If you want a finance role where the bar is high, the problems are real, and the impact is visible across the whole company - this is it.

The Role

We are looking for a Management Accountant to support the month-end close and reporting for our UK and US entities. You'll work closely with the Senior Management Accountant and wider finance team to keep the books accurate, strengthen controls, and help build the audit-ready infrastructure we need ahead of our first statutory audit. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants to build real technical depth across a complex, multi-entity group without the overhead of managing others.

Key Responsibilities

Core Management Accounting

• Support the month-end close across multiple group entities in the UK and US, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong controls
• Prepare management accounts with variance analysis and commentary
• Maintain balance sheet integrity, including reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue, WIP, and intercompany activity

Systems and Processes

• Work across Xero and NetSuite to process transactions and maintain clean, well-controlled ledgers
• Support the rollout of scalable, automated processes across payables, revenue, payroll, and the general ledger
• Help improve reporting, data quality, and the speed of month-end

Audit and Controls

• Support preparation for Lawhive's first statutory audit, including audit file preparation and responding to auditor queries
• Help strengthen financial controls and documentation across entities
• Flag risks or gaps in process early and support remediation

Cross-Entity Support

• Assist with the stabilisation of newly acquired entities, helping bring them in line with Lawhive standards across controls, reporting, and compliance
• Support intercompany accounting and reconciliation across the UK/US group structure

What You'll Bring

• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience with month-end close and management accounts preparation, ideally across more than one entity
• Working knowledge of Xero and/or NetSuite, or strong general ledger systems experience
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, multi-entity environment and working through ambiguity
• Solid grounding in reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany accounting
• Detail-oriented with strong commercial curiosity - keen to understand the "why" behind the numbers
• Good communicator who can work well with stakeholders outside finance
• Self-starter who takes ownership and thrives with a reasonable degree of autonomy

UK Benefits:

• 💰 Meaningful equity at one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups
• 🩺 Private medical, dental, eyecare and talking therapies, with the option to add family
• ✈️ 33 days' annual leave (25 + bank holidays) rising with tenure plus your birthday, wedding and moving-in day off
• 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month
• 👪 Enhanced parental leave, enhanced sick pay and a workplace nursery benefit
• 🏦 Pension, Cycle to Work and discounted gym memberships
• 💻 Top-spec equipment, MacBook or Windows
• 🥳 Breakfast and a barista in the office, plus regular socials and hackathons

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team. We’re not yet where we want to be but as we scale we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.