Contract accountant jobs in United Kingdom

To see more Chinese jobs please follow us on WeChat: teamchinapf AND pfteamchinaRef 23468Job Title: Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting-BankingThe Skills You'll Need: Fluent Mandarin and English, qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), Strong experience managing accounting teams, extensive banking/financial services accounting experience.Your New Salary: CompetitiveHybrid:4 days office / 1 day home (initially 5 days until settled)PermStart: ASAPLocation: LondonMandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting- What You'll be Doing:The Financial Management department is responsible for planning, organising, directing and controlling the Bank's financial activities. The department oversees accounting and financial reporting, fixed assets and expense management, budgeting and management reporting, taxation (direct and indirect), regulatory reporting, and treasury (asset and liability management).As the Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting, you will lead and manage the Accounting team, taking responsibility for accounting operations, statutory reporting and Head Office reporting. You will manage a team of seven, reporting directly to the Deputy Head.Your responsibilities will include:Leading the Accounting team and providing coaching, development and performance management.Ensuring accounting treatments comply with IFRS, regulatory requirements and Head Office accounting policies.Reviewing and maintaining accounting policies, procedures and internal controls to ensure they remain effective and aligned with Head Office standards.Delivering timely, accurate and complete financial and regulatory reporting to Head Office and other stakeholders.Strengthening and enhancing the financial control framework across the accounting function.Leading the annual statutory audit process and managing relationships with external auditors.Identifying, assessing and mitigating financial and operational risks within the accounting function.Acting as the key contact for internal audits, Head Office audits and second-line assurance reviews.Driving continuous improvements across accounting processes, controls and reporting.Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting- The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:Native-level Mandarin language skills (spoken and written) are essential.Full right to work in the UK.Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline.Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).Solid accounting experience within banking or the wider financial services sector.Strong experience managing accounting teams, with previous leadership responsibility for at least 45 team members.Experience managing internal and external audit processes.Excellent technical accounting knowledge, including IFRS and statutory reporting.Strong understanding of regulatory reporting requirements within financial services.Proven leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop teams.Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.Ability to identify risks, strengthen financial controls and drive continuous improvement.Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.Please view all our Team China jobs at people-first-recruitmentWe would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.People First (Recruitment) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our websiteTPBN1_UKTJ

Your new company \n An award-winning international business is entering an exciting phase of growth and transformation. With increasing activity levels and the ongoing integration of UK and European operations, they are seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant / Finance Manager to join the team and support the next stage of development. \n This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a visible impact within a growing business. Your new role \n Reporting into senior leadership, you will take ownership of core finance activities while supporting integration and process improvement projects across multiple entities. \n Key responsibilities will include: \n Managing month-end and year-end accounting activities \n\n • Supporting the completion of the annual audit process\n, • Preparing forecasts, budgets and cash flow projections\n, • Reviewing and approving supplier and operational payments\n, • Maintaining robust financial controls and processes\n, • Supporting finance integration and transformation projects\n, • Producing management accounts and financial reporting\n, • Partnering with stakeholders across the UK and Europe\n\n What you'll need to succeed \n\n • ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified\n, • Previous experience as a Senior Accountant or Finance Manager\n, • Strong forecasting and financial planning capability\n, • Comfortable working in a hands-on, growing business environment\n, • Experience managing payments and financial controls\n, • Strong system knowledge, ideally SAP Business One (SAP B1)\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills\n, • Ability to work autonomously and remotely\n\n What you'll get in return \n\n • Hybrid working model with just 1 day per week in the office\n, • Exposure to a growing international business\n, • Opportunity to play a key role in finance transformation and integration\n, • Potential for a permanent appointment following the initial contract period\n, • High levels of visibility and responsibility from day one\n\n What you need to do now \n If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. \n If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. \n Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays

Currently supporting a growing, London based Energy company looking to recruit a Financial Accountant on a 12 month contract basis. Reporting to the FC, the role will support the finance team and take responsibility to day to day finance operations. \n \n Currently supporting a growing, London based Energy company looking to recruit a Financial Accountant on a 12 month contract basis. Reporting to the FC, the role will support the finance team and take responsibility to day to day finance operations. \n \n Key responsibilities will include: \n\n • Maintaining general ledger for UK and Europe\n, • Leading month end close process\n, • Preparing balance reconciliations\n, • Overseeing daily finance operations including journal postings\n, • Analysing appropriate accounting treatments under IFRS\n, • Supporting audit process\n, • Identifying process improvements and controls\n, • Ad hoc duties\n\n \n The Candidate: \n\n • Practice trained accountant (CA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)\n, • Strong technical accounting skills including bookkeeping experience and IFRS (9,16)\n, • Hands on end to end accounting processes experience\n, • Good communication skills\n, • Advanced excel skills\n\n \n \n \n Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Interim Financial Controller to join a well-established, privately owned SME during a significant period of change. \n This is a hands-on role for a commercially minded finance professional who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys bringing structure and stability where it's needed most. You'll work closely with senior leadership, taking ownership of the day-to-day finance function while supporting the business through an important transitional period. \n Key responsibilities include: \n\n • Leading the month-end close process.\n, • Producing timely and accurate management accounts.\n, • Managing payroll and overseeing UK and overseas VAT.\n, • Supporting cash flow, financial reporting and day-to-day financial control.\n, • Working closely with operational stakeholders to improve reporting and processes.\n, • Using Excel extensively to analyse data and produce meaningful management information.\n\n We're looking for someone who: \n\n • Has previous Interim Financial Controller or Senior Management Accountant experience.\n, • Is comfortable joining businesses in transition and can quickly establish credibility.\n, • Is resilient, pragmatic and able to work with imperfect information while driving improvements.\n, • Has excellent Excel skills and enjoys getting into the detail when required.\n, • Can start at short notice.\n\n The role: \n\n • London based with c.3 days per week on site.\n, • Immediate start.\n, • £600–£750 per day, depending on experience.\n, • Initial short term contract, with potential for longer term extension depending on business requirements.\n

We are delighted to be supporting a charity in the search for a Finance Business Partner to join their team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This opportunity has arisen to provide cover for a team member who has been seconded into another area of the organisation. \n This is an excellent opportunity for a fully qualified accountant who combines strong technical finance skills with the ability to build effective relationships across the business. The successful candidate will be confident working with a range of stakeholders, providing financial insight, support and challenge to help drive informed decision-making. Key responsibilities:\n\n • Act as a trusted finance partner to budget holders and senior stakeholders across the organisation\n, • Provide high-quality financial analysis, reporting, forecasting and budgeting support\n, • Help stakeholders understand financial performance and make informed decisions\n, • Support month-end processes and ensure accurate financial information is delivered in a timely manner\n, • Contribute to budgeting and reforecasting cycles\n, • Offer financial guidance and challenge to support operational and strategic objectives\n, • Assist with continuous improvement of financial processes and reporting\nAbout you:\n\n, • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)\n, • Previous experience in a Finance Business Partner or similar commercially focused finance role\n, • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels\n, • Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote environment\n, • Proactive, organised and able to manage priorities effectively\n, • Experience using Exchequer would be an advantage\nWhat's on offer:\n\n, • 12-month fixed-term contract\n, • Fully remote role\n, • Opportunity to work within a values-led charity environment\n, • A varied and people-focused business partnering role with real impact\n\n If you are a qualified finance professional who enjoys working closely with people and influencing decision-making in a meaningful organisation, we would love to hear from you. \n Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data:

Structured Finance Analyst \n\n • Annual Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 Pro Rata\n, • Location: Central London (Hybrid)\n, • Job Type: 4-Month Fixed-Term Contract – high chance of extension\n\n Reed Finance are partnering exclusively with a leading infrastructure and transport organisation is seeking a Structured Finance Analyst to join their team on a 4-month fixed-term contract. \n This role offers an excellent opportunity for a commercially focused finance professional to engage in complex financing transactions, refinancing projects, and treasury activities within a large, dynamic organisation. \n Day-to-day of the role: \n\n • Support the structuring and execution of financing arrangements for projects, acquisitions, and refinancing activities.\n, • Conduct financial analysis and modelling to support investment and funding decisions.\n, • Assist with managing relationships with banks, lenders, financial institutions, and external advisors.\n, • Monitor debt facilities and financing agreements, ensuring compliance with key terms and covenants.\n, • Support treasury operations, including cash management and cash flow forecasting activities.\n, • Assist in the management of interest rate, foreign exchange, and commodity risk exposures.\n, • Support KYC processes and credit approval requirements with financial institutions.\n, • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver financing and treasury projects.\n\n Required Skills & Qualifications: \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) and CFA or ACT would be advantageous.\n, • Experience gained within structured finance, corporate finance, treasury, banking, infrastructure finance, or a related field.\n, • Exposure to debt financing, refinancing, project finance, or capital structure activities.\n, • Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities.\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\n, • A Finance, Economics, Accountancy, or Business-related degree.\n\n Benefits: \n\n • Competitive salary of £70,000 - £75,000 (pro rata).\n, • Hybrid working model with a Central London office.\n, • Exposure to high-profile financing and treasury projects.\n, • Opportunity to work within a collaborative and commercially focused finance function.\n\n This position is ideal for a finance professional with strong analytical skills and experience in debt financing, treasury, or corporate finance who is available at short notice and looking for an exciting interim opportunity within a well-established organisation. \n To apply for the Structured Finance Analyst position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.

This large public sector organisation is looking to recruit a Tax Accountant to focus on Corporation,, VAT and CIS Tax Returns. Based in the London office, you will provide expertise and support on tax advisory, forecasting, preparation and reporting. The role is an 18 month Fixed Term Contract. \n Client Details \n A national public sector organisation that manages a large significant property portfolio. \n Description \n The Tax Accountant will be working in a small team and be responsible for: \n\n • Leading on Corporation Tax to ensure accurate and timely return submissions are performed.\n, • Forecasting and payment of liabilities throughout the year and appropriate strategic tax management (including maximising capital allowances claims).\n, • Undertaking preparation and submission of the quarterly VAT returns, including the partial exemption calculation\n, • Managing Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) to ensure accurate and timely preparation and submission of the monthly CIS returns.\n, • Review of CIS vendor population to ensure accurate deductions\n, • Leading on preparing statutory accounts tax notes, Corporation Tax and Deferred Tax provisioning calculations.\n, • Accurate and timely drafting of Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) certificate.\n, • Developing and implementing performance metrics to evaluate tax operations against key organisational benchmarks.\n\n \n Profile \n The successful Tax Accountant will be a Qualified Accountant/Finance Professional (CTA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA) with a background in Tax and Tax Returns. \n You will need to be proactive and have previous exposure to identifying and resolving tax issues, some going back over previous periods. \n Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) are essential. \n \n Job Offer \n A salary ranging from £50,000 to £55,000, dependent on the level of experience, plus an excellent benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme. \n The role will be based in London on an 18 month Fixed Term Contract and will offer hybrid working where you will be expected to attend the office 1 day a week. \n

Ref: 23502 \n Job Title: Qualified Accountant \n The Skills You'll Need: ACA, ACCA, CPA \n Your New Salary: Up to £47 per hour \n Location: London \n Agency temp (PAYE) \n 9 months temporary \n Hybrid \n Start: August 2026 \n Working hours: 37.5 hours \n \n Qualified Accountant - What You'll be Doing: \n\n • Prepare and submit the monthly management reporting package, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to group reporting requirements.\n, • Prepare statutory financial statements for UK legal entities in accordance with FRS 102 and relevant UK statutory reporting requirements.\n, • Lead the year-end statutory audit process, acting as the primary finance counterpart to external auditors. Proactively manage audit activities, provide well-supported technical accounting positions, and engage in constructive discussions with auditors to resolve complex accounting and reporting matters.\n, • Maintain and govern SAP ERP finance master data, ensuring strong internal controls, data integrity, and compliance with corporate governance standards.\n, • Perform financial analysis of company balance sheet and profit & loss statements, identifying key trends, explaining business performance, and providing insights to support management decision-making.\n\n \n Qualified Accountant -The Skills You'll Need to Succeed: \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) with strong technical accounting knowledge.\n, • Significant experience in financial accounting within a multinational environment, including preparation of statutory financial statements under FRS 102.\n, • Proven experience managing external audits, with the confidence to discuss technical accounting matters with auditors.\n, • Hands-on experience with SAP ERP. Experience in finance master data governance is an advantage.\n, • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial results and provide meaningful insights.\n\n \n Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-japan \n We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation. \n People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability. \n People First (Recruitment) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website.

