• The ideal candidate has a passion for Spark AR Studio. They have already built and shipped Spark AR Effects and are confident working in other 3D and 2D software. They've experience creating materials that help people learn technical creative software - perhaps they have already created and shared their own Spark video tutorials!
• A successful candidate will be able to think strategically about the needs of our different creators and meet them in a scalable way.
• This role involves working closely with partners from all kinds of disciplines, so our client is looking for a collaborative team player. The candidate should also have strong project management skills and ideally an understanding of data analysis and success measurement in this area.
• The successful candidate will also be proactive, comfortable with ambiguity and able to work independently to understand audience and business needs and deliver content accordingly.

• Demonstrated experience using Spark AR Studio to build effects.
• Experience with 2D and 3D software packages (example, Adobe, Unity, Lens Studio, Maya).
• 1+ years of experience in one or more of these areas: help and support content for software/digital products, content management workflows, Spark effect creation, video production, developing content with multi-disciplinary teams at a tech company.
• Comfortable working with visual programming software, ideally the Spark AR Studio Patch Editor.
• Experience with video creation and editing software.
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to take an existing or new project, understand its scope and direction and finish the project in a timely fashion.

• Competitive Salary.
• Work Laptop, phone (most roles) and latest tools and technologies.
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays.
• Expanding workforce with options for permanent positions and career progress ion for top performers.
• The experience of working with a company that will make your CV stand out from the crowd.

Are you looking to join a well-established, global company within the technology industry where five-star customer service is at the heart of everything we do? Do you want to be working with some of the World’s best known companies?

Founded in 2003, Flashbay is the World’s No.1 business-to-business (B2B) supplier of logo branded Promotional Technology products working with happy customers ranging from the smallest schools to the largest multinationals, globally. We are a privately-owned entrepreneurial group with two owners actively involved in the business and we have a healthy balance sheet and market share.
This is a London-based role but we are happy to support remote working, if you’d like to join Flashbay then please keep reading and apply now!

What will you do in your new role?

As an Accounts Receivable Assistant, you will be joining our growing finance team and be responsible for:

• Allocating customer receipts to open customer invoices
• Raising customer invoices in a timely manner following established processes
• Daily, weekly and monthly reconciliation of bank accounts
• Promptly assisting sales teams to resolve any customer issues related to billing and payment
• Preparation of weekly exception reports and customer refund reports
• Providing support with any ad hoc duties, as required

Who are we looking for?

You will thrive in this role if you already have:

• A great eye for detail, as well as the ability to take initiative and problem-solve
• Accurate reporting and administration skills
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and the understanding of what it takes to work to tight deadlines
• Similar experience within a transactional and/or operational role
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Solid working knowledge of the whole Microsoft package
• Experience of Netsuite ERP a bonus

What do we offer?

• Competitive basic salary
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 30 days of annual leave including public holidays, increasing as your career develops
• Pension
• Discounted gym membership (local to our Fulham office)
• Perkbox
• Cycle to work scheme

• Assist with the management of bank accounts
• Keep record of financial transactions; process sales invoices, receipts and payments
• Maintain customer/supplier account records
• Administer employee bank cards, business expenses and reimbursable costs
• Assist with subsidiary accounts
• File historical records
• Research and comply with legal requirements as they pertain to the company's operational and financial activities
• Assist with the collation of information required for auditors and other external data users
• Provide administrative and clerical support as needed
• Liaise with clients and suppliers
• Coordinate with other people/departments for information
• Assist with ad hoc bookkeeping duties

• You have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• You are analytical with proficient data entry skills
• You are AAT qualified or you have at least 2 years of experience in a similar role
• You have worked with Xero
• You are an effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have a high degree of integrity and discretion
• You are a team player and are able to cope with a diverse and rapidly changing workflow
• You take initiative at work and are able to independently assess issues and initiate solutions.

• Annual salary £30,000 - £34,000 depending on experience
• 22 holiday days (excluding Bank Holidays) + 3 paid holiday days over Christmas
• Flexitime with core working hours and occasional remote working
• Pension
• Private health insurance
• Group life insurance
• Subsidised healthy lunch with Feedr when on site

Position: Direct Tax Analyst

Department: Finance

Reports to: Direct Tax Senior Manager

Location: London

The opportunity:

An exciting opportunity to join the Tax Team of a dynamic, fast growing, technology business, supporting the expansion of its multi-jurisdictional operations and activities. This role will play a critical role in ensuring the Group meets all its global compliance, reporting and dependent obligations and, supports the business in its ongoing growth.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsibility for managing the outsourced service providers to ensure timely and accurate local country compliance with support from the wider direct tax team
• Support the international and employment tax teams across all compliance and project areas
• Support for the tax reporting process under IFRS and local GAAP
• Assist the direct tax senior manager in the outsourced R&D reporting process and build improvements to the current process with the business
• Assist the employment tax senior manager in the annual PSA reporting and payment process, together with maintaining controls documentation
• Maintain the tax risk register for direct tax with input from the wider team
• Operate as an ambassador for the tax department, driving process improvements and greater awareness of tax sensitive areas through proactive engagement with the business.
• Assist in the ongoing design of suitable Tax Controls and Governance framework.

