Top Accountancy Jobs in Edinburgh

Prepares and audits statutory financial statements, manages complex balance sheet reconciliations, oversees month-end and year-end accounting processes, and supports financial reporting and control across the University. The role also provides guidance on accounting policies, collaborates with internal and external stakeholders, and ensures consistent financial control and compliance.

Responsible for regulatory and capital reporting across M&G Group and FCA-regulated entities. Duties include maintaining capital and liquidity forecasts, preparing FCA returns, monitoring capital generation and seeding portfolios, managing dividend planning, calculating FCA fees, supporting ICARA and Pillar 3 disclosures, maintaining regulatory procedures, and strengthening financial controls. Requires a qualified accountant with post-qualified experience, accounting standards knowledge, strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, planning, and attention to detail.

Own financial accounting and month-end close across UK and US entities, including journals, reconciliations, audit support, statutory reporting, technical accounting, intercompany accounting, and NetSuite consolidation. Manage the outsourced UK accounting provider, strengthen systems and controls, and oversee revenue recognition, capitalization, and automation initiatives. The role offers growth into Group Financial Controller.

Supports digital asset accounting, monthly close, reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting, fixed asset tracking, and audit preparation. Maintains cryptocurrency rollforwards, reconciles wallet balances to blockchain data, calculates fair market value, and processes crypto transactions. The role also contributes to accounting policy improvements, SOP development, variance analysis, and cross-functional finance support for a global fintech platform.

Create tax research, calculation, compliance, and evaluation tasks for AI agents. Develop original tax scenarios and reference solutions involving corporate income tax, indirect taxes, withholding, reconciliations, and related areas. Prepare accurate calculations, workpapers, supporting schedules, and authoritative citations. Evaluate agent performance, identify jurisdictional and factual errors, and assess unsupported deductions or outdated rules.

Create realistic public accounting tasks and reference solutions, then evaluate AI agents completing bookkeeping, adjusting entries, trial balances, financial statements, reconciliations, and client accounting workflows. Develop scoring criteria for technical accuracy, documentation, consistency, and client communication. Assess how agents handle incomplete records, misclassifications, missing information, accounting judgments, and clarification requests using spreadsheets, accounting platforms, and supporting documents.

Create corporate accounting tasks and reference solutions covering journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, intercompany transactions, and month-end close. Evaluate AI agents’ accounting work for accuracy, completeness, documentation, compliance, errors, and audit-trail quality using spreadsheets, accounting software, and financial records.

Create accounting workflow tasks and reference solutions for AI agents. Evaluate bookkeeping, journal entries, accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, financial statements, transaction classification, discrepancy correction, period-end adjustments, and accounting software usage. Define accuracy and traceability criteria, identify accounting errors, and document accounting treatments. The role is remote, project-based, and flexible.

Own day-to-day finance operations during an eight-month maternity cover, including month-end reporting, bookkeeping, financial statements, employee expenses, customer invoicing and collections, Dutch tax compliance, and financial model maintenance. The role requires quickly taking ownership of established processes, improving workflows, and operating independently in a startup or scale-up environment.

Hands-on accounting role delivering client work and helping automate processes: prepare year-end accounts and tax returns, bookkeeping/finops (Xero, Dext, Hubdoc, Crezco), personal tax and sole trader accounts, and client communication. Use and help shape the firm’s proprietary AI platform and other AI tools to streamline work and improve client experience.

Supports the Global Business Services general ledger team through month-end reporting, journal processing, accruals, reconciliations, VAT compliance, audit support, tax and payroll compliance, and control improvements. The Accountant will also assist with finance applications, migration of entities to Dynamics 365, legacy business closure, and support for local finance teams.

The Management Accountant maintains the general ledger, prepares management accounts, supports month-end and year-end close, performs reconciliations and variance analysis, and assists with VAT, tax, audit, and cash-flow reporting. The role partners with operational teams, supports AP, AR, and credit control, maintains financial controls, and contributes to Sage 200 enhancements and an upcoming ERP implementation. It also provides financial insight, supports process improvements, and helps develop junior finance staff.

