Accounting Manager in London

We’re looking for a technically strong Accounting Manager to join our Finance team in London. Reporting to our Financial Controller, this is a broad, global accounting role with a meaningful focus on revenue.

The role involves:

• Owning global revenue recognition: ensuring all client revenue is correctly booked, deferred, and accrued in line with accounting standards.
• Managing billing milestones, reconciling third-party cost recharges, and ensuring billing and sales orders in NetSuite are consistent with revenue schedules.
• Owning global balance sheet reconciliations and reviewing the Management Accountant’s work – ensuring accuracy across expense allocations, GL coding, and journal postings within NetSuite.
• Reviewing monthly budget versus actuals, flagging material variances, and supporting ad hoc financial analysis as required.
• Acting as primary point of contact for auditors throughout the annual audit process, managing all audit working papers across entities.
• Reviewing the work of the wider finance team and taking ownership of the month-end close schedule, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
• Identifying process improvements across accounting and revenue workflows; maintaining finance policies and controls.
• Supporting ad hoc finance projects and being the London-based point of contact for the wider Finance team.

Essential skills:

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified, with a strong technical accounting foundation - including balance sheet, VAT, and audit.
• Hands-on revenue recognition experience – either from an audit background or an industry role with a revenue focus.
• NetSuite experience or equivalent ERP.
• The ability to take ownership, work independently, and flag issues without prompting.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable operating across a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Confident communicator, able to present financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Commitment to contributing to a supportive and inclusive culture.

Successful applicants will need to have the right to work in the UK; while it is possible for us to sponsor work permits, this may not be the case in all circumstances.

Desirable skills:

• Experience working with CRM systems, such as HubSpot.
• Experience working in a transatlantic or global business.
• Experience working in a professional services firm or SME.

Why join us:

We're an independent, employee-owned firm, which means the people who work here share in our collective success. Our culture is built on five values: brilliance, restlessness, comradeship, inclusivity, and integrity. We expect a lot from each other, but we also invest in each other—through honest feedback, shared learning, and genuine care that goes beyond the work itself. You'll have access to competitive pay with transparent salary bands, twice-yearly bonuses, professional development opportunities guided by our career framework and progression pathways, private healthcare, mental health support, 26 days holiday plus public holidays (outside of our annual Christmas break), and a hybrid working model (three days in the office: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). We're also serious about building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.