Deployment Lead - Accounting Solutions
Leads customer onboarding and deployment for accounting and finance software, translating client workflows into implementation plans, supporting migrations and integrations, and coordinating stakeholders. Requires strong accounting knowledge, customer communication, organization, and project management skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead key parts of customer onboarding and deployment to ensure smooth, timely implementations.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to execute implementation plans and resolve customer problems.
- Analyze client accounting and finance workflows and translate requirements into practical solutions.
- Guide customers through onboarding, training, change management, and adoption.
- Support data migration, reconciliations, systems setup, and integration coordination.
- Track milestones, drive follow-through, and align internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify risks, escalate issues, and help keep customer launches on track.
- Build trusted customer relationships through responsive, thoughtful, solutions-oriented support.
- Maintain documentation and provide regular status updates.
Requirements
- Meaningful experience in accounting, audit, advisory, finance transformation, or a related customer-facing role.
- Strong accounting foundation, including financial close, reconciliations, revenue recognition, and core finance workflows.
- Familiarity with IFRS and/or UK GAAP.
- Excellent communication skills and confidence working with customers and senior stakeholders.
- Systems-minded, highly organized, detail-oriented, and eager to learn implementation work.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience at a Big Four firm, SaaS company, or high-growth technology company.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive pay and meaningful equity.
- Benefits supporting health, wellbeing, time away from work, family, and long-term financial goals.
- Team meals, events, and company gatherings.
Skills
Accounting, Financial Close, Reconciliations, Revenue Recognition, Ifrs, Uk Gaap, Data Migration, Project Management, Change Management, Systems Setup, Integrations, Customer Onboarding
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