Management Accountant

hyperexponential; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Reporting to our Group Financial Controller, Eamonn Bradley

Our mission

We're hyperexponential, and we're rewriting the rules of the traditional insurance industry with our groundbreaking SaaS platform, hx Renew. Insurers are using it to build mind-blowing mathematical models that allow them to make lightning-fast pricing decisions on complex risks.

Decisions like: "How much should I charge Adele to insure her worldwide concert tour?" or "How much to charge California to protect all its public buildings against the next big earthquake?"

Our winning formula has made us an industry leader in just 5 years. We're trusted by the biggest names in insurance - from global giants like Aviva and Top 5 US Insurers to the cutting-edge innovators at Convex and Inigo. All proving that hx Renew is the future of pricing.

Finance and Enablement at hyperexponential

Following recent growth and success, hyperexponential is now investing in building world-class finance function. We are looking for a Management Accountant to join this journey, to help us build scalable processes which can support the company through the next phase of growth.

hyperexponential is an agile, fast-growth, data-driven company, and it needs a finance function to match.

Finance at hyperexponential is:

• Technology driven - leveraging cloud technologies and automation to drive efficiency and deliver deep insights to the business (Xero, Spendesk, Telleroo, Netsuite, Notion and Zapier)
• Customer centric - agile and responsive to the needs of the evolving organization
• Forward looking and holistic - focussed on the drivers of long term value creation beyond financial metrics
• Growth Oriented - Embracing innovation and change, recognising the need to continually learn new skills in order to meet business needs

Your mission

• Enable hyperexponential by driving frictionless, user friendly and well controlled transactional financial and reporting processes.
• Being an expert on hyperexponential's financial systems that underlie the finance and transactional processes including the ERP system together with associated documentation as well as processes.
• Own the transactional reporting of finance and operational data, ensuring the accuracy and comprehensiveness of this reporting, to power decision making across the business.
• Become an expert application of AI to support the finance process.

Key responsibilities

• Work alongside our Group Financial Controller and General Accountants to manage and review day-to-day transactional accounting processes, leveraging latest tools and techniques to create workflows which are automated, user friendly and include appropriate controls.
• Own the monthly management accounting processes, continuously improving and adapting as the business grows.
• Assisting the Financial Controller in finalising monthly financial reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
• Preparing the departmental cost reports for distribution to department heads together with dealing with any associated queries. These cost reports will include detailed reports on travel, entertaining, L&D, etc.
• Prepare and manage the payroll processes.
• Assist in preparing treasury reports.
• Assist in AR collections to ensure that customers pay within their terms.
• Manage the prepayments & accruals for all the subsidiaries.
• Liaise with auditors and other advisors as required.
• Ad-hoc reporting and tasks as required by the business.

Key Deliverables

• Run day to day transactions
  • Ensuring the day-to-day processing of invoices/expenses are up to date and complete.
  • Ensuring that bank accounts are reconciled and are up to date.
  • Chasing customers for payments as required.
  • Maintaining the financial reporting systems as required including associated documentation.
• Run critical key monthly processes
  • Monthly management accounting processes.
  • Preparing and managing the payroll production.
  • Bank and supplier payments.
• Maintain and update process documentation.
• Help drive the team forward by championing AI to increase efficiency and capacity within the finance team.

As part of the above you will be expected to achieve the following milestones:

• By the end of your first month you will understand the role tasks and its place in Hyperexponential.
• By the end of the third month you will own the role, operating on your own initiative.
• Within 6 months you will become the "expert" in the role looking to improve processes as well as help partnering the business to improve operational decision making.

Persona

If you're the right fit for this role, you will be able to show clear evidence that you:

have a solid understanding of core accounting operations and are ready to stretch yourself to the next level

take pride in operating efficiently and accurately - timely and accurate financial data is critical to enabling good decision making within our business

are adaptable - our business is growing rapidly and the finance team will need to constantly change and improve our processes to support changing business requirements

are dependable - we operate in a high-trust environment, so it is vital that everyone can count on you to deliver what you promise, when you promise it

Experience and skills

• Experience with a similar role, or having covered the breadth of finance operations processes.
• Strong technical knowledge and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to constantly review and improve processes.
• Highly self-motivated and proactive with the ability to operate autonomously, effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Bonus points for

• Experience in a start-up/high-growth environment.
• Studying to become a qualified Accountant.

Interview process

• Initial call with our Talent team.
• Hiring Manager Interview with Group Financial Controller, Eamonn Bradley.
• Skills Assessment with Group Financial Controller.
• Values interview with our COO, Emma Kelly + an additional member of our leadership team.

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary.
• £5,000 for individual and group training and conference budget.
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holiday days (33 in total).
• Company pension scheme via Penfold.
• Mental health and therapy provision via Spectrum.life.
• Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
• Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
• Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc).
• Regular remote & in-person hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights.
• Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry.
• Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together!

Diversity @ hyperexponential

We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We're a talented and high-energy, but low-ego and kind team who believes that the more inclusive we are, the better our work and culture is. We are not yet where we want to be in terms of balance, but it is our mission to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and we are working hard towards that goal.

Check out our blog at https://www.hyperexponential.com/blog

Please note that background checks will be conducted as part of the hiring process to ensure compliance with our governance policies. We handle all background checks sensitively and in full compliance with relevant regulations. All applicant data will be processed in accordance with data protection regulations and our privacy policy.