Financial Accountant

DEEP; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

As the Financial Accountant, you will have a broad remit with exposure to operational finance, month-end and statutory reporting processes across several DEEP entities. In particular, will assume responsibility for preparing balance sheet reconciliations, consolidating management information from numerous sources and ensuring deliverables are timely and accurate. In addition, there will be a heavy commercial focus, with involvement in all aspects of forecasting, budgeting and treasury management.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Operations & Control: Own the bookkeeping and month-end processes, ensuring the timely collection of inputs from operational teams. Reconcile balance sheets, consolidate financial statements, and maintain strong financial controls to ensure accuracy and efficient reporting.
• Strategic Finance & Planning: Play a key role in financial forecasting, budgeting, and modelling, developing a deep understanding of our product lines and business activities. Assist in cash flow mapping and forecasting to determine funding needs while managing tax filings to meet regulatory requirements.
• Audit & Compliance: Play a key role in the audit process by preparing detailed work papers, acting as a primary contact for queries, and ensuring seamless collaboration with auditors. Work closely with external advisors to maintain best practices and full regulatory compliance.
• Business Partnering & Insights: Build strong relationships with operational and cross-functional teams, delivering ad-hoc financial analysis and insights to support data-driven decision making. Contribute proactively to finance initiatives and strategic projects that drive business success.

What You Will Need

• Relevant accounting qualification (ICAS/ICAEW preferred).
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• A demonstrable ability to adhere to processes, enforce controls and maintain a robust control environment.
• Sound professional judgement and attitude with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Previous experience of tax filing and auditing advantageous.
• Experience of working in a multijurisdictional business is beneficial.

What's In It For You

• Salary: Highly competitive.
• Bonus: Performance related bonus scheme.
• Annual Leave: 25 days, plus statutory holidays.
• Private Healthcare: Able to add family members at an extra cost.
• Working Hours: Monday to Thursday onsite, Friday optional homeworking.
• Lunch: Free lunch and breakfast provided onsite alongside snacks.
• Social Events: Monthly & quarterly social events.

Who We Are

DEEP is an international design and engineering company on a mission to make humans aquatic. We're doing this by advancing ocean exploration through the development of new technologies that will enable humans to live and work in underwater environments for longer periods of time.

95% of the ocean is unexplored. Countless discoveries are waiting to be made, and knowledge gained, that will benefit our planet and all of humanity. The challenge is access, and that's where DEEP comes in. We're building subsea human habitats to enable research at depth and increase our understanding of the ocean, so we can help protect it.

Working at DEEP

We're a team of highly experienced engineering, operations and safety experts, with a funding model that allows us the freedom to think long term and pursue our mission without traditional restraints. We want to drive progress at the forefront of deep-sea innovation and discovery to become stewards of the ocean and reshape our relationship with our planet.

As an organization with multi-generational objectives and ambitious goals, the values we bring to work every day are critical:

• Be Curious: Find a better way and ask why not? Answers are easy, questions are hard - ask original questions and be a curiosity catalyst!
• Be Exceptional: It will take the most intelligent, talented and creative people on the planet working together to achieve DEEP's mission. Get it done, be relentless in your pursuit of excellence, and demand excellence from everyone.
• Be Fearless: No one has done this on the scale we're doing it before. Impossible things must be done for the first time. We are the team pushing boundaries!
• Be Good: Cultivate passion and thrive together. Be safe, take intelligent risks, but never compromise the safety of the team - ever!

At DEEP, we celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion and strongly believe that the best innovations come from diverse perspectives. We invite applicants from all backgrounds to join us in creating technology that makes a meaningful impact on humanity, our oceans and planet.