QUALIFIED OPERATIONAL ACCOUNTANT (SENIOR MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT) \n A Business Partnering opportunity is now open working in the Operational Finance Team supporting the business with its Local and Central Government contracts. \n We’re looking for someone to join the team to enable us to achieve our goals. Experience in financial reporting, planning, analysis and strategy combined with both Local and Central government are essential! \n Key tasks and responsibilities: \n\n • To be responsible for the financial reviewing and reporting at a service tower and contract level assigned to you.\n, • To fully support the service tower, contract and sales senior management teams for contract bid and account development opportunities, building extensive financial models for your assigned contracts and Towers.\n, • To fully support the Financial Hub team providing them with necessary information for them to ensure timely updates to process financial transactions.\n, • Responsible for financial planning, monitoring, and reporting for projects for your assigned service tower, contract or financial teams to deliver project goals.\n, • Delivering meaningful and accurate financial analysis, collaborating with senior leadership, and driving efficiencies and cost savings.\n\n Essential Skills and Attributes: \n\n • Qualified accountant with at least 5 years PQE\n, • Local Government and Central Government contract experience essential.\n, • Candidates will be able to demonstrate experience in the following areas:\n \n, • Fluent at working to a strategic level in a large multi-service organiSation.\n, • Experience of collaborating, advising and challenging senior management teams on strategic and financial issues.\n, • Previous exposure to business planning processes, systems and controls, performance management and change management.\n, • Experience at all forms for performance reporting at all levels.\n \n\n Experience in operating in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholder requirements \n Please contact Vinny at the Staines office for more info or email your CV to

Finance Systems Implementation Lead£50,000 - £58,000 per annum | 9 Month Fixed Term Contract | Manchester or London (Hybrid) \n Are you a finance systems professional who thrives on turning complex implementations into lasting improvements? Do you enjoy bridging the gap between finance and technology, and helping teams embrace new ways of working? \n We're recruiting a Finance Systems Implementation Lead for a well-respected public body at a pivotal point in its growth, as it prepares to take on new responsibilities linked to major sector-wide reforms. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the end-to-end implementation of a brand-new finance system that will transform how financial information is managed across the organisation. \n The Role \n Working closely with Finance, IT, external implementation partners and colleagues across the business, you'll help shape and deliver a successful finance system implementation from the ground up. From mapping current processes and supporting system configuration through to testing, training and embedding new ways of working, you'll play a central role in ensuring the project delivers real, lasting improvements to financial processes and reporting. \n This role would suit someone who enjoys project-based work, is passionate about improving processes and systems, and is equally comfortable talking accounting requirements with finance colleagues as they are working alongside IT teams and software suppliers. \n What You'll Be Doing \n\n • Leading the delivery and implementation of a new finance system, working alongside internal stakeholders and implementation partners\n, • Setting up and leading the project team, ensuring business requirements are understood and translated into system solutions\n, • Reviewing existing finance processes and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, controls and automation\n, • Overseeing system configuration, testing, data migration and user acceptance testing (UAT)\n, • Helping cleanse, validate and reconcile financial data throughout the implementation\n, • Developing reporting requirements and supporting the creation of dashboards and management information\n, • Producing process documentation, user guides and training materials\n, • Delivering training and supporting colleagues in adopting new systems and processes\n, • Building strong relationships across Finance, IT and operational teams to ensure successful project delivery\n, • Supporting project planning, risk management and issue resolution throughout implementation\n, • Ensuring appropriate financial controls and governance are maintained throughout the transition\n\n About You \n\n • High levels of experience delivering finance system implementations, ERP projects or finance transformation initiatives\n, • Qualified or part-qualified accountant (CCAB, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent), or significant relevant experience\n, • Strong understanding of finance processes, financial controls and management reporting\n, • Experience working within project teams, specifically within a systems implementation or change environment\n, • Experience of business process mapping, requirements gathering and process improvement\n, • Experience supporting data migration, system testing and UAT\n, • Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability\n, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences\n, • Strong organisational skills, able to manage competing priorities and project deadlines\n, • Knowledge of reporting tools, BI platforms or ERP systems would be advantageous\n, • A collaborative, adaptable approach and genuine enthusiasm for helping people through change\n\n What's On Offer \n\n • Salary of £50,000 - £58,000 depending on experience\n, • 9 month fixed term contract\n, • 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays\n, • Access to the Civil Service Pension Scheme, including Alpha (currently 28.9% employer contribution)\n, • Employee assistance programme\n, • Hybrid working (minimum two days per week in the office)\n, • Based in Manchester or London, with travel to both locations\n\n If you're looking for a high-impact, project-based role where you can genuinely shape the future of financial systems within a purpose-driven organisation, we'd love to hear from you. \n Apply now or get in touch to find out more.

Interim Cost Accountant / Finance Business Partner (Contract)\n Central London - Hybrid (2 days WFH) \n £400 - £500 p/d (umbrella - inside IR35) \n \n Our client, a leading organisation in the energy sector, is seeking an experienced, fully qualified accountant to support the finance team on an initial 2-3 month contract. \n This role requires a hands-on contractor who can quickly get up to speed, work independently, and provide immediate value. We're looking for someone with strong experience in project-based environments such as energy, infrastructure, construction, engineering, or other relevant industries. \n The successful candidate will have a background in cost control, FP&A, management reporting, and business partnering, with the confidence to challenge stakeholders and drive financial insight across complex projects and operations. Key Responsibilities\n\n • Lead monthly cost reporting across Opex and Capex, providing meaningful variance analysis and commentary.\n, • Deliver budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A support to operational and project teams.\n, • Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Project Delivery to improve financial performance and cost control.\n, • Analyse project costs, identify trends and risks, and provide actionable recommendations.\n, • Prepare and review month-end accounting activities, including journals, accruals, and prepayments.\n, • Ensure accurate cost allocation, coding, and reporting across projects and business units.\n, • Support management reporting and provide clear financial insights to senior stakeholders.\n, • Investigate and resolve reporting issues, driving improvements to financial processes and controls.\nCandidate Profile\n\n, • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).\n, • Proven experience operating in a fast-paced, project-based environment such as energy, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or similar.\n, • Strong background in cost accounting, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.\n, • Excellent business partnering skills with the ability to influence and challenge non-finance stakeholders.\n, • Commercially minded with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.\n, • Comfortable working autonomously and delivering results in a short-term contract environment.\n, • Advanced Excel and financial systems experience.\nThe Opportunity\n This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance contractor to join a high-profile energy business and make an immediate impact within a commercially focused finance team. \n

Role: \n Our client is looking for immediate, temporary, Accountant to assist them for 6 months. You be will be responsible for following duties: \n\n • Collate and consolidate management and financial accounting outputs, KPIs, milestones, cash flows and balance sheets, Business Plan, and other financial/performance outputs\n, • Consolidate the financial results and plans from the Entities in SAP BPC and to submit into the Group Finance's consolidation tool (Hyperion/OneStream).\n, • Manage the co-ordination of reconciliations for intercompany posting\n, • Coordination of Half Year and Full Year disclosures required by Group and the collation of the entities Annual Account Reconciliation.\n, • Post Central IFRS16 journals and other consolidation journals in SAP.\n, • Support the environment disclosure reporting by Group through collation and reconciliation of data to be used in internal and external publications.\n, • Ensure the planning and reporting timetables and business process flows in BPC reflect the required business planning and reporting outputs\n, • Support the Head of FP&A and System Accountant in the development and ongoing maintenance/utilisation of SAP BPC for financial planning.\n, • Ensure the delivery, accuracy, and integrity of the management accounting process.\n, • Business partner the Directors and business leads, providing interpretation and guidance in relation to financial analysis, profit centre budgets and forecasts, to enable key decisions to be made and targets met.\n, • The planning and production of budget and quarterly forecast, working with the budget holders to have clear view of FY projections.\n, • Supporting business leads with the management of affiliate work orders, ensure all services are contract correctly through the affiliate framework.\n, • Production of balance sheet reconciliation and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to manage key balance sheet accounts.\n, • Raising sales orders for affiliate works order in for billing by our shared service centre\n, • Manage credit control activities.\n, • Produce submission to Group or HMRC for VAT, PAYE, NI as well as process the payroll and payments runs including management of expense system SAP concur.\n, • Production of draft statutory accounts and dealing with and closing out audit queries both internal and external.\n\n Profile: \n The successful, temporary Accountant will be qualified (Eg. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or an equivalent qualification). \n You must be immediate or 1 weeks notice to be considered for this role. \n Client: \n Our client are a leading transport Company based in London. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment. \n Salary & Benefits: \n The temporary Accountant role will be paying circa £55,000 - £60,000 per annum, dependant on experience. \n Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data:

Finance Director \n Essential Sector experience = e-commerce, SAAS, B2B tech sectors or subscription based business \n \n Ref: 967 (AB) \n Salary: £100,000 - £130,000 plus options & package \n Location: Bromley, 4 days per week onsite. \n Type: Permanent \n Market: Commerce & Industry \n \n Grafton Banks Finance is assisting a rapidly expanding and dynamic SME in Bromley, (4 days onsite and 1 remote), with the recruitment of a Finance Director (number one in finance), reporting to the CEO. This business has exciting growth plans and has recently developed new technology which will enable further growth in the UK and internationally. \n This role is a key position within the senior leadership team and requires an experienced FD or Head of Finance with all round accounting experience, both commercial and technical. \n The role will be responsible for leading the financial strategy, corporate governance, reporting and risk management functions of the business. You will manage the budget, cost control, cashflow forecasting, international expansion, investor relations, contract reviews, financial strategy and planning, margin improvement, commercial analysis to support investment decisions. You will also take responsibility for working capital management, banking relationships, future fundraising and much more. \n Candidates need the following experience to apply: \n\n • Be a fully qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA or CIMA Already be operating at FD or Head of Finance level within an SME, be hands on.\n, • Be commercially minded with experience of helping to drive business expansion Experience of producing board reports Be based within easy commuting distance, (maximum 1 hour from Bromley) as the role is 4 days onsite and 1 remotely.\n, • Previous experience of working within e-commerce, SAAS, B2B tech sectors or subscription based business is essential\n\n This is an exciting time to join this business. The role will allow the successful candidate to add huge amounts of commercial and strategic value and has the potential to develop into a CFO role in the future as the company develops and expands. Options and other benefits are on offer. \n Please send your cv with the following: \n\n • Your home location\n, • Sector description and annual revenues of each business you've worked in.\n\n Unfortunately, cv's without this information can't be considered. \n

