At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead post-acquisition integrations, ensuring financial data accuracy and seamless transitions.
- Company: Fast-scaling, tech-enabled platform with strong investor backing.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, travel opportunities, and a chance to shape future operations.
- Other info: Dynamic role with extensive travel across the UK and excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of M&A strategy and drive impactful change in a high-growth environment.
- Qualifications: Qualified accountant with M&A experience and strong data skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Our client is a fast-scaling, PE-backed, tech enabled platform. With strong investor backing and an experienced leadership team spanning technology and operations, this is a genuinely high growth environment with significant opportunity to shape the future operating model. We are seeking an M&A Integrations Manager (Finance) to play a critical role in post acquisition integrations. This position sits at the heart of the M&A strategy, owning the most complex and business critical element of each integration: client money, financial reconciliation, and data integrity.
You will work hands-on across newly acquired businesses to assess, clean, and migrate financial and operational data into the central platform while also helping to build scalable processes, tooling, and best practice for future integration.
Key Responsibilities- Conduct detailed reviews of client ledgers and financial data within newly acquired businesses.
- Identify reconciliation risks, regulatory issues, and data integrity gaps early in the integration lifecycle.
- Provide clear, actionable insight to integration leadership within tight timeframes.
- Clean, reconcile, and validate complex, multi-source financial data.
- Lead the migration of data from legacy systems into a unified platform.
- Work closely with operational teams, finance, product and engineering to resolve data inconsistencies.
- Produce accurate, combined financial reporting across pre and post migration periods.
- Support tax reporting outputs aligned to self-assessment requirements.
- Ensure clarity and accuracy for end users, including non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to define data structures, validation rules, and automation opportunities.
- Contribute to building a scalable, tech-enabled reconciliation capability.
- Develop standard operating procedures, templates, and integration playbooks.
- Capture repeatable patterns and embed them into scalable processes.
- Support the build-out of the integration and finance capability as the business grows.
- Travel regularly across the UK to support integrations on the ground.
- Engage with acquired leadership teams and local stakeholders to drive successful transitions.
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or equivalent experience.
- M&A / In-house experience.
- Background in one or more of: FinTech / payments / marketplaces.
- Big 4 (audit or transaction services).
- Proven ability to work through messy, unstructured data and resolve issues quickly.
- Track record operating in fast-paced, high-growth or transformation environments.
- Strong systems and data capability (advanced Excel essential; SQL beneficial).
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with product and engineering teams.
- Highly adaptable, proactive and willing to travel extensively.
M&A - Integrations Manager – Finance employer: JSS
Our client offers a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, ideal for those looking to make a significant impact in the M&A space. With strong investor backing and a commitment to employee development, you will have ample opportunities for growth and to shape innovative financial processes. The collaborative culture encourages cross-functional teamwork, making it an exciting place to advance your career while working on complex integrations across the UK.
