Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant (ACA)

Role: Financial Accountant (ACA)

Reporting to: VP of Accounting

Location: London, Hybrid

Type: Full-time

About the Company

The company builds and operates large-scale GPU compute infrastructure designed to power AI workloads, working in partnership with leading institutional capital providers and lenders. As a capital-intensive business scaling at pace, strong financial governance, disciplined cash management, and operational excellence are foundational to success.

This is a rare opportunity to join a company vertically integrating power, data centres, and compute at hyperscale helping build the financial backbone of a business defining an entirely new industrial category.

About the Role

This is not a traditional accounting role focused on maintaining legacy systems.

You will help build the finance function from first principles contributing to the design of processes, controls, and reporting in a business deploying capital at global scale.

Working closely with the VP of Accounting, you will play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting while supporting the build-out of a scalable, best-in-class accounting environment across multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the execution of the monthly financial close
• Prepare and post accrual, prepayment, payroll, capex, revenue and FX entries, amongst others
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for review
• Cash, AR, AP, fixed assets, other payables and receivables, equity
• Support transactional processing
• Approvals, audit trail and clean ledgers
• Intercompany accounting and cross charges
• Support internal financial reporting
• Assist in monthly reporting packs
• Provide analysis of variance to budget and prior periods
• Analyse financial data to identify trends, variances, and risks
• Assist management with ad-hoc reporting and partner with FP&A and other teams to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting
• Assist in building and documenting financial controls, accounting policies, and governance frameworks
• Track capital spend and assetisation
• Maintain fixed asset register
• Support external reporting
• Prepare IFRS (and USGAAP where applicable) external financial statements
• Support external audits and act as a key point of contact for auditors
• Prepare support for auditors
• Contribute to the implementation and optimisation of ERP/accounting systems
• Assist with tax compliance, VAT returns, and regulatory filings across jurisdictions
• Maintain and enhance the general ledger and chart of accounts

Requirements

• ACA qualified (or equivalent)
• Audit background
• 2–5 years’ PQE
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including IFRS (US GAAP exposure is a plus)
• Experience with month-end close and financial reporting
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-growth, capital-intensive environment
• Strong Excel skills; ERP experience is a plus

Nice to Have

• Experience in infrastructure, energy, or data centre environments
• Exposure to multi-entity, international accounting environments
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment

What Makes This Role Different

• Build, not maintain: Help create processes and controls from scratch
• Operate at scale: Work in an environment where decisions impact significant capital deployment
• High ownership: Direct exposure to senior leadership
• Low bureaucracy: Fast decision-making and clear accountability