Interim Finance Manager \n 12-Month Interim Contract \n £325–£375 per day (Inside IR35) \n Central London – Hybrid Working (1–2 Days On-Site) \n \n We're supporting a fast-growing technology business operating within the digital sector that is looking to appoint an experienced Finance Manager on an interim basis to provide maternity cover. \n \n This is a broad, hands-on role with full ownership of the day-to-day finance function. Working closely with the CFO, you'll oversee everything from month-end reporting, financial control, budgeting, cash flow, payroll, and compliance through to supporting commercial decision making across the business. The successful candidate will be someone who enjoys variety, is comfortable operating autonomously, and can quickly become a trusted member of a small, high-performing finance team. \n \n The Role \n Reporting directly to the CFO, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the finance function across UK and international entities. This is a genuine all-round Finance Manager position where no two days are the same. \n \n You'll lead the month-end process, oversee transactional finance, manage payroll, produce management accounts, monitor cash flow, ensure statutory compliance, and partner with department heads to support budgeting and commercial performance. \n \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Take full ownership of the month-end close, ensuring accurate and timely management accounts are delivered within tight reporting deadlines\n, • Prepare monthly reporting packs including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and variance analysis for senior leadership\n, • Manage all day-to-day financial accounting activities including journals, accruals, prepayments, deferred revenue, fixed assets and intercompany transactions\n, • Maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations and ensure strong financial controls are embedded across the finance function\n, • Prepare VAT returns, support tax compliance, R&D claims and statutory filings\n, • Own the rolling cash flow forecast, monitor working capital and provide insight into cash performance\n, • Business partner with departmental managers, reviewing budget performance and challenging expenditure where appropriate\n, • Work closely with operational teams to ensure customer invoicing, purchase orders and revenue recognition remain accurate\n, • Oversee Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and payroll activities, ensuring smooth day-to-day finance operations\n\n \n What We're Looking For \n\n • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)\n, • Proven experience in a broad Finance Manager or Financial Controller role within a small/growing business\n, • Strong experience delivering month-end reporting independently and managing the full finance function\n, • Multi-entity and multi-currency accounting experience\n, • Strong technical accounting knowledge including statutory reporting, VAT and financial controls\n, • Experience managing cash flow forecasting, working capital and budgeting\n, • Comfortable overseeing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and payroll processes\n, • Experience using cloud-based finance systems such as Xero\n, • Immediately available\n\n \n Why Join? \n This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing technology business in a genuinely broad Finance Manager role. You'll work directly alongside an experienced CFO, gain exposure across every aspect of the finance function, and play a key role in supporting the business throughout a critical 12-month period. The position offers significant autonomy, exposure to senior leadership, and the opportunity to make a tangible impact within a scaling organisation. \n \n Apply Now \n If you're an experienced Finance Manager looking for a varied interim assignment where you can combine strong financial control with commercial business partnering, we'd love to hear from you.

Interim Financial Accountant (6-Month Contract)Remote (with travel) | C£400 per day | 6-Month ContractAre you an experienced Financial Accountant looking for your next interim assignment? We're working with a leading international organisation undergoing a significant finance transformation programme and are seeking a technically strong accountant to support key governance and process improvement initiatives across its Ireland and Benelux operations.This is a predominantly remote role, with regular fully expensed travel to a single site in Ireland (approximately 7-8 visits per month) and occasional travel to the London office.The OpportunityYou'll play a pivotal role in strengthening financial controls, improving balance sheet integrity and supporting wider finance transformation and IPO readiness initiatives. This is a hands-on assignment where you'll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact by embedding robust processes and improving financial governance.Key Responsibilities Lead the completion and standardisation of balance sheet reconciliations, resolving legacy issues and ensuring all accounts are fully supported. Establish a robust monthly balance sheet reconciliation process, delivering reconciliations by Working Day 6/7. Document, review and standardise finance processes alongside the wider EMEA Finance team. Support finance data cleansing activities and ERP readiness, including involvement in potential system migration projects. Manage lease accounting reconciliations, including administration of lease accounting software and preparation of monthly IFRS 16 journals. Drive improvements in financial controls and governance across multiple entities.About YouYou'll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong technical accounting expertise and a proven ability to improve finance processes within complex, multi-entity organisations.You'll also bring: Extensive financial accounting and balance sheet reconciliation experience. Strong understanding of financial controls and governance. Experience operating within international or multi-entity businesses. A proactive, hands-on approach with the ability to identify issues and implement practical solutions. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.Desirable experience includes: IFRS 16 lease accounting. Finance transformation programmes. ERP implementation or system migration projects.What's on Offer £400 per day. 6-month contract. Predominantly remote working. Fully expensed travel to a single site in Ireland (approximately 7-8 visits per month). Occasional travel to the London office. Opportunity to play a key role in a major finance transformation programme within a growing international business.If you're an experienced interim finance professional who enjoys improving processes, strengthening controls and delivering meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.Vitae Financial Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Ambient People is working with a local authority to recruit an interim Financial Accountant to add capacity to their closing team and support their Chief Accountant with this year’s audit, as well as the preparation and delivery of their annual statement of accounts for the upcoming year. Joining a small team, you will get exposure to a variety of areas across the statement of accounts. \n This position requires a CCAB/CIMA qualified or part-qualified Financial Accountant with experience working on year end accounts, ideally within a local authority. To be the successful candidate for this opportunity you will enjoy working with numbers and have an eye for detail. \n This contract is offered on a hybrid working basis. \n If this position matches with your strengths and you are looking for a new role to start in August or September, then please send through your application. A quick application is recommended as applications will be reviewed as they come through.

Interim Service Accountant – Adult Social Care - Circa £350 inside \n London Borough Council | Hybrid working | Contract role \n A London Borough Council is seeking an experienced Interim Service Accountant to support its Adult Social Care finance service. \n This is a key finance role, working closely with Adult Social Care service heads, operational managers and senior stakeholders to provide clear financial advice, robust budget monitoring and accurate reporting across one of the council’s most complex and high-profile service areas. \n The successful candidate will support budget setting, forecasting, financial modelling, closedown and statutory reporting, while helping the service understand cost pressures, demand trends, care package costs and savings opportunities. \n Key responsibilities will include: \n\n • Providing financial advice and business partnering support to Adult Social Care budget holders and senior managers.\n, • Leading on budget monitoring, forecasting and monthly financial reporting.\n, • Supporting annual budget setting and identifying key pressures, risks and opportunities.\n, • Producing financial modelling around demand, demographics, care package costs and medium-term financial planning.\n, • Supporting year-end closedown in line with local authority and CIPFA requirements.\n, • Managing reconciliations, variance analysis and financial controls.\n, • Supporting grant monitoring and reporting, including government funding streams such as the Better Care Fund.\n, • Working with operational teams on savings proposals, efficiency plans and transformation activity.\n, • Preparing reports and financial information for senior leadership, governance boards and committees.\n\n The ideal candidate will have: \n\n • Strong local government finance experience.\n, • Direct Adult Social Care finance experience, or closely related social care / people directorate exposure.\n, • Good budget monitoring, forecasting, modelling and closedown experience.\n, • Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.\n, • A good understanding of local authority funding, statutory reporting and financial governance.\n, • Advanced Excel and financial systems capability.\n, • CCAB / CIPFA / CIMA / ACCA qualification, final-stage study, or equivalent relevant experience.\n\n This role would suit a proactive local government finance professional who can provide financial grip, challenge and insight across a busy Adult Social Care service. The council is looking for someone who can quickly build relationships, understand service pressures and support effective decision-making.

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER We’re recruiting an experienced Financial Controller to join a high-growth, internationally scaling business on a fixed-term basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a well-established finance function, overseeing everything from monthly reporting and compliance to international operations and fundraising support. Working closely with senior leadership, you’ll play a pivotal role in providing financial insight, driving accuracy and helping the business achieve its ambitious growth plans with confidence.FINANCIAL CONTROLLER ROLE:\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n • Owning the month-end close process end-to-end, including journals, working papers, reconciliations and three-statement reporting, while maintaining accurate cash flow visibility\n, • Reviewing payroll and commissions across UK, US and Italian teams and supporting day-to-day finance operations, including sales invoicing, ARR, supplier renewals, client contract set-up and expense management through Spendesk\n, • Leading regulatory, partner and tax reporting activities, including reporting to NatWest and the Bank of Lithuania and ensuring compliance across the UK, US and Lithuania\n, • Supporting fundraising activities through responding to investor due diligence requests, maintaining momentum throughout the process and assisting with budgeting and financial modelling\n, • Acting as a key point of contact for the annual audit process and maintaining strong financial controls and governance standards\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nFINANCIAL CONTROLLER ESSENTIALS:\n\n, • Being a qualified accountant, holding ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualifications\n, • Demonstrating a strong grounding in month-end close processes and statutory reporting\n, • Having experience with SaaS metrics and reporting\n, • Owning processes end-to-end and thriving in a fast-moving and varied environment\n, • Maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail while taking a pragmatic approach to delivering results\nFINANCIAL CONTROLLER BENEFITS:\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n, • Fully remote role\n, • Providing a pension scheme with matched contributions of up to 5% through Aviva\n, • Allocating a £1,000 annual learning and development budget to supporting professional growth\n, • Supporting career progression through structured development frameworks and quarterly research and development days\n, • Providing mental health support through online therapy and resources \n, • Offering a wellbeing allowance of £50 per month to supporting personal wellbeing\n, • Providing private medical insurance \n If you feel that you fit the above criteria, then please apply today by submitting your CV to us. Please note that due to the high volume of applications that we receive, only successful applicants will be contacted. For information on how we process personal information, please refer to our website: How We Use Your Personal Information.At Australasian Recruitment Company we are committed to an Equal Opportunities policy and make employment decisions by matching business needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities) gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n

