Vice President, Operational & Technical Accounting Advisory

Vice President, Operational & Technical Accounting Advisory

London

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,400+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

As we build our European footprint, the London office presents a unique entrepreneurial opportunity to shape our presence and accelerate growth across the region—while benefiting from the support and stability of an established, industry-leading firm.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 10 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

With the increase in complexity of the business environment and transactions, CFOs of private equity-backed companies are increasingly being looked towards to drive strategic insights for their business. Finance organizations are no longer simply result reporters, but rather, they couple these results with forward-looking data to provide strategic insights which are leveraged to make business decisions. Efficiency of process and meaningful control environments allows for speed of financial reporting with increasingly accurate measures, leaving more time for the finance team to add future enterprise value, rather than look backwards.

Accordion’s Operational & Technical Accounting Advisory (O&T) Practice is comprised of a dedicated team providing accounting and financial advice to support PE-backed portfolio companies on a wide range of transactions and events, including enhancing accounting policies & procedures, accelerating the financial statement close process, designing and implementing the financial controls environment, addressing technical accounting matters, assessing the finance and accounting function & accounting and controlling organization standup post-carve-out or merger transaction.

We are doers and problem solvers – making sense of complexity and bolstering sponsors’ value creation theses.

This role will be based in our London office and will require regular and extensive travel across Europe to work with clients in the relevant jurisdictions. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location, with the flexibility to work remotely 1-2 days a week, blending the best of both worlds for efficiency and collaboration.

As part of a lean, cross‑functional team, the O&T Vice President will play a vital role in identifying and rectifying issues across a broad range of scenarios. The following representative engagements are emblematic of the type of work you’ll do as an O&T Vice President at Accordion:

A rapidly growing company with a global footprint routinely takes 45 days to close its books and produce financial statements. You and the team are brought in to:

• Perform deep‑dives and gain an understanding of current state processes, people, and systems (both on paper and in reality).
• Identify root causes and provide recommendations on how to improve broken processes, bridge control gaps, and better align roles and responsibilities with best practices.
• Implement tools and solutions that the accounting and controlling function can use to streamline their close process (e.g. introduce materiality limits, close checklists, and calendars).

The team is advising a recently acquired company going through their first‑year audit. You will assist the team with the following initiatives:

• Local‑GAAP to IFRS conversion, adopting key accounting standards such as revenue recognition and lease accounting
• The timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
• Project managing the audit timeline throughout the engagement

Following the acquisition of three similar,…