Accounting Vice President
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About Novabook
Novabook is the “Accountant for Startups” founded by Stephen Wilks & Lukas Feddern. Our team previously founded, scaled and sold a technology company for $50M. We started Novabook to solve the problems we faced during this process. Our aim is to make the financial processes of starting, running and selling a business in the UK easier.
Why join us?
We are a small, rapidly growing team of 50 people at the moment (18 people in the engineering & product team, 6 people in the sales & marketing team). Our first venture together was senecalearning.com, which scaled to 12M users and a successful acquisition in 2022.
After launching in May 2024, we already have 1000+ clients, millions in ARR and are growing quickly, this is an opportunity to join the ride at an early stage. We’ve raised over £10M in capital to scale Novabook.
Novabook was born out of our personal experiences with the shortcomings of traditional accountancy practices while running Seneca. After dealing with inefficient software and unreliable accountancies for 8 years, we believe it's time to tackle these challenges head-on.
Culture
We are well-funded but the hardest period of a start-up is always the first couple of years, when the team is small, and you are heavily relied on personally. But this also exposes you to the most interesting period of a company’s lifecycle and also the period where you can learn the most & earn the most material rewards. You won’t be expected to work evenings & weekends, but you will be expected to work hard when on the job.
About the role
The core responsibilities of the role will be managing client relationships, working with 100-150 fast-growing start-ups across the UK and US to ensure that we are delivering the best possible service at the same time.
You will need to build an understanding of the startup fundraising journey, modelling & budgeting, accounting & tax (employment, VAT, corporate, R&D) and valuations (for employee share schemes and funding rounds), but we don't expect you to have this day 1.
You will have continued client interaction and will be managed by the CEO. At the same time, you will work with 18 software engineers using AI to automate the day-to-day workflows that you & your team encounter. You will then be in charge of rolling these out to your teams & clients.
Requirements
ACA / ACCA / ICAS (or equivalent, e.g. CTA) qualification is advantageous but not essential.
We are open to candidates from a range of backgrounds, including those qualified by experience, provided they can demonstrate strong technical capability and the ability to operate autonomously within a high-growth environment.
About the application process
The hiring process consists of four steps:
20-minute screening call with Talent Lead
Take Home task
20-minute virtual technical round
Final Round Interview
In a final round process, we value candidates more highly if they know a little bit about our business already. In case it’s useful as a light-touch way of getting up to speed:
- Here is our company’s newsletter in Reels form.
- And here are our interviews with the UK’s best startup founders.
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