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Your new companyThis is an exciting opportunity to join a leading organisation within the infrastructure and facilities management sector, supporting a portfolio of healthcare facilities management (FM) projects. The business operates within a structured and highly compliant environment, offering strong career development and the chance to work closely with both finance and operational stakeholders.Your new roleAs Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for delivering accurate and insightful financial reporting while supporting project performance across a portfolio of FM healthcare contracts. Key responsibilities include: • Production of monthly management accounts in line with internal policies and IFRS standards, • Supporting project teams with financial analysis, performance reviews, and variance reporting, • Monitoring contract KPIs, profitability, cash flow and cost performance to drive improved outcomes, • Leading and coordinating the quarterly forecasting cycle, providing key financial insights, • Supporting the preparation of reporting packs for senior stakeholders, • Identifying and implementing improvements to financial processes, systems and reporting What you'll need to succeed • Fully qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA), • Minimum of 5 years' experience within management and financial accounting, • Strong commercial awareness with the ability to influence and support business performance, • Proven experience improving processes and financial systems, • Previous experience within PFI projects and a strong understanding of PFI contractual frameworks What you'll get in return • A salary of £60,000-£75,000 DOE, • 24/7 digital GP service for you and your family, • Financial wellbeing support and employee assistance programme, • Ongoing professional development opportunities, • Enhanced family benefits including maternity, paternity and bereavement leave What you need to do nowIf you're 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. Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and 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

Description Why join us? Swoon was founded in 2012 with a simple mission: to create distinctive designs that owners want to keep forever - and a lofty goal to spark home obsession everywhere. We’re an online-only furniture brand building a digital experience better than any store. We design original pieces in-house, and our innovative design process uncovers the next trend, fast. Our testing platform proves designs sell online at their intended price, and our data-led approach grows sales within families exponentially. Our distinctive look unlocks collaborations with leading retailers like John Lewis and many more - and we’re just getting started. This is a rare chance to own the numbers and reinvent how they’re produced. We’ve worked hard to move from a VC backed start-up to a profitable business and our monthly reporting is solid and trusted - but it’s built on too much manual effort. We want someone who will keep that board reporting rock-solid while completely transforming how it gets done. Picture month-end that runs in a fraction of the time, reconciliations that reconcile themselves, and live dashboards that answer leadership’s questions before they’re asked. We want a builder - someone genuinely excited by AI, automation and smart internal tooling - to redesign our finance engine from the inside out. The continuity of the management accounts and board pack is non-negotiable; everything behind it is yours to reimagine. If you’re ambitious, want to make your mark, and see a clear path to grow as the function and the business scale, this role is built for you. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll join as our Management Accountant with solid experience preparing management accounts in Xero and a few year-end audits under your belt. Our financial statements aren’t hugely complex, but our operating model is varied and interesting: we trade across multiple channels and business models - our own site, retail partners like John Lewis, and licensing - each with revenue and costs to allocate accurately across channels. Retail experience with hands-on stock accounting is essential - getting stock right, including the reverse flows when product is returned, is at the heart of this role, and we need someone who can own the audit from start to finish. You’ll have an eye for detail and the ability to reconcile data across multiple systems so revenue and costs are recognised accurately. You’re a great communicator who enjoys working cross-functionally across the business. As the sole accountant in a finance team of four, you’re an all-rounder who can juggle competing priorities - and you’re always asking how the work could be done better, faster and smarter. Reporting & continuity • Monthly management accounts - P&L, balance sheet and cash flow to a seven-day hard close., • Board pack & MBR - produce the board pack and monthly business review, with clear commentary, and insight for the leadership team., • Results & insight - present performance to leadership and translate the numbers into decisions, not just data., • Revenue recognition - oversee revenue recognition process, including deferred revenue, cost of sales whilst ensuring business controls are in place to ensure accounting accuracy., • Budget & forecast support - maintain cost and Opex tracking, accruals and rolling-forecast inputs. Transform & automate • Reinvent the close - redesign month-end and reporting to be faster, leaner and far less manual, without ever putting board continuity at risk., • Build internal dashboards - create live, self-serve dashboards that give leadership and the wider business real-time visibility of the numbers., • Put AI and automation to work - identify, plan and roll out automation and AI across reconciliations, invoicing, accruals, reporting and routine finance tasks., • Champion better ways of working - lead automation planning and troubleshooting, and continuously hunt out processes to streamline, simplify or retire. Controls & reconciliations • Stock reconciliations - liaise with the