Finance Associate

About Lawhive

Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone.

The legal industry is built on technology and process that hasn’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground-up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core.

Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers.

Lawhive Labs is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law.

We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US…and we’re just getting started.

Finance at Lawhive

We are a lean, high-impact finance organisation operating across the UK and US group structure - the engine room that keeps Lawhive moving with precision as we scale a first-of-its-kind global AI-native law firm. We partner deeply with every part of the business: product, engineering, legal operations, hr, talent, and the exec team. Our mandate is simple: build world-class, audit-ready, scalable finance architecture that can support hyper-growth and international expansion.

The next 12–18 months will bring some of the most challenging and meaningful work you’ll do in your career. We’re focused on:

• Designing and embedding the financial systems, controls and reporting infrastructure required for a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group (UK, US) on the path to audit and global scale
• Building real-time, decision-grade data - from cashflow to margins to unit economics - ensuring the business can make fast, high-quality decisions as we grow revenue and deploy capital
• Transforming acquired entities into a single, unified finance ecosystem with tight working-capital discipline and deep operational control
• Implementing automation and intelligent workflows across payables, payroll, client-money compliance, tax, FP&A and revenue accounting to unlock leverage across the business
• Partnering with leaders to shape strategy, investment decisions, and the future of AI-enabled legal services

If you want a finance role where the bar is high, the problems are real, and the impact is visible across the whole company - this is it.

About the Role

We're looking for a Finance Associate to join our finance team immediately and support the day-to-day financial operations of a fast-paced, multi-entity, multi-currency group spanning both UK and US operations. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their finance career to gain broad exposure across transactional finance, reconciliations, and month-end processes, with the chance to grow as the business scales.

What you'll do

• Invoice processing across UK and US entities
• Assisting with month-end close, including journal postings and balance sheet reconciliations
• Bank reconciliations across multiple entities and currencies
• Supporting payroll processing and related journal entries (UK and US)
• Assisting with VAT returns and other compliance filings
• Maintaining accurate financial records
• Supporting expense management processes (Payhawk)
• Covering and responding to Finance tickets and the Accounts inbox
• Ad hoc reporting and analysis to support the wider finance team

What you'll bring

• An interest in finance or accounting, or a related degree, is helpful but not essential
• Comfortable working across multiple entities and currencies
• Strong Excel skills
• High attention to detail and comfortable working with numbers at pace
• Good communication skills, able to work across a small, fast-moving team
• Available to start immediately or at short notice

Nice to Have

• Experience with Xero, Payhawk, and Joiin

Interview Process

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager + member of the finance team
• Interview with the Finance Director
• Values interview with one of our Founders
• We offer!

UK Benefits:

• 💰 Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
• ✈️ 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and an extra day for your birthday, moving day and wedding day, with the opportunity to earn up to 5 more days with tenure!
• 🩺 Private Medical Insurance via Bupa (including subsidised gym membership)
• 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
• 🍼 Nursery benefits
• 💰 Pension contribution via Nest
• 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month
• 💻 Top-spec Macbook
• ⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.