Supports digital asset accounting and monthly close activities for a global cryptocurrency fintech platform. Responsibilities include reconciling wallet balances to blockchain data, maintaining crypto asset rollforwards, calculating fair market values, recording journal entries, performing balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining fixed asset schedules, preparing financial reporting and audit support, and improving accounting procedures.

Supports revenue-side finance operations, accounting controls, reconciliations, accounts receivable, invoicing, cash management, reporting, audits, tax filings, budgeting, and forecasting. The role prepares monthly financial statements, develops operating metrics, improves accounting processes, and uses AI tools for automation. It collaborates with sales and operations while maintaining accurate, confidential financial information in a fully remote UK environment.

Reviews complex contracts and non-standard transactions to determine ASC 606 revenue recognition treatment. Prepares technical accounting assessments, supports revenue policies and controls, advises Deal Desk, Sales, Legal, and Finance, and assists with audits, system changes, product launches, and process improvements. Communicates complex accounting conclusions as practical business guidance while managing multiple priorities.

Responsible for end-to-end financial accounting and compliance across multiple markets, including month-end close, reconciliations, statutory reporting, tax compliance, audit support, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting. The role partners with finance teams and external advisors, maintains balance sheet integrity, supports process improvements and automation, and contributes to finance transformation initiatives.

Assess and quantify business interruption and financial loss claims for insurers and clients. Review and analyse financial data, prepare interim and final reports, negotiate and agree settlements, undertake site visits and stakeholder meetings, mentor junior staff, maintain case records, and support business development and client relationship activities.

Own the monthly close and group consolidation across Belgium, the UK, Poland, and the US. Prepare consolidated accounts under IFRS and local GAAP, manage intercompany eliminations and FX translation, support statutory and group audits, improve reporting processes using Excel, NetSuite, consolidation tools, and AI-enabled workflows, and mentor accounting team members.

Runs the company’s day-to-day finance function during a six-month maternity-leave cover period. Responsibilities include bookkeeping, reconciliations, invoicing, credit control, supplier payments, expenses, UK payroll, VAT returns, tax support, monthly management accounts, multi-currency consolidation, cash-flow forecasting, and finance queries. The contractor will work independently with external accountants and senior leadership, primarily remotely for up to two days per week.

Manage full-cycle accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, financial reporting, and AP/AR for a high-volume cryptocurrency and fintech business. Reconcile cash and transactions across digital currency kiosks, support digital asset accounting, oversee vendors and expenses, optimize accounting systems, and assist with regulatory reporting for a licensed money services business. The role is fully remote and requires strong communication, independent judgment, and adaptability.

The Financial Accountant will manage month-, quarter-, half-year, and year-end close processes; balance sheet, income statement, fixed asset, and intercompany reconciliations; VAT filings; statutory accounts; audit support; and financial controls. The role also supports accounting procedures, ERP and finance system improvements, process transformation, stakeholder queries, and ad hoc analysis across a multi-entity UK finance environment.

Owns revenue recognition accounting across entities under IFRS 15, including deferred revenue reconciliations, technical accounting guidance, policy documentation, audit support, internal controls, and process automation. Partners with finance, accounts receivable, product, and commercial teams to align statutory revenue recognition with ARR reporting across subscription and B2C revenue models.

Maintain general ledger activities including journal entries, reconciliations, fixed asset processing, month-end close, internal controls, BlackLine journal reviews, consolidation reporting, audit support, SOP updates, and process improvements within SLA timelines.

Prepare and review UK Corporation Tax, VAT, statutory accounts, and management accounts; file returns with HMRC and Companies House; manage tax deadlines, registrations, reconciliations, and correspondence; provide UK tax and accounting advice; support proposals, pricing, client meetings, and service expansion; maintain compliance with HMRC, anti-money-laundering, internal-control, and data-protection requirements.

Prepare statutory financial statements, regulatory and statistical submissions, quarterly board reporting, and SOX-compliant balance sheet reconciliations for EMEA and APAC entities. The role involves applying IFRS and UK GAAP, supporting audits, analyzing financial movements, maintaining controls, improving processes, and coordinating with auditors, Company Secretarial, finance teams, and internal stakeholders.