At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage accounts, automate processes, and analyse financial data for impactful decision-making.
- Company: Join Grip, an innovative AI-powered event platform transforming engagement.
- Benefits: Enjoy remote work, cashback healthcare, training sponsorship, and 25 days holiday.
- Other info: Collaborate with a small team across UK, US, and Serbia for global impact.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of finance automation in a dynamic tech environment.
- Qualifications: 2-4 years finance experience, part-qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA, and advanced Excel skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Who are we?
Grip is the AI-powered, end-to-end event platform built for engagement.
The flexible system helps commercial event organizers like Ascential, Hyve, Emerald and Clarion Events boost revenue by establishing, maintaining and tracking relationships between participants over multiple events.
This is possible because Grip goes beyond networking.
It combines AI with billions of interactions happening across the platform with a powerful event management system, seamless registration and award-winning mobile event app so participants meet the right people at the right time.
We're hiring a finance generalist who runs the numbers, owns the close, and automates the routine so the team spends its time on analysis and decisions.
Grip is the AI-powered, end-to-end event platform built for engagement.
Commercial event organisers like Ascential, Hyve, Emerald and Clarion Events use Grip to build, maintain and track relationships between participants across multiple events.
We operate as a three-entity group across the UK, US and Serbia.
You’ll report to the Head of Finance and sit in a small team.
The expectation is explicit: every manual process you inherit is a candidate for automation, and success is measured by how much of your week moves from processing to analysis.
Essential
- 2-4 years in a finance role covering month-end close and management accounts.
- Part-qualified or qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA, or working towards it.
- Hands-on Xero experience; comfort with multi-currency and multi-entity accounting.
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets: lookups, pivots, array formulas, building schedules from scratch.
- Evidence of using AI tools or automation to remove manual work, with a measurable result.
- Understanding of subscription revenue, deferred revenue and Saa S metrics.
- Nice to have
- Maxio, Salesforce, Stripe, Avalara, Moss or Revolut Business.
- Building with LLMs (Claude, Chat GPT), workflow tools (Zapier, Make), Apps Script, SQL or Python.
- Intercompany, transfer pricing or US sales tax exposure.
- Events industry experience.
- Profile
- Treats a repeated task as a design problem, not a routine.
- Checks the output of automation as rigorously as their own work.
- Explains numbers clearly to non-finance budget holders.
- Comfortable working remotely across UK, US and Serbian time zones.
Expectation of the role
Responsibilities
- Management accounting & month-end close
- Own the monthly close across UK (GBP), US (USD) and Serbia (RSD) entities to a WD3 timetable.
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, depreciation and payroll journals.
- Run intercompany reconciliation and FX revaluation, and post the group's consolidation adjustments.
- Produce monthly management accounts with variance analysis against budget and prior period.
- Maintain department and vendor-level cost reporting and flag spend trends to budget holders.
- Maintain the 13-week cash forecast and bank balance reporting; support payroll funding.
- Support year-end, audit files and liaison with external advisors in each jurisdiction.
- 2. Revenue, billing & AR
- Validate closed-won deals from Salesforce and ensure accurate invoicing through Maxio and Xero.
- Own deferred revenue calculations and revenue recognition compliance for subscription contracts.
- Reconcile the Stripe clearing account and Lead Retrieval PAYG revenue.
- Manage multi-currency AR and collections, and resolve billing queries with Go-To-Market teams.
- Support US sales tax compliance: Avalara reconciliation and reporting to our tax advisors.
- 3. AI, automation & systems
- Build, test and maintain AI agents for finance workflows on a flag-and-approve basis: a human reviews before anything posts.
- Map every recurring task on the close calendar and score it for automation potential.
- Improve integrations between Xero, Maxio, Salesforce, Stripe and our spend platforms.
- Document each process so it can be run, audited, or handed to an agent.
- Track and report time saved and error rates before and after each automation.
- 4. Business partnering & analysis
- Produce Saa S metrics: ARR, net revenue retention, churn, gross margin and CAC payback.
- Support budgeting, reforecasts and board pack preparation.
- Run ad-hoc analysis on pricing, vendor spend, headcount cost and unit economics.
- 5. Residual transactional work
- AP processing, payment runs, expense and reimbursement processing, and the shared finance inboxes, with a mandate to shrink this through automation.
Benefits include
- Remote-first, with hybrid options
- Cashback healthcare plans, Company training sponsorship, including professional qualification support
- 25 days' holiday per year
- Sabbatical leave
- Clear career progression pathways
Management Accountant (AI & Automation) in London employer: Grip
At Grip, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our remote working model allows for flexibility while our commitment to employee growth ensures that you will have ample opportunities to develop your skills in project management and event technology. With significant travel opportunities to client events across North America and beyond, you'll gain invaluable experience and make meaningful connections in the industry.
