humanoid - Senior Group Accountant

London, United Kingdom+ Equity3w ago

In Office Senior EMEA Payments Robotics Accountant Senior Executive Assistant Account Management Documentation Reporting ACCA SAP

Requirements

• ACA or ACCA qualified (CIMA considered), ideally audit-firm trained, with 4+ years’ relevant post-qualified or equivalent accounting experience across multi-entity, multi-currency groups, ideally including US entities. • Strong technical knowledge of FRS 102 and IFRS, with experience preparing statutory accounts, drafting technical papers and managing external audits end to end. • Hands-on close and consolidation experience, comfortable owning journals, reconciliations, intercompany and eliminations rather than only reviewing them. • Experience with inventory and cost accounting, standard costing or cost centre reporting in a manufacturing, physical goods or high-volume environment. • A builder’s mindset, with experience in a high-growth environment where process, controls and documentation still need to be created. • Comfortable in a modern finance stack, using AI and automation to speed up close and reporting; ERP implementation experience (SAP, NetSuite or similar) is a plus. • Experience in a venture-backed startup or scale-up, ideally hardware, robotics or deep tech, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Reporting, Close and Consolidation • Run the month-end and year-end close to the group close calendar, including journals, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and payroll postings, and own full balance sheet reconciliations. • Prepare monthly management reporting and support the wider reporting pack for internal and external stakeholders, including leadership, investors, lenders and auditors. • Operate and improve the group consolidation across all entities, including intercompany reconciliation and eliminations, and multi-currency translation. • Prepare group cash flow reporting and supporting schedules, working with FP&A and Treasury as the function grows. • Technical Accounting • Own technical accounting assessments and prepare accounting papers and memos on judgemental areas and complex transactions. • Develop accounting policies across revenue, inventory, R&D, leases and share-based payments as the business scales. • Lead the accounting for inventory and manufacturing costs as we move from R&D and prototypes into production, including standard costing, cost of sales and stock provisioning. • Support the transition of group reporting from FRS 102 to IFRS. • Statutory Reporting and Audit • Prepare UK statutory financial statements and support local filings across our other jurisdictions alongside external advisors. • Own the external audit process end to end, including PBC lists, auditor relationships and technical position papers. • Controls, Systems and Process • Build and document internal controls as the group scales, ensuring we stay compliant and are ready for the reporting standards expected of a public company. • Document processes and controls as you build them, and play a central role in our ERP build-out and finance systems integrations. • Use AI and modern workflow tooling to accelerate the close, automate reconciliation and reporting, and find efficiencies across the function. • Collaborate end to end across the finance team and the wider business, including tax, FP&A, finance operations, supply chain and people teams, picking up work that falls outside the standard remit as an early-stage company.

Benefits

• Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale. • 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas to New Year shutdown). • Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care. • Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings. • Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office. • Work at the frontier: collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics. • Real ownership: direct access to leadership, meaningful input, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.