amortisation and keep the fixed asset register up to
White-label and partner commissions
Own the monthly white-label (WL) commissions process end to end, starting with pre-month-end data checks on the Equals Connect commission system and raising data issues with the Data
Download commission reports, apply adjustments, and maintain the key files (All Deals, Drawdowns and related files) for UK and Europe.
Prepare WL commission journals and balance sheet checks, and produce month-on-month analysis that explains movements to finance and commercial stakeholders.
Produce affiliate invoices and payment files for review, check that European WL invoices are on NetSuite, and keep Treasury and Operations informed of upcoming payment amounts.
Prepare the staff commission accrual recharge invoice for
Investigate and document variances between commission data and revenue
Analysis and process improvement
Analyse general ledger balances, P&L movements and costs against budget, and turn the data into clear commentary for the Finance Manager and budget holders.
Identify manual, repetitive tasks across finance processes and redesign or automate them using NetSuite, Excel and AI tools, documenting the new process and measuring the time saved.
Work with the AP and AR teams to keep ledgers accurate, carrying out internal control checks on purchase ledger, sales ledger and bank balances.
Support the Financial Reporting and Internal Reporting teams with ad hoc analysis and projects across the wider business.
Audit
Provide audit samples and supporting evidence for external
Your Profile
Skills & Experience: Essential
Committed to completing the ACCA
At least 2 years' experience in a finance or accounts role, ideally in financial services, payments or fintech.
Working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations, plus some exposure to month-end close or management accounts.
Strong Excel skills: pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS and handling large data
Skills & Experience: Desirable
Studying towards, or part-qualified in, ACCA or
A track record of improving or automating a finance process, such as building templates, using Power Query or macros, or setting up system rules.
Experience using AI tools to speed up or improve finance
Experience with NetSuite or a similar cloud
Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency accounting, intercompany or commission
Attitude & Behaviours
Curious and analytical: you want to understand why a number has moved, not just that it
A driver of change: when a task is repetitive, you see it as something to fix and follow it
Accurate and organised, comfortable working to tight month-end deadlines and prioritising your own workload in a fast-paced environment.
A confident communicator who can chase information and explain numbers clearly to non-finance colleagues.
Keen to learn and develop and motivated to complete your ACCA
Benefits
Competitive salary benchmarked against a peer
28 days holiday per year
Private health care
Company pension scheme
Hybrid working, with regular time in the office for
Opportunities for progression, development and learning new
Free onsite Nuffield Health gym and pool in London, with discounted gym membership
Interbank currency rates on travel money and international
The opportunity to have a visible impact on a growing product-led fin

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No