Finance Manager (Management Accountant)

ABOUT AVANT ARTE

Avant Arte wants to make art radically more accessible for a new generation. The company began as a cult blog of contemporary artists and grew organically into the world’s largest and most engaged online art community, with more than 2 million of their followers under the age of 35. We collaborate with iconic contemporary artists like Jenny Holzer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Claire Tabouret and Hank Willis Thomas, making their work more accessible to younger collectors through sculpture editions, print editions and unique works on paper of exceptional quality.

Backed by early investors in companies like Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and Shopify (including Bessemer Venture Partners and Local Globe) as well as being featured on Otta’s 2022 Rocket List, we’re a team of 75 building one of the most disruptive companies in culture.

Our vision is to inspire a generation of millions of young people who love art like they love music and who collect works like they build their wardrobe.

OUR CULTURE

We’re a small team with really big ambitions, both for what we want to achieve and also the environment we’re building. We want to create a company that remains thoughtful as we scale and tries to be genuinely progressive in how we operate. We want people to really own what they do and be given the autonomy and freedom to make mistakes, learn, and create something meaningful.

We all work incredibly hard because we really care about what Avant Arte is here to do – we’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, hungry to learn, and want to put their pride in our collective achievements.

We know that creating an inclusive environment that promotes and values diversity is critical if we want to build something with impact and meaning. We believe that having diversity in age, background, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective will make us an infinitely better company.

WHAT WE NEED

We’re looking for a proactive, collaborative, highly organised Finance Manager / Management Accountant with great attention to detail to add to our team. This is a high-impact, exciting opportunity for someone to take ownership for our core finance operations. We really do encourage everyone to proactively step outside of their job description if they see something that could be improved but the core of your role will involve:

1. Management accounting & monthly close-out

• Prepare project revenue and profit reconciliations / breakdowns

• Month end reporting, including calculation and posting of month end journals

• Carry out monthly balance sheet reconciliations, resolving variances and identifying any areas that require further analysis

• Ownership of cash flow reporting and analysis

• Internal and external financial reporting, including preparation of three-way financial statements and associated variance analysis.

2. Day-to-day finance processes

• Management of day-to-day bookkeeping and journal entries, working closely with our outsourced bookkeeper

• Support with monthly payroll

• Management of our purchase ledger, including our BACs payment cycle

• Treasury management, including currency hedging and allocation of funds in interest-bearing deposit accounts

• Managing ad-hoc FinOps projects and supporting ad-hoc legal projects.

3. Compliance

• Manage the audit process throughout the year to fulfil requests and answer audit queries

• Manage annual close out process and drafting of statutory accounts

• Manage monthly and quarterly VAT returns

• Support in researching technical accounting issues and improving quality and accuracy of financial information across the business

• Keep on top of local and international statutory requirements to ensure we are compliant.

4. Business partnering & financial analysis

• Work closely with commercial finance to support business planning and forecasting

• Support with preparation for key commercial finance cadences - helping to provide insights on performance trends & variance analysis

• Partnering with teams across the business to manage their spend and ROI of initiatives

• Assist with commercial finance business partnering, working closely with the wider team on ad hoc commercial / finance requests and/or strategic initiatives.

The main skills we’re looking for are:

• A high level of competence in Excel or Google Sheets

• Have a technical understanding of FRS102 (and / or Dutch GAAP) and how this applies to day-to-day accounting and bookkeeping

• An ability to work as part of a team with a flexible approach in order to adapt to changing working requirements

• A proactive approach to do whatever needs to be done to ensure that the group’s finances are accurate

• Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines and an eye for detail and accuracy

• Great interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with clients and colleagues at all levels

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

We think you’ll probably

• Be ACA, ACCA or CIMA (part-) qualified or QBE

• Have experience working in industry (a background in professional services e.g. Big 4 or similar is also advantageous but not essential)

• Have an excellent knowledge of accounting softwares such as NetSuite or equivalent

• Have prior experience owning finance processes and analysis in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Have outstanding quantitative skills

• And it’s not essential, but you’ll also have some experience working with a multi-national group company structure, multiple currencies and international consolidations.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Avant Arte is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic team so we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

BENEFITS

• Hybrid working (at least 2 days per week from our London office, in Shoreditch)

• Generous equity allowance

• Private Healthcare (UK)

• Enhanced pension contributions and parental leave policies

• 25 days of holiday plus four extra company wide days on Kings Day (national holiday in the Netherlands which falls in April) and for our winter office closure from 25th December to 1st January

• L&D budget of €1000 per year per employee