Operations Associate, Beacon
Supply Chain Finance
Supply Chain Visibility Platform
Job no longer available
Supply Chain Visibility Platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help businesses simplify and optimise their supply chains with end-to-end visibility, supplier payments, and insights.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 2 years experience in a trade or supply chain finance operations role
- Experience reviewing Commercial Invoices and other documentary procedures
- Knowledge and experience of fraud and compliance concepts and procedures
- Understanding of the basic concepts of operational risk and reconciliations
- Customer centric ethic and you’re comfortable working with external vendors and clients
- A continuous improvement mindset as well as experience working on process improvement
- Previous experience working with Excel/Google Sheets and proprietary operational supply chain finance product platforms in the financial services sectors
What the job involves
- Onboarding new Clients - Present Clients with a seamless experience by demonstrating the Beacon Platform and its capabilities
- Be the point of contact for all Client requests - Provide an amazing Client experience by quickly responding to all Client requests
- Execute transactions - You’ll be reviewing Invoices for payment, managing Suppliers and reconciling all repayments
- Support the Operations Manager with Investor Relations and Reporting - Prepare Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Reporting and become a point of contact with our Investors
- Operational tasks - You’ll be the engine behind the scenes that makes the business run smoothly and support our customers
- Improve existing processes and develop new ones - You’ll work with a number of teams to implement new processes in the Operations workflow
- Work with multiple stakeholders in the business - You’ll work with a variety of teams in the business to deliver Beacons amazing products and services to our clients
- Identify areas of risk - You’ll be on the lookout for operational risk within the business and help ensure all operations processes are in check
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The trillion-dollar freight forwarding industry is ripe for disruption, with 43% of the market dominated by just ten firms. Starting out as a digital freight forwarding company for SMEs, Beacon has used its experience of the customer journey and the pain points for shippers to develop a SaaS platform that gives supply chain visibility and management tools to the array of stakeholders within the supply chain.
Beacon's goal is to empower its customers, which it does by connecting supply chain data, providing them with analytical tools for rapid decision-making and giving them access to growth capital. This range of services, flexibility of its platform, and its time as a freight forwarding company allows Beacon to meet the needs of disparate stakeholders across the supply chain, from buyers to logistics managers. This has given it a major edge against its competitors' inflexible enterprise solutions.
Beacon has received funding in a Series B round with participation from Jeff Bezo. With the backing of industry leaders and its large and growing customer base, Beacon appears to be poised for future success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- We provide private healthcare, mindfulness resources and company-wide focus days to help keep our teams on top of their priorities
- All teams offer some form of hybrid working, providing the benefit of working from an office, or from home
- Pension contributions to make sure you’re provided for
- Feel invested in Beacon’s growth with share options and referral bonuses
- We offer parental and adoption leave as well as flexible working hours to support parents’ return to work
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Leadership
Fraser Robinson
(CEO)Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Fraser led Uber’s Business in EMEA and before that held senior roles in technology and e-commerce startups for over two decades.
Dmitri Izmailov
(COO)Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Dmitri was the General Manager of Uber in Russia and prior to that worked as a Management Consultant in New York.
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