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Creativity is at the core of everything we do, it’s the backbone of how we work. We back artistic vision, push boundaries, and believe in doing things differently.

There is space for everyone to have a voice at Kepler, and we expect you to as well. Diversity in thought is where creativity flourishes, and we encourage different people to contribute to conversations they might not normally be involved in. You’ll need to be comfortable pushing yourself to try new things, taking on different responsibilities, challenging others and being challenged, as this is where growth really happens.

Our Values Experimentation : We challenge the norm, stay curious, and move with confidence into the unknown.

Kindness : We believe how we treat people matters. We empower and uplift with clarity and honesty.

Excellence : We aim high. We think creatively, embrace feedback, and celebrate both wins and lessons learnt along the way.

Overview: Job level: Senior Associate Reporting line: Isma Sheikh (HQ Finance Manager) Role mission: To ensure accurate end-to-end delivery of period-end close, balance sheet integrity and statutory-ready financial reporting for HQ entities. The Financial Accountant plays a key role in maintaining financial controls, ensures compliance with accounting policies, improve processes and support decision-making across the business.

How is success defined in this role? To ensure timely month-end close process, ensuring accurate HQ reporting with no disruption to business deliverables Develop sound understanding of audit requirements, financial controls and maintaining audit-ready working papers.

Drive continuous improvement of financial processes, systems and controls to enhance efficiency, data integrity and scalability as HQ continues to grow.

Ensure ongoing compliance with all relevant IFRS accounting standards, tax requirements and regulatory obligations.

Act as a trusted partner to department leads and management teams — supporting them with accounting guidance, reviewing submissions and supporting on local reporting challenges.

What you’ll do: Key deliverables.

Month-end close: Prepare month-end close reporting for the HQ Group, ensuring timely, accurate and complete delivery Financial reporting: Prepare monthly financial reporting packs, including P L, Balance Sheet and supporting schedules, ensuring outputs are audit-ready Accruals and GL analysis: Determine and post journals, accruals, provisions and reclasses, applying appropriate accounting judgement and documentation standards Intercompany work: Manage intercompany accounting for entities in scope, including intercompany recharges, reconciliations, query resolution and supporting settlement.

Business Partnering: Partner with budget holders to ensure accurate period recognition and financial impact, proactively address risks and challenge assumptions.

Fixed Assets IFRS16: Oversee fixed asset accounting, including additions, disposals, depreciation and register integrity. Ensure accurate IFRS16 accounting, including monthly postings and balance sheet reporting.

Tax, Audit Statutory reporting: Prepare and submit quarterly VAT Returns and related reconciliations for the UK entity, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Support local statutory filings for the UK entity and liaise with external auditors and local advisors as required.

Ad Hoc: Supporting ad hoc reporting, projects and continuous improvement initiatives as required Areas of accountability.

Ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with IFRS.

Support HQ financial close and audit processes.

Partner confidently with stakeholders and explain financial information clearly Who you are: Part or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with accounting experience.

Proven track record in managing complex financial operations, including international subsidiaries.

IFRS multi-currency experience required.

Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Experience of working with auditors to complete statutory audits; Experience owning period-end close and ensuring balance sheet integrity through robust reconciliations Practical experience with VAT compliance and statutory accounts processes.

NetSuite and Tagetik experience is a bonus.

What can you expect during the Interview Process: For the HQ Financial Accountant role, there will be an initial screening call with Jess Pearce, People Partner, then we plan to have 3 stages of interviews. We have outlined below what you can expect from each: Stage 1: For the first stage, you’ll meet with Isma Sheikh, HQ Finance Manager and Dhuv Arumuganesan, Senior Finance Director for a competency-based interview where the team will explore your skills and experience, whilst providing more information about the role.

Stage 2: [In person if possible] You’ll have a technical interview with Isma and Ahsan (Senior Group Finance Manager). This will be a technical-based interview, which will test your knowledge on complex accounting processes, knowledge of tax and regulations, and reporting responsibilities.

Stage 3: A values interview with two people from the broader business, outside of your immediate team, exploring alignment with Kepler s values.

Please be aware there may be some slight changes to the interview teams and order of interviews depending on availability — we will give you full details with ample time ahead of each conversation.

How can we support you? We want to set you up for success and make our recruitment process as accessible as possible for you. In your application, feel free to let us know if you need anything to make your experience or environment more comfortable. We ll do our best to support you! What we can offer you All employees will receive: We believe your salary should reflect the work you deliver, the skills you bring and the value you add, therefore we offer a competitive salary, 20% bonus and potential for stock option plans.

25 days holiday plus public holidays and end of year shutdown.

We trust our people and therefore give them the flexibility to manage their working hours to best suit their needs.

Personal training budget equivalent to £1,500 GBP per year, as well as access to conferences and formal training.

Up to 5 days paid volunteering leave per year and £100 to a charity of your choice on your birthday.

We also offer a range of personalised wellbeing support systems including Spill, Mental Health First Aiders and more.

Other benefits are offered subject to the country of residence, including: Medical and health insurance.

Pension contributions.

Don t meet all the requirements? We care more about outcomes than ticking boxes, and we know the perfect person for the role often has a CV that s a little different.

Research shows that women are particularly less likely to apply if they don t meet all the criteria in a job listing. If you re second guessing yourself, we encourage you to get in touch anyway.

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Kepler Interactive is a collective of creatives working together to bring bold, beautiful ideas and experiences to life. We believe in empowering creativity, championing diverse voices, and shaping what’s next in interactive entertainment. To hear more about who we are, check out our CEO Alexis’ article in GI.Biz .