Required skills and experience:

• Professional tax qualification beneficial but not essential
• Very comfortable with managing, processing and analysing large amounts of data
• Support available for obtaining relevant tax qualification
• Previous experience of corporate tax with an awareness of employment taxes 
• Can operate in an entrepreneurial operation undergoing tremendous growth
• Can maintain project management on multiple strategic initiatives 
• Ability to work both effectively within a team and alone
• Great communicator across multiple business areas and levels
• Excellent attention to detail, good judgement showing logical data-based decision making, and a hands-on approach
• Drive to continually improve processes and seek new challenges
• The ability to work under tight deadlines, managing multiple stakeholders (both internal and external) whilst retaining integrity and attention to detail
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills

Personal Attributes:

• A real enthusiasm to get involved in all relevant tax areas including tax reporting and tax compliance
• Ability to work with staff members around the world to build effective working relationships at all levels
• Motivation and strong self-direction, with a structured and methodical approach to achieving results in a relatively informal business environment
• Highly numerate and detail oriented
• Strong presentation skills 
• Adaptable and flexible   

• public and private M&A transactions;
• group reorganisations and demergers;
• real estate matters, including corporate real estate transactions and property fund structures such as JPUTs, REITs and PAIFs;
• listed fund IPOs and secondary fund raisings;
• private equity transactions;
• corporate finance, leasing and asset finance; and
• tax disputes work.

Curve was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life.

That’s why Curve puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. We help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live.

With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track your spend behaviour, see unique insights - all with additional security to help keep your money safe. Curve puts you in control of your money in one beautiful place for the first time.

We’re developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the heart of everything we do. We have funding from the biggest names in tech investment, and a visionary C-suite who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the opportunity to masterfully develop their expertise.

Welcome to Curve. On a mission to help you live inspired.

This is an opportunity for a qualified corporate or mixed tax professional to join one of the UK’s fastest growing and most successful startups.

You’ll be part of a commercially-minded Finance team, being the first person in our newly created tax team, reporting to the Group Financial Controller. The remit of this role will be to ensure our tax affairs are transparently compliant and efficient, so that our mission is sustainable into the future. 

In this newly created global role, we are looking for an intelligent problem solver who is comfortable with both complex data and tax principles. If you are someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and prides themselves on implementing order and process in an otherwise unstructured environment, this could be the position for you.

Key Accountabilities:

• Oversee the outsource the preparation of all corporate tax computations globally (e.g. UK, US & Lithuania). Elements of this may be taken in-house over time.
• Act as an in-house advisor to both finance and business teams on a wide range of tax topics (e.g. budgeting, forecasting, planning, risks & controls and payroll).
• Assist on ad hoc research and projects, including expansion into new countries and liaising with external advisors to ensure tax requirements are met.
• Lead on a major transformation project from a Transfer Pricing and value-chain perspective; design & implementation of documentation and reporting with the help of advisors where necessary.
• Lead on the evaluation of the global organisational structure; proposal of changes to mitigate risks to group tax position.
• Manage outsourced R&D claims (e.g. facilitate technical interviews with advisors and engineers) and identify further opportunities for other claims and incentives.
• Assist on M&A projects from a tax perspective.
• Assist with audits/litigations; liaising with external consultants and local teams.
• Support on VAT topics, ensuring compliance.
• Preparation of IFRS year-end tax reporting and tax provisions for local statutory accounts and group reporting with the help of advisors where necessary.
• Work closely with financial accounting and finance system teams for sources of data and information, including directly extracting information from our Finance system with a drive towards automation and innovation (e.g. making tax digital) 

Curve Life:

• Competitive salary with employee share options package.
• Free Curve Metal subscription for you and +1

Get Smarter:

• Generous yearly Learning and Development budget
• 10 days per year for training and conferences
• Unlimited book policy

Health and Wellbeing:

• Life insurance
• Health care cash plan
• Life coaching
• EAP services
• 24/7 GP access
• Annual subscriptions to Calm & FIIT for your mind and body
• Discounted gym membership.
• Ride to work scheme
• Nutritionist access
• Discounted shopping vouchers
• Season ticket loan
• Bonus days off for your birthday, moving house and Christmas
• Six nights of Night Nanny for new parents

Requirements:

• Degree in Law/Tax Law/Economics/Finance/equivalent
• Practical experience in tax (c. 2-4 years in an accounting firm or in-house environment)
• Experience in an international environment; knowledge of tax law/ways of working in various countries.
• Independent self-starter with good communication skills (we are a global organisation with offices around the world so remote communication is key)
• Excellent finance system skills and comfortable analysing large volumes of data
• Solid understanding of core accounting principles
• Detail oriented with an ability to prioritise changing deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Team player, but also able to work autonomously
• Ability to build relationships with peers & senior stakeholders in tax & other functions

Some extra skills that would be great

• Fully qualified ACA, ACCA, CTA, CPA or similar
• Practical experience of direct taxes in an in-house environment
• Experience working in or for technology and/or financial services businesses
• Interest in technology and its use in tax and finance