What you'll do
Own day to day operational accounting for our UK entity, including accounts payable, expense pre booking, payment preparation, and monthly transaction discipline, ensuring compliance and accuracy in a fast scaling defence environment.
Help keep an overview on project budget and cost.
Finalise and stabilise the rollout of our new expense management system, embedding clean workflows, documentation standards, and approval controls across the company.
Identify, design, and implement process improvements across core accounting workflows, reducing manual effort and increasing automation using modern finance tools and AI where appropriate.
Maintain structured documentation and audit readiness to ensure compliance with accounting and tax standards and future audit requirements.
Act as a reliable operational backbone to the Director of Finance (based in Munich), freeing capacity for strategic work including fundraising, capital planning, and long term financial structuring.
Who you are
A self-standing accountant with hands on experience managing transactional accounting processes independently, particularly on the creditor side.
Experience with UK and ideally also German accounting environment
Comfortable operating in a growing, technically complex company where capex, hardware, and engineering driven spend require structured financial discipline.
Proactive and process minded, with a track record of identifying gaps and improving workflows rather than waiting for instruction.
Excited by automation and modern finance tooling, with experience using or implementing systems such as MOSS, Pleo, Finway, or similar tools.
Structured, detail oriented, and reliable under pressure, with the judgement to maintain compliance while moving at startup speed.
Motivated by building clean, scalable financial infrastructure rather than simply maintaining legacy bookkeeping.
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