Top Accountant Jobs in Bristol

Responsible for general ledger accounting activities. The job description provides no additional details about specific duties, qualifications, or work environment.

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.

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.

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 Evaluate agent performance, identify jurisdictional and factual errors, and assess unsupported deductions or outdated rules.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 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.

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.

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.

Trainee Accountant role involving preparation of year-end financial statements, calculation of corporation and personal tax liabilities, tax planning, client relationship development, and completion of a funded AAT study program. The position includes structured induction, personal development planning, mentoring, and hybrid working, with an August 2027 start.

Own and operate finance controls: design, test and remediate controls, identify and manage risks, run incident response and root cause fixes, maintain risk frameworks and reporting, deliver governance, and support stakeholder and regulatory requirements including Consumer Duty metrics and fair value assessments.

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.

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.

Graduate trainee accountants will prepare accounts and tax returns, analyze financial information, support client work, and learn how businesses operate. They will study toward the ACA qualification while gaining practical experience alongside experienced accountants and advisers. The role emphasizes curiosity, organization, numerical confidence, communication, problem-solving, continuous learning, and increasing ownership of work. No previous accountancy experience is required.

Entry-level apprenticeship combining practical accountancy work with study toward an AAT qualification. Responsibilities include assisting with accounts and tax returns, bookkeeping, handling financial information, supporting client work, using data to solve problems, and learning about businesses. The role emphasizes curiosity, organization, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and willingness to learn. No prior accountancy experience is required.

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.

Graduate trainee will complete an ACA or ACA/CTA apprenticeship while gaining hands-on experience in accounting, audit, or tax. Responsibilities include helping clients prepare and understand accounts, supporting financial record accuracy and compliance, and assisting with tax compliance, reliefs, and allowances. The role includes tailored training, ICAEW support, and client work across diverse industries.

Provide financial support to Veolia’s Industrial Services business, partnering with operational management. Responsibilities include preparing and analyzing management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, budgets, forecasts, long-term plans, capital expenditure reporting, KPI analysis, governance models, and post-investment reviews.

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.

Prepare monthly management accounts, journals, accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations, dashboards, and financial analysis. Support budgeting, forecasting, statutory audits, financial controls, process improvements, and finance transformation initiatives. Partner with budget holders and Finance Business Partners to provide insight for operational and strategic decisions while ensuring accurate, compliant financial reporting.

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.