AddressWe’re Atom Learning and our mission is to democratise education. We use machine learning and a visually engaging tech platform to bring a fun, high-quality and personalised learning experience into every child’s home.
We combine exceptional teacher-made content with cutting-edge technology to provide fantastic affordable education to all children globally, regardless of background.
We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing EdTech companies. Since 2018 we’ve grown from a startup of four friends to almost 120 people. Our brilliant colleagues include specialists across education, engineering, product, learning design and marketing.
We’re remote-first! While our main office is in London, our team is composed of over 120 people (and counting) working from 10 countries.
Atom Learning's been featured in Otta’s Annual Rocket List: the 100 fastest-growing companies to work for!
The role
Atom Learning is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join our small and very dynamic Finance Team. You’ll be reporting to the Financial Controller and you will work closely with our co-founder to ensure smooth financial operations and contribute to Atom’s success.
What you will do
- You’ll play a key role within the accounts payable function ensuring the accuracy of data and timely processing of invoices and payments
- Ensuring clients are billed on time and overdue invoices are chased up to achieve a timely resolution
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations ensuring these agree to bank statements
- Be able to contribute to various month-end tasks, often under tight timelines and under pressure in order to ensure we are able to report on the business’s performance in a timely fashion
- Be hands-on and willing to “get your hands dirty” helping in various areas of the business, with ad hoc finance tasks that may arise
- A critical thinker – be able to suggest process improvements to constantly develop and evolve the finance function
Who you are
- You have excellent attention to detail
- You have experience working in a high transactional volume AP/AR role and experience with bank reconciliations
- You have basic understanding of VAT rules
Experience that will set you apart
- Experience using Quickbooks accounting package
- Experience using Spendesk
- Bookkeeping/double entry experience
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays;
- 3 days winter leave;
- Work from anywhere in the UK or within GMT +/-2 hours time zone; we're a remote-first company, with the option to use our Holborn office;
- Annual L&D budget;
- Private medical with Vitality Health;
- Access to wellbeing platform;
- Enhanced family leave;
- Monthly remote and in person events in London;
- High degree of autonomy and exposure to the running of all business areas of a successful startup;
- Brilliant colleagues and the opportunity to become an integral member of a fast-growing tech company.
Diversity & Inclusion at Atom Learning
At Atom Learning, diversity, equity and inclusion are essential parts of our mission. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages and supports voices from a diverse range of backgrounds. We know it fuels our creativity and brings us closer towards democratising education for children of all backgrounds
To achieve this, we commit to fostering an environment where everyone is valued and supported for who they are and in which individual differences and the contributions of all our staff are recognised and protected. We work to ensure that our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on skills and competencies and that we actively seek talent from all sections of society
