Acquisitions Accountant

The opportunity

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.

The benefits

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 - 1x salary
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.

Key accountabilities

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).

What will you need to succeed?

You’ll be a qualified finance professional with strong technical accounting skills, paired with the confidence to work with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced deals environment.

ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified
Experience in M&A, audit, transaction services, or within an acquisitive group
Strong IFRS knowledge (particularly IFRS 3 and IFRS 10) and confident producing clear technical accounting papers
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills; able to build effective relationships across the business
Good understanding of Financial Services, and the commercial motivations, risks and opportunities behind acquisitions and disposals
Understanding of purchase price allocation (PPA) and valuations for acquired intangible assets
Commercially minded and analytical, with strong Excel skills and the ability to plan, prioritise and adapt to changing deal deadlines
Natural self-starter, be able to take the initiative, and confidently build relationships throughout the business.

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022.

The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.