Financial Accountant

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.

Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to target audiences based on declared intent, following them from initial curiosity to ultimate decisioning, to drive measurable outcomes.

This role sits at the heart of our Finance Operations team, partnering closely with the Finance Operations Team Lead to drive accurate, timely reporting across the US business, from revenue through to gross profit. Taking ownership of the US scope, this position plays a key role in delivering reliable financial reporting, leveraging strong Excel skills to streamline existing processes and identify opportunities to work smarter. Acting as the primary point of contact for the US team while working within our UK Finance team, this role combines attention to detail and continuous improvement with a collaborative, team-first mindset. It’s a position for someone who takes ownership, supports those around them and thrives in a team that pulls together to meet deadlines and deliver results.
Responsibilities include

• Own the monthly revenue and cost-of-sales close, including preparing and recording revenue, cost of sales, and gross margin journal entries across the group’s entities
• Prepare and validate revenue and cost accruals, ensuring revenue is recognized in the correct period in line with policy
• Reconcile revenue and cost of sales to supporting platform, billing, and partner/supply data, investigating and resolving variances
• Prepare gross margin bridges and revenue/cost of sale variance analysis with supporting commentary following each month-end close
• Support billing accuracy and revenue completeness, tying billed revenue back to contracts, IOs, and platform reporting
• Reconcile intercompany revenue and cost flows, and support intercompany recharges tied to revenue and margin
• Partner with revenue operations, sales, and commercial teams to resolve pricing, billing, and recognition questions
• Support compliance over revenue and cost of sales, including audit requests, confirmations, and controls around the revenue cycle
• Identify opportunities to streamline and standardize recurring revenue and margin close processes

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a comparable field; ACCA or ACA candidate or equivlanet is a plus
• 5+ years of accounting experience, ideally including revenue and cost of sales in a multi-entity or intercompany environment
• Hands-on experience with revenue recognition and month-end revenue/cost of sale close
• Experience reconciling revenue to billing, platform, or partner data, ideally in media, adtech, or a high-volume transactional business
• Experience with NetSuite (or a comparable ERP) strongly preferred
• Strong Excel skills; comfort building and maintaining recurring reconciliation and margin workbooks
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple recurring deadlines, especially during the first week of each month
• Clear written communication skills for variance commentary and cross-functional collaboration
• “Hands-on” mentality and comfort working independently in a remote, multi-entity environment

What We Offer

Just a few of the benefits waiting for you at Verve: 

• Stay healthy with our Bupa HealthCare Plan with easy access to medical care
• Support your long-term financial security with our Aviva Corporate Pension Scheme
• Pick what matters most to you in our Personalized Benefits Platform, with a budget of  £50/month
• Recharge with 25 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
• Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars

Communications regarding your application will only come from @jungroup.com or @verve.com email addresses.

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

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