Finance Consultant (London)

Hub; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Lunch and dinner at the office

Learning budget

Regular trips to our Copenhagen office

Small team where your ideas ship next

Early-employee impact

Job summary

Balance, a London-based AI-native accounting firm, is seeking a Finance Consultant to own a portfolio of clients from end to end, including e-commerce brands, software startups, and services firms. You will be the dedicated accountant, collaborating with our AI to ensure accurate, audit-ready books and real-time insights for clients.

You’ll work closely with engineers and act as a trusted advisor, shaping how good accounting looks in an AI-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in audit, outsourcing or client accounting at a Big 4 or mid-tier firm.
• Enjoys working with clients and explaining numbers at a glance.
• Able to spot a mis-booked entry and fix it promptly.
• Interested in AI and able to collaborate with engineers to improve product.

Responsibilities

• Own your clients’ books and sign off on agent bookings, ensuring quality before the ledger.
• Close the month for your portfolio, delivering month-end close quickly.
• Handle what AI can’t yet (VAT returns, management accounts, year-end and corporation tax prep).
• Be a trusted advisor to founders, explaining finance implications clearly.
• Make the product better by turning on-ground experiences into product improvements.

Skills

Audit experience

Client accounting

Outsourcing

Education

ACA or ACCA (qualified or finalist)

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks

Business Central

Job description

Finance Consultant - London

Balance · Full-time · Onsite in London · Offices in London and Copenhagen

Most accountants spend their days categorising transactions and chasing receipts. At Balance, that part is done by AI. What’s left is the part of the job that actually needs you: judgement, client relationships and making sure the numbers are right. And you get to shape the AI that does the rest.

About Balance

Balance is an AI-native accounting firm with offices in London and Copenhagen. Our AI agents reconcile, categorise and match documents against the ledger all month long. Our accountants review every entry before it’s booked, close the month and act as the person each client turns to for advice. Clients get real-time, audit-ready books at a flat monthly price.

We’re backed by Y Combinator, and Google Ventures led our $4.8M seed round. We’re around 20 people across our two offices, we serve 150+ companies in the UK and Denmark, and we’re growing fast. As we like to put it: the work is automated, the responsibility is not.

The role

As a Finance Consultant, you own a portfolio of clients from end to end: e-commerce brands, software startups, hospitality and professional services firms. You’re their dedicated accountant and the first person they message when something looks off.

You’ll work alongside our AI, not underneath a pile of data entry. Think part controller, part trusted advisor, part product builder.

You’ll shape the product, not just use it

This is the part of the job you won’t find at a traditional accounting firm. Our engineering team sits in the same London office, and you’re the person who knows what good accounting actually looks like.

• When Bea, our AI, books something wrong, you don’t just fix it. You explain why, and the next version gets it right for every client.
• You’ll spot the edge cases first: the odd Amazon or Stripe payout, the VAT rule nobody automated, the client whose setup breaks the pattern. Those become the next things we build.
• Your feedback ships in days, not quarters. You’ll see your own fixes running across hundreds of companies’ books.

Every Finance Consultant here is helping define what an AI-native accounting firm looks like. That’s an unusual thing to have on your CV.

What you’ll do

• Own your clients’ books. Review and sign off on what our agents book, and be the quality bar before anything reaches the ledger.
• Close the month. Run month-end close for your portfolio, and get it done in days, not weeks.
• Handle what AI can’t (yet). VAT returns, management accounts, year-end and corporation tax prep, and the odd one-off that doesn’t fit any template.
• Be the trusted advisor. Answer the questions founders actually ask, like whether they can afford to hire, why margins dropped, or what happens when they cross the VAT threshold.
• Make the product better. Work directly with our engineers to turn what you see on the ground into product improvements.

You’ll do well here if

• You’ve spent a few years in audit, outsourcing or client accounting, at a Big 4 or mid-tier firm, an outsourcing team or similar. You know bookkeeping and month-end close from the inside.
• You enjoy clients, not just spreadsheets. You’d rather explain the numbers at a glance..
• … spot a mis-booked entry at a glance and can’t leave it alone until it’s fixed.
• You’re ambitious and hungry to grow. You’ve worked hard busy seasons before and want your effort to go into something that’s building, not just maintaining.
• You’re into AI. Maybe you’ve already automated parts of your own work or built something with AI tools, and we’d love to hear about it. If you’re simply very curious and eager to learn, that counts too.
• You’re communicate clearly in writing and in person. Clients rely on you to explain things simply.

Bonus points: ACA or ACCA (qualified or finalist) · experience with Xero, QuickBooks or Business Central · startup or SaaS clients · a side project of your own.

What we offer

• Equity, so you own a piece of what you’re building
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• A learning budget
• Regular trips to our Copenhagen office
• A small team where your ideas ship next week, not next year
• Early-employee impact: you’ll help shape how we work as the London finance team grows

The process

Quick and transparent, so you know what to expect:

1. Discovery conversation (15–30 min, online) with Magnus Tuse from CALIBR, our talent partner
2. Call with Emil Munk, co‑founder (30 min, online)
3. Onsite interview (60 min) at our London office, with a co‑founder and our Founding Finance Consultant
4. Work trial on real problems, so you can see us and we can see you