Management Accountant - UK Remote, Occasional Travel to London

Overview

Swoon was founded in 2012 with a simple mission: to create distinctive designs that owners want to keep forever, and a lofty goal to spark home obsession everywhere. We're an online-only furniture brand building a digital experience better than any store. We design original pieces in-house, and our innovative design process uncovers the next trend, fast. Our testing platform proves designs sell online at their intended price, and our data-led approach grows sales within families exponentially. Our distinctive look unlocks collaborations with leading retailers like John Lewis and many more – and we're just getting started. This is a rare chance to own the numbers and reinvent how they're produced. We want someone who will keep that board reporting rock-solid while completely transforming how it gets done.

Responsibilities

• Reporting & continuity
• Monthly management accounts – P&L, balance sheet, cash flow to a seven‑day hard close.
• Board pack & MBR – produce the board pack and monthly business review with clear commentary and insight for leadership.
• Results & insight – present performance to leadership and translate numbers into decisions.
• Revenue recognition – oversee the revenue recognition process, including deferred revenue and cost of sales, ensuring controls for accuracy.
• Budget & forecast support – maintain cost and Opex tracking, accruals and rolling‑forecast inputs.
• Transform & automate
• Reinvent the close – redesign month‑end and reporting to be faster, leaner and far less manual, without compromising continuity.
• Build internal dashboards – create live, self‑serve dashboards that give leadership and the wider business real‑time visibility.
• Put AI and automation to work – identify, plan and roll out automation and AI across reconciliations, invoicing, accruals and routine finance tasks.
• Champion better ways of working – lead automation planning and troubleshooting, continually hunting processes to streamline, simplify or retire.
• Controls & reconciliations
• Stock reconciliations – liaise with the warehouse to run monthly stock recs, including stock‑in‑transit and provisions.
• Financial controls – strengthen controls and balance‑sheet reconciliations across deferred revenue, debtors, accruals and prepayments.
• Invoice coding – oversee the coding of invoices by the accounts assistant.
• Expense approvals – approve company‑wide expenses.
• Tax, audit & compliance
• Year‑end & audit – own the year‑end process and the full audit, managing all communication with the auditor.
• VAT & other returns – produce the quarterly VAT return and plastic packaging tax, liaising with HMRC as required.
• Payroll taxes & benefits – run PSA and P11D submissions and all payroll‑related returns (P45, P60s, P11Ds).
• EMI share options – run the bi‑annual EMI share option process (HMRC valuation and employee contract write‑up).
• HMRC – act as the key contact for all HMRC‑related matters.
• Payroll & people
• Payroll oversight – manage new‑employee payroll setup and oversee the monthly payroll run by our external provider, including pension submissions.
• Line management – supervise and develop the accounts assistant.

Qualifications

• Essential
• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Retail experience – confident with stock reconciliations, stock provisions and inventory controls.
• Experience as a full‑circle management accountant (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow).
• Experience owning the year‑end audit process.
• Experience preparing month‑end accounts in Xero.
• Advanced Excel/Sheets and comfortable reconciling and dealing with large volumes of data.
• A genuine enthusiasm for automation, AI and building better processes – a track record of improving how things are done.
• Ambition to make your mark and progress as the role and business grow.
• Able to work independently without supervision.
• A great communicator who can explain finance concepts to non‑finance colleagues.
• Able to travel to London at least once per month.
• Management experience, or ready to step up.
• Nice to have
• Hands‑on experience building dashboards or finance automations (e.g. BI tools, scripting or AI‑assisted workflows).
• Exposure to retail collaborations, marketplaces or multi‑channel revenue.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Share options programme.
• Bonus scheme.
• Wellbeing allowance.
• Pension scheme.
• Private medical cover.
• Your birthday as an additional day off.
• A day off for volunteer/community work.
• Friday 1pm finish in summer (now rolled out across the full year as a trial).
• Free furniture on each anniversary of employment.
• Increasing holiday allowance with tenure.
• Study support.
• Friends & family discount.

We have a flexible working culture and a lean team of about 30 people. Weekly workshops are held in London, and our team can work from home when needed.