We are seeking an ambitious Corporate Accountant to join a London finance team for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role offers excellent exposure across corporate reporting, management accounting, and financial operations within a premier investment manager. \n The Role \n As Corporate Accountant, you will play a key role in the core finance function, taking ownership of key management reporting, corporate accounting activities, and statutory compliance across their operational entities. \n This role offers broad visibility across the business, working closely with senior leadership, fund finance teams, and external advisors. Key Responsibilities\n\n • \n Management & Corporate Reporting: Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts and board packs for corporate entities. \n • \n Statutory Compliance: Take key responsibilities in preparing year-end statutory financial statements under IFRS / UK GAAP and supporting external audit processes. \n • \n Financial Operations: Manage month-end close processes, revenue/expense reconciliations, and intercompany settlements across group entities. \n • \n Tax & Regulatory: Support quarterly VAT filings, corporate tax computations, and regulatory returns (FCA where applicable). \n • \n Cash Management: Monitor corporate cash flow forecasting, treasury administration, and bank reconciliations. \n • \n Process Improvement: Contribute to ongoing finance transformation, system enhancements, and automation initiatives. \nAbout You\n\n • \n Qualification: ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified (Newly Qualified up to 3 years PQE). Practice-trained (Big 4 / Top 20) or straight from industry within financial services. \n • \n Experience: Strong foundational knowledge of UK GAAP / IFRS and corporate accounting fundamentals. Exposure to Financial Services or Private Equity is advantageous, but not mandatory. \n • \n Skills: Advanced Excel capabilities and strong analytical skills. Experience with corporate ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Workday, or similar) is a plus. \n • \n Mindset: Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented with excellent communication skills to interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels. \n

\n • Are you an ACCA/ACA/CIMA newly financial qualified accountant, or finalist with relevant experience?\n, • Do you have financial accounting, and controls experience or alternatively, an auditor looking to make the first move out of practice?\n, • Are you available and looking for an exciting and challenging interim assignment?\n\n This well-known and high-profile organisation is looking to recruit an experienced interim Financial Accountant for this 12-month contract and will support with the financial control, reconciliation of the balance sheet, statutory accounts production and other external reporting. \n Reporting to the Financial Accounting Manager your daily duties will include: \n\n • Manage the year end closing process, including closely monitoring the posting of year end journals and audit adjustments\n, • Ensure the implementation and monitoring of internal control procedures – performing relevant tasks in relation to the balance sheet\n, • Monitoring and forecasting cash flow and maintain treasury management controls and bank position\n, • Preparation of quarterly VAT returns for the charity and its trading companies\n, • Supporting the Financial Accounting manager in the delivery of the consolidated statutory accounts of the whole organisation and it subsidiaries\n\n The successful candidate will be an ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified accountant or an individual completing the final stages of their professional examinations. You must have sound knowledge and experience of general accounting principles including SORP. You must be technically astute and proactive in your approach have good attention to detail to deliver a first class financial service.

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annumLocation: London (Hybrid Working)Contract: Permanent, Full Time Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner, Management Accountant or Commercial Finance professional looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact? We're seeking a Business Partner - Schools to join a well-established Planning and Business Partnering Team within a leading London university. This is an opportunity to work closely with senior academic leaders, influence key financial decisions and support the delivery of strategic objectives across a diverse and dynamic educational environment. The role offers significant exposure to financial planning, performance management, stakeholder engagement and business partnering, providing the opportunity to add real value through insight, challenge and collaboration.The Role Working as part of the Finance Team, you'll partner with Schools and senior stakeholders to support financial performance and strategic decision-making across the University.Key Responsibilities \n\n • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Schools and Professional Services\n, • Deliver budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities\n, • Provide meaningful financial analysis and performance reporting\n, • Support strategic decision-making through financial insight and challenge\n, • Develop and review business cases and investment appraisals\n, • Maintain effective financial controls and promote value for money\n, • Support budget holders through training, guidance and financial advice\n, • Drive continuous improvement initiatives and enhance financial processes\n, • Ensure compliance with University policies, governance requirements and financial regulations\n, • Deputise for the Finance Manager and provide support across the wider team as required\n\n Candidate requirements: \n\n • Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience\n, • Qualified accountant or working towards a qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)\n, • Experience managing budgets, forecasts and financial planning processes\n, • Strong financial analysis and problem-solving skills\n, • Experience working with a range of stakeholders and influencing decision-making\n, • The ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively\n, • A proactive and collaborative approach to continuous improvement\n, • Experience working in the Higher Education sector (E)\n\n Benefits include: \n\n • Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)\n, • 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays\n, • Additional Christmas closure days\n, • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements\n, • Excellent learning and development opportunities\n, • Season Ticket Loan Scheme\n, • Access to fitness and social facilities\n\n Apply Now If you're looking for a varied and rewarding finance business partnering role where your expertise will help shape financial performance and support the success of a leading university, we'd love to hear from you.

Financial Reporting for Investment Manager (9 Month Contract) \n London | Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days home) \n An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a highly regarded global investment management business on a 9 month contract. Working within a high-performing finance team, you'll play a leading role in statutory reporting, financial control and the delivery of the annual audit across a complex group structure. \n This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious, technically strong accountant who enjoys taking ownership, working closely with senior stakeholders and leading key financial reporting projects within a fast-paced financial services environment. \n The Role \n You'll take ownership of the annual statutory reporting process and act as the primary contact for the external auditors, ensuring a smooth and efficient audit from planning through to completion. \n Alongside audit leadership, you'll support the financial close process, maintain a robust control environment and provide technical accounting expertise across a portfolio of legal entities. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Lead the preparation and review of UK GAAP statutory financial statements.\n, • Manage the external audit process, coordinating deliverables and acting as the main point of contact for auditors.\n, • Review month-end financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and key control processes.\n, • Provide technical accounting guidance on complex transactions and financial reporting matters.\n, • Ensure compliance with UK GAAP and internal accounting policies.\n, • Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting processes and strengthen financial controls.\n, • Partner with finance and non-finance stakeholders across the business to deliver high-quality reporting.\n, • Support wider finance initiatives and business-critical projects where required.\n\n About You \n We're looking for someone who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with excellent communication skills and the confidence to lead relationships with senior stakeholders and external auditors. \n You'll ideally have: \n\n • ACA or ACCA qualification with 5-8 years' post-qualified experience.\n, • Audit-trained background with recent financial services experience.\n, • Strong technical UK GAAP knowledge and hands-on statutory reporting experience.\n, • Experience leading annual external audits from planning through to completion.\n\n \n We are happy to provide application and/or accessibility support, please contact your Marks Sattin or Grafton consultant directly to discuss your needs. We're committed to protecting the privacy of all our candidates and clients, please visit and for our privacy policy. \n

Commercial Finance Manager \n North London (Hybrid Working)£40,000 - £60,000 DOE + Benefits \n \n \n If working for a business with a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement is important to you, then this could be the perfect opportunity. \n We're recruiting on behalf of a leading non-food sustainable packaging company that is continuing to invest in its commercial capabilities following a period of significant growth. This Commercial Finance Manager position offers the opportunity to become a trusted business partner to senior leaders, using financial insight and commercial analysis to influence key business decisions and drive profitable growth. \n Working as part of a collaborative leadership team, you'll partner with Sales, Purchasing and Finance to improve customer profitability, strengthen pricing strategies, support major tenders and provide the commercial insight that shapes future business performance. \n Ideal for someone with experience within wholesale, packaging, foodservice or another fast-paced B2B commercial environment. \n \n What Does the Role Entail? \n\n • Acting as the commercial finance business partner to Sales, Purchasing and the Senior Leadership Team.\n, • Delivering detailed customer profitability analysis, identifying opportunities to improve margins and commercial performance.\n, • Leading pricing reviews in response to market movements, supplier cost changes and commercial opportunities.\n, • Supporting major tender submissions through financial modelling, profitability analysis and commercial recommendations.\n, • Developing financial models and scenario planning tools to support strategic decision-making.\n, • Producing accurate sales and gross margin forecasts to support business planning.\n, • Reviewing cost-to-serve models and identifying opportunities to improve customer and product profitability.\n, • Supporting contract negotiations by providing commercial and financial insight while helping manage business risk.\n, • Monitoring bespoke and slow-moving inventory to minimise commercial exposure.\n, • Producing insightful commercial reporting and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.\n, • Working cross-functionally to improve commercial awareness and support data-led decision-making across the business.\n, • Driving continuous improvement in pricing, forecasting and commercial reporting processes.\n\n \n Skills & Experience \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent commercial finance experience.\n, • Proven experience within Commercial Finance, Finance Business Partnering or Financial Analysis.\n, • Strong financial modelling and analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into commercial recommendations.\n, • Experience supporting pricing strategy, tendering, margin improvement and profitability analysis.\n, • Excellent commercial judgement with the confidence to challenge and influence senior stakeholders.\n, • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage both financial and non-financial audiences.\n, • Experience of forecasting, business modelling and commercial reporting.\n, • Advanced Excel skills with experience using financial systems and business intelligence tools.\n, • Experience within wholesale, packaging, foodservice or other B2B sectors would be advantageous.\n\n \n Are you looking to recruit a similar role? \n\n • Cast UK is a leading executive consultancy, providing national recruitment solutions to both clients and candidates. Specialising in, HR, Procurement, Buying, Supply Chain, and Logistics, each member of our specialist team has a professional background specific to their recruiting sector. With this unique insight and knowledge, our consultants are able to place individuals from trainee through to main board. For more information on Cast UK or to discuss how we can find talent for your business then please visit\n

Structured Finance Analyst \n\n • Annual Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 Pro Rata\n, • Location: Central London (Hybrid)\n, • Job Type: 4-Month Fixed-Term Contract – high chance of extension\n\n Reed Finance are partnering exclusively with a leading infrastructure and transport organisation is seeking a Structured Finance Analyst to join their team on a 4-month fixed-term contract. \n This role offers an excellent opportunity for a commercially focused finance professional to engage in complex financing transactions, refinancing projects, and treasury activities within a large, dynamic organisation. \n Day-to-day of the role: \n\n • Support the structuring and execution of financing arrangements for projects, acquisitions, and refinancing activities.\n, • Conduct financial analysis and modelling to support investment and funding decisions.\n, • Assist with managing relationships with banks, lenders, financial institutions, and external advisors.\n, • Monitor debt facilities and financing agreements, ensuring compliance with key terms and covenants.\n, • Support treasury operations, including cash management and cash flow forecasting activities.\n, • Assist in the management of interest rate, foreign exchange, and commodity risk exposures.\n, • Support KYC processes and credit approval requirements with financial institutions.\n, • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver financing and treasury projects.\n\n Required Skills & Qualifications: \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) and CFA or ACT would be advantageous.\n, • Experience gained within structured finance, corporate finance, treasury, banking, infrastructure finance, or a related field.\n, • Exposure to debt financing, refinancing, project finance, or capital structure activities.\n, • Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities.\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\n, • A Finance, Economics, Accountancy, or Business-related degree.\n\n Benefits: \n\n • Competitive salary of £70,000 - £80,000 (pro rata).\n, • Hybrid working model with a Central London office.\n, • Exposure to high-profile financing and treasury projects.\n, • Opportunity to work within a collaborative and commercially focused finance function.\n\n This position is ideal for a finance professional with strong analytical skills and experience in debt financing, treasury, or corporate finance who is available at short notice and looking for an exciting interim opportunity within a well-established organisation. \n To apply for the Structured Finance Analyst position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.

