Finance Administrator

**Job description**

Babble is a leading technology business that is reimagining how we do work. Founded in 2001, the company works with over 4,000 organisations in a wide range of sectors - including financial, health and education, travel and accommodation, and public services - by sourcing deploying and supporting locally the very best cloud solutions.

Babble’s growth over the last few years is one of the big success stories in its industry. This is demonstrated by the private equity investment of Graphite Capital in November 2020 - which was supported by reinvestment from LDC and management - to accelerate the buy and build strategy for the business. Annual revenue has rapidly grown to £40m - over 90% of which is recurring. It has over 25,000 cloud-based users, 34,000 mobile connections and 4,000 CCaaS supported agents.

**Overview**

Babble is a highly acquisitive private equity backed UK Cloud Solutions Provider. Babble has made over 30 acquisitions in the last 3 years and is looking to accelerate its buy and build strategy further. An opportunity has arisen for a Finance Administrator to join Babble’s Core Finance/Finance Integration Team to assist with the hive ups and banking integration for acquisitions we complete from day 1 to month 3-4 of ownership.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Manage the transfer of customers’ Direct Debits to Babble - liaising with banks, external Direct Debit agencies, internal Babble departments and the acquired entity’s customers
- Ensuring accurate financial data is imported into Babble’s systems and passed to the relevant Babble finance teams
- Ensure Bank Mandates are completed and updated on completion of acquisition - liaising with bank relationship managers
- Ensure the Babble Finance Manager for Cash/Treasury has access to acquired entities’ bank on completion
- Closure of bank accounts once integrated into Babble’s banking
- Assist with the hive up process of the acquired company into Babble’s operations (issuing letters/contacting suppliers and customers)
- Update details with HMRC / contact HMRC if any issues
- Liaise with our insurance provider and maintain an up to date insurance schedule by having regular catch up calls with our insurer
- Adhoc other administrative finance duties as may be required for the role

**What good looks like for this role**
- You will be counted on to manage your own case load in a timely and professional manner dealing with all manner of queries and disputes for subscription-based contracts.
- In more difficult cases you will need to decide when to escalate them to the Finance Managers for resolution.
- You must be cool under pressure and will need to be confident in your role as you will be dealing with individuals in senior positions when resolving contract disputes and queries.
- You will need to create and maintain strong relationships both within and outside the organisation, as you will be working with other teams across the business to ensure services are ended as per the client’s instructions.
- This is an extremely fast paced team, you need to be tenacious, conscientious, efficient, and diligent at all times.

**Requirements for the role**
- Good level of excel and a good grasp of Microsoft Office in general
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Strong team player

**What you also need to know**

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Hours will be core UK hours (8am - 5pm)

**Why would you work at Babble?**
- Competitive salary
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays with increased annual leave based on length of service

**The recruitment journey**

We want to fill this role quickly, but we want to get the right person for the role. The recruitment process will consist of a screening call with the Manager. If you proceed past this then you will have a second follow up interview with one other member of the Executive Leadership Team / management team.