Summary

Department environment

Copper’s finance team provides critical information to the company's leadership to facilitate effective management, strategic decision making and provide insights into key data and metrics driving our businesses growth. Our team has several disciplines including Finance Operations, Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Revenue Operations and Procurement. Each of these teams plays an important role in supporting the wider business through day-to-day operations (commercial deal support, invoice processing, cash collection, etc.), regular reporting (budget v actuals, forecasting, cash and liquidity management etc.), performance management (KPI, sales metrics and financials) and other specialised activities (tax compliance/structuring, vendor selection etc.). Our team's goal is to be a best-in-class support function to the global Copper business and help ensure all departments performance against objectives as our business scales to build an optimum financial architecture and create value for shareholders. 

Role Purpose

Copper’s Management Accountant will be a highly skilled and detail-orientated individual who will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of our financial information, to support the existing operational finance team. The role’s primary focus will be on maintenance of our balance sheet and P&L through regular reconciliation and deep dive analysis. The role is perfect for individuals who excel at analysing financial data, identifying trends and resolving discrepancies at the transactional level.

Key Responsibilities of the role

1. Balance sheet reconciliations, both monthly and weekly, ensuring all accounting transactional data is complete, accurate and has suitable supporting documentation.
2. Ownership of P&L accounting and analysis to provide comfort all accounting transactional data is complete, accurate and has suitable supporting documentation. 
3. Regularly deep dive into transactional reports, performing detailed data analysis to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies across the group.
4. Spot and investigate discrepancies in accounting data, resolving these independently where possible, seeking support from the operational teams and FC where required.
5. Support FP&A with the preparation and maintenance of management accounts, ensuring accurate and complete department allocations are correct and performing detailed variance analysis month-on-month.
6. Prepare quarterly VAT returns for multiple entities for review by the FC, Head of Finance and Head of Tax.
7. Prepare detailed breakdowns and summaries for ad-hoc reporting requests to meet the needs of finance leadership.
8. Work closely with wider finance team including FP&A, Tax and local finance representatives to ensure all accounting transactions are understood and logical. 
9. Support the FC with various tasks, including but not limited to: Month-end, Consolidation, Audit support, financial control enforcement.  .

Your experience, skills and knowledge

Essential

1. Deep understanding of how to create, maintain and explain balance sheet reconciliation files.
2. Experience of financial statements and accounting standards / principals.
3. Ability to interpret complex data, identify trends and provide actionable insights.
4. Proficient in relevant software (Excel, NetSuite, Salesforce).

Desirable

1. Understanding of the business environment and market trends relevant to the Digital Asset, Blockchain and Financial Service industries.
2. Ability to work well with others and build strong relationships.
3. Experience in managing financial projects and initiatives and delivering impactful results.
4. Flexibility to adapt to a fast changing financial and internal landscape as our growth and regulatory strategy develops
5. Relevant professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc)

Skills

• Accounting
• Excel