Assistant Accountant (6-Months)

About Us 

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.   

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term. 

Why our customers love Dayshape: 

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.   

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.   

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.  

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us. 

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk. 

About the role 

We are a high-growth SaaS company scaling rapidly. With strong recurring revenues and ambitious expansion plans, we are looking for a hands-on assistant accountant to support the finance function for six months during a critical growth phase. 

What success looks like 

• Reliable, timely management reporting delivered monthly. 

• Forecasting and cash management processes in place and trusted. 

• SaaS metrics tracked accurately and understood by leadership. 

• Finance operations running smoothly in our lean team structure. 
  

What you’ll do 

• Financial Reporting & Compliance 

• Deliver accurate monthly management accounts (payroll accruals, prepayments). 
• Ensure timely month-end close and reconciliations. 
• Treasury & Operations 

• Oversee day-to-day finance operations (AR, AP, bank reconciliations). 
• Set up supplier and payroll payment runs. 
• Payroll  

• Work hands-on with payroll system and outsourced vendor. 
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency. 
• Business Partnering (Forecasting & Analysis) 

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders providing clear and actionable financial insight. 
• Support rolling forecast processes. Perform variance analysis with clear commentary for management. 
• Support on ad-hoc strategic projects 

About you 

• Strong experience in finance / controller roles. 

• Ability to operate as a sole finance operator (no direct reports, managing own workload end-to-end). 

• Strong technical and analytical skills, with ability to distil complex financial data into clear insights. 

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities. 

 
What you’ll get 

• Salary £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience 

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development 

• (Pro-rata) 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays) 

• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality 

• Income protection and death in service cover 

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme 

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service 

• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year (pro-rata) to participate in volunteer work 

• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication 

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes! 

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company 

Should you continue at Dayshape in a permanent role, you will also get:  

• Enhanced family leave policies 

• Holidays increasing by 1 day to a maximum of 40 days  

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement  
   

Working Details 

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know. 

This is a flexible hybrid role based in our Edinburgh HQ. We're making the most of hybrid working, so you won't need to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!). 

Join the team! 

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.