Management Accountant

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a fast-growing startup

Private medical & dental

33 days annual leave

Work from anywhere for a month

Pension & gym discounts

Job summary

Lawhive is seeking a Management Accountant to support month‑end close and reporting for UK and US entities. You will work with the Senior Management Accountant to ensure accurate books, strengthen controls, and prepare for the first statutory audit in a fast‑growing, AI‑driven legal tech firm.

You’ll handle multi‑entity month‑end, intercompany activity and reconciliations, leveraging Xero or NetSuite, with opportunities to design scalable processes and own critical finance system enhancements.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant with professional credentials.
• Experience in month-end close and management accounts for multiple entities.
• Strong written and verbal communication with non-finance stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Xero and/or NetSuite or equivalent GL systems.

Responsibilities

• Support the month-end close across UK and US entities with accurate reporting.
• Maintain balance sheet integrity with reconciliations, accruals and intercompany activity.
• Implement scalable processes across payables, revenue, payroll and GL.
• Assist audit readiness and respond to auditor queries, strengthening controls.
• Collaborate with cross-entity teams to align reporting and compliance.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Strong communicator

Autonomy / self-starter

Commercial curiosity

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent

Tools

Xero

NetSuite

Job description

About Lawhive

Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone.

The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core.

Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers.

Lawhive Labs is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law.

We’re backed by top-tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in December 2025, we secured a $60M Series B funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team.

We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US…and we’re just getting started.

Finance at Lawhive

We are a lean, high-impact finance organisation operating across the UK and US group structure - the engine room that keeps Lawhive moving with precision as we scale a first-of-its-kind global AI-native law firm. We partner deeply with every part of the business: product, engineering, legal operations, people & talent and the exec team. Our mandate is simple: build world-class, audit-ready, scalable finance architecture that can support hyper-growth and international expansion.
The next 12-18 months will bring some of the most challenging and meaningful work you'll do in your career. We're focused on:

• Designing and embedding the financial systems, controls and reporting infrastructure required for a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group (UK, US) as we head into our first year-end audit

• Building real-time, decision-grade data - from cashflow to margins to unit economics - so the business can make fast, high-quality decisions as we grow revenue and deploy capital

• Transforming acquired entities into a single, unified finance ecosystem with tight working-capital discipline and deep operational control

• Implementing automation and intelligent workflows across payables, payroll, client-money compliance, tax, FP&A and revenue accounting to unlock leverage across the business

• Partnering with leaders to shape strategy, investment decisions, and the future of AI-enabled legal services

If you want a finance role where the bar is high, the problems are real, and the impact is visible across the whole company - this is it.

The Role

We are looking for a Management Accountant to support the month-end close and reporting for our UK and US entities. You'll work closely with the Senior Management Accountant and wider finance team to keep the books accurate, strengthen controls, and help build the audit-ready infrastructure we need ahead of our first statutory audit. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants to build real technical depth across a complex, multi-entity group without the overhead of managing others.

Key Responsibilities

Core Management Accounting

• Support the month-end close across multiple group entities in the UK and US, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong controls

• Prepare management accounts with variance analysis and commentary

• Maintain balance sheet integrity, including reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue, WIP, and intercompany activity

Systems and Processes

• Work across Xero and NetSuite to process transactions and maintain clean, well-controlled ledgers

• Support the rollout of scalable, automated processes across payables, revenue, payroll, and the general ledger

• Help improve reporting, data quality, and the speed of month-end

Audit and Controls

• Support preparation for Lawhive's first statutory audit, including audit file preparation and responding to auditor queries

• Help strengthen financial controls and documentation across entities

• Flag risks or gaps in process early and support remediation

Cross-Entity Support

• Assist with the stabilisation of newly acquired entities, helping bring them in line with Lawhive standards across controls, reporting, and compliance

• Support intercompany accounting and reconciliation across the UK/US group structure

What You'll Bring

• Part-qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

• Experience with month-end close and management accounts preparation, ideally across more than one entity

• Working knowledge of Xero and/or NetSuite, or strong general ledger systems experience

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, multi-entity environment and working through ambiguity

• Solid grounding in reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany accounting

• Detail-oriented with strong commercial curiosity - keen to understand the "why" behind the numbers

• Good communicator who can work well with stakeholders outside finance

• Self-starter who takes ownership and thrives with a reasonable degree of autonomy

UK Benefits:

Meaningful equity at one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups

Private medical, dental, eye care and talking therapies, with the option to add family

33 days' annual leave (25 + bank holidays) rising with tenure plus your birthday, wedding and moving-in day off

Work from anywhere for a month

Enhanced parental leave, enhanced sick pay and a workplace nursery benefit

Pension, Cycle to Work and discounted gym memberships

Top-spec equipment, MacBook or Windows

Daily breakfast and a barista in the office, monthly company lunches, plus regular socials

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team. We’re not yet where we want to be but as we scale we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.