--- title: 'Finance Assistant at Wordsmith AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/finance-assistant-wordsmith-ai-edinburgh-djh64j3t91ah' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Finance Assistant at Wordsmith AI - **Company:** Wordsmith AI - **Location:** Edinburgh, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordsmith/b50dea91-1914-4d27-8401-bf44fb4e3bf5 ## Job description Finance Assistant Edinburgh Wordsmith Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we’re growing fast. We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents and disconnected systems. Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens. We’re built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with. More than 500 companies use Wordsmith. We’ve raised over $80m from leading investors, and we’re building one of the defining companies in legal AI — from our office in Edinburgh. ## Why this role is different You won’t be joining a big, process-heavy finance function. You’ll be one of the first Finance hires, working on a brand new, AI-native ERP system (Rillet) with the freedom to actually improve how things are done — not just keep the lights on. If you want real exposure to the business, a seat close to the founders and leadership team, and the chance to shape processes rather than inherit them, this is that seat. ## The Role As Finance Assistant, you’ll own the day-to-day mechanics that keep Wordsmith’s finances running — cash, invoicing, collections, payables and expenses — and you’ll have the tools and the licence to automate as much of it as possible. ## What you'll do - Complete daily cash reconciliation across our accounts - Set up customer contracts in our ERP (Rillet) and issue invoices - Chase accounts receivable to keep debtor days down - Own all accounts payable activity, including uploading bills and creating payment runs - Help with month end balance sheet reconciliations - Help administer our travel and expense system - Pick up other finance tasks as they come up — in a small team, that’s part of the job Who you might be We’re not looking for someone who wants a narrow, ticket-based role. You might be: - Newly qualified, or qualified by experience, and ready to take real ownership from day one - 1–2 years post-qualified and looking for broader exposure than a larger finance function gives you - Someone who’s used to (or excited about) using modern tools and automation rather than doing everything by hand What matters most is being highly motivated and genuinely keen to get stuck in quickly — we’ll help you grow into the rest. ## What we're looking for - Newly qualified, 1–2 years PQE, or qualified by experience - Comfortable owning process end-to-end — cash, invoicing, AR, AP and expenses - Happy working in-office five days a week in central Edinburgh - Curious about tech and automation, and keen to use it to improve how finance runs - Highly organised, with the judgement to know when something needs chasing ## How we work This role is on-site five days a week, from our office in central Edinburgh — a short walk from both Waverley and Haymarket. You’ll sit inside a small finance team, which means direct exposure to the wider business rather than being several layers removed from it. It’s a fast-moving environment with light process and a genuine bias toward using technology to remove manual work, not add to it. ## What you can expect - Real ownership over core finance processes from day one - Hands-on experience with a brand new, AI-native ERP system (Rillet) - Close exposure to a small finance team and the wider business - The freedom to use an extensive suite of tech tools to improve and automate how things are done ## Why Wordsmith We’re a fast-moving, Edinburgh-based Legal AI company that’s just raised over $80m. Joining now means joining early enough to shape how our finance function is built — with modern tools, real ownership, and a team that wants to do things properly rather than just keep pace. ## About Wordsmith AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wordsmith provides an AI-native legal operations platform that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business, enabling in-house legal teams to work at the speed of AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Ross McNairn (CEO), Volodymyr Giginiak (CTO), Robbie Falkenthal (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology (LegalTech), Enterprise AI, Workflow Automation - **Target customers**: In-house legal departments at mid-to-large enterprises across all industries (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the Northstar for legal intelligence in business — to bring the legal function in-house by making it measurable, compressible, and owned, just as every other major corporate cost centre has been. ## Products & Services - **The Wordsmith Platform (Legal Operations System)**: An end-to-end AI-native system built around four core workflows: **Receive** (captures legal