Statutory Accountant

Equals is the next-generation global money movement platform built for exceptional businesses operating across borders. We bring international payments, embedded finance, and more together into a single connection that simplifies operations and strengthens financial control. With deep expertise and integrated infrastructure, Equals turns financial complexity into reliable solutions.

With our headquarters in London and teams around the UK and Europe, you will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers' needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

Equals Money is a fast-growing, regulated payments business on a mission to make money movement simple. As Assistant Statutory Accountant you will work with the Head of Financial Reporting to prepare the group's year-end statutory accounts, deliver a smooth, well-evidenced external audit, deliver on the more technical aspects of the monthly management accounts (consolidations, intercompany, tax, IFRS 16 leases, MIP/EBT share schemes) supporting full tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions in partnership with our external advisors (Corporation Tax, VAT, Transfer Pricing, MSAs), and supporting the delivery of the Finance function's risk and control environment.

This is a role with real breadth. You will work across statutory reporting, group consolidation, audit and tax compliance in a multi-entity, regulated group - the kind of exposure that is hard to find outside a top practice, with the ownership that comes from being in the business rather than auditing it. We are looking for a qualified accountant, or a part-qualified accountant who expects to complete their final exams within the next twelve months.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, you will be given genuine ownership of your own entities and work streams from the outset, with the technical support and review to take on more as the group grows.

• Prepare the technical elements of the monthly management accounts for review by the Head of Financial Reporting: group consolidation, the intercompany matrix, expected credit loss assessment, tax expense and deferred tax, VAT treatment, IFRS 16 lease accounting, and MIP and EBT share incentive accounting.
• Help keep the general ledger to a statutory reporting standard throughout the year, so that the year end is confirmation rather than construction.
• Maintain the schedules that sit behind each technical area — lease registers, share scheme records, deferred tax workings and expected credit loss models — so they roll forward cleanly each month rather than being rebuilt from scratch.
• Flag new transactions, movements or judgements that change a technical position as soon as you see them, rather than at the year end.

• Prepare year-end statutory accounts for a defined group of entities, working directly in Net Suite, for review by the Head of Financial Reporting.
• Apply IFRS correctly to the entities you own, identifying judgemental areas early and documenting your conclusions clearly enough to stand up to review.
• Prepare supporting schedules, disclosure notes and analysis for inclusion in the statutory financial statements, to a standard that requires minimal rework.
• Gather and collate information from across Finance and the wider business, chasing outstanding items and keeping a clear record of what is complete and what is outstanding.
• Maintain the statutory accounts working paper file so that there is a clean, traceable link from the general ledger through to the published accounts.
• Help maintain entity-level records and support the accurate closing of each entity within the year-end timetable.
• Monitor new and emerging accounting standards, researching the likely impact on the group for the Head of Financial Reporting to conclude on.
• Support the preparation of lender reporting information and covenant calculations, and help document and account for capital flows across the group such as dividends and intercompany loans.

• Prepare audit deliverables and respond to auditor sample requests accurately and promptly, escalating anything you cannot resolve.
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact for the external audit team on the entities you own, resolving queries yourself and…