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title: 'Finance Assistant & AP - FTC at Duffel'
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# Finance Assistant & AP - FTC at Duffel

- **Company:** Duffel
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duffel/576a74f8-9c4b-4f60-86b5-34e4445cd436

## Job description

We’re Making Travel Effortless. Join Us. Travel is essential, whether it’s visiting family, starting a new adventure, or taking a career defining trip. Yet today, over 4 billion airline passengers rely on tech that hasn't changed in decades. At Duffel, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure underpinning the global travel industry. Backed by top-tier investors (Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, and Kima Ventures) and born out of Y Combinator (S18), we’re simplifying complex systems to build the future of travel.

Finance at Duffel We are a fast-paced Finance team managing all end-to-end financial activities for the Duffel Group across 6 reporting entities in 4 global regions. This is an incredible opportunity for anyone looking to jump into a diverse role, accelerate their learning, build new systems, and join us on an exciting growth journey. You’ll have total ownership over specific areas of financial operations, driving process improvements and exercising sharp business judgment along the way. If you’re eager to learn quickly through a broad range of hands-on responsibilities, this is the role for you.

The Role: Accounts Payable & Finance Assistant As our Accounts Payable & Finance Specialist, you will take full charge of managing our end-to-end AP processes across multiple entities and currencies, safeguarding the accuracy and integrity of our financial records. Working closely with the finance team and internal stakeholders, you'll maintain streamlined workflows, support month-end close, and proactively resolve discrepancies as they arise. This role is crucial to keeping our financial data reliable and audit-ready, giving you direct exposure to the full breadth of a fast-moving, scaling finance function.

What You’ll Be Doing:

- End-to-End Ownership: Run full-cycle Accounts Payable, ledger management, and employee expenses (Pleo & Brex).
- Multi-Currency Ops: Manage international payment runs and bank/credit card reconciliations across EUR, GBP, USD, and AUD.
- Month-End & Year-End Impact: Support monthly management accounts through GL postings, journals, and supplier/airline reconciliations. Participate in supporting our annual audit processes.
- Build for Scale: Identify bottlenecks and help automate, streamline, and optimize our financial processes.
- Collaborate: Partner across teams for internal queries, special projects, and audit deliverables.

What We’re Looking For:

- The Foundation: A degree in Accounting/Finance, plus an active or complete qualification (ACA, CIMA, or ACCA).
- The Experience: Hands on background managing end-to-end AP processes and contributing to month-end closes in a dynamic setting.
- The Tech Toolkit: Strong grasp of financial statements (P&L, BS, Cash Flow), multi-currency reconciliations, and tools like NetSuite and Excel.
- The Mindset: Analytical, insanely detail-oriented, and driven by a desire to automate manual tasks.
- The Energy: Clear communication, a hands-on work ethic, and a genuine desire to learn and grow.

## Why You’ll Love Working at Duffel

We believe in true ownership. That’s why every permanent employee gets equity in the business. Perks That Actually Matter:

- ✈️ Travel Allowance: We literally pay you to get out of town and explore the world.
- 🏝️ Work From Anywhere: Flexibility is built in. Work remotely, or take advantage of our Sabbatical Policy.
- ⚡ Electric Car Scheme: Roll up in a brand-new EV with eco-friendly tax savings.
- 🏡 Work-Life Harmony: Flexible bank holidays, generous family leave, and a dedicated volunteering day.
- 📚 Growth Tools: Paid study days to level up your skills, plus a solid pension and cycle-to-work scheme.
- 🏥 Health & Wellbeing: Private healthcare, eye test cover, and season ticket loans.

