Senior Accountant, Financial Advisory

We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant/Management Accountant to join our London finance team, reporting directly to the Finance Manager/Financial Controller and supporting our Financial Advisory business. This is a broad and visible position, offering significant exposure to senior stakeholders. The role combines core reporting responsibilities with opportunities to enhance controls, improve processes, and provide support for commercial decision-making. The successful candidate will work closely with leadership, department heads, and the wider finance team, playing a critical part in delivering accurate, timely, and insightful financial information.

Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Taking ownership of the preparation and review of monthly and yearly management accounts, providing variance analysis and detailed commentary. Supporting senior management with timely financial insights aligned with operational and strategic goals.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Supporting budgeting activities, reforecasts, and cash flow projections, working closely with stakeholders to gain a thorough understanding of business performance. Monitoring adherence to budgets and effectively addressing any variances with departmental heads.
• Accounting Operations: Managing and reviewing intercompany reconciliations, debtor analyses, and unbilled AR reports. Managing month-end and year-end timetables and compliance requirements. Ensuring compliance with both internal controls and external statutory requirements, including VAT, PSA, ONS, and other relevant submissions. Overseeing AP processes, including invoice and expense reviews and approvals, along with vendor payments. Approving payment runs and bank transactions, ensuring compliance with policies and proper documentation. Analysing profit and loss and balance sheet performance, providing clear commentary on significant movements and key drivers. Maintaining strong financial controls through timely monthly reconciliations, control file management, and robust balance sheet reviews using FloQast. Delivering a monthly finance induction session to new joiners in the Financial Advisory business.
• Process Improvement & Compliance: Proactively identifying and implementing financial system improvements for efficiency and accuracy. Ensuring adherence to internal controls and compliance with local regulatory and statutory rules.
• Team Collaboration & Management: Providing mentorship and direction to team members in accounts payable and revenue management. Supporting the audit process alongside the Finance Manager/Financial Controller, serving as a key liaison with auditors, banks, and global finance colleagues.

Key Deliverables:

• Monthly management accounts and analysis.
• Budget forecasts and variance reports.
• Accurate and timely VAT/ONS and statutory submissions and other compliance reporting requirements.
• Continuous system improvements and compliance tracking.

Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in financial systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle NetSuite preferable).
• Skilled in Microsoft Excel with expertise in advanced formulas.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles and accounting standards.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ensures accuracy in reports, data, and written work.
• Proactively develops and implements operational improvements.
• Manages and prioritises multiple tasks effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with stakeholders.
• Calm, resilient, and proactive in high-pressure situations.
• Ability to clearly explain the rationale behind processes and documentation.
• Positive, collaborative, and committed to team success.
• Willing to adopt and promote best practices across the finance function.
• Proactively takes on challenges and seeks to go above and beyond.
• Calm under pressure and resilient when facing setbacks.
• Actively participates in continuing professional development.
• Holding or working towards a professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA).
• 1-2 years' minimum experience in a Senior Accountant or Management Accountant role, preferably within professional services.
• Proven track record in team leadership and financial systems management.

What We Can Offer

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support. Given our client base, you'll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding, and impactful to high-profile projects. Teneo works with clients on complex issues and challenges that often require a multidisciplinary approach, leveraging our main business segments - Strategy & Communications, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, People Advisory, and Risk Advisory. You will have opportunities to work alongside our experts in these disciplines to develop and deliver an integrated solution.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days' holiday
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Annual salary review
• End-of-service benefits
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service)
• Private medical insurance (individual and immediate family members)
• Regular social, cultural, and charitable activities
• Flexible and remote working with office laptop provided - 3 days in the office

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to achieve meaningful results and build a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include many Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 companies, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organisations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG, and DEI. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 45+ offices around the world.