Management Accountant

About Fussy

Hey good smelling! We're Fussy…about everything in our mission to banish single-use plastic from your bathroom. Having experienced exceptional growth over the past five years, we are now looking for a talented individual to join the team as Management Accountant .

You'll report to our Financial Controller, working together to continue to build finance processes that are accurate, automated and ready to scale with us.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a scale-up through a significant period of growth. You'll own how money moves through the business day to day, and be a trusted partner to the finance team and the wider business 💪🌍

What You’ll Do 💼

- Own our financial operations end to end, keeping the process accurate, timely and well controlled
- Run the accounts payable process, overseeing supplier queries, payment runs and supplier statement reconciliations
- Manage expenses and VAT: company card and employee expense claims, plus VAT returns, keeping policy compliance, coding and deadlines on track
- Play a hands-on role in month end: preparing journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations to hit the close timetable, and supporting the Financial Controller in resolving variances before numbers reach the leadership team
- Find and implement automation and system improvements that cut manual work and make our finance processes scalable
- Keep clear process documentation and controls in place, and support audit and year-end requests

Who You Are 🤓

Great comes in lots of different forms, and we’re really open to seeing candidates from a range of backgrounds. Given the nature of this role and what we’ll ask of you, we do believe that the following skills are needed to be able to deliver to a high standard:

- A strong grasp of accounting fundamentals, ideally with a qualification or part-qualification (e.g. ACCA, ACA, CIMA or AAT) or equivalent hands-on experience
- Proven experience of month-end close, including journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations
- A clear understanding of the end-to-end accounts payable process
- Keen attention to detail, with the discipline to check your work and spot what doesn't add up
- An open mind to automation, and the curiosity to find better, faster ways of doing things

Bonus points, but these are not a deal breaker:

- Experience with cloud accounting and AP automation tools (e.g. Xero, NetSuite, Dext)
- Experience in an e-commerce, FMCG or consumer brand business
- Experience working in a fast-growing scale-up

This isn't the right role for you if…

- You'd rather work in a purely strategic role than get stuck into the detail of the day-to-day and month end
- You prefer to follow established processes rather than build and improve them
- You don't like working in fast-paced and changeable environments (this is start-up life, after all).

What we offer 🤝

- A chance to play a part in banishing single-use plastic from the bathroom
- A salary of £40-50k depending on experience
- Hybrid working with Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in our London (Shoreditch) office
- 33 days annual leave including flexible bank holidays + a day off for your birthday – we encourage you to take time off to switch off, rest and recharge.
- Our WellHub membership with a range of fitness & wellbeing options - we care about our team’s wellness, from physical to mental health
- Share options after probation, so that you can benefit from our growth
- Gym membership

To help us manage the high volume of applications we receive, we use AI-assisted screening as one part of our process — always applied thoughtfully and fairly. But rest assured, technology never has the final say: every candidate who moves forward is met with genuine human attention, care and connection, every step of the way.

Who we are 💪🌍

Fussy are on a mission to banish single-use plastic from the bathroom by designing simple, effective and convenient personal care products that are backed by science not buzzwords. Our first product, a refillable deodorant is now the UK’s top rated natural deodorant and has blessed the armpits of everyone from Holly Willoughby to some very known Dragons’. We have put in place the foundations of a world-class team of employees and advisors and this is a super exciting time to join as we are now looking to accelerate our growth into new products and territories. We as a brand have the responsibility, consumers have the power and it’s only together we can do this. Power to your pits!