Accountant / Management Accountant

Lagging productivity is the biggest barrier to economic growth and a major obstacle to addressing our most important issues, such as climate change, healthcare, and social equality.
We’re creating an AI-powered platform to understand these inefficiencies within customers’ operating models, to define the requirements, and develop the software itself in a fully automated way. The result is high-quality, precision software at scale.

We’re backed by top VCs, including Notion Capital and Hoxton Ventures, and we’re growing our world-class team – ex Google, Microsoft, Palantir – to take us to the next level on our mission.

We’re searching for an ambitious, highly adaptable Management Accountant to join our growing team. Working closely with the COO and Finance Manager, you’ll be our second in-house finance hire, spending about 20% of your time on hands-on bookkeeping and 80% on higher-impact work—month-end close, budgeting & forecasting, treasury, systems implementation and preparing board-level insight. With significant growth forecast over the next 18 months, this is a great opportunity to develop your career by shaping today’s processes and tomorrow’s team, building deep, end-to-end expertise in a fast-moving start-up environment.

Bookkeeping & controls: Own purchase and sales ledgers, bank feeds, supplier-expense processing, sales invoicing and monthly Xero reconciliations to keep records accurate and up to date.
draft management accounts with clear commentary for leadership.
Treasury & cash management: Monitor weekly cash, execute payment runs and maintain banking mandates.
Tax and Compliance: Compile data for Corporation Tax and VAT returns and maintain statutory registers.
Payroll & expenses: Execute monthly payroll, review pension submissions and audit expense claims to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Systems & Finance stack: Evaluate and help roll out the next-gen stack (e.g. NetSuite, spend-management, close-automation) and document new processes.
Champion best practice, foster an effective and collaborative finance culture as the team scales, and be ready to tackle ad-hoc tasks as they arise.

Newly qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA (0–1 year PQE) and 2–3 years’ pre-qualification audit (ideally Top-20 practice) or industry experience.
able to explain the difference between management and statutory accounts.
Some knowledge of cloud-accounting software (e.g. Xero) and advanced Excel skills.
Competitive salary and share option plan
~25 days annual leave, plus public holidays
~ Excellent pension scheme, with 7.Private healthcare, including family cover and pre-existing conditions
~ Flexible hybrid working with 2 days per fortnight in our Farringdon office
~ Regular social events and offsites
~ Access to a gym and fitness classes in our office building