About Amini
Amini is building the sovereign, AI-native distributed infrastructure stack for the Global South, giving governments and enterprises the data, compute, and connectivity they need to own and govern their digital future, rather than depend on outside platforms. We already work with governments across the southern hemisphere, and our work has been recognised by TIME100 AI, MIT Solve, and the World Economic Forum. We help our partners and customers put AI to work in ways that drive real growth, and make sure that opportunity is shared more equally across the Global South.
Our core values, Collaboration, Trust, Integrity, Humility, and Passion, are at the heart of everything we do. In practice, that means defaulting to sharing credit and information openly, being honest about what we don't yet know, and choosing to admit a mistake early rather than protect an ego.
Our team is small, highly skilled, and non-hierarchical. We recognise the transformational nature of our work, but we stay humble and ego-free about it. We believe in fully using our skills and experience, sharing ideas openly, and making a collective impact, one we intend to grow from the governments and communities we already work with today into a much broader influence on the AI industry and lives across the Global South.
Accountant
We are growing our finance department as part of our continued expansion. You will be a part-qualified accountant with a hands-on, “can-do” approach and the ability to take ownership of financial matters from end to end. You will be comfortable working independently, resolving issues proactively and providing cross-functional and commercial support to the wider business.
Responsibilities:
- Own the day-to-day bookkeeping and posting of financial transactions, ensuring sales, purchases, expenses, payments and receipts are recorded accurately and on time in QuickBooks.
- Work closely with Admin and Operations teams to coordinate payment runs, obtain supporting documentation and ensure purchase approvals are completed in line with company processes.
- Lead the sales cycle, ensuring transactions are accurately and promptly recorded.
- Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, fixed asset depreciation and intercompany transactions.
- Lead the month-end and year-end close processes, including full balance sheet reconciliations and accurate P&L reporting.
- Prepare monthly management accounts on a timely basis.
- Produce monthly management reporting packs, including clear commentary on variances, margins and key operational KPIs.
- Ensure compliance with applicable GAAP and other regulatory requirements.
- Perform financial analysis to identify trends, variances and areas for improvement.
- Monitor and review costing to support accurate margin reporting.
- Establish and maintain robust internal controls to safeguard company assets and support accurate financial reporting.
- Support external audits, including preparation of schedules and responding to audit requests.
What you will have:
Essential
- Previous experience working within a finance function.
- Strong month-end close and balance sheet reconciliation experience.
- Experience supporting audits and responding to auditor requests.
- Good understanding of accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and intercompany accounting.
- Strong Excel and financial analysis skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- A desire to develop within a fast-moving and growing business.
Highly Desirable
- Previous experience with UK GAAP and/or US GAAP would be beneficial
- Practical experience using QuickBooks Online.