Financial Accountant New London

Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict‑free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory. By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation‑based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.

Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid‑19 have led to national press coverage. Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has worked on many of the most significant global cases involving securities fraud, market manipulation and financial cartels of the past decade, contributing expert opinions, and advising global law firms, institutional investors and regulators. We operate across the US, UK, and EU, through four fully staffed offices with a team of around 70 professionals.

About this Role

We are looking for a qualified Financial Accountant to join our finance team on a six‑month fixed‑term contract at an exciting point in our growth. Reporting to the CFO, you will take ownership of the technical accounting that keeps a fast‑moving, international professional services business running, with the year‑end audit as your headline priority. This is a hands‑on, broad role in a lean team. Alongside the day‑to‑day running of the accounts, you will lead our audit preparation and play a central part in two significant projects: a smooth, well‑controlled external audit and the transition to a new ERP accounting system. You may also oversee a junior member of the finance team. It is a genuine opportunity for a practice‑trained accountant to step into industry, broaden their remit and have real influence over how our finance function works as we scale.

Key Accountabilities

• Audit preparation: leading preparation for the annual external audit, including building and owning the audit schedule, preparing supporting workpapers and reconciliations, acting as the main day‑to‑day contact for the auditors and resolving queries through to sign‑off.
• Financial statements: drafting the statutory financial statements and supporting notes in line with the relevant accounting standards, ensuring they are accurate, complete and audit‑ready.
• Month‑end and reporting: owning the month‑end close, including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance‑sheet reconciliations, and producing timely, reliable management accounts.
• Technical accounting: providing technical accounting guidance across the business, researching the treatment of new or unusual transactions and documenting accounting positions.
• Controls and process: maintaining and strengthening internal controls and finance processes, and helping to embed good practice as the team grows.
• Multi‑entity and cross‑border: supporting accounting across our UK, US and European entities, including intercompany balances and a multi‑currency environment.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) transition: playing a central role in the move to a new ERP accounting system, from data migration and reconciliation to testing, process mapping and embedding the new system in business as usual.
• Compliance support: supporting the CFO with tax, VAT and other statutory filings and wider finance compliance obligations.
• Team: potentially overseeing and developing a junior member of the finance team.

Key Skills, Personal Attributes & Behaviours

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with meaningful post‑qualification experience.
• A practice background, with hands‑on external audit experience essential.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and proven experience preparing statutory financial statements.
• Demonstrable experience running or supporting a year‑end audit, including ownership of the audit schedule.
• Experience of an ERP implementation or system migration (highly desirable).
• Experience in a professional services business and exposure to multi‑entity, multi‑currency or UK and US accounting (advantageous).
• Excellent attention to detail and a genuinely hands‑on, roll‑up‑the‑sleeves approach.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines through busy periods.
• The ability to explain financial matters clearly and concisely to non‑specialists, in writing and in person.
• Integrity, intellectual curiosity and the confidence to express an opinion and propose improvements.

The base salary for this role will be upwards of £80,000 per annum (prorated) based on experience and may also include a discretionary bonus.

Why Fideres

Fideres’s vision is to become the leader in litigation‑only economic consulting globally, free of corporate conflicts. Following years of growth, over the past two years Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in France and Germany. We are looking for candidates who are committed to Fideres’s strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company’s expansion.

What we Offer

You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities. We offer competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits. We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.

Transparent Pay

We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role; we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices. We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role‑relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon‑holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy. We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.