Senior Finance Accountant

Founded in 2019, Novutech is a dynamic digital transformation partner with a team of over 60 consultants across Europe. We specialise in finance-focused digital transformation projects for international scale-ups and mid-sized enterprises. Our expertise lies in leveraging a core technology stack and the experience from hundreds of successful projects. We are committed to designing, delivering, and supporting end-to-end solutions that drive growth and efficiency.

Novutech is strengthening its Finance team. We are looking for an ambitious, qualified Senior Finance Accountant to own day-to-day accounting execution across the Group, with NetSuite at the core of our ecosystem. In this role, you will not only ensure accounting rigor and audit-ready compliance; you will act as a driving force for automation, process scalability, and the day-to-day adoption of AI within our finance operations.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will take ownership of end-to-end accounting execution across European entities while systematically eliminating manual work. By actively leveraging AI platforms (such as Dust), automated workflows, and connected finance tools (NetSuite, Embat, Payhawk, Upflow, Eagl), you will build robust controls, shorten the close cycle, and ensure our financial processes scale effortlessly as the business expands.

• Own core accounting execution in NetSuite across all Group entities, guaranteeing timely, compliant, and audit-ready general ledger records.

• Process supplier bills, payroll-related bills, contractor invoices, Payhawk transactions, and other accounting entries in line with company policies and coding standards.

• Prepare month-end journals, including accruals, amortisation, allocations, payroll entries, fixed asset additions and disposals, and other recurring schedules.

• Maintain complete, audit-proof balance sheet reconciliations for all entities, actively investigating differences and resolving reconciling items on a monthly basis.

• Design and enforce automated booking quality controls covering cost centres, VAT codes, amortisation schedules, and intercompany dimensions to catch anomalies at source.

• Drive a structured, predictable month-end close calendar in line with Group governance, ensuring all tasks, journals, and reconciliations are completed and documented before period lock.

• Uphold strict segregation of duties, internal financial controls, and risk-managed approval workflows across all accounting and banking processes.

• Champion the daily adoption of AI tools (including Dust custom assistants and workflows) across finance operations: automating transaction categorization, drafting variance commentaries, querying finance policies, and accelerating reconciliation.

• Partner with the Finance Manager to systematically identify manual bottlenecks, designing automated rules, alerts, and workflows across NetSuite and integrated apps.

• Optimize procure-to-pay automation: enforce e-invoicing, digital invoice ingestion via Zone Capture / Payhawk, and automated vendor coding to eliminate repetitive manual entry.

• Build and maintain scalable finance documentation, AI knowledge bases, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) that empower the finance function to scale efficiently as company transaction volume grows.

• Prepare supplier, contractor, and salary payment batches in Embat, strictly respecting delegation of authority and multi-tier approval policies.

• Supervise bank connectivity and automated cash reconciliations across European entities in NetSuite and Embat, ensuring weekly clearance of in-transit items.

• Develop rolling cash forecasting models based on automated NetSuite invoice schedules, Payhawk trends, and real-time bank position feeds.

• Oversee employee card expense and reimbursement compliance in Payhawk, enforcing receipt submission rules, tax validation, and prompt error resolution.

• Perform invoice quality and compliance checks (VAT validation, reverse-charge applicability, entity and contract accuracy) prior to automated billing runs.

• Support outgoing e-invoicing, customer balance verification, monthly AR ageing reviews, and the resolution of invoicing queries.

• Manage automated revenue recognition schedules in NetSuite, ensuring strict compliance with accounting standards (including commission accounting and multi-element deliverables).

• Supervise payroll journal entries, pension reconciliations, and compliance filings across European jurisdictions in coordination with payroll partners.

• Work with Customer Success, Project Sponsors, HR, and external providers to ensure finance inputs are complete and delivered on time.

• Supervise VAT return filings, European sales lists, and statutory tax compliance with our global accounting firm, maintaining audit-ready documentation and sign-offs.

• Execute monthly intercompany cross-charges, management recharges, and automated matching, maintaining strict adherence to Transfer Pricing policies.

• Support group consolidation, statutory-versus-internal book reconciliations, and information requests from external accountants and auditors.

• Prepare monthly management reporting packages, automating variance analysis (P&L and Balance Sheet MoM / QoQ) to highlight operational drivers and budget deviations.

• Maintain clear documentation, checklists, and audit trails for recurring processes and controls.

• Help implement the future finance operating model, moving core accounting activities in-house and reducing reliance on transactional outsourcing.

• Identify opportunities to automate and improve workflows in NetSuite and connected finance tools, while maintaining strong control standards.

• Contribute to finance policies, the close calendar, chart of accounts and cost centre governance, and standard operating procedures.

• Build effective working relationships with the Finance Manager, Finance Leader, Christiana, external accounting partners, and colleagues across the business.