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About the role
Accounting workflows are changing, and Validis is the data foundation that powering this change.
This is an opportunity for a qualified accountant to take their practice experience somewhere new. You will be part of a growing fintech where accounting expertise drives the direction of our product, shaping how auditors and lenders access financial data.
While you won't be preparing or auditing accounts for clients, you will analyse and map complex financial data, bring sound judgement to how it is interpreted, and work closely with our Data Technicians, product and engineering teams to keep raising the standard of what we deliver.
You're a good fit if you've wondered how your own work might look in a few years and want to be part of that change.
Key responsibilities of the Technical Accountant
Analyse and map large datasets from complex sources, including general ledgers, trial balances, sales and purchase ledgers and other financial data.
Diagnose and resolve issues with financial data, identifying whether the cause lies in the source data or in how it was processed.
Review complex and large datasets to ensure they are complete, accurate and reliable from an accounting perspective.
Test and refine the rules behind our data ingestion engine and challenge its outputs where the accounting does not hold up.
Conduct walkthroughs and testing to verify that changes to our processing have been implemented correctly.
Review and approve processed data before it is released to customers, within agreed service levels.
Identify, interpret and document the accounting, regulatory and financial compliance requirements relevant to the SME market, and provide practical support in applying the right accounting treatment.
Support Data Technicians and junior colleagues in understanding accounting and regulatory issues.
Respond to accounting queries from across the business, and give clear, accounting-led explanations of data issues to Customer Support and, where needed, to customers.
Act as an accounting point of reference for new product releases and help improve our processes and guidance.
About you
A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
1 to 2 years' experience since qualifying.
Trained in practice, in audit, accounts preparation or bookkeeping, so you have worked with general ledgers and trial balances from many different businesses and accounting systems.
Experience of multi-entity groups, consolidations or multi-currency ledgers.
A strong, practical understanding of double entry, and of how general ledger, trial balance, sales ledger and purchase ledger data fit together.
Confident in Excel: comfortable working through large, detailed exports, using lookups and pivot tables, and reconciling one dataset to another.
A genuine interest in technology and how it handles financial data. You want to understand why a system produced a result, not just whether the result is right.
A methodical problem-solver who can trace an issue back to its cause.
Able to explain accounting problems in plain language to non-accounting professionals.
Desirable but not essential
Hands-on experience with several accounting systems, such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite or Microsoft Dynamics, and how their reports and exports differ.
Experience with audit data analytics or ledger analysis tools.
Exposure to SQL, Power Query, Python or another way of working with data beyond Excel.
An interest in AI and how it is changing accounting and audit.
