Financial Accountant Industrial Placement

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
  

To ensure this, we're looking for people who have:

• Enrolled on a Finance related degree and are on-track to achieve a 2.1

• A genuine passion for numbers and how they tell a story about a business

• Exceptional attention to detail — you notice the thing that doesn't add up

• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand why, not just what

• The drive to improve how things work, with the organisational skills to follow through

• Confidence with spreadsheets and a willingness to get fluent in new tools quickly

• A love of writing — we have a significant amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write: (https://griffin.com/how-we-write)
  

It's a big bonus if you have:

• Any prior work experience in financial services — even brief exposure helps

• Experience using AI tools to manage, clean, or analyse data

• Familiarity with tax concepts or compliance requirements
  

  What can we offer you?

  We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.

  • Salary: £25,000

  • Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK

  • Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year

  • Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year)

  • Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme

  • Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG

  • Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva

  • AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools

  • Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.
    

Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through what happens next.

We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full-time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there's no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it.

Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.