What you'll be doing

Revenue Recognition

• Own accurate and timely revenue recognition in accordance with IFRS 15.
• Review contracts and commercial arrangements to determine appropriate accounting treatment.
• Work through complex revenue scenarios within an international technology environment.
• Develop your understanding of SaaS and subscription revenue models.
• Provide guidance to commercial stakeholders around the revenue implications of prospective contracts.

Financial Reporting & Controls

• Support monthly, quarterly and annual close across revenue.
• Prepare and review revenue adjustments, reconciliations and supporting documentation.
• Contribute to financial statement disclosures relating to revenue.
• Maintain strong controls and documentation as the business continues to scale.
• Partner with internal and external auditors on revenue matters.

Data, AI & Automation

• Work with large transaction datasets across multiple systems.
• Develop your ability to use SQL and AI-enabled tools to interrogate and reconcile financial data.
• Help automate large-scale reconciliations and manual revenue processes.
• Use technology to improve analysis and existing workflows.
• Continually identify processes that can be simplified, automated or redesigned.

Commercial Partnering

• Work closely with Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, Operations and Product.
• Review non-standard and complex commercial agreements.
• Translate accounting requirements into clear commercial guidance.
• Understand how commercial decisions ultimately impact revenue recognition.
• Build relationships considerably beyond the traditional Finance function.

What we're looking for

There are two particularly relevant routes into this opportunity:

First move from practice

You could currently be working within a Big 4, Top 10 or other strong accountancy practice and looking for your first move into industry.

Ideally, you'll have:

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification, or be approaching qualification.
• Audit or technical accounting experience.
• Exposure to IFRS 15 and revenue recognition.
• Experience auditing technology, SaaS, software, subscription or other relevant high-growth businesses.
• A good understanding of how technology businesses operate commercially, even if your experience has been gained through your client portfolio rather than working directly within industry.
• The appetite to move beyond audit and take genuine ownership within a business.

Alternatively, already in industry

You could be a part-qualified accountant already working within a technology, SaaS or software environment.

For this route, we're particularly interested in candidates who have:

• Hands-on revenue recognition exposure.
• Experience within a technology or subscription-based business.
• Strong accounting fundamentals.
• An understanding of month-end and financial reporting.
• The ambition to continue qualifying and develop into a broader revenue finance role.

For both backgrounds, we're looking for someone who is:

• Analytical and naturally curious.
• Comfortable with technology and large datasets.
• Interested in AI and automation.
• Able to challenge existing processes rather than simply follow them.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders outside Finance.
• Excited by working somewhere that moves quickly and continues to evolve.

The type of person who will thrive

You don't need to arrive knowing every system, writing SQL from scratch or having spent years specialising in revenue accounting.

What matters more is your foundation and trajectory.

You understand accounting.

You've had meaningful exposure to revenue recognition.

You understand, or are genuinely interested in, how technology businesses make money.

And you're curious about how AI, automation and better use of data are changing what accountants actually do.

For someone making their first move from practice, this could be an excellent opportunity to avoid being pigeonholed into a traditional financial reporting role and instead build experience across technical accounting, commercial finance, data, systems and automation.

For someone already in industry but still completing their qualification, it's an opportunity to accelerate your development within a sophisticated international finance environment.

The Package

• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Equity opportunity
• Hybrid working, typically two days per week in the London office
• 30 days annual leave
• Significant international exposure
• Strong exposure to AI, automation and modern finance technology
• Broad commercial and cross-functional exposure
• Genuine opportunity to develop as the finance function continues to evolve

If you're considering your first move out of practice into technology, or you're already working within tech and want to build deeper expertise across revenue, data and automation, we'd love to hear from you.

Please apply or send your CV confidentially to stuart@core3.co.uk