Assistant Accountant (Maternity Cover)
Red Sift
Assistant Accountant (Maternity Cover)
About us
Red Sift's Digital Resilience Platform solves for the greatest vulnerabilities across the complete attack surface. By providing comprehensive coverage of an organization’s digital footprint through best-in-class discovery and monitoring, Red Sift enables users to proactively uncover threats within email, domains, brand, and the network perimeter. Paired with sophisticated remediation capabilities, Red Sift provides organizations with the tools to shut down phishing and ensure ongoing compliance with email and web security protocols.
Red Sift is a global organization with offices in North America, Australia, Spain, and the UK. It boasts an impressive client base across all industries, including Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, Pipedrive, and top global law firms. Red Sift is also a trusted partner of Entrust, Microsoft, and Validity, among others.
About the role
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Assistant Accountant to join our team for a maternity cover position. The ideal candidate will provide support to the financial department by managing daily accounting tasks, ensuring financial transactions are accurate and timely.
Responsibilities
Process purchase invoices, ensuring that they are accurately coded, approved and paid in a timely manner.
Daily bank reconciliations for multi currency accounts
Intercompany reconciliations across 7 entities
Managing employee expense claims, credit cards and expense management platforms
Travel management and approvals
Review VAT returns
Assist in the preparation of financial documents such as Purchase Orders
Reconcile vendor statements and resolve any discrepancies
Payroll preparation and submission for multiple international entities
Assist with Month-End and Year-End close processes, including but not limited to reconciling bank statements, preparing journal entries, updating and reconciling financial ledgers and ensuring that all transactions are accurately recorded in the general ledger
Prepare financial reports and analysis as needed, including Balance Sheet reconciliations, accruals, and prepayments, travel spend reports
Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records, ensuring that all transactions are properly documented and filed
Provide support to the Finance team as needed, including ad hoc projects and tasks
Assist with new systems implementation
About you
Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a similar role
Minimum Part-Qualified ACCA/CIMA
Experience in dealing with multinational companies and multiple currencies on a day-to day basis
Proficiency with Xero accounting software
Experience in running Payroll
Intermediate knowledge of Excel (v-lookup, pivot tables)
Good analytical skills with a thorough approach to tackling issues and the ability work methodically
Ability to interpret and present financial information in an easy-to-understand format
Excellent presentation, planning and organisational skills
Proven ability to work under own initiative, deal with conflicting demands and meet tight deadlines
Solid communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to pick up news systems and process quickly
Benefits
🌟 The opportunity to participate in every aspect of the startup journey in rapid scaling mode
✊🏽 The chance to participate in our mission to protect organisations and the people within them with cybersecurity software products that outsmart attackers at scale
💷 A competitive base salary based on experience in addition to a performance-based bonus, equity plan and pension scheme
🧰 Optionally remote work, as long as you can drop by the office every now and then
🏝 25 days of vacation in addition to public holidays per year
🧖♀️ A monthly budget for coaching and self-improvement such as courses, conferences and workshops
🏥 Health Insurance
👪 Maternity / Paternity leave
🏋️ Gym membership
🚴 Cycle to work scheme
🦸 One volunteer day per year
🕰 Flexible working hours, we trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Red Sift UK
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote

Red Sift UK
Workplace & Culture
Here at Red Sift, we are always in search of the brightest minds to join our scaling team. It doesn’t matter if your field of expertise is tech or customer support, admin or sales, we want to hear from you.
We don’t just hire people for their skill set, we search for someone's ability to fit in and drive our business. If you’re hard-working, love to find solutions, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, then we might just be the team for you!
Assistant Accountant (Maternity Cover)
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