Senior Financial Accountant

Every team has AI. Few have mastered it. Humans were built to adapt, but AI is now moving faster than most workforces can. Multiverse is the AI adoption layer: the missing link between the AI tools that companies have invested in and the people expected to use them. Our ambition is to put AI capability in every worker’s hands. Apprenticeships got us started: we’ve trained over a third of the UK’s data and AI apprentices, worked with a third of the FTSE 100, and generated £2bn+ in verified ROI. Now Mastry, our new adaptive learning platform, takes that further, guiding a company’s AI workforce transformation from start to finish. Mae, our AI guide inside Mastry, is a real-time AI agent that thinks, speaks, listens and sees, working alongside the tools you already use, like Claude and Copilot. We closed our latest fundraising round in April 2026, with $500m+ raised in total from VC partners including Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Schroders Capital and Lightspeed. With a $2.1bn valuation, we are Europe’s first EdTech double unicorn, and we are just getting started. If you want to shape how the workforce wins in the AI era, come and join us. As we grow, the finance function has to keep pace: fast, accurate, and increasingly automated. You'll drive the month end close, build and maintain a high bar for internal control, and support the preparation of our statutory financial statements and annual audit completion. As you grow in the role, the ambition is for you to also take ownership of group consolidation and become the financial reporting engine of the business. Specifically, you will be responsible for: Reporting, Close and Consolidation Own the month end and year end close against the group close calendar, preparing journals, accruals and prepayments, completing balance sheet reconciliations and delivering the reporting pack, with hands-on support while you build up to running it independently. Support group consolidation across our entities, including intercompany reconciliations, eliminations and FX. Technical Accounting Support technical accounting assessments, ad hoc finance projects and the development of group accounting policies (for example leases and share based payments), helping prepare papers and notes on judgemental areas and complex transactions. Statutory Reporting and Audit Manage the PBC list and audit request tracker, and support the wider external audit process, maintaining auditor relationships and contributing to remediation of any audit findings. Support preparation of the UK statutory financial statements and, alongside external advisors, compliance across our other jurisdictions. Controls, Systems and Process Own process improvement and automation across the function, documenting changes as you build them and using AI and modern workflow tools, including NetSuite, to speed up the close and find efficiencies. Support the group's financial controls and risk framework (RCM): help document key controls, carry out testing, identify gaps, and put together remediation plans. About you You're a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 1-2 years of PQE and a solid grounding in financial reporting and controls, built through practice, industry or a multi-entity environment. The exact route matters less than the instinct for clean, well controlled numbers. You treat financial processes as products, not just tasks: when you spot a control gap or a messy reconciliation, you dig into why it happened and build a scalable solution, not just patch it once and move on. You're comfortable getting hands-on with close and consolidation work, journals, reconciliations, intercompany eliminations and FX, across multiple entities and jurisdictions, and you can move quickly without cutting corners on control. You communicate clearly and build trust easily with auditors, external advisors and internal stakeholders. You're curious about how automation or AI can make a financial process faster or more reliable, and NetSuite experience (or a comparable ERP) means you can get going quickly. You're highly adaptable with a strong willingness to learn. You see tasks outside of your job description as an opportunity to expand your skillset and tackle them head on. We know not every strong candidate will tick every box. If this role sounds like the right fit, we'd encourage you to apply. Benefits Time off: 27 days holiday (including 3 winter shutdown days) and bank holidays, plus 5 extra days off (1 life event, 2 volunteer days and 2 summer shutdown days). Health and wellbeing: Bupa private medical insurance, a medical cash back plan, therapy through Spill and gym access through Wellhub. Equity for all : we believe that when Multiverse wins, we all win, which is why every permanent employee receives share options. Financial security: life insurance at 3x salary, a workplace pension with 4% contribution from us, Cycle to Work and a Tech Scheme. Family support: enhanced maternity and paternity leave, adoption and shared parental leave, paid leave after pregnancy loss, and a workplace nursery scheme. Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office - except for Coaches & Instructors who come into the office 1 day per month. Plus 10 days a year to work from anywhere. Work perks: quarterly team socials, company-wide events, happy hours, lunch delivered to the office once a week, fully stocked snack bar and a drinks fridge! Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion policy here . Our Commitment to Safeguarding Multiverse is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our learners. We expect all employees to share this commitment and adhere to our Safeguarding Policy , our Prevent Policy and all other Multiverse company policies. Successful applicants will be required to undertake at least a Basic check via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). For roles that will involve a Regulated Activity, successful applicants must also undergo an Enhanced DBS check, including a Children’s Barred List check and a Prohibition Order check. Roles involving Regulated Activity may interact with vulnerable groups, therefore are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 meaning applicants are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings. Providing false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal if the applicant has been selected, and possible referral to the police and the DBS.