Accountant
Applications are one short Loom video - how to apply is at the bottom, after you've read the role.
First, what you're walking into
Plan@Job didn't start as a product. It started as our own tool. Almost two years ago, our operations team sat down with a team of web developers. One side ran the jobs. The other side turned how we run them into systems. Screen by screen, until the whole operation lived in one place. The operations side is led by Mohamed El Hadri - you might know him as mointhemarket. He's got his part in the platform, and his job in it is the growth.
Ten thousand plus real jobs sit behind it. Small repairs. Larger construction works. All of it run through our own companies. Every screen exists because a live job needed it. Nothing in there is theory. And it sits in the middle of everything built around one keyword: construction arbitrage.
For almost two years it was ours only. And honest truth, it wasn't finished. We still needed other tools around it. Not anymore. Everything is in now. A contractor opens it and builds a whole network from inside it. Subcontractors on one side. Clients on the other.
Now it opens to the public. And there's no checkout page. You don't buy your way in. Access is a referral, and a referral comes after training. Three sessions. One hour each. One per week. That's the product we sell: the training. No training, no referral.
Team led by Mohamed El Hadri (@mointhemarket) · co-founder, Simpled Services · growth partner, Plan@Job
The role
We run construction work through our own companies, and a platform that already holds the jobs, the quotes and the invoices. What we do not have is one person who owns the numbers end to end. That is this seat.
You keep the books straight across the group: sales and purchase ledgers, CIS, VAT returns, payroll runs, supplier payments, month end. Construction accounting, so subcontractor verification and CIS deductions are weekly work rather than an annual surprise.
You will not be chasing paper around. The jobs, quotes, invoices and subcontractor costs already sit in Plan@Job. Your job is to make the money side of it true, on time, and readable by someone who is not an accountant.
What you'll do
- Run the ledgers and month end, and produce a set of numbers we can trust in the first week of the month.
- Own CIS and VAT: verification, deductions, returns, deadlines. Nothing late, nothing estimated.
- Run payroll and the subcontractor payment runs, and keep the cash position visible before it becomes a problem.
- Tell us what the numbers mean: margin by job, spend that is drifting, and what we should stop doing.
What we look for
- You have kept a real set of books, not just filed them at year end. Construction or trades experience is a strong plus.
- CIS and UK VAT are familiar ground.
- Qualified, part qualified, or experienced enough that the letters do not matter.
- You can explain a number to someone who is not an accountant without making them feel stupid.
Don't send a Loom if
- You only want year end work. This is the daily running of the money.
- You need everything handed to you in a finished spreadsheet. Some of it you will have to go and get.
- You go quiet when something does not reconcile. We would rather hear it the same day.
No hard feelings either way. The seats work because the right people sit in them.
See the platform before the interview
Whatever the seat, the work runs inside Plan@Job - the jobs, the quotes, the subcontractors, the documents and the invoices all sit in one place. Have a look at it before we speak, and come with questions.
See the platformHow to apply
No forms, no CV. One short Loom video, two or three minutes, covering three things:
A little introduction
Who you are, where you're based, what you're doing right now.
What you've done in this kind of work
The jobs you've held, how long you've been at it, and one thing you owned end to end. Honest beats impressive.
Why this role
Why you believe this seat is a good fit for you - after reading this page, not before.
Then send it whichever way suits you, naming this position:
+44 7735 277433 · hadri@simpledservices.co.uk
We watch every video and reply to every single one. If it's a fit, you get the materials and we jump on an interview.
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