Financial Accountant

About the Position

We are seeking a Financial Accountant to join our Finance Operations team in London, UK. This role is integral to our team, focusing on accurate, timely reporting across the US business, from revenue through to gross profit. You will work closely with the Finance Operations Team Lead, leveraging strong Excel skills to streamline processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly revenue and cost-of-sales close: Prepare and record revenue, cost of sales, and gross margin journal entries across the group’s entities.
• Prepare and validate revenue and cost accruals: Ensure revenue is recognized in the correct period in line with policy.
• Reconcile revenue and cost of sales: Investigate and resolve variances with supporting platform, billing, and partner/supply data.
• Prepare gross margin bridges and variance analysis: Provide supporting commentary following each month-end close.
• Support billing accuracy and revenue completeness: Tie billed revenue back to contracts, IOs, and platform reporting.
• Reconcile intercompany revenue and cost flows: Support intercompany recharges tied to revenue and margin.
• Partner with revenue operations, sales, and commercial teams: Resolve pricing, billing, and recognition questions.
• Support compliance over revenue and cost of sales: Handle audit requests, confirmations, and controls around the revenue cycle.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes: Standardize recurring revenue and margin close processes.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a comparable field; ACCA or ACA candidate or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience: 5+ years of accounting experience, ideally including revenue and cost of sales in a multi-entity or intercompany environment.
• Skills:
  • Hands-on experience with revenue recognition and month-end revenue/cost of sale close.
  • Experience reconciling revenue to billing, platform, or partner data, ideally in media, adtech, or a high-volume transactional business.
  • Experience with NetSuite (or a comparable ERP) strongly preferred.
  • Strong Excel skills; comfort building and maintaining recurring reconciliation and margin workbooks.
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple recurring deadlines.
  • Clear written communication skills for variance commentary and cross-functional collaboration.
  • “Hands-on” mentality and comfort working independently in a remote, multi-entity environment.

We Offer

• Health Benefits: Bupa HealthCare Plan with easy access to medical care.
• Financial Security: Aviva Corporate Pension Scheme.
• Personalized Benefits: A budget of £50/month to pick what matters most to you.
• Vacation: 25 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to public holidays.
• Professional Development: Annual training budget & internal webinars.

About the Company

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.