Description
About Us
Avenir Collective - Building the future of beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands.
We’re building a new kind of consumer brand platform focused on trusted products, long-term value and meaningful growth. If you’re excited by building brands, solving problems and working alongside collaborative, driven people, we’d love to hear from you.
Requirements
Your Role at a Glance
As a General Ledger (GL) Accountant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial records across our portfolio of brands. Your main focus will be maintaining the general ledger, supporting month-end and year-end close processes, preparing reconciliations and financial reporting, and working collaboratively with teams across the business to ensure financial information is accurate, timely and supports effective decision-making.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical accounting background, excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving, who is excited to work in a fast-paced, growing business where they can help strengthen financial controls and contribute to continuous improvement.
Location & Flexibility
Full-time, Contract, Fully remote role.
40 hours per week, 9 am to 6 pm (BST) with a one-hour lunch
Location & Flexibility
Full-time, Contract, fully remote role.
40 hours per week, 9 am to 6 pm (BST) with a one-hour lunch
Key responsibilities
Process invoices accurately and on time, while communicating with suppliers to resolve invoice-related queries and discrepancies. We use Blue10 software.
Prepare and post recurring and one-off journal entries for multiple legal entities in accordance with accounting policies.
Perform regular reconciliations of bank accounts across multiple accounts and currencies and investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly.
Reconcile PayPal transactions and investigate outstanding balances to ensure completeness and accuracy.
Process and account for logistics, handling, and warehousing invoices from multiple suppliers.
Review, process, and record Amazon fee invoices in a timely and accurate manner.
Maintain, reconcile and monitor BOL accounts, ensuring accurate accounting and timely resolution of discrepancies.
Perform reconciliations for Shopify accounts, ensuring that transactions are accurately recorded and supported.
Support the month-end and year-end closing processes.
Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and financial reporting deadlines.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Supply Chain, IT and Finance, to resolve accounting issues and improve processes.
About you
2+ years’ experience in a General Ledger, Financial Accountant or similar accounting role, ideally within a multi-entity or international business.
Strong understanding of month-end close, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and general ledger accounting.
Experience processing high-volume transactions, including AP invoices, bank reconciliations and payment platform reconciliations (e.g. PayPal, Shopify or Amazon is advantageous).
Highly organised with excellent attention to detail, able to prioritise workloads and consistently meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
A collaborative and proactive problem-solver who enjoys improving processes and working cr…