Interim Forensic Accountant
22 days ago
Birmingham
About the Business An opportunity to join a well established services business as an Interim Forensic Accountant. Based near Birmingham, you will be initially joining on a 6 month FTC with strong potential to be extended. The role offers super flexible working, with just 3 days based in their modern offices. You will be working in a fast paced finance team, restoring financial stability. Main Duties: As an Interim Forensic Accountant, your main duties include: • Perform forensic analysis of historical financial data to identify errors, anomalies, and control weaknesses, • Investigate and resolve legacy balance sheet issues, including unreconciled items and prior-period discrepancies, • Deliver clear, audit-ready documentation, including supporting evidence and root cause analysis, • Lead remediation activities, implementing corrective accounting entries in line with relevant standards, • Partner with auditors and advisors to validate findings and ensure robust resolution, • Assess and redesign financial processes and controls to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability, • Establish best-practice frameworks across month-end close, reconciliations, approvals, and audit trails, • Develop and embed policies, procedures, and templates to support ongoing governance, • Communicate findings, risks, and progress clearly to senior stakeholders The role is hybrid, offering a split of 3 days in the contemporary office and 2 days from home. You will be joining a fast-paced but welcoming team where employee growth and development is highly encouraged. The business is well-structured, offering exposure to varied work across multiple business units. What We Are Looking For The ideal candidate will have: • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), • Proven experience in forensic accounting, financial investigations, or audit, • Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and/or UK GAAP, • Flexible working, • Large, growing business, • Well established finance team We are a local accountancy recruitment specialist. We appreciate that roles are often online for a long period of time. If you want to check if this role is still live or just want more details before applying, call us directly. Ref: DT66999