An exclusive opportunity has arisen within a London based Family Office that is looking for an Interim Head of Finance to join their team on a 12 to 15-month Fixed Term Contract. The Family Office is the private investment vehicle of a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist. They invest in listed and unlisted companies across a broad range of sectors, taking strategic stakes where they believe the team can make a positive difference to the long-term performance of the business. \n They are seeking an experienced, hands-on, Interim Head of Finance to provide senior financial leadership across the group's accounting, tax, treasury, and governance functions. This role will be report to the CEO, whilst also working closely with the Principal, General Counsel and the Investment team, and also be responsible for managing and developing the members of the Finance team. \n Responsibilities and Essential Duties include but are not limited to: \n\n • Full ownership of financial accounting and reporting across a multi-entity, close company structure.\n, • UK tax compliance including corporation tax, employer tax obligations and VAT\n, • Treasury and cash management across group entities, including a loan refinancing of a private asset.\n, • Oversight of financial systems, office management, and broader governance\n, • Manage and develop the finance team, including upskilling.\n, • Some ad-hoc financial input on specific investments.\n, • Support for the principal's personal tax and cash matters alongside external advisors\n\n Profile of the successful candidate: \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)\n, • Senior finance leadership experience, ideally within a family office, private investment structure, or similar multi-entity/close company environment\n, • Comfortable operating hands-on in a lean team — equally at ease reviewing statutory accounts as negotiating a banking facility, filing regulatory disclosures or presenting to the Board\n\n If you would like to find out more about the role, please send a (preferably Word) copy of your latest resume

Management Accountant \n 12 Month Fixed Term \n 65K \n Hybrid Working (1 day per week in office) \n \n Halliday Marx are excited to partner with a Multi-National Consultancy to recruit a Management Accountant on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity. \n \n This is a Hybrid working role allowing the successful candidate the flexibility of both office and remote working. \n \n This role will suit a candidate from a mid tier practice who has experience preparing statutory accounts and management accounts. \n \n This is a key role ensuring accurate and timely reporting for the UK & EMEA. \n Your key duties and responsibilities will include; \n \n\n • Responsible for the monthly and quarterly reporting for EMEA and UK entities\n, • Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations\n, • Preparation of journals, accruals and repayments ensuring accurate and timely postings\n, • Preparation of monthly variance analysis and commentaries\n, • Preparation of Statutory accounts under UK GAAP\n, • Liaise and support the FP&A team to ensure month end is inline with budgets and forecasts\n, • Ensure the accurate and timely close and reporting of financial results in compliance with statutory requirements\n, • Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting / financial statements\n, • Adhere to internal controls including SOX requirements\n, • Support the finalisation of the statutory accounts\n, • Preparation of monthly variance analysis and commentaries, liaising with FP&A department to confirm these are in line with their forecasts\n, • Adhoc projects to support the business\n\n \n The Successful Candidate; \n\n • Newly qualified or finalist accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) or equivalent\n, • Qualified in practice with your first job into a commercial environment is desirable\n, • Demonstrable experience preparing Statutory Accounts\n, • Professional and confident self starter who thrives working in a team environment\n, • Exceptional written and verbal communicator across all organisational levels within a business\n, • Strong multi-tasker who thrives working in a deadline driven environment\n, • Previous experience with US GAAP would be advantageous\n, • Experience with statutory reporting based on UK GAAP\n, • Previous international working experience is desirable\n\n

Interim Financial Planning & Analysis Manager | £55,000 - £60,000 | 3-6 month contract | Hybrid Working (1 day in office) | London | Cultural Organisation \n Altum are recruiting for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to join an exciting cultural organisation based in London. This organisation is a unique cultural destination, showcasing exhibitions, events, retail, hospitality and educational programming. \n This is a brilliant opportunity for a qualified accountant with strong FP&A, management accounting, commercial finance or business partnering experience to take ownership of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, management reporting and performance analysis across a varied and high-profile organisation. \n Responsibilities: \n\n • Leading the annual budgeting process across all entities and departments, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives Coordinating reforecasting and medium-term financial planning activities Developing financial models, scenario analysis and business cases to support strategic decision-making Monitoring performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends Leading the production of management accounts, performance reports and financial dashboards for senior management, Board and Committees Providing clear analysis, commentary and recommendations to support decision-making Developing and enhancing KPI reporting across financial and operational activities Undertaking income, expenditure, profitability and trend analysis across cultural, commercial and funded activities Acting as a trusted finance partner to budget holders and operational managers Supporting departments with planning, forecasting and evaluating operational and commercial initiatives Maintaining workforce planning models, salary budgets and establishment reporting Supporting evaluation of commercial performance across retail, hospitality, venue hire and other income-generating activities Providing analysis to support grant funding, sponsorship, investment decisions and strategic projects\n\n Person Specification: \n\n • Fully qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent Significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, management accounting or business partnering roles Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes Experience producing management accounts, performance reporting and financial analysis Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience developing financial models and scenario analysis Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial information clearly Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills Knowledge of workforce planning and payroll analysis Ideally have experience within a multi-entity organisation Experience in a cultural, arts, public sector or not-for-profit environment would be advantageous\n\n This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile cultural organisation in a broad and influential FP&A role. The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening financial planning, improving management information and supporting informed decision-making across the organisation. \n Benefits include a generous holiday allowance, group life insurance, remote GP service, cycle to work scheme, employee discounts and local perks \n They are interviewing as applications come through, and need candidates to be immediately available so please apply now as this role is likely to move quickly. \n Apply now!

Role: WIP Billing/Revenue Accountant \n Sector: Creative agency \n Permanent: Contract 2 months \n Location: Central London \n Salary: £45,000 annual equivalent \n Ref : VFR3311 \n \n VisionFR is recruitinga Contract WIP Billing/Revenue Accountant on behalf of a creative agency. It is envisaged that the role will be for 2 months. The primary focus is supporting the Account management teams by delivering accurate and timely project finance management data and ensuring the finance side runs smoothly. This role is also responsible for supporting on the month-end management accounts and accurate cashflow forecasting. {Paprika is an essential Skill for the role. 3 days in the office. \n \n Key Responsibilities of the WIP Billing/Revenue Accountant: \n \n\n • Monitor and manage weekly Work in Progress (WIP) balances across the group\n, • Manage client billing and invoicing, including credit assessments and negotiating appropriate credit terms\n, • Prepare project-level cashflow forecasts and support wider group cashflow management\n, • Reconcile and close projects, ensuring financial accuracy and timely reporting\n, • Manage debtor balances and support effective credit control\n, • Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts\n, • Train new starters on Paprika software and internal finance processes\n\n \n Key skills and requirements of the WIP Billing/Revenue Accountant: \n \n\n • Excellent communication skills – written and spoken\n, • Ability to develop trusted relationships with other departments and provide consistently reliable, trusted, project finance support\n, • Paprika software\n, • Cashflow experience\n, • Worked in a similar role within a creative agency\n, • Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise tasks, particularly where deadlines (\n, • Organised and diligent, with a discerning eye and attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously\n, • Adaptable and capable of managing changing priorities\n\n \n VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Clients recruitment needs. \n \n Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest. \n

Equifind are supporting a global asset management group with the appointment of an Interim Fund Accountant to help support the business through a period of change and transformation. \n The role will oversee a broad range of fund operations activities across multiple jurisdictions, including fund administration, deal and tax structuring, valuations, and finance operations. Working closely with the investment, finance, and corporate teams, you'll help ensure strong governance, efficient processes, and smooth day-to-day operational delivery. \n A key part of the assignment will be supporting the transition from the current fund administrator to a new provider, helping to manage the migration process and minimise disruption to the wider business. \n This is a rolling contract, with a minimum of 12 months. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Lead global fund operations for the infrastructure platform, ensuring high-quality execution across all operational, financial, and administrative activities.\n, • Oversee the full lifecycle of fund operations, including capital activity, investor reporting, liquidity management, and governance processes.\n, • Drive operational best practice, process optimisation, and scalability across the platform.\n, • Partner with investment teams to support deal structuring, execution, and post-transaction integration.\n, • Oversee tax structuring for new investments and fund vehicles, coordinating with internal tax teams and external advisors.\n, • Lead the valuation process for infrastructure assets and fund portfolios, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to valuation policies.\n, • Collaborate with investment and asset management teams to review performance metrics, assumptions, and methodologies.\n, • Manage relationships with third-party administrators, custodians, auditors, and other service providers.\n, • Oversee financial reporting, audit processes, and regulatory filings across multiple jurisdictions.\n, • Ensure strong internal controls, risk management, and compliance frameworks are maintained and continuously improved.\n\n Application Criteria \n\n • A qualified chartered accountant,\n, • Extensive experience in fund operations within infrastructure, private markets, private equity, or real assets.\n, • Strong technical expertise across fund structures, valuations, tax structuring, and global operational frameworks.\n, • Proven leadership experience, ideally within a large asset manager or institutional investment environment.\n, • Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate across global teams.\n, • Highly organised, strategic, and solutions-oriented, with a track record of driving operational excellence.\n, • Strong understanding of regulatory environments across key jurisdictions.\n\n Rate \n The rate on offer is up £500-550 per day, along with a project completion bonus payable upon successful completion of the assignment.

This role focuses on bank reconciliations using Oracle Fusion Cloud in the accounting and finance department of a financial services business based in London. You'll play a key part in ensuring accurate and timely reconciliation processes to support year end processes. \n Client Details \n A global organisation within the financial services industry in London. \n Description \n\n • Lead the completion and clearance of a substantial backlog of bank reconciliations across approximately 400 accounts and 90 legal entities.\n, • Investigate, quantify and resolve reconciling differences, including unmatched transactions, timing items, FX variances, cash pooling movements, sweep activity and intercompany balances, maintaining a robust audit trail throughout.\n, • Manage and reconcile SAP-to-Oracle cash sweeps and cash pooling activity, ensuring timely resolution of in-transit items between systems.\n, • Optimise Oracle Fusion Cloud Cash Management processes, including bank statement processing, auto-reconciliation rules, matching tolerances and exception management, to improve automation and operational efficiency.\n, • Coach, train and mentor the existing finance team through hands-on support and structured knowledge transfer, enabling long-term self-sufficiency.\n, • Provide guidance on reconciliation best practice, controls, governance, month-end processes, segregation of duties and KPI reporting.\n, • Develop and implement documented procedures, process maps, playbooks and governance frameworks to support a successful handover and sustainable operating model.\n\n Profile \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or qualified by experience.\n, • Proven Oracle Fusion Cloud Cash Management experience, including bank reconciliation configuration and optimisation.\n, • Strong track record of performing and reviewing high-volume bank reconciliations in complex, multi-entity, multi-currency and international environments.\n, • Demonstrable experience identifying and resolving reconciliation issues efficiently and accurately, with a strong controls mindset.\n, • Working knowledge of bank statement formats, banking platforms and connectivity feeds.\n, • Strong understanding of month-end close processes, financial controls and reconciliation best practice.\n, • Proven ability to coach, mentor and upskill finance teams, driving knowledge transfer and process improvement.\n, • UK-based with the right to work in the UK.\n\n Job Offer \n\n • Competitive daily rate between £550 - 750, dependent on the level of experience.\n, • Hybrid working.\n, • Opportunity to travel to America.\n, • Potential long term opportunities.\n, • Temporary contract based in London.\n\n If you're interested in this role, apply now. \n \n People are at the heart of Michael Page. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment. As an inclusive recruiter we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences. If you require any adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, we'll work with you to ensure you can perform at your best.

