Junior Bookkeeper at Insight Matters [CLOSED]

About the role:

We are looking for an all-round junior bookkeeper to help us provide our clients with solid financial information about their business.

Who you’ll be working with:

We are Insight Matters.

We provide our clients with financial insights that they use to grow faster, grow better and healthier businesses. Based on our input, they make life changing decisions about hiring, investing and improving their strategic plans.

Our clients use our services to answer critical business questions: can they invest in hiring a new person? Are they getting the right return on marketing? Where are they leaving money on the table? Which products or services are most profitable?

We are a full-service financial support service, working mainly with e-Commerce and Service companies - delivering the full finance function, from accounting to fractional CFO services, and from management reporting & analysis to internal control.

Our team is fully remote and currently spread out over various countries in Europe, Asia and South America, while our clients are mainly in the US, Europe, and Asia. We are a team of 11 and growing rapidly.

Our #1 priority is delivering quality to our clients – we are their trusted partner for big decisions, so quality is non-negotiable.

Our team culture is open, informal, equal and based on trust and transparency and heavily emphasizes asking questions and learning from each other and our mistakes.

What you’ll be doing

As we are a young company with a rapidly growing number of clients, you will run bookkeeping for a number of our clients in various industries spread across multiple countries. You will be focused on daily and weekly accounting tasks, mostly focused in AR, AP and Inventory at the same time provide support in monthly and yearly financial closing.

Responsibilities

• Post and process journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded
• Update accounts receivable and issue invoices
• Update accounts payable and perform reconciliations
• Perform bank reconciliations
• Perform account reconciliations
• Assist in the processing of balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines
• Assist with reviewing of expenses, payroll records etc. as assigned
• Update financial data in the relevant accounting platform to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available when needed
• Prepare and submit weekly/monthly reports
• Assist senior accountants in the preparation of monthly/yearly closings
• Assist with other accounting projects

To succeed in this role, you most likely have:

• 2+ years’ experience in bookkeeping or accounting, AR/AP management, Inventory accounting, Invoicing and Billing
• Experienced in handling multiple clients with weekly and monthly timelines
• Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices (IAS, IFRS, US GAAP)
• Experience with major accounting platforms such as but not limited to QBO and Xero together with various online financial platforms, such as but not limited to payment channels, banking, invoicing, expense reporting, ecommerce
• Experience with working remote

Personal traits that will help us both succeed:

• Super organized & structured
• Eye for detail
• Dares to asks questions
• Eager to learn and grow
• Ambition to grow with a start-up in a fast-paced, fully remote environment
• Proactively think, bring suggestions and ideas to the table
• Take initiative and not be afraid to make mistakes
• Sees constructive feedback as an opportunity to learn, not as criticism.
• Flexible working hours – you can set your own work rhythm, with the only requirement that at least of your standard work hours fall between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. CET

Benefits

What is in it for you:

• A key role in a young and dynamic team that is changing the future of our clients
• Working with a variety of passionate entrepreneurs as clients
• Working closely with 2 complementary founders
• Working with in an open, supportive and positive team culture
• A setting where initiative is appreciated and rewarded

Benefits:

• Competitive salary 1.100 - 1.400-USD per month based on 40 hours/week (Believe you should get more? Convince us!)
• 20 days paid holiday per year
• Performance related bonus scheme/profit share in the future
• Training budget and time
• Working hours: 30-40 hours per week
• Fully remote work, flexible working hours – set your own work rhythm, with the only requirement that at least of your standard work hours fall between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. CET