Senior Accountant

KPF; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading architectural firm in Greater London is seeking a proactive financial professional to join their accounting team. This role involves full project accounting responsibilities for a significant new project starting in KSA and requires a qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA). Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and be adaptable. Experience within the architecture industry is a plus but not essential. This is an office-based position, requiring attendance five days a week.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with relevant certifications.
• Experience in the architecture industry is desirable.
• Ability to work to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Full project accounting responsibilities for a major new project.
• Financial maintenance of accounts receivable and fee forecasts.
• Preparation and issuing of invoices and financial documents.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Self-motivated and adaptable

Tools

SAP Ariba

Deltek

Job description

KPF is a unified architectural practice focused on the design of buildings of all types and scales, in all geographic regions. The firm consists of over 570 staff led by 28 principals with offices in New York, London, India, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.

The London office (currently 145+ staff) seeks to recruit a proactive, enthusiastic, and competent finance professional to fill a recently upgraded role within the accounting team.

The accounting team in London are responsible for the London, India (new) and KSA (new TBC) operations and deal with all aspects of accounting / finance management including project finances and planning.

The purpose of the role is to supervise key areas of the accounting department and support the accounting team where necessary. The role is varied and offers the right candidate an opportunity to gain experience in different areas of accounting. The role reports into the Finance Manager, who will also delegate work, as necessary.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or CIMA) self‑motivated, adaptable and able to work to deadlines, with excellent written and oral communication skills. Experience in the architecture industry and previous exposure to FX is highly desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Full project accounting responsibilities for one large new project in the KSA starting in January 2026.
• Financial maintenance of the accounts receivable.
• Financial maintenance of the fee forecast projection.
• Responsibility for uploading accounts receivable documents via client portals such as SAP Ariba.
• Preparation and issuing of fee invoices, credit notes and statements.
• Preparation and issuing of reimbursable travel invoices and reimbursable consultant invoices.
• Attending monthly meetings with project managers regarding outstanding debtor account balances, fee schedules, project billing, project performance and plans.
• Attend fortnightly PM meeting + produce finance summary for discussion.
• Maintain contract management tab in Deltek to reflect new projects won / fee.
• Project detail reports requests.

Vendors

• Monthly analysis of KPF travel invoice to mark up those which need to be invoiced to clients.
• Keep track and maintain a database of projects which reference amounts of trips allowed / to be taken by architectural phase.
• Full project analysis via Project Detail report in Deltek of reimbursable project costs.

Accounts

• Management of fee accounting.
• Transfer Pricing Policy (TPP) - prepare schedule, create Deltek sales + AP invoices in both KPF London (KPFI) + KPF New York (KPFA) and post.
• Prepare percentage of completion (POC) schedule.
• Fixed assets - prepare schedule and post journal.

• Monthly + YTD cash reporting (spend / receipts).

• Maintain prepayment tracking and schedule spreadsheet.

• Prepayment, accruals + other journal postings to Deltek.
• Support the maintenance of intercompany schedules.
• Assist with year-on-year variance analysis on trial balance accounts.

Corporate Tax

• Contact each Indian client to obtain (TDS) withholding tax certificates on each payment made to KPFI + KPFA. Pass on information annually to external accountants in India.
• Assist with corporate tax submittals in India and KSA.

Other

• Assisting the accounting team as and when needed.
• Future growth opportunity for various KPF payrolls.

KPF is an Equal Opportunities Employer. You must have the Right to Work in the UK.

This position requires you to be in‑person 5 days per week.

Applications submitted without a resume will not be considered.