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Description Team: Finance Reporting to: Group Financial Controller Location: Remote / London ABOUT: GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress. We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions. Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. We don’t just embrace innovation, we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs. This is where rebel thinking, smart technology and data-driven creativity shape the future. THE ROLE: We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Financial Accountant to join our finance team. In this role, you will take ownership of the group monthly consolidation process, oversee robust financial controls, support management of group liquidity, and ensure strict statutory compliance. This position bridges the gap between technical accounting and forward-thinking finance, offering a distinct opportunity to lead systems optimisation, manage core transactional workflows, and drive automation across our corporate structure. You will ensure all financial control and compliance aspects are managed and delivered in an effective and timely manner. You will also play an important role in the relationship with Senior Stakeholders including liaising with CFO and work with the Finance Business Partners. Responsibilities will include: 1. Financial Reporting and Group Consolidation • Group Monthly Consolidation: Lead the end-to-end monthly consolidation process for the group's entities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting., • Month-End Management: Oversee the month-end close processes for corporate entities, maintaining a strict and efficient close calendar., • Variance Analysis & Commentary: Perform rigorous analytical reviews on financial performance, delivering insightful variance analysis and commentary to support strategic decision-making., • Geographic Entity Reporting & Transfer Pricing: Manage geographic entity reporting requirements and support the implementation, monitoring, and documentation of the group's transfer pricing policies. 1. Corporate Accounting • Holding Company & Corporate Entities: Take ownership of the accounting, intercompany transactions, and net asset tracking for Group Holding Companies and corporate entities., • Legal Entity & Restructuring Changes: Account for corporate reorganisations, legal entity changes, capital restructurings, and post-acquisition integrations across the group., • FRS 102 & Technical Reporting Updates: Lead the technical assessment and operational transition for accounting standard updates under FRS 102, specifically managing the transition and ongoing compliance for operating lease changes (in line with the convergence toward IFRS 16 principles). 1. Cash Management & Treasury • Cash Flow Forecasting: Develop, maintain, and roll forward rolling group cash flow forecasts to provide clear visibility on short and long-term liquidity., • Treasury & Liquidity Management: Monitor daily cash positions across group bank accounts, optimise working capital, and manage internal funding or currency requirements where necessary. 1. Systems, Process Optimisation & Automation • Sage Intacct Administration: Act as a key finance super-user for Sage Intacct, ensuring the system is configured effectively to support multi-entity reporting, dimension tracking, and smooth month-end workflows., • AP Process Modernisation: Focus on the integration of automated invoice-processing tools, optimising purchase order workflows, and refining control testing to ensure efficient, paperless AP operations., • AR & Billing Efficiency: Drive improvements in the Accounts Receivable workflow, optimising billing cycles, automating payment collection matches, and ensuring robust aging analysis to improve working capital., • AI & Process Development: Actively identify, test, and implement AI-driven process improvements and software integrations to eliminate manual accounting tasks and reduce transaction cycle times. 1. Financial Governance & Control • Balance Sheet Integrity: Review group balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy, resolve complex discrepancies, and mitigate financial risk., • Financial Control Review: Regularly evaluate, design, and implement internal financial controls to safeguard company assets and streamline operations. 1. Taxation, Audit & Compliance • Group Tax Management: Manage group-wide tax compliance filings and reporting obligations., • Statutory Compliance: Ensure full alignment with UK/Non UK statutory accounting regulations and filing requirements., • Audit Management & External Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact for external accountants and auditors, managing the preparation of year-end audit files and ensuring a smooth, efficient audit cycle., • Technical Updates: Stay abreast of changing accounting standards and technical updates, assessing their impact on group financial practices and implementing required adjustments., • Global Advisor Management: Manage and coordinate relationships with external accountants, tax advisors, and local service providers across our international regions, including Canada, Spain, the Philippines, and India. 1. Payroll & Payroll Accounting • Global Payroll Operations: Oversee and support the execution of global payroll across fortnightly and monthly timetables for the UK, USA, Philippines, India, Spain, Guernsey, Ireland, and Canada., • International Tax & Social Security Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to regional compliance requirements, ensuring statutory tax payments, pensions, and Social Security contributions are calculated accurately and paid on time across all jurisdictions., • Payroll Ledger Control: Collaborate closely with the Group Financial Accountant to ensure that all payroll-related balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled, clear, and accurate., • Liquidity Coordination: Provide an accurate, forward-looking view of payroll funding timings for all countries to directly support group cash forecasting workflows Requirements Qualifications • Fully ACA/ACCA qualified Skills Requirement AI & Automation • Ability to leverage AI tools and financial automation platform capabilities to streamline workflows, enhance data analysis, and improve process efficiency. Communication • Ability to communicate to different stakeholders in the business and manage external stakeholders where required. Time Management • Ability to multi-task, prioritise work and meet deadlines. Team Working • Collaborate effectively with team members to delivers common goals Attention to Detail • Demonstrate accuracy and pay attention to detail. Organisation • Ability to manage work load and organise work streams Excel • Strong Excel Skills, basic (VLookup/Pivot Tables) are Essential. Technical • Strong understanding of UK GAAP and ability to grasp technical accounting matters and apply to real time scenarios Consolidation • Strong understanding of monthly consolidation processes and requirements Financial Control • Strong understanding of key compliance and reporting requirements Commercial • Ability to grasp commercial aspects of the numbers. Problem Solving • Ability to work independently on projects and work through challenges to deliver an effective result. Analytical • Be able to summarise and deconstruct large volumes of data into an understandable form Risk Awareness • Understanding of risk factors from a financial and operational perspective for the business. HOW YOU’LL WORK: Rebel Thinking: We don’t accept “good enough”. Rebel Thinking is about curiosity with courage. We make it safe to question assumptions, challenge the obvious, and explore smarter, braver ways forward, even when it feels uncomfortable. This is how new ideas, better products, and real breakthroughs happen. Make It Happen: “We turn intent into momentum.” Making it Happen is about turning ambition in to action. We move fast, learn fast and push through obstacles together. Progress beats perfection, and momentum creates impact. Swarming Our Expertise: “Individually smart. Collectively unstoppable.” Swarming our Expertise means we win together. We commit to developing our expertise so that by combining diverse skills, perspectives and experiences, we solve harder problems faster and deliver results no single expert could achieve. Benefits Our benefits for UK employees include: • Private Medical Insurance, • Life Assurance, • Income protection, • Employee Assistance Programme, • Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, • Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme, • Octopus EV Scheme, • Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing GAIN Academy: At GAIN, we invest in our people as seriously as we invest in our clients. The GAIN Academy is our internal learning and development hub, a place to grow your skills, explore new ideas, and take your career in the direction you want. From Leadership and Management development, AI fluency to mentoring, experiential workshops and on-demand learning experiences, the Academy is built around you. Professional development isn't something that happens to you at GAIN, it's something you own. GAIN is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Version 1’s market leading Enterprise Applications Practice specialises in Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Payroll Solutions with over 700 Oracle Specialists across the UK, Ireland, US, Australia, India and Slovenia. We deliver consulting and managed services to transform and optimise ways of working for more than 230 customers through the provision of specialist knowledge right across the Oracle product stack – Oracle Fusion Cloud for ERP, HCM and EPM, eBusiness Suite, JDEdwards, Peoplesoft and Hyperion, not to mention extensive expertise in Analytics, Infrastructure, and Integration. We have grown both organically and through acquisition, with our most recent acquisition of EPM and Analytics experts Qubix bringing 170 specialists to our team. Our Oracle Fusion Cloud team has grown significantly over the past 3 years powered by recent business wins including Galliford Try, Bank of England, An Post, Inizio Health, Birmingham City Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and QBE Insurance. We have an exciting growth strategy that will see further rapid growth and opportunity to drive value for our customers into 2024 and beyond. • UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle, Microsoft & AWS partner, • Market leader in Oracle ERP and Cloud Applications, • Consulting, implementation, and support services, • 3300+ strong, €347m/£302m revenue business, • ERP Partner of the Year & 10 years as GPTW to work in Ireland & UK Senior Oracle E-Business Suite SCM Functional Consultant You will be required to travel to the US 4-5 times, for 2-3 weeks per time in the first 12-18 months. Senior Oracle EBS SCM Consultant – Step into a High-Impact Role with Global Reach Are you a senior Oracle EBS SCM expert looking for something more? A bigger challenge? Global impact? At Version 1, we’re offering a rare opportunity to work on a major international Oracle EBS implementation – including multiple trips to the US over the next 12–18 months. Join an award-winning Oracle Partner with 700+ Oracle professionals and a track record of delivering transformational Supply Chain and ERP solutions to world-leading organisations. About the Role: We're looking for a Senior Oracle EBS SCM Functional Consultant to lead functional workstreams across core SCM modules. You’ll be front-and-centre with stakeholders, driving best practice processes, leading workshops, mapping complex integrations, and making critical design decisions. You’ll work closely with our global teams and prestigious clients across industries – especially in complex, regulated environments (GxP/GMP/SoX). Travel Alert: You’ll travel to the US 4–5 times (2–3 weeks per trip) in the first 12–18 months to deliver key phases of this high-profile engagement. Your Expertise: ✔ Deep Oracle EBS SCM experience: Procurement, Inventory, Order Management, Manufacturing (Discrete & Process), Costing, Planning ✔ Familiar with iProcurement, Supplier Portal, and EDI (ideal) ✔ Skilled in configuration, solution validation, training, and post-go-live support ✔ Experience with Oracle Cloud, OUM/AIM, and 3rd-party integrations is a plus ✔ Comfortable leading client teams, managing change, and owning delivery from end to end Why Join Version 1? • Career Acceleration: Structured growth with leadership coaching, mentoring, and quarterly development reviews, • Work-Life Balance: Flexible hybrid working with moments that matter, • Recognised Excellence: 10x Great Place to Work winner + annual Excellence Awards, • Generous Benefits:, • Quarterly profit share, • Pension, private healthcare, life assurance, • Enhanced maternity/paternity policies, • Large personal training budget & certification support Job Description The role will require capability in the key tasks of an implementation including: • Leading requirements workshops, • Challenging processes and advocating for industry best practice, • Workstream / Solution owner, • Requirements definition, • Process mapping/redesign, • Design and gap analysis, • Application configuration including migration of configuration from one environment to another, • Functional support of technical activities such as data migration, integration and reporting, • Leading solution validation workshops, • Testing support, • Training delivery, • Post go-live support and other related aspects of functional implementation advice and guidance. You will have customer-facing expertise in the following areas: • Oracle E-Business Suite: SCM, • Procurement including iProcurement & Supplier Portal, Procurement Contracts, EDI highly desired, • Inventory Management, • Product Management, • Cost Management, • Receiving, Shipping and Receipt Accounting, • Order Management & Pricing, • Manufacturing (Process + Discrete) & Quality, • Intercompany & Supply Chain & Financial Orchestration Flows, • Supply Chain Planning, • Experience with 3rd party integrations / collaboration & reporting tools, • Oracle EBS: Other areas – Account Payable & Receivable, Tax, Subledger Accounting, e-signatures (desirable), • Oracle Cloud experience highly desirable, but role is EBS focussed., • Oracle Reporting, • Familiarity of the Oracle OUM and/or AIM methodology, • Excellent written and verbal communication, • Experience of leading a team both internal and client, • Experience of working effectively within a team, • Organised and self-motivated, • Ability to multi-task and priorities across concurrent projects may be required., • Management of change requests through the development and testing lifecycle confirming to project management standards and scope, • Liaising with Oracle to ensure effective management of client SRs, • Ensure that clients are supported and kept up to date with latest Oracle Cloud quarterly releases, • Manage on-time project delivery and business expectations and ensure internal customer satisfaction, • Assist with risk management and change management on projects, • Advising clients on options, risks, and any impacts on other processes or systems, • Effectively communicating and driving project deliverables, • Completing tasks efficiently and in a timely manner, • Providing status and issue reports to the project manager/client on a regular basis, • Experience of GxP, GMP and SoX desired. Why Version 1? Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance and leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review A large training budget for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role. Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & our ‘Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised. Moments that matter & our enhanced maternity & paternity leave policies for life’s journey. Our active ESG & CSR initiative allows you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion, and belonging schemes. • Quarterly performance-related profit share, • Certified Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row, • Flexible mix of Remote/Hybrid working options, • Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance plus This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing Oracle ERP Consultancies in Ireland & the UK. PLUS, many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more. This is a hybrid role with occasional travel to a hub office so you MUST be commutable. Ashley Billington, Talent Acquisition – Enterprise Applications +447840839370 #LI-AB1 #LI-Hybrid We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers Please note: We have an internal recruitment team and do not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly!

A diligent Accounts Receivable Specialist is required to help maintain financial efficiency within a not-for-profit organisation. The individual will have a significant impact on the smooth running of the Accounting & Finance department. Client Details Our client is a medium-sized charitable organisation based in London. They are devoted to bettering lives and are well-respected within the not-for-profit industry. Description • Manage daily processing activities - ensuring that money shown as received on CRM systems agrees with actual monies received., • Resolving any invoice discrepancies., • Gift aid - along with the manager, put together and check gift aid claims. Answer internal gift aid queries.., • Control the 24 hour coding system - Working with the Customer Services team; release income batches as appropriate. Reconcile the batches outstanding to the income suspense account, • Maintain the income suspense account reconciliations, • Assisting the Accounting & Finance department with other tasks as required. Profile A successful Accounts Receivable Specialist should have: • A degree or equivalent qualification in Accounting or Finance., • Proficiency in accounting software and Excel., • Exceptional numerical skills and attention to detail., • Strong communication and negotiation abilities., • The ability to work independently and as part of a team. Job Offer • An estimated hourly salary range of £17- £21., • Mostly remote working If you believe that you have the skills and experience to excel as an Accounts Receivable Specialist, we would love to hear from you. Secure your chance to make a meaningful difference by applying today.