Financial Accountant | Private Investment Firm (Contract) \n 3-Month Rolling Contract | London | Hybrid Working / Immediate Start \n A highly successful private investment firm is looking for a qualified Financial Accountant to join its finance team on an initial 3-month rolling contract. This could easily extend to a longer term position. \n This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious accountant with 2-5 years' post-qualified experience who wants broad exposure within a fast-paced, high-performing financial services environment, working with a really nice bunch of people. \n The Role \n Working closely with the Financial Controller, you'll play a key role in financial reporting, month-end, controls and process improvement while partnering with stakeholders across the business. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Prepare monthly financial accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, posting journals and closing month end.\n, • Maintain a strong financial control environment.\n, • Produce VAT returms.\n, • Preparing process flow notes.\n, • Support statutory reporting and the year-end audit process.\n, • Produce insightful financial analysis and management information.\n, • Identify opportunities to improve finance processes and reporting.\n, • Support regulatory reporting and other finance projects.\n\n About You \n\n • ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA qualified - Preferably Audit Trained\n, • 2-5 years' post-qualified experience.\n, • Strong financial accounting and financial control background.\n, • Experience within financial services (investment management, private equity, banking, asset management or similar).\n, • Strong Excel skills and a proactive approach to improving processes.\n, • Confident communicator who enjoys working in a collaborative, high-performing team.\n\n \n \n We are happy to provide application and/or accessibility support, please contact your Marks Sattin or Grafton consultant directly to discuss your needs. We're committed to protecting the privacy of all our candidates and clients, please visit and for our privacy policy. \n

We are working with a leading London law firm to recruit a Legal Accountant on an 18-month fixed-term contract. This role sits within the finance team and has a strong focus on partner accounting, supporting the financial management of partner balances, profit allocations, drawings, and tax reserves. \n The successful candidate will work closely with partners and senior finance stakeholders to ensure accurate reporting, strong controls, and timely processing of partner-related accounting matters. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Maintain and reconcile partner capital accounts, drawings, profit allocations, and tax reserves.\n, • Prepare and post partner-related journals and ledger entries.\n, • Support partner profit share calculations and distribution processing.\n, • Manage partner current accounts and ensure records are accurate and up to date.\n, • Assist with partner tax reserve calculations and reporting.\n, • Liaise with partners, senior stakeholders, and external advisers on partnership accounting matters.\n, • Support regular and year-end partner remuneration processes.\n, • Work closely with finance and tax teams to ensure consistency of reporting and controls.\n, • Assist with cash flow, forecasting, and ad hoc partnership finance projects.\n, • Contribute to process improvements across partnership accounting.\n\n Candidate Profile \n\n • Experience in partnership accounting, partner matters, or a similar law firm finance role.\n, • Strong understanding of partner capital, drawings, distributions, and tax reserve accounting.\n, • Experience in a law firm or professional services environment is highly desirable.\n, • Excellent attention to detail and strong reconciliation skills.\n, • Confident communicating with partners and senior stakeholders.\n, • Able to manage deadlines, maintain confidentiality, and work accurately under pressure.\n, • Strong Excel skills and experience with finance systems\n, • Must be Fully Qualified in ACA , ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent\n

Head of Finance (12-Month FTC)\n A well-established Housing Charity is seeking a Head of Finance on an initial 12-month fixed-term contract. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, this role offers a unique opportunity to operate as the number two in finance, playing a key role in both strategic leadership and operational delivery while supporting a period of transformation across the finance function and wider organisation. \n The organisation is recognised for its commitment to delivering high-quality services and creating positive outcomes for the communities it supports. \n This role is ideally suited to an experienced finance professional looking to step into a high-impact leadership position, driving improvements across people, processes and financial insight. \n Responsibilities\n\n • Lead and develop the finance function, providing stability and strong leadership during a period of organisational change.\n, • Drive the Finance Business Partnering function, improving budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and financial planning.\n, • Take ownership of the year-end audit, statutory accounts, month-end reporting, and strengthen financial controls and reconciliations.\n, • Lead finance transformation by improving processes, reducing manual ways of working and preparing the function for a future finance systems implementation.\n, • Produce high-quality management reporting and dashboards to support decision-making across the organisation.\nRequirements\n\n, • Fully qualified accountant with experience in social housing, charity, or care and support.\n, • Proven leadership experience, with the ability to manage, motivate and develop finance teams.\n, • Experience operating at both a strategic and operational level, with a strong focus on business partnering.\n, • Strong technical accounting knowledge and advanced Excel skills.\n, • Excellent analytical, systems and communication skills.\n\n \n This is an excellent opportunity to make a lasting impact within the finance function while supporting a wider organisational transformation. There is a genuine opportunity for the role to become permanent, making it an ideal position for someone seeking both an immediate challenge and long-term stability. \n The organisation is looking to appoint quickly, so candidates available at short notice / immediately available are encouraged to apply.

We're partnering with a well-established care charity to recruit an Interim Head of Finance for an initial six-month contract. \n Joining at a pivotal time, you'll lead the finance function through the annual budgeting cycle while driving improvements to financial planning and forecasting. A key priority will be supporting the implementation of a new planning tool, helping to enhance reporting, business partnering and financial insight across the organisation. There is a possibility the role could go permanent for the right candidate. Key responsibilities\n\n • Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting and planning process.\n, • Support the implementation of a new financial planning system.\n, • Produce insightful management reporting and financial analysis.\n, • Partner with budget holders and senior leaders to support decision-making.\n, • Oversee monthly management accounts, cash flow forecasting and financial controls.\n, • Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance.\n, • Lead and develop a small finance team.\nAbout you\n You'll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) with experience leading finance in a complex organisation. \n You'll bring: \n\n • Strong budgeting, forecasting and FP&A experience.\n, • A commercial, business-partnering approach.\n, • Experience improving finance processes or implementing planning/reporting systems.\n, • Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate financial information clearly.\n, • Charity sector experience is beneficial but not essential.\n\n This is a fantastic opportunity to make an immediate impact within a purpose-led organisation, leading a critical planning cycle while helping shape the future of its finance function.

Senior Accountant - Europe \n Location: London | Permanent \n About the Role\n This leading international reinsurer, are recruiting for a maternity contract, senior level Accountant with a strong background insurance to join a wide team with responsibilities across reporting and FP&A Key Responsibilities\n\n • Prepare regulatory submissions for European entities including Lloyd's QMA, Solvency UK, US/Canadian Situs, TRIA, NAIC, CBI QRTs, and statutory financial statements\n, • Support monthly and quarterly close processes, ensuring accuracy of transactions and financial disclosure\n, • Analyse regional results for management and board reporting\n, • Support the regional annual budgeting process\n, • Support business partnering to add value across relevant teams\n, • Liaise with internal and external auditors\n, • Contribute to project work across Finance and wider business teams\nRequirements\n\n, • Qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) with demonstrable insurance industry experience (Lloyd's experience preferable)\n, • Solid knowledge of US/UK GAAP and regulatory reporting standards\n, • Advanced Excel skills with excellent numerical ability\n, • Proven problem solving and analytical capabilities\n, • Self-motivated with methodical, thorough approach to work\nWhat's On Offer\n Gain valuable multi-jurisdiction regulatory reporting experience within a global reinsurer. Work on diverse projects across Lloyd's, Solvency UK, and international regulatory regimes with opportunities to develop technical expertise and contribute to system enhancements in a collaborative, international environment. \n \n Our client is committed to diversity in all of its forms and operates an inclusive recruitment process and has a hybrid office working environment.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Syndicate Finance Manager to join a leading Lloyd's insurer on a 12-18 month fixed-term contract. This is a broad and highly visible role, taking ownership of Lloyd's regulatory reporting while working closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Actuarial, Underwriting and Risk. \n You'll play a key role in ensuring the timely delivery of statutory and regulatory reporting, driving process improvements, supporting finance transformation initiatives and helping develop junior members of the team. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Lead the preparation and review of Lloyd's regulatory returns and statutory reporting.\n, • Manage the end-to-end syndicate reporting timetable, ensuring all reporting deadlines are met.\n, • Oversee the production of Syndicate Financial Statements and ensure compliance with regulatory and accounting requirements.\n, • Act as the primary contact for external auditors, coordinating audit activity and managing stakeholder relationships.\n, • Present financial and underwriting commentary to senior management and governance committees.\n, • Support Lloyd's capital setting activities and the annual syndicate distribution process.\n, • Drive process improvements, reporting efficiencies and finance transformation initiatives.\n, • Maintain a strong financial control environment and ensure appropriate governance across reporting processes.\n, • Collaborate with teams across Finance, Actuarial, Underwriting, Risk and MI to deliver high-quality reporting.\n, • Provide guidance and mentoring to junior members of the Syndicate Finance team.\n\n Candidate Profile \n We're looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong experience within the Lloyd's insurance market and a proven background in syndicate finance and regulatory reporting. \n

Financial Accountant - Controls & Best Practice (Interim) \n £250 - £350 per day PAYE \n Start ASAP Contract up to October (then review) \n 2 days in office | (West London) \n We're partnering with a globally recognised consumer business seeking a strong Financial Accountant to support a key finance transformation programme. \n This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys reviewing processes, improving controls and helping shape best-practice finance approaches within a complex and evolving organisation. \n Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll support reporting, accounting reviews and process improvements while helping ensure robust financial controls across a large-scale environment. \n Key responsibilities: \n\n • \n Reviewing accounting activity and financial controls \n • \n Supporting process improvement and best-practice approaches \n • \n Preparing reporting, reconciliations and variance analysis \n • \n Supporting statutory and audit requirements \n • \n Partnering with stakeholders across finance and operations \n • \n Helping strengthen processes during transformation \n\n What we're looking for: \n\n • \n ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified \n • \n Large organisation / multi-site experience \n • \n Strong accounting and controls understanding \n • \n Ideally audit-trained background \n • \n Confident communicator able to challenge and influence \n • \n Advanced Excel and systems skills \n\n \n This role offers genuine opportunity to add value, influence positive change and work alongside a highly collaborative finance team. \n BH36250

