Make a real impact on growth and value creation. As Acquisitions Accountant, you’ll play a key role in delivering Openwork Group’s strategy to provide adviser lifecycle support across our network. You’ll support acquisitions and disposals end-to-end—leading on financial due diligence and integration, supporting sell-side activity, and ensuring accurate IFRS accounting throughout each transaction. Your work will help multiple teams make confident decisions and will directly support value creation across the Group.
This role is based in our Swindon office with 3 days required in our Swindon office.
- Salary – £55,000 - £65,000
- Bonus scheme – on target bonus – 10%
- Pension scheme – contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match it, plus put in an extra 5%
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection
- Death in service - 4x salary
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.
In this role, you’ll take ownership across three core areas: due diligence, transaction accounting, and finance integration.
- Support buy-side financial due diligence, including quality of earnings, working capital and net debt analysis; identify key accounting, tax, balance sheet and control risks
- Review target accounting policies and assess alignment to IFRS and Group accounting policies
- Provide accounting input into SPA terms, including completion accounts and earn-outs; support deal funds flow preparation and execution
- Prepare acquisition accounting under IFRS, including goodwill and purchase price allocation (fair value of identifiable intangible assets)
- Prepare clear technical accounting papers to support acquisition/disposal accounting, valuations and key judgements
- Account for complex consideration structures, including deferred and contingent consideration
- Lead finance integration of acquired entities into Group reporting frameworks, including GAAP adjustments, opening balance sheet adjustments and consolidation journals
- Support monthly Group consolidation, audit processes, transaction-related disclosures, and sell-side due diligence/disposal accounting (including P&L impact analysis).
