Finance Assistant
Finance Assistant
Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation, and growth drives everything we do. Our Finance team shapes the company's future by directing capital to high-impact investments, developing robust financial strategies, and ensuring we deliver long-term value while pursuing our ambitious mission.
We’re looking for a Finance Assistant to join our London team. In this role, you’ll help us maintain the integrity of our global reporting process, ensuring accurate monthly results and seamless collaboration with auditors and internal stakeholders.
Get to know our Finance team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be joining the Global Reporting team. We are the backbone of Deliveroo’s financial accuracy, moving at pace to reconcile complex accounts across multiple jurisdictions and translating operational data into high-quality financial reports.
Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:
Month-End Execution: Assist with the reporting cycle by posting journals and managing balance sheet reconciliations to ensure a "no surprises" close.
Specialised Accounting: Take ownership of property costs for the region, ensuring correct accounting treatment and reconciliation of key account balances.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaise with regional partners to ensure receipting and reporting are accurate, resolving any discrepancies as they arise.
Process Improvement: Interact with departments across multiple jurisdictions—including local operations and analytics—to streamline and improve reporting workflows.
Audit & Compliance: Work directly with auditors to fulfil requests and provide clear, accurate responses to their queries.
What You’ll Need to Thrive
Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others:
Progressing Qualification: You are currently part-qualified and actively pursuing an ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification.
Ownership Mindset: A strong desire to take responsibility for your work and "own" specific financial processes from start to finish.
Collaborative People Skills: Proven ability to liaise effectively with various stakeholders across a global business.
Analytical Accuracy: Meticulous attention to detail with the ability to identify and resolve issues within complex account balances.
Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and managing a hybrid schedule (3 days per week in our London HQ).
Why Join Us?
At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:
🔧 Make a visible impact every day Your work directly improves experiences for customers, partners and riders.
🌱 Learn fast in an entrepreneurial environment Work close to the market with autonomy, pace and real responsibility.
🧠 Build a career, not just a role Stretch yourself, develop new skills and grow as the business evolves.
🌎 Deliver together in an inclusive culture Collaborative, values-driven teams that support how you work best.
We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Find more about how we hire here.
Our Global Structure
Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.
We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!
About the job
As a Finance Assistant within our global reporting team, you will be involved in the reporting process for your region. This will include monthly reporting, working with auditors and the wider reporting team, as well as other stakeholders across the business. You will report into the Senior Finance Manager for the region. You will be based in our HQ (London, Cannon Street), and we are operating on a hybrid model where you will be in the office three times a week.
What you'll do:
Assisting with month-end reporting, posting journals and working on balance sheet reconciliations;
Processing property costs for the region and ensuring correct accounting treatment;
Reconciling key account balances including identifying and resolving issues;
Liaising with partners to ensure receipting and reporting is accurate and complete;
Improving reporting processes by interacting with different departments across multiple jurisdictions (local operations, analytics, etc);
Working with the auditors to fulfil their requests and answer their queries;
Liaising with the wider reporting team on processes performed at a group level, and take responsibility for specific processes
Requirements
Part-way through an accountancy qualification, ACA/ACCA/CIMA
A desire to take responsibility and ‘own’ your work
Strong people skills and the ability to liaise with different stakeholders across the business
Why Deliveroo?
Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable. We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.
We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.
Workplace & Benefits
At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country-specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.
Diversity
At Deliveroo, we believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry.
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.