Group Controller, Easol
3-5 days a week in office (East London)
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
Job no longer available
All-in-one platform for experience businesses
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
3-5 days a week in office (East London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable a generation of experience creators to love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA) ideally from a practice background with some commercial experience
- Strong IFRS and consolidations experience in a multi-currency environment
- Minimum 5 years post-qualified experience in a broad financial accounting role
- Team management and development experience
- Experience of US and European tax and regulation preferable
- Cash and working capital management experience ideally in start up/scale up environment
- You’ll have a strong hands on and ownership mentality with a bias for action, ensuring you effectively balance the function’s day-to-day needs with developing the systems & processes required to maintain our pace of growth
- Fine attention to detail combined with the ability to cut through noise to focus on what matters most
- Process-oriented - we’re looking to you to redesign and beef up our processes
- Team-player with strong management skills and a desire to champion your team’s development and growth
- Ability to multitask, prioritise and thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- You’ll have a passion for experience, travel and adventure. You are likely to spend your holidays kitesurfing in Sri Lanka, hiking the Nepalese mountains or at an alternative music festival
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Group Controller responsible for day to day controllership duties as well as group reporting and month-end accounting processes
- Easol’s business is relatively complex, as we process hundreds of millions in payments across multiple regions, a growing list of pay-in currencies and settlement currencies and operate through multiple corporate entities
- In other words: this role will challenge you, guaranteeing you learn a lot!
- The role offers a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving and moulding our financial accounting and reporting infrastructure
- You’ll be supported by a team of 3 on day one, who will look to you for leadership and mentorship
- Managing the month end close process and preparation of monthly consolidated management accounts
- Own financial accounting and reporting systems & processes and ensure tools used within the finance team are best in class
- Improve and manage our financial control processes to ensure that the business is able to scale effectively and operate efficiently
- FX forecasting and management of trading arrangements & FX accounting policies
- Ongoing working capital and cash flow reporting and management
- Ownership of statutory audit of our UK entities (and Group in future)
- Liaise with third party accountants and advisors in the territories we operate in to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations
- Review and submission of VAT and other tax returns both in the UK, US and across other jurisdictions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Easol was founded in 2017 by husband and wife team Ben and Lisa Simpson with the intention of becoming the world's first all-in-one SaaS platform for experience commerce. The company aims to bring vital experience commerce tools all into one synchronised place.
Easol empowers entrepreneurs by removing the need to outsource their business to traditional e-commerce platforms, booking platforms or experience marketplaces such as Airbnb. This appeals directly to bosses looking to maintain full ownership of their business, and to streamline the labour-intensive and hands-on booking and tracking processes.
The company is taking advantage of the growing experience market, as more and more businesses are founded to provide the rising demand for unforgettable experiences. After a difficult few years, the experience market is set to boom, and Easol has enjoyed a $30 million funding round in 2024, which will be used to invest in their US presence off the back of opening a hub in New York.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
100% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2024
$30m
SERIES A
Apr 2022
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $59.8m
Company benefits
- 25 days of holidays plus public holidays
- Equity
- Gym Membership worth £30
- Headspace membership
- Development & Coaching Budget
- £1,000 Personal Deep Week Budget
- Design your own Setup Budget
- £35 per month mobile phone contribution
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Simpson
(CEO & Co-Founder)They were the managing director of youth marketing and experience agency Rough Hill. They co-founded Rise Festival in Les 2 Alps and Running Wild, an event promotion organisation.
Lisa Simpson
(Chief Brand Officer & Co-Founder)They obtained a masters from Warwick University. They were a creative project manager at Rough Hill, and worked for Action Aid for over 4 years. They co-found Rise Festival and Easol.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Easol
Lisa (Simpson)
- There is an open forum for you to have your say in what we do and how we do it. We empower our team to share their ideas!
- Employees of all backgrounds and physical abilities will be supported by us in every way possible to thrive.
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