Financial Accountant Industrial Placement

Financial Accountant Industrial Placement ABOUT GRIFFIN Hi, we’re Griffin. We’re a fully regulated UK bank that powers the accounts and payments offerings of product-led fintechs and platforms like Uber, Yonder, Prosper, and Sidekick. By doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes, our customers can focus on what they do best - delivering amazing customer experiences. We’ve grown rapidly since our launch in 2024, and today provide the banking backbone behind products in remittance, payroll, wealth, insurance, proptech, payments, neobanking and more. We’re moving into card issuing, stablecoin infrastructure, and agentic finance next as we continue to support the next generation of product-led companies. Learn more about what we do https://griffin.com OUR CULTURE We believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and have done our best to create such an environment at Griffin. People who thrive here don’t require much hand-holding, and go out of their way to figure out how to contribute in the most valuable way possible. We've been remote-first since we were established in 2017 and we remain so today. Work here is asynchronous and fully flexible - because we want to be a part of your life in a way that helps you to get the most out of both your work and home life. We understand that our culture and ways of working aren’t for everyone, and we’re very intentional about our hiring process as a result. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified. Our strong culture has helped us to remain a mission-driven company as we have scaled, and gives our people a clear, explicit operating framework and the space to focus on delivering real value for our customers. Learn more about our culture. https://griffin.com/culture THE TEAM Griffin's Finance team is the engine that keeps a regulated bank running accurately and compliantly. From month-end reporting to audit support, the team manages everything that ensures our financial position is understood, trusted, and acted on. They work closely with every part of the business, translating complex financial data into clear insights that drive decisions — and they're on a mission to make every process sharper, leaner, and smarter. THE OPPORTUNITY This is a one-year placement that gives you hands-on experience inside the finance function of a real, operating tech-led bank. You'll work across everything from journals and reconciliations to AI-powered process improvements, getting hands-on with the platforms and workflows that keep a regulated bank running. From day one, you'll own real work that the team depends on and leave with practical skills in accounting, systems, and emerging tools that most graduates only encounter in theory. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE In your year with us, you'll have kept our accounts payable, expenses, and month-end processes running accurately and on time and supported a year-end audit. You'll have brought genuine improvements to at least one area of our workflows by streamlining something that used to be manual and time-consuming into something faster, repeatable and auditable. TO DO THIS YOU'LL OWN With support from the team you’ll work towards: - Supporting the preparation of month-end P&L and balance sheet statements alongside the Financial Accounting Manager - Preparing and posting accounting journals with accuracy and care - Managing the accounts payable system and process end-to-end - Running the expense claims process and keeping it moving smoothly - Supporting billing and accounts receivable reconciliation - Helping with the year-end audit process and departmental (Guild) reporting - Developing new accounting procedures and building data tools — including using AI — to make our processes faster, more accurate, and more repeatable YOUR BACKGROUND To ensure this, we're looking for people who have: - Enrolled on a F ... (truncated, view full listing at source)