Accounting Lead

ยฃ50,000 - ยฃ65,000

ยฃ50,000 - ยฃ65,000

Remote (UK)

Remote (UK)

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About Novabook

Novabook is the โ€œAccountant for Startupsโ€ founded by Stephen Wilks & Lukas Feddern. Our team previously founded, scaled and sold a technology company for $50M. We started Novabook to solve the problems we faced during this process. Our aim is to make the financial processes of starting, running and selling a business in the UK easier. 


Why join us?

We are a small, rapidly growing team of 50 people at the moment (18 people in the engineering & product team, 6 people in the sales & marketing team). Our first venture together was senecalearning.com, which scaled to 12M users and a successful acquisition in 2022.


After launching in May 2024, we already have hundreds of clients, millions in ARR and are growing quickly, this is an opportunity to join the ride at an early stage. Weโ€™ve raised over ยฃ10M in capital to scale Novabook. 


Novabook was born out of our personal experiences with the shortcomings of traditional accountancy practices while running Seneca. After dealing with inefficient software and unreliable accountancies for 8 years, we believe it's time to tackle these challenges head-on.


Culture

We are well-funded but the hardest period of a start-up is always the first couple of years, when the team is small, and you are heavily relied on personally. But this also exposes you to the most interesting period of a companyโ€™s lifecycle and also the period where you can learn the most & earn the most material rewards. You wonโ€™t be expected to work evenings & weekends, but you will be expected to work hard when on the job.


About the role

The core responsibilities of the role will be working with 100-150 fast-growing start-ups across the UK and the US to ensure that we are delivering the best possible service at the same time.


You will cover all areas across Accounts, Corporate Tax, and VAT for the UK-based clients, including Accounts Preparation, Corporation Tax Prep & perhaps VAT and Management Accounts support.


About the application process

The hiring process consists of four steps:

  1. 20-minute screening call with Talent Lead

  2. Take Home task

  3. 20-minute virtual technical round

  4. Final Round Interview


In a final round process, we value candidates more highly if they know a little bit about our business already. In case itโ€™s useful as a light-touch way of getting up to speed:
- Here is our companyโ€™s newsletter in Reels form.
- And here are our interviews with the UKโ€™s best startup founders.

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Clients

Hear from startups

growing with our services.

โ€œThey do the boring stuff incredibly well. People are great and itโ€™s getting slicker and slicker every day. Happy customer.โ€

โ€œSpent a lot of time with the Novabook team, helping us ensure we were setup for YC. Great team and support.โ€œ

โ€œThe Novabook team are incredible. They understand startups better than anyone and are the dream to work with as a founder. Strongly recommend!โ€

Clients

Hear from startups

growing with our services.

โ€œThey do the boring stuff incredibly well. People are great and itโ€™s getting slicker and slicker every day. Happy customer.โ€

โ€œSpent a lot of time with the Novabook team, helping us ensure we were setup for YC. Great team and support.โ€œ

โ€œThe Novabook team are incredible. They understand startups better than anyone and are the dream to work with as a founder. Strongly recommend!โ€

Clients

Hear from startups

growing with our services.

โ€œThey do the boring stuff incredibly well. People are great and itโ€™s getting slicker and slicker every day. Happy customer.โ€

โ€œSpent a lot of time with the Novabook team, helping us ensure we were setup for YC. Great team and support.โ€œ

โ€œThe Novabook team are incredible. They understand startups better than anyone and are the dream to work with as a founder. Strongly recommend!โ€

Pricing

Flexible pricing,

built around your business.

Accounts & Corporation Tax

Your annual accounts and company tax return prepared and filed.

Starts at ยฃ69 per month

Bookkeeping

Regular reconciliations and tidy, up-to-date records.

Starts at ยฃ22 per month

Payroll & Pensions

Custom payroll runs with all required pension submissions.

Starts at ยฃ15 per month

Company Secretarial

All routine Companies House updates and statutory admin handled.

Starts at ยฃ4 per month

VAT Filings

Full preparation and submission of your VAT return each period.

Starts at ยฃ19 per month

Add-On Services

Specialist support for tax, investment, compliance, USA accounting and valuations.

Tailored quote

A typical plan starts at ยฃ129 per month

Your final price will depend on chosen services, transaction volume, and amount of employees.

Prices excluding tax.

Pricing

Flexible pricing,

built around your business.

Accounts & Corporation Tax

Your annual accounts and company tax return prepared and filed.

Starts at ยฃ69 per month

Bookkeeping

Regular reconciliations and tidy, up-to-date records.

Starts at ยฃ22 per month

Payroll & Pensions

Custom payroll runs with all required pension submissions.

Starts at ยฃ15 per month

Company Secretarial

All routine Companies House updates and statutory admin handled.

Starts at ยฃ4 per month

VAT Filings

Full preparation and submission of your VAT return each period.

Starts at ยฃ19 per month

Add-On Services

Specialist support for tax, investment, compliance, USA accounting and valuations.

Tailored quote

A typical plan starts at ยฃ129 per month

Your final price will depend on chosen services, transaction volume, and amount of employees.

Prices excluding tax.

Pricing

Flexible pricing,

built around your business.

Accounts & Corporation Tax

Your annual accounts and company tax return prepared and filed.

Starts at ยฃ69 per month

Bookkeeping

Regular reconciliations and tidy, up-to-date records.

Starts at ยฃ22 per month

Payroll & Pensions

Custom payroll runs with all required pension submissions.

Starts at ยฃ15 per month

Company Secretarial

All routine Companies House updates and statutory admin handled.

Starts at ยฃ4 per month

VAT Filings

Full preparation and submission of your VAT return each period.

Starts at ยฃ19 per month

Add-On Services

Specialist support for tax, investment, compliance, USA accounting and valuations.

Tailored quote

A typical plan starts at ยฃ129 per month

Your final price will depend on chosen services, transaction volume, and amount of employees.

Prices excluding tax.

Events

Accounting by day

events by night.

Events, meet ups and conversations that fuel real startup building.

Events

Accounting by day

events by night.

Events, meet ups and conversations that fuel real startup building.

Events

Accounting by day

events by night.

Events, meet ups and conversations that fuel real startup building.

Startup accounting,

done right.

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Startup accounting,

done right.

Book a call

Email us

Call us

Startup accounting,

done right.

Book a call

Email us

Call us

ยฉ2026 Novabook. All rights reserved.

Company No. 15483290

Novabook is a trading name of Basilica Services Ltd.

Basilica Services Ltd (Company Number: 15483290) is an agent of Plaid Financial Ltd. (Company Number: 11103959, Firm Reference Number: 804718), an authorised payment institution regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017. Plaid provides you with regulated account information services through Basilica Services Ltd as its agent.

ยฉ2026 Novabook. All rights reserved.

Company No. 15483290

Novabook is a trading name of Basilica Services Ltd.

Basilica Services Ltd (Company Number: 15483290) is an agent of Plaid Financial Ltd. (Company Number: 11103959, Firm Reference Number: 804718), an authorised payment institution regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017. Plaid provides you with regulated account information services through Basilica Services Ltd as its agent.

ยฉ2026 Novabook. All rights reserved.

Company No. 15483290

Novabook is a trading name of Basilica Services Ltd.

Basilica Services Ltd (Company Number: 15483290) is an agent of Plaid Financial Ltd. (Company Number: 11103959, Firm Reference Number: 804718), an authorised payment institution regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017. Plaid provides you with regulated account information services through Basilica Services Ltd as its agent.