Financial Accountant, Checkatrade
FTC
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- We would like you to be ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- You are adept at using systems to identify and implement process improvements
- You are someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and is motivated by opportunities and challenges
- A collaborative, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. Your collaboration and communication skills are essential for building strong relationships across the finance team and with key business stakeholders
- Strong commercial and analytical acumen
- You are a self-starter who thrives on ownership and is motivated by making improvements
What the job involves
- At Checkatrade, we’re building the UK’s go-to home improvement marketplace. Every day, we help millions of homeowners find the right tradesperson for the job, fast, fair, and without the faff
- We/re looking for an experienced and highly motivated Financial Accountant (temporary) to join our team
- This is an exciting time to be part of our organization as we navigate a period of significant growth and change
- The successful candidate will play a critical role in supporting the Head of Financial Control in the delivery of the External and Internal Reporting requirements of the business, alongside driving systems and process improvements
- The primary focus will be supporting the financial control team during a busy period of systems implementation.
- Spotting ways to improve how we support with the internal and external audit providing the auditors with all requests in a timely manner to ensure the smooth running of the audit process
- Collaborating with external parties to ensure timely reporting and provide month end reporting of intragroup balances to other group entities
- Making sure every interaction leaves people feeling confident in Checkatrade
Application process
- Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
- 1st stage interview with the Head of Financial Control
- If you require any reasonable adjustments during our interview process, please discuss them with your Talent Acquisition Partner
- If this sounds like the place where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t tick every box
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Challenging work
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Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 📱 Mobile Phone Allowance
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Be All In: We are moving at pace – enjoy the journey, embrace the opportunity and own the outcome
- Always Customer Obsessed: We are testing and learning together – listen to our customer insights continuously and evolve our approach
- Do The Right Thing: We work with integrity in everything we do – do the right thing for our team and customers
- Be Bold: We are ambitious and think big – speak up and go direct to deliver our mission together
- Get It Done: We are here for exceptional outcomes – have a bias for action to deliver them
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Jo Agar (Internal Communications Manager )
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 26% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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