Our Client Mackie Myers have partnered with a renowned £150m+ income charity to recruit an Interim Head of Finance Business Partnering on an eight-month contract. This is a rare opportunity to join one of the UK's most recognised purpose-led organisations at a pivotal point in its strategic journey. Operating on a national scale with an international impact, the organisation is currently developing its next three-year strategy and financial plan, creating an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded finance leader to help shape future performance and decision-making. The Role Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will lead a team of four and play a key role in driving financial planning, performance reporting, and business partnering across the organisation. Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide insight, challenge, and strategic support to ensure resources are deployed effectively and organisational objectives are achieved. Key Responsibilities \n\n • Lead and develop the Finance Business Partnering team, fostering a high-performing and collaborative culture.\n, • Drive the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.\n, • Deliver meaningful financial analysis and reporting to support strategic and operational decision-making.\n, • Partner with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, improve performance, and maximise value for money.\n, • Provide financial input on business cases, investment decisions, and new strategic initiatives.\n, • Champion improvements in reporting, processes, and systems, including the use of automation and AI tools.\n, • Proactively identify risks and opportunities, providing clear recommendations to support organisational performance.\n The Successful Candidate \n\n, • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent) with experience leading a Finance Business Partnering or FP&A function.\n, • Strong track record of delivering budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting within a complex organisation.\n, • Proven ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders and non-finance leaders.\n, • Experienced people manager with a passion for developing and leading high-performing teams.\n, • Commercially minded with strong analytical skills and a focus on continuous improvement, automation, and innovation.\nExperience within the charity, not-for-profit, public sector, or wider purpose-led sector would be extremely advantageous. If you have no experience in any capacity with non-profits please do not apply. What's on Offer? \n\n, • £75,000-£80,000 per annum\n, • 8 month full-time contract\n, • Hybrid working with a London office base\n, • Opportunity to shape a high-profile organisation's next three-year financial strategy\n, • Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making\n, • Collaborative culture and the chance to make a meaningful impact in a mission-driven organisation\n Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion We believe that diverse teams drive innovation and better decision-making. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to thrive. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Project Finance Analyst \n\n • Annual Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 Pro Rata\n, • Location: Central London (Hybrid)\n, • Job Type: 4-Month Fixed-Term Contract – high chance of extension\n\n Reed Finance are partnering exclusively with a leading infrastructure and transport organisation is seeking a Project Finance Analyst to join their team on a 4-month fixed-term contract. \n This role offers an excellent opportunity for a commercially focused finance professional to engage in complex financing transactions, refinancing projects, and treasury activities within a large, dynamic organisation. \n Day-to-day of the role: \n\n • Support the structuring and execution of financing arrangements for projects, acquisitions, and refinancing activities.\n, • Conduct financial analysis and modelling to support investment and funding decisions.\n, • Assist with managing relationships with banks, lenders, financial institutions, and external advisors.\n, • Monitor debt facilities and financing agreements, ensuring compliance with key terms and covenants.\n, • Support treasury operations, including cash management and cash flow forecasting activities.\n, • Assist in the management of interest rate, foreign exchange, and commodity risk exposures.\n, • Support KYC processes and credit approval requirements with financial institutions.\n, • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver financing and treasury projects.\n\n Required Skills & Qualifications: \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) and CFA or ACT would be advantageous.\n, • Experience gained within structured finance, corporate finance, treasury, banking, infrastructure finance, or a related field.\n, • Exposure to debt financing, refinancing, project finance, or capital structure activities.\n, • Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities.\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\n, • A Finance, Economics, Accountancy, or Business-related degree.\n\n Benefits: \n\n • Competitive salary of £70,000 - £80,000 (pro rata).\n, • Hybrid working model with a Central London office.\n, • Exposure to high-profile financing and treasury projects.\n, • Opportunity to work within a collaborative and commercially focused finance function.\n\n This position is ideal for a finance professional with strong analytical skills and experience in debt financing, treasury, or corporate finance who is available at short notice and looking for an exciting interim opportunity within a well-established organisation. \n To apply for the Project Finance Analyst position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.

Marc Daniels are partnering with a growing London-based business to recruit an experienced Interim Finance Manager to support through a busy period. This is an excellent opportunity for a fully qualified finance professional to own both statutory and management reporting in a hands-on role, and is particularly well suited to candidates on a visa seeking shorter-term assignments. \n The role \n\n • \n Preparation of monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cashflow and commentary) \n • \n Production of year-end statutory accounts and liaison with external auditors \n • \n Balance sheet reconciliations and review of journals, accruals and prepayments \n • \n Variance analysis and insight for senior stakeholders \n • \n Support with budgeting, forecasting and cashflow planning \n • \n Driving process and control improvements across the finance function \n • \n Oversight/mentoring of junior finance team members as required \n\n About you \n\n • \n Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) \n • \n Strong experience across both statutory reporting and management accounts \n • \n Top 10 practice background/training highly beneficial \n • \n Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment with tight deadlines \n • \n Strong systems and Excel skills; able to get up to speed quickly \n • \n Immediately available or on short notice and able to commit for at least 6 months \n • \n Open to interim/contract work; ideal for candidates on a visa looking for short-term opportunities \n

Interim Group Finance Manager | High-Growth Luxury Consumer Brand | London/Hybrid \n \n Harmonic are delighted to be partnering exclusively with a globally recognised consumer brand in their search for an Interim Group Finance Manager on a 6 month contract. \n \n Renowned for its creativity and quality, the organisation has built a loyal following worldwide and continues to scale rapidly across multiple regions. Operating across wholesale and e-commerce channels, the business is on an impressive growth trajectory and is now building out and professionalising its group finance function. With new entities being established across several countries and a busy year-end and audit cycle ahead, this opportunity will suit someone who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and enjoys bringing structure to a finance function still being built. \n \n The Role \n \n Reporting to the Group Financial Controller and working alongside the wider Group Finance team, you will take ownership of several business-critical workstreams spanning financial control and process improvement. A key focus will be acting as the finance owner for newly established international entities, coordinating outsourced providers and internal stakeholders, and building the controls, schedules and documentation needed to hand these over cleanly to the relevant finance teams in future. \n \n This is a genuinely hands-on, project-focused engagement. Alongside the entity workstream you will strengthen the month-end and group consolidation process, build out group balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules, and support both the completion of the FY2025 audit and the onboarding of new external auditors for FY2026. \n \n Key Responsibilities \n \n\n • Take ownership of a group of recently set-up overseas entities, acting as the central finance contact while their bookkeeping, payroll and local tax are handled by external providers.\n, • Keep activity and information joined up between those third-party providers and the internal finance, tax and payroll teams.\n, • Build out the underlying controls, workflows and reporting for these entities, and document them clearly so ownership can be handed to permanent or local teams in time.\n, • Bring more rigour and consistency to the group's month-end timetable and consolidation.\n, • Create a full set of group balance sheet reconciliations and backing schedules, so leadership finally has a clear, reliable view of the consolidated numbers.\n, • Introduce standardised review routines and templates with the entity teams to keep reporting consistent across the group.\n, • Drive the FY2025 statutory accounts and group audit through to completion.\n, • Prepare for a new audit partner in FY2026, supporting a clean transition and a smoother year-end.\n, • Pick up other group-wide finance initiatives as the need emerges, adding senior capacity while the business scales.\n\n \n What We Need to See (Essential) \n \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).\n, • A background across group reporting, financial control or a broader group finance remit.\n, • Hands-on consolidation experience gained in an international business with multiple legal entities.\n, • Highly organised, with the project-management discipline to run several workstreams to deadline at once.\n, • A confident communicator used to coordinating finance, tax, payroll, external advisers and auditors.\n, • Comfortable working independently and rolling your sleeves up while the processes and paperwork around them are still being built.\n\n \n What We'd Like to See (Bonus) \n \n\n • Ideally experience within Audit\n, • Exposure to retail, product or stock/inventory accounting.\n, • Experience helping coordinate a change of external auditor or an audit transition.\n\n \n Day Rate: £450-£525 per day \n Contract: 6-month interim contract \n Location: London/Hybrid (3 days in the office) \n Start Date: ASAP \n \n If you are interested - to be considered for the role please forward your CV \n \n At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation. \n At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.

Part-Time Finance Officer! \n Are you ready to make a meaningful impact while working in a friendly and supportive environment? Our client is looking for a Finance Officer to join their amazing team! \n \n Contract Type: Temp to Perm \n Location: Lambeth North - fully office based \n Company Type: \n Working Hours: 9am - 5pm, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays \n Duration: 1-2 months \n Hourly Rate: £14.85ph - £15.85ph \n \n What You'll Do: \n As a Finance Officer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Assistant Accountant and the entire Finance Team \n Your key responsibilities will include: \n\n • Maintaining accurate day-to-day accounting records on the Sun computer system\n, • Managing the purchase ledger and ensuring proper authorisation for invoices and expenses\n, • Setting up new supplier and employee accounts weekly\n, • Processing weekly payment runs and international transactions\n, • Reconciling relevant balance sheet accounts and assisting with annual audits\n, • Providing support to other Finance team members as needed\n\n \n What We're Looking For: \n\n • Intermediate Excel skills and sound IT proficiency\n, • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage deadlines\n, • Experience with SunSystems and working towards an Accounting Qualification\n, • Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with finance systems\n, • Excellent verbal and written communication skills\n, • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team\n, • Attention to detail and ability to perform under pressure\n, • Experience in customer-facing roles, adept at handling inquiries\n\n \n Why Join Us? \n\n • Hybrid Working: Enjoy the flexibility of working from home while being part of a vibrant team\n, • Potential to Go Permanent: Demonstrate your skills and secure a long-term position!\n, • Lovely Friendly Team: Become part of a supportive and enthusiastic work culture\n\n Office Angels is an employment agency and business. We are an equal-opportunities employer who puts expertise, energy and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities and more. By showcasing talents, skills and unique experiences in an inclusive environment, we help individuals thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you. \n Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. \n By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Office Angels. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explaining how we will use your information is available on our website.

Location: London and surrounding areas \n Working Pattern: Hybrid working, 2-3 Days on-site working \n Engagement Route: Personal Services Company / Limited Company (IR35 status to be determined on an assignment basis) \n Day Rate: negotiable \n Who we are \n At Grant Thornton we’re building something bold. We’re doing things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity. Our journey from great to exceptional is well underway. With significant investment behind us and a clear strategy for growth, there’s real momentum. \n Our Agile Talent Community (ATC) brings together experienced contract professionals who want choice without losing connection. You work where you add the most value, alongside teams who treat you as a partner rather than a placeholder. \n Joining us in CFO Solutions – Finance Placements \n Grant Thornton’s CFO Solutions provides strategic, transformation and execution support for CFOs, through multiple services including finance consultancy, finance placements, business process outsourcing and technical accounting advice. The Finance Placements team focuses on providing an on-demand and project-focused accounting service, deploying individuals and teams of interim finance professionals into our clients’ finance functions to help them through periods of challenge or change. \n If you’re an experienced Interim Financial Accountant who’s tired of choosing between freedom and meaningful work, there’s another route. Within CFO Solutions you’ll be given the opportunity to take on short- to medium-term projects that sharpen your expertise, stretch your thinking, and give you a different angle on familiar challenges - all without locking you into a single path. \n You can engage with us through your own limited company or on inside IR35 terms - whichever way gives you the freedom you’re looking for. \n Skills we are looking for \n\n • Fully qualified member of a professional accounting body such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.\n, • Experience working within Industry, in companies with an annual turnover of a minimum of £50m+, ideally within a listed FTSE business and/or Top 20 practice within financial/statutory accounting capacity.\n, • Experience of half and full-year-end accounts preparation, audit liaison and preparation of monthly management accounts.\n, • Group Accounts Consolidation and Intercompany accounting.\n, • Financial reporting under IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP, or international GAAP.\n, • Preparation of year-end statutory accounts and audits.\n\n Why Consultants choose the ATC \n\n • Work that moves you forward\n, • When a project fits your skills, we’ll get in touch, but you choose whether it’s right for you. That means working on engagements that genuinely build your portfolio and expand your expertise.\n, • The freedom of contracting without the hidden admin \n, • You’re not left to navigate the freelance world alone. Our Agile Talent team helps you understand freelance regulation and connects you with people who broaden your thinking through our teams and clients.\n, • Community you can actually feel\n, • Connection shouldn’t disappear just because you’re contracting. From market insights to wellbeing sessions to networking events, you’ll be part of a community designed to make the independent path less isolated and more impactful.\n\n Our culture and values \n We have a culture where talented people thrive – where high performance is not just expected but enabled. It’s a culture built on clarity, curiosity, and care. One that challenges us to aim higher, where we’re encouraged to make the most of an abundance of resources to fuel our own development, and where we support each other to grow, learn, and succeed. \n Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work. \n How to join \n We keep the process straightforward, because the real work happens once you’re here. \n\n • Submit your CV and basic details through our online application.\n, • If there’s a match, a recruiter will reach out to discuss.\n, • Meet key stakeholders for a focused conversation.\n, • Complete your background checks, join the Agile Talent Community, and start exploring the opportunities we have to offer.\n\n If you need adjustments at any point in the process, please let us know during the application stage - we aim to make sure our roles are accessible to everyone.