The Details

- FTC Contact - 10 months, potential to become permanent.
- Location: Shoreditch, London (Hybrid: In-office Tuesdays & Thursdays).
- Interview Process:
- Recruiter Screen
- Hiring Manager Chat
- Technical Case Study
- Final Stage Interview

## About Duffel

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Duffel provides easy-to-use APIs and software tools that allow any business to shop, book, and manage flights, hotel stays, and travel extras without the complexity of legacy travel infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (VC-backed; Series B)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (CEO is Steve Domin)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Travel technology, SaaS / API infrastructure
- **Target Customers**: B2B – startups, challenger banks, spend management platforms, and large enterprises that want to sell travel online
- **Mission / Purpose**: "To make travel effortless" by rebuilding the software layer that underpins the global travel industry [duffel.com/about-us](https://duffel.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Flights API**: Complete flight shopping, booking, order management, and ancillaries (seats, bags) with access to global airline content via Duffel’s own accreditation and ticketing authority.
- **Stays API**: Earn commission on over 1 million properties worldwide; build hotel shopping experiences with rich content and loyalty benefits.
- **Ancillaries Component**: Pre-built UI for seat selection and baggage (and more) that can be dropped into any web or mobile experience.
- **Loyalty & Payments**: Features to offer loyalty programme perks and integrated payment flows.
- **Front-end Components**: Customisable, ready-made shopping interfaces (e.g., autocomplete flight search) for rapid integration.

All products are delivered as RESTful APIs with client libraries in Node.js, Python, and Ruby, plus comprehensive documentation and user guides [duffel.com](https://duffel.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – **$56.3M** raised across four rounds:
  - Seed (Aug 2018): $4.8M led by Blossom Capital
  - Series A (Jun 2019): $21.5M led by Benchmark
  - Series B (Oct 2019): $30M led by Index Ventures
  - An earlier $125K seed round (Sep 2018) also noted [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/duffelhq)
- **Estimated Annual Revenue**: $1.4M (private company estimate, per LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Benchmark, Index Ventures, Blossom Capital, Y Combinator (S18), Kima Ventures; partners include some of the world’s leading airlines.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of ~41 employees (+16.1% YoY)
  - Active hiring in Engineering, Customer Success, and Partnerships (12 open positions as of mid-2026)
  - Operating in 5 countries (UK, US, Spain, South Africa, Denmark)
  - New product launches (Ancillaries component, Stays API, loyalty features) [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/duffelhq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary accreditation & ticketing authority** – enables direct access to global airline content without each customer needing their own license.
- **Developer-first approach** – modern, well-documented APIs with client libraries in multiple languages and pre-built UI components.
- **Full-stack travel platform** – covers flights, stays, ancillaries, and payments in a single integration.
- **Focus on rewriting legacy infrastructure** – removes the archaic software hurdles that have historically blocked new entrants from selling travel.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen the product suite (rooms, ancillaries, loyalty) to become the single API layer for all travel.
- Expand into verticals like challenger banks and spend management (e.g., “Duffel for Spend Management”).
- Scale partnerships with more airlines and property providers globally.
- Continue hiring engineers and customer success teams to support enterprise clients and geographic expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid & Flexible**: Office two days per week in London; 60 days per year work from anywhere globally.
- **Time Off & Leave**: 27 days annual leave plus public holidays; 26 weeks fully paid parental/adoption leave; 12-week sabbatical after 4 years.
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive base salary reviewed annually, stock options, pension match up to 5%.
- **Perks**: Duffel Travel Allowance (stipend to spend on flights), private healthcare, learning & development budget, up to 4 study days per year, paid volunteering day.
- **Engineering Culture**: Modern stack (Node.js, Python, Ruby, APIs), focus on AI and backend roles. Team alumni from Monzo, Deliveroo, GoCardless, and Paddle.
- **Interview Process**: Online application → recruiter call → first interview → final-stage interviews (typically a half-day on Zoom) [duffel.com/careers](https://duffel.com/careers).

## Sources
1. [duffel.com/about-us](https://duffel.com/about-us)
2. [duffel.com/careers](https://duffel.com/careers)
3. [duffel.com](https://duffel.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/duffelhq](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/duffelhq)
5. [jobs.lever.co/duffel](https://jobs.lever.co/duffel)

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