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The opportunity
UK accountancy is being reshaped by consolidation. Private equity has moved into the sector at real scale over the past two years, and the market it is consolidating is highly fragmented: the vast majority of the roughly 40,000 UK accounting firms are small practices of four people or fewer, many run by partners nearing retirement with no succession plan in place. That has created two things at once: a wave of clients who will shortly need a new adviser, and a wave of small practices that may be open to being acquired rather than sold into a PE-backed platform they have no real stake in.
Cosmos is expanding into the UK to take advantage of both. We are not looking for someone to run a conventional accountancy or advisory office. We are looking for one person to build the Cosmos UK business from the ground up: originating clients directly, and, where the opportunity is right, bringing smaller practices into the Cosmos platform as bolt-ons rather than leaving that consolidation entirely to private equity. You will have genuine equity in what you build, not a fixed salary for showing up.
If you want a defined job description and a monthly pay cheque from day one, this is not the role. If you want to build a practice with an established brand and platform behind you, and to hold a real, growing stake in the outcome, read on.
What Cosmos provides
- Brand and market position. An established platform, not an unknown name you are asking clients to trust from scratch.
- The platform. Access to the Cosmos product for entity structuring, compliance workflow, and client management.
- Back office. Central compliance and accounting support, so your time goes into clients and origination, not administrative infrastructure.
- Marketing and lead infrastructure. SEO, content, and inbound systems already generating enquiries, extended to cover the UK once live.
- Playbooks. Structuring and delivery processes built from the existing Cosmos practice, adapted for UK company law and HMRC requirements.
- A route to the wider network. Referral flow from Cosmos, Sirius Private Office, and Aldebaran where relevant to UK-facing clients, including UK founders considering relocation or offshore structuring.
- A view on acquisitions. Support in evaluating and structuring bolt-on acquisitions of smaller UK practices, where that route makes sense for a given opportunity.
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What you build
- The UK client book: origination, relationship management, and delivery.
- Selective bolt-on relationships with smaller practices facing succession pressure, where acquisition strengthens the platform rather than simply adding headcount.
- The local team, from your first hire onward.
- Full ownership of the UK P&L.
Compensation structure
There is no guaranteed base salary at the outset. This is deliberate. Reward is tied to what you build, not to time served.
Phase 1 — Launch
- No fixed salary. Income during this phase comes from the revenue you generate, less agreed platform and back-office costs.
- You should have sufficient personal runway to cover this period, which we would expect to run 6-12 months.
Phase 2 — Milestone unlock
- On reaching agreed revenue and client milestones for the UK (to be set jointly, for example, a defined monthly recurring revenue figure or number of active mandates), a base draw is unlocked against future profit share, together with an initial equity allocation in the UK entity.
Phase 3 — Scaled equity and profit share
- Further milestones, which may include successful bolt-on integrations as well as organic growth, unlock additional equity tranches on a vesting schedule, alongside an increasing share of local profit.
- Exact figures, thresholds, and vesting terms are set out in the term sheet issued once we agree to proceed.
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Who we're looking for
- A track record of originating and closing business, ideally within accountancy, tax, corporate services, or a closely adjacent professional services field in the UK.
- An existing referral network among accountants, wealth managers, lawyers, or introducers is a strong advantage, given the bolt-on element of this role.
- Comfort evaluating a small practice as a potential acquisition, not just as a competitor.
- Comfort operating without a script for the first six to twelve months.
- The financial position to support yourself through the unfunded launch phase.
- ACA, ACCA, CTA, or equivalent qualification is useful but not essential. What matters more is the ability to sell, deliver, and build trust with clients making significant structuring and tax decisions.
What this is not
- Not a franchise. You are not purchasing rights to the brand, and Cosmos retains ownership of the platform, IP, and central infrastructure.
- Not an employee role in the conventional sense. There is no fixed salary, fixed hours, or guaranteed income during the launch phase.
- Not a hands-off investment. This requires you to be the one doing the client work, at least initially.
Process
- Initial conversation to establish market fit and mutual interest.
- Outline proposal: your view of the UK opportunity, target client segments, and your route to the first milestone.
- Term sheet covering equity, profit share, milestones, and vesting.
- Entity formation and onboarding to the Cosmos platform and back office.
- Launch.
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