Fund Controller - Private Credit (15-Month Contract)Location: London (Hybrid) Rate: £600-650 per day via umbrella, depending on experienceThe Opportunity An outstanding opportunity has arisen with a leading global alternatives investment manager for an experienced interim Fund Controller to join its high-performing Private Credit Finance team on a 15-month maternity cover contract. This is a broad, commercially focused role supporting a portfolio of direct lending and private credit funds, including both closed-ended and evergreen structures. Working alongside investment professionals, senior leadership and leading external service providers, you will play a key role in overseeing fund operations, financial reporting and governance across the full fund lifecycle. This position would suit someone who enjoys ownership, stakeholder interaction and working within a sophisticated institutional investment environment.Key Responsibilities \n\n • Take ownership of a portfolio of private credit fund structures, ensuring efficient operational and financial oversight.\n, • Review quarterly NAVs, financial statements, investor allocations, management fees, carried interest and distribution calculations.\n, • Produce and oversee quarterly and annual investor reporting.\n, • Monitor fund liquidity, cash forecasting and treasury activities.\n, • Partner closely with investment teams on transactions, fund launches and capital activity.\n, • Manage relationships with third-party fund administrators, custodians and auditors, ensuring high service standards.\n, • Coordinate annual audits and oversee governance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.\n, • Prepare board papers and present fund updates to boards and governance committees.\n, • Analyse fund performance, returns, valuation movements and hedging impacts.\n, • Act as a key contact for internal stakeholders including Portfolio Managers, Investor Relations, Legal, Tax and Compliance.\n, • Mentor junior team members\n\n Candidate Profile \n\n • A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CPA)\n, • Significant experience in private credit, direct lending, \n, • Strong technical fund accounting and fund control expertise.\n, • Excellent understanding of fund structures, legal documentation and fund operations.\n\n We are happy to provide application and/or accessibility support, please contact your Marks Sattin or Grafton consultant directly to discuss your needs. We're committed to protecting the privacy of all our candidates and clients, please visit and for our privacy policy. \n

This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover and requires an immediate start. It offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to a high-performing finance function within a dynamic, fast-paced business. \n \n The FP&A Manager will play a key role in driving financial planning, analysis and decision support across the Group. This role is critical in delivering high quality forecasting, budgeting and strategic insight to support business growth and performance. \n \n You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Product, Commercial and Operations teams, providing forward-looking analysis, challenging assumptions and enhancing financial visibility across the organisation. \n \n ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES: \n Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning \n\n • Own the annual budget and rolling forecast processes, working closely with business heads to ensure accuracy and commercial alignment\n, • Review business plan and strategic initiatives by actively challenging assumptions and scrutinising projected impact\n, • Deliver clear variance analysis against budget and forecast, alongside scenario modelling to support decision-making\n\n \n Financial Analysis and Reporting \n\n • Produce and continuously improve the monthly management reporting pack, including variance analysis and KPI commentary for board\n, • Deliver timely and insightful analysis on revenue, costs, and key KPIs\n, • Identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the P&L and balance sheet, supporting proactive decision-making\n, • Support the production of board and executive-level reporting materials\n\n \n Business partnering \n\n • Act as a trusted advisor to business units, providing financial challenge and supports\n, • Evaluate strategic initiatives, investments and product developments using financial analysis\n, • Translate financial data into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders\n\n \n Process Improvement and Change \n\n • Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, systems and reporting\n, • Support implementation of new tools, automation and data enhancements\n, • Promote a data-driven culture through better use of analytics and BI tools\n\n \n Stakeholder management \n\n • Build strong relationships with Finance, Commercial and operational teams\n, • Partner with senior stakeholders across the business to support strategic decision-making\n, • Support and develop junior team members where applicable, fostering a high-performance culture\n\n \n \n KEY SKILLS AND EXPERINCE \n Essential: \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)\n, • Strong experience in FP&A, commercial finance or related roles\n, • Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling\n, • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence senior stakeholders\n, • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills\n, • Strong communication and presentation skills\n, • Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial systems\n, • Experience within financial services or a trading environment\n\n \n Desirable: \n\n • Familiarity with BI tools\n, • Experience supporting strategic projects or transformation initiatives\n\n \n CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone.

Interim Financial Reporting Manager- (Year-End Audit Support)- 6 Month Contract- Central London (Hybrid)- Professional Services- £70,000-£80,000 + Benefits \n \n Overview \n IN2 Consult is supporting a London-based professional services business in the search for an experienced Interim Financial Reporting Manager/ Controller to provide immediate cover during a period of significant change and activity within the finance function. \n \n This is a hands-on contract role, requiring an individual who can quickly integrate into a fast-paced environment, take ownership of key financial processes, and provide stability and leadership to the existing team. \n Role Responsibilities \n\n • Lead the year-end audit process end-to-end, owning the audit timeline, preparing supporting work-papers and acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors through to sign-off\n, • Support the preparation of statutory accounts and supporting disclosures in line with relevant accounting standards, ensuring they are accurate and audit-ready\n, • Own the month-end close process, including journals, accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations\n, • Produce timely and reliable management accounts, including P&L analysis and balance sheet reviews\n, • Maintain day-to-day financial accounting activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness and strong financial control\n, • Provide technical accounting guidance across the business, including research and documentation of complex or non-routine transactions\n, • Support tax, VAT and other statutory filings, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements\n, • Strengthen internal controls and continuously improve finance processes as the function scales\n, • Support multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, including intercompany reconciliations across UK and international entities\n, • Play a key role in ERP implementation or system improvements, including data migration, testing and process optimisation\n, • Support and mentor junior team members, contributing to the development of the wider finance function\n, • Assist with ad hoc financial reporting and strategic projects as required\n\n \n Required Experience \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with relevant post-qualified experience\n, • Background in practice with strong external audit experience, ideally with exposure to leading or owning audits\n, • Proven experience preparing statutory financial statements and managing the year-end audit process\n, • Strong technical accounting skills, including reconciliations, VAT and financial reporting\n, • Experience working in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment (highly desirable)\n, • Exposure to ERP implementation or system migration (desirable)\n, • Prior experience in a professional services environment\n, • Confident communicator, able to explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders and mentor junior team members\n\n \n Interim Financial Reporting Manager- (Year-End Audit Support)- 6 Month Contract- Central London (Hybrid)- Professional Services- £70,000-£80,000 + Benefits

NEW ROLE | Group Reporting Accountant | London | 6 Months Contract to PERM \n I'm currently recruiting for a Group Reporting Accountant to join a collaborative and fast-paced finance team. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to senior stakeholders, investor reporting, and technical accounting within a dynamic group environment. This role is hybrid working based in London. \n The Group Reporting Advisor leads the Group's external financial reporting process and acts as the resident IFRS 16 specialist, playing a central role in delivering accurate, timely, and fully compliant reporting to shareholders, bondholders and other external stakeholders. The role owns the shareholder financial reporting pack and group statutory financial statements end-to-end and is directly responsible for monitoring and evidencing compliance with bond covenants. Key Responsibilities\n\n • Lead on preparing the shareholder financial reporting pack, ensuring timely, accurate delivery for quarterly interims and investor queries.\n, • Lead on delivery of group & subsidiary statutory financial statements, owning the process end-to-end from preparation through to submission.\n, • Support the preparation and analysis of accurate deferred tax calculations while supporting assurance of the group deferred tax balances in compliance with IAS 12.\n, • Act as the Group's IFRS 16 specialist, leading the accounting treatment and application of lease accounting across the business and advising other teams on technical positions.\n, • Identify and lead automation and efficiency initiatives within the reporting cycle, improving controls and reducing manual effort where possible.\nQualifications & Experience\n\n, • Qualified accountant (CA, ACCA or equivalent).\n, • 2 years + experience in financial reporting, ideally including exposure to group consolidation and statutory reporting across multiple jurisdictions.\n, • Practical, working knowledge of IFRS 16 is required.\n, • Experience with bond covenant compliance or debt reporting is an advantage.\n, • Oil & Gas or other complex, multi-entity group environment experience is an advantage.\n\n You must have the right to work in the UK. \n Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

Your new companyYou will join a rapidly growing technology business at the forefront of developing advanced solutions for the customers. The organisation combines cutting-edge research, technical innovation and commercial delivery, bringing together a team of highly qualified specialists to solve complex operational challenges for high-profile customers.As part of an ambitious growth journey, you will work closely with senior leadership to help scale the business, strengthen operational maturity and support long-term strategic development.Your new roleYou will act as a key member of the Senior Management Team, partnering with the CEO to support business growth, commercial decision-making and long-term strategic planning and take ownership of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management and financial reporting, ensuring the business has accurate and timely financial information to support decision-making. You'll develop and refine financial models, project costing frameworks and pricing structures to support complex commercial contracts and future growth initiatives as well as implement robust financial controls, policies and procedures, driving best practice across the organisation and improving operational efficiency.You'll also oversee external accounting providers, manage compliance requirements and produce detailed monthly reports for senior stakeholders and the Board.What you'll need to succeedYou will be a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience operating in a senior finance leadership position. You will have strong financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into commercial insights, as well as have experience managing project accounting, contract costing and performance reporting within a growing SME or technology-led organisation.You will have a thorough understanding of UK taxation, statutory reporting requirements and financial governance, including VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax and R&D tax credits and demonstrate excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers and drive business improvement initiatives.What you'll get in returnCompetitive day rate, the opportunity to play a highly visible role within a growing and innovative organisation at a pivotal stage of its development. This role is fractional, and the client expects that, initially, 2 days a week will suffice. The role is office-based. A supportive, entrepreneurial and technically accomplished leadership team committed to long-term success and the chance to make a genuine strategic impact by helping shape the financial infrastructure and future growth of an ambitious businessWhat you need to do nowIf you're a qualified finance professional, with strong financial modelling skills and are interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. \n Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk