Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable (Hiring Immediately)

About Clear Street:
Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency. By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.
Clear Street’s mission is to become a single-source platform that serves a variety of investor types across multiple asset classes on a global scale. The Clear Street U.K. team is bringing Clear Street’s established equities, options, and fixed-income prime brokerage business to a new market.

The Role:
As our team continues to scale, we are looking for a versatile and proactive AP/AR Specialist to support the firm’s Finance team. The individual will work collaboratively with other members of the Finance team as well as with other business and support areas (as required), as well as with the Accounts Payable team in the US Head Office.

Responsibilities:
• Generating and issuing accurate sales invoices and credit notes to clients
• Monitoring aged debt and proactively chasing overdue payments via telephone and email
• Processing and allocation of supplier invoices in line with the relevant approval workflow process
• Preparing and executing payment runs
• Assist in the onboarding process of new suppliers
• Reconciliation of supplier invoices to underlying contracts to ensure pricing and terms are correct
• Recording contract details to meet requirements for regimes such as Operational Resilience
• Communicating with clients and suppliers on an ongoing basis to address any issues or queries
• Complete daily bank reconciliations, investigating and clearing any reconciliation differences
• Preparing and posting AP/AR related journals, including accruals and prepayments
• Assist with year-end audit, as required
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Finance and Operations, as needed
• Assist with ad-hoc requests, as necessary

Skills required:
• At least 3-5 years of experience in a transactional finance role (e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Assistant), ideally within the capital markets industry
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to assess and understand variances or reconciliation breaks, and be proactive in addressing them
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for dealing with clients and suppliers
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with NetSuite and Adaptive would also be desirable
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Meticulous attention to detail

We Offer:
At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.
Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.