requests from Slack, email, Salesforce, Teams, and procurement systems), **Route** (assigns ownership, priority, and context), **Resolve** (automates routine legal work using AI agents — drafting, redlining, research, translation — while escalating complex decisions to lawyers), and **Record** (logs every decision, action, and rationale in real time for audit-ready governance). - **Contract Review & Workflow Integration**: End-to-end contract review embedded directly into business tools like Slack, Gmail, and procurement systems. Reviews are collaborative and web-native. - **Word Integration**: A plugin allowing lawyers to review, redline, draft, research, and translate without leaving Microsoft Word. - **AI Agents**: Chain drafting into a full end-to-end workflow — receive the request, draft the document, route for approval, and send — with no manual step required. - **Global Legal Intelligence Engine**: Covers hundreds of trusted sources across 130+ jurisdictions, combined with deep knowledge of the customer’s own entities, risk profile, and prior positions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$100M** across two rounds. Last round: **€60.2M ($70M) Series B** (announced June 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Highland Europe, General Catalyst (the firms behind Figma, Stripe, Discord, Airbnb, Revolut, and Canva). - **Growth Signals**: - Used by **500+ organisations globally**, including major enterprises such as **BT, Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, and Canva**. - Reports that **Trustpilot cut contract review time by 85%** using the platform. - Planning to grow workforce from ~100 to **~300 employees**, with significant **US market expansion**. - Founded in 2023 and achieved this scale in just over two years. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category-defining position**: Wordsmith is not a legal copilot for individual lawyers — it is an **operating system for the entire in-house legal function**, managing complete request flows across the organisation. This system-level approach is a structural shift away from traditional point-tools. - **Conflict-free business model**: Wordsmith sits on the side of the *buyer* of legal services (the in-house team), not the *seller* (law firms). All other legacy tools were built to serve law firms. Wordsmith’s incentives are aligned with removing friction and cost for the enterprise. - **Vertical-first AI strategy**: Deeply specialised in legal workflows rather than a generalist AI platform, making the product deeply relevant and defensible in a $1.1T global legal market. - **Founding team**: Led by a CEO (Ross McNairn), CTO (Volodymyr Giginiak), and COO (Robbie Falkenthal) who blend legal domain expertise with deep AI and engineering capability. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale globally, with a US expansion priority**: The Series B is explicitly earmarked to accelerate growth in the US market. - **Hire exceptional talent**: Grow the team to ~300 people, maintaining a “fewer, better people” philosophy — a small group of brilliant specialists rather than a crowd of generalists. - **Product depth**: Continue to invest in AI agents, global legal intelligence, and deeper integration into enterprise workflows (Slack, Salesforce, Word, Gmail). - **Move beyond task assistance to full automation**: The stated vision is to make legal “the last black box” in the enterprise — measurable, compressed, and owned internally. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Philosophy**: Described as a team of “lawyers and engineers blending two worlds.” Core operating principles include: **“fewer, better people”** (small, elite teams), **relentless focus on simplicity**, and building products that are so elegant they “feel like magic.” The company explicitly values **judgment** as the key differentiator in an AI-powered world. - **Growth Trajectory**: A rare stage — Series B with $100M in funding, a small enough team that individual contributions matter every day, and early enough to shape how the company builds. Significant US expansion ahead. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid (roles listed for Edinburgh and London). The hiring process is transparent and values speed: a 30-min screening call, a 45-min technical interview, a short take-home challenge (a couple of hours), and a culture interview. - **Funding Backing**: Backed by the same investors who backed Figma, Stripe, and Canva — strong signal of ambition and long-term thinking. - **Impact**: Working on a problem that is “genuinely new” — building the platform to run in-house legal teams, which is a category that did not exist before AI made it possible. ## Sources 1. [wordsmith.ai](https://www.wordsmith.ai/) 2. [wordsmith.ai/company](https://www.wordsmith.ai/company) 3. [wordsmith.ai/careers](https://www.wordsmith.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/wordsmith-ai) 5. 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