We’re hiring!
We are looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Financial Accountant to join our numbers team.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering accurate financial reporting, ensuring compliance with UK accounting standards, and supporting the wider business with high-quality financial insights.
The ideal candidate will bring strong technical knowledge, excellent analytical abilities, and a proactive approach to improving financial processes and systems.
Key responsibilities:
Your focus will be to support work in the following areas –
· Financial Reporting - Prepare and distribute accurate financial statements and reports while managing relationships with banks and external stakeholders.
· Audit Support - Oversee audit preparation, liaise with auditors, and implement improvements based on audit findings.
· Regulatory Compliance - Ensure adherence to UK legislation, accounting standards, tax requirements, and internal financial controls.
· Financial Analysis & Advisory - Analyse financial performance, conduct variance analysis, and provide insights to support decision-making.
· Budgeting & Forecasting - Support budgeting and forecasting processes and assist senior leaders in monitoring budgets.
· Financial Systems & Controls - Maintain accurate financial records, improve systems and processes, and support implementation of new tools.
Essential skills and experience:
· Strong analytical and numerical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
· In depth knowledge of UK financial regulations, UK GAAP, and IFRS.
· Excellent communication skills, able to convey financial information clearly.
· Proactive approach to process improvement and financial system optimisation.
· An interest in and aptitude for using technology and tools relevant to modern accounting practices.
Work at Stobbs:
Firm culture is important at Stobbs - friendly, social, approachable and where we look after each other. We regularly provide our own social and professional events. We manage the rights of some fantastic clients - obviously that means our advice has to be legally sound, but it's also about it being business savvy. We have high standards but learn from our mistakes.
We’re not internally competitive (well, except when it comes to sports and quizzes!). We're certainly not run with an iron fist; we want our people to bring their whole selves to work, wanting to perform well, learn from mistakes and to feel comfortable asking questions and learning, and helping us continue to improve and be the best we can be.
Our head office is north of Cambridge, with an office in central London. We are trying to strike a good balance of supporting people to work flexibly while delivering for our clients and making Stobbs an attractive place to work. Our current hybrid working policy is a minimum requirement of two days in the office, encouraging people in more if possible. We may expect you to be based in the office full-time during the first six-months. Those seeking a part-time role may also be considered.
The company
Stobbs is a niche intellectual property practice that recognises that to give the best advice on brands, you need to take a more strategic and holistic approach than pure trade mark expertise. To that end, we launched the concept of Intangible Asset Management.
We have a breadth of capability that goes far beyond the scope of any other IP firm and encompasses trade marks, designs and copyright, litigation, disputes, commercial contracts, brand intelligence, brand extension (licensing), systems, online brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and brand restructuring.
Formed in 2013 with 18 people, today we have over 200 professionals based in Cambridge, London, Dublin, Eindhoven, the US and Munich