Management Accountant, Fixed Term๐London UK
๐London
๐Fixed Term, Maternity Leave Cover
๐Until October 2025
๐ What is Taster ?
Taster is an innovative food tech business on a mission to delight foodies globally by offering them a variety of iconic (and delicious) restaurant brands exclusively curated in partnership with the worldโs trendiest chefs, creators, and influencers and delivered right to their doorsteps.
Our vision is to revolutionise quick service restaurants across the world by crafting mouth watering and iconic brands with tip creators and then distributing them through next generation franchise networks, supercharged by Tech and innovation.
Taster is at the forefront of the food delivery revolution in Europe, bringing the franchise model to the digital age with leading delivery-first brands, best-in-class technology, and an asset-light business model leveraging established delivery platforms and supply partners. This approach has successfully ensured that Taster can offer its customers quality food, designed for delivery, without compromise.
The business has enjoyed 100%+ YoY growth on average over the last 3 years and has reached break-even in Q1 2024. With a unique, highly scalable business model and enviable unit economics (well above industry standards), Taster has reached over โฌ100m in GMV in January 2024.
Operating within the global online food delivery market that is expected to be worth $365 billion by 2030 and backed by Tier-1 investors, including Octopus Ventures, Local Globe, Heartcore Capital, Rakuten, and Battery Ventures, Taster has raised $50m to date to support its ambitious growth ambitions with significant untapped opportunity remaining.
๐ Why we open this position ?
Taster is looking for a Management Accountant to join the UK team, reporting to the Head of Finance in the UK, to cover whilst a team member is on Maternity Leave.
As part of the Finance team, you will manage the day-to-day accounting and finance operations in the UK, including preparing monthly management accounts, improving the financial controls environment and managing day-to-day finance operations including invoicing & customer payments.
Taster moves fast and so will you, continually improving our processes to stay ahead of the changes. In your core role, you will use your strong technical background to ensure we produce robust accounts quickly, but you'll also have the opportunity to work on a wide range of commercial issues as we rapidly expand our operations across Europe.
๐คYour responsibilities
Preparing the monthly management accounts
Preparing P&L and balance sheet journal entries.
Ensure monthly reconciliations are prepared, investigating and explaining variances where necessary.
Completing weekly bank reconciliations.
Managing day-to-day financial operations
Reviewing and reconciling the payments due to our licensees each fortnight.
Managing payment runs and business card expenses, including handling supplier queries.
Reviewing processes and payments to ensure expenditure is in line with budget.
Supporting the Head of Finance to manage & improve financial controls across the business.
Liaising with external stakeholders including accountants, auditors & tax advisors on financial topics.
๐ค Is it really for me ?
You have at least 3-4 years experience, including experience in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
You have strong technical skills and a good eye for detail. You know what good looks like and how to achieve it.
Strong systems experience is highly desirable.
You have strong process improvement experience, ensuring processes are automated and remain fit-for-purpose in a fast-moving environment.
You enjoy getting the best out of your peers, and helping them achieve their goals.
French language skills would be a bonus
Why us?
๐ We could tell you that you'll be able to join a hyper-growth food tech startup, backed by the best venture capital firms.
๐จโ๐ป We could also tell you that if the food sector interests you, this is just the opportunity of the moment to grow your potential surrounded by an international team of foodtech experts.
โญ In short, we could argue that we're the best in our market, that our premises are nifty, that our hybrid work device makes your private life easier but...
๐ค ...Mostly, we just want to tell you that this is your chance to sit almost every morning alongside a humble team, who'll bend over backward to make you feel good
๐ That the individuals who make up this team in London, Paris and Brussels are all eager to grow from this experience together, and to learn from each other.
๐ผ That our way of working is driven by values that the employees have chosen themselves together: Taste and Learn, Grow Together, Care and Recognize, Make It Happen and Build with Transparency
๐บ https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/taster
- Department
- Finance
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
London HQ
Our culture
We enjoy working with people who think outside the box and come up with fresh ideas and concepts - keeping the end vision in mind.
We maintain a one team mentality at Taster and we strongly believe in celebrating our successes! We always motivate, encourage and support each other at work, and outside of work we enjoy regular team drinks and social lunch times.
Perks & benefits
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๐ Flexible work / remote 50%
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๐ฏQuarterly bonus scheme
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๐ซReferral bonus
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โ๏ธ2 mental health first raiders trained both in Paris and London
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๐ฑWellness Calendar
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๐ Regular Taster's events to celebrate
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๐ Fruits every week
About Taster
Taster was founded in 2017 and has grown to:
71 coworkers
4 countries
45 cities
6 street food brands
200+ digital restaurants
4.5+ customer rating
Management Accountant, Fixed Term๐London UK
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