Eames Consulting
Director of Tax & Accounting Services – High-Growth Tech Start-up
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Eames are partnering with a fast-growing, venture-backed technology business in the entertainment sector to hire a Director of Tax & Accounting Services.
Our client has grown quickly since launch and built a large, fast-expanding user base of creative professionals. Many of them need help with tax and bookkeeping, particularly ahead of Making Tax Digital, so the business is launching a new in-house tax and accounting service.
You'll be the first accountant in the new service line, reporting directly to the CEO. They are looking for a first / second time mover from practice with outstanding commercial acumen and desire to progress.
Key Tasks / Responsibilities:
- Self-Assessment: Prepare and file returns for everyone from simple sole traders to actors with several income sources, PAYE work and repeat fees.
- Bookkeeping & Accounts: Deliver quarterly bookkeeping for members, prepare year-end accounts for limited companies, and get members ready for Making Tax Digital.
- Client Advisory: Give actors a wide range of accounting and tax advice, explained clearly and without jargon.
- Practice Set-Up: Build the practice from scratch. This covers HMRC registration and agent codes, AML supervision and client due diligence, engagement letters, PI cover, and filing and bookkeeping software.
- Member Experience & Compliance: Own turnaround times, escalations, guidance and webinars. Keep the service compliant with your institute's rules, GDPR, ISO 27001 and SOC 2.
- Team Growth: Hire as client numbers grow and build a first-class tax and accounting team for the entertainment and media industry.
- Efficiency & Automation: Take an AI-first approach, using templates, automation and contract support to cut the hours spent on routine work each quarter.
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- ACA, ACCA or CTA qualified
- 5+ years in practice, with strong experience of preparing and filing UK self-assessments at volume, plus year-end accounts and bookkeeping
- Limited company experience covering accounts, corporation tax, payroll and directors' returns
- Confident in a client-facing role, with a track record of improving processes through templates, automation or AI
- Experience in the entertainment and media industry, and knowledge of actors' tax affairs, is strongly preferred
What's on Offer:
- £65-70,000 base salary
- 20–150% performance bonus against milestones, paid quarterly
- 5% of service-line profit
- Share options as a founding hire, with the allocation agreed in writing before you start
- 5 days in the office
This is a rare chance for an entrepreneurial, practice-trained accountant to build and lead a new tax and accounting service inside a fast-growing tech business.
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