Creativity is at the core of everything we do, it’s the backbone of how we work. We back artistic vision, push boundaries, and believe in doing things differently.

There is space for everyone to have a voice at Kepler, and we expect you to as well. Diversity in thought is where creativity flourishes, and we encourage different people to contribute to conversations they might not normally be involved in. You’ll need to be comfortable pushing yourself to try new things, taking on different responsibilities, challenging others and being challenged, as this is where growth really happens.

Our Values Experimentation : We challenge the norm, stay curious, and move with confidence into the unknown.

Kindness : We believe how we treat people matters. We empower and uplift with clarity and honesty.

Excellence : We aim high. We think creatively, embrace feedback, and celebrate both wins and lessons learnt along the way.

Overview: Job level: Senior Associate Reporting line: Isma Sheikh (HQ Finance Manager) Role mission: To ensure accurate end-to-end delivery of period-end close, balance sheet integrity and statutory-ready financial reporting for HQ entities. The Financial Accountant plays a key role in maintaining financial controls, ensures compliance with accounting policies, improve processes and support decision-making across the business.

How is success defined in this role? To ensure timely month-end close process, ensuring accurate HQ reporting with no disruption to business deliverables Develop sound understanding of audit requirements, financial controls and maintaining audit-ready working papers.

Drive continuous improvement of financial processes, systems and controls to enhance efficiency, data integrity and scalability as HQ continues to grow.

Ensure ongoing compliance with all relevant IFRS accounting standards, tax requirements and regulatory obligations.

Act as a trusted partner to department leads and management teams — supporting them with accounting guidance, reviewing submissions and supporting on local reporting challenges.

What you’ll do: Key deliverables.

Month-end close: Prepare month-end close reporting for the HQ Group, ensuring timely, accurate and complete delivery Financial reporting: Prepare monthly financial reporting packs, including P&L, Balance Sheet and supporting schedules, ensuring outputs are audit-ready Accruals and GL analysis: Determine and post journals, accruals, provisions and reclasses, applying appropriate accounting judgement and documentation standards Intercompany work: Manage intercompany accounting for entities in scope, including intercompany recharges, reconciliations, query resolution and supporting settlement.

Business Partnering: Partner with budget holders to ensure accurate period recognition and financial impact, proactively address risks and challenge assumptions.

Fixed Assets & IFRS16: Oversee fixed asset accounting, including additions, disposals, depreciation and register integrity. Ensure accurate IFRS16 accounting, including monthly postings and balance sheet reporting.

Tax, Audit & Statutory reporting: Prepare and submit quarterly VAT Returns and related reconciliations for the UK entity, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Support local statutory filings for the UK entity and liaise with external auditors and local advisors as required.

Ad Hoc: Supporting ad hoc reporting, projects and continuous improvement initiatives as required Areas of accountability.

Ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with IFRS.

Support HQ financial close and audit processes.

Partner confidently with stakeholders and explain financial information clearly Who you are: Part or newly qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with accounting experience.

Proven track record in managing complex financial operations, including international subsidiaries.

IFRS multi-currency experience required.

Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Experience of working with auditors to complete statutory audits; Experience owning period-end close and ensuring balance sheet integrity through robust reconciliations Practical experience with VAT compliance and statutory accounts processes.

NetSuite and Tagetik experience is a bonus.

What can you expect during the Interview Process: For the HQ Financial Accountant role, there will be an initial screening call with Jess Pearce, People Partner, then we plan to have 3 stages of interviews. We have outlined below what you can expect from each: Stage 1: For the first stage, you’ll meet with Isma Sheikh, HQ Finance Manager and Dhuv Arumuganesan, Senior Finance Director for a competency-based interview where the team will explore your skills and experience, whilst providing more information about the role.

Stage 2: [In person if possible] You’ll have a technical interview with Isma and Ahsan (Senior Group Finance Manager). This will be a technical-based interview, which will test your knowledge on complex accounting processes, knowledge of tax and regulations, and reporting responsibilities.

Stage 3: A values interview with two people from the broader business, outside of your immediate team, exploring alignment with Kepler's values.

Please be aware there may be some slight changes to the interview teams and order of interviews depending on availability — we will give you full details with ample time ahead of each conversation.

How can we support you? We want to set you up for success and make our recruitment process as accessible as possible for you. In your application, feel free to let us know if you need anything to make your experience or environment more comfortable. We'll do our best to support you! What we can offer you All employees will receive: We believe your salary should reflect the work you deliver, the skills you bring and the value you add, therefore we offer a competitive salary, 20% bonus and potential for stock option plans.

25 days holiday plus public holidays and end of year shutdown.

We trust our people and therefore give them the flexibility to manage their working hours to best suit their needs.

Personal training budget equivalent to £1,500 GBP per year, as well as access to conferences and formal training.

Up to 5 days paid volunteering leave per year and £100 to a charity of your choice on your birthday.

We also offer a range of personalised wellbeing support systems including Spill, Mental Health First Aiders and more.

Other benefits are offered subject to the country of residence, including: Medical and health insurance.

Pension contributions.

Don't meet all the requirements? We care more about outcomes than ticking boxes, and we know the perfect person for the role often has a CV that's a little different.

Research shows that women are particularly less likely to apply if they don't meet all the criteria in a job listing. If you're second guessing yourself, we encourage you to get in touch anyway.

Don't quit before you've started!

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