Valiant

Accounts Assistant

Valiant is an award-winning online platform offering businesses a streamlined solution to accessing finance. Valiant works with over 80 leading lenders to connect customers with the right solution for their needs. Due to some exciting new partnerships we’re looking towards the future and excited to grow our team

  • Finance and accounting

  • Full-time

  • Hybrid | Sydney, NSW, AU

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Junior · A role for someone with some basic skills, good motivation and ability to learn. Typically 1-2 years of experience is required.

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Josh Minzie

Hiring manager, Valiant

Why Valiant

Valiant is an innovative, award-winning platform connecting Australian business owners with the finance they need to kick goals. How? With pioneering tech, a diverse lending panel and a talented team, we’ve revolutionised the business lending game.

About the role

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Accounts Assistant to help take our Finance team to the next level. You'll see that we're a rapidly scaling Fintech and while we're having lots of fun doing it we need someone with high attention to detail to keep us functioning at our best. We are open to this position being full time or part time.

Bookkeeping, reporting, and operational analysis will form the core of this role. If you love working autonomously and getting lost in data, then this will be the perfect role for you. You'll be part of a growing Fintech with excellent career prospects, alongside an inclusive, passionate and tight-knit team.

Requirements

  • Managing data entry of revenue items earned at the end of month.
  • Collecting and reconciling expense payments incurred on company cards.
  • Invoicing lender partners and assisting with cash collections.
  • Assisting internal stakeholders on Accounts related issues/queries.
  • Assisting with approving and processing accounts payables.
  • Producing performance reports using Excel and Powerpoint.
  • Forwarding settlement reports to external partners and requesting payment invoices.
  • Administration and analysis to ensure compliance with contracts and financial policies.
  • Supporting company administration including data entry and analysis for onboarding (new starters), members of the Pride (existing employees) and offboarding (departing employees).
  • Assistance with ad-hoc analytics projects.

Skills and Experience

  • Extreme attention to detail and accountability for tasks.
  • Proven accounting or bookkeeping experience, ideally in a similar role.
  • Experience working in a technology or fintech environment, desired but not essential.
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Advanced skills using Microsoft Office.
  • Exceptional familiarity and skill using Microsoft Excel (comfortable building and operating large spreadsheets, tracing formula cells to identify variances, etc.).
  • Experience working with Xero.
  • Confidence in ability to regularly follow-up with Valiant staff and partners, to obtain desired information / outcomes
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Preferred Academic qualifications
  • Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline such as Finance, Bookkeeping, Accounting, desired but not essential.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Accounts Payable and Receivable Management

    Maintain and update accounts payable and receivable, issue invoices and undertake reconciliations

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    Administrative Support

    Ensure smooth operations by collaborating with others to complete various tasks, organizing information, and coordinating schedules

  • Stakeholder Engagement

    Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

Skills you'll need

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Numerical problem solving

    Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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    Attention to detail

    Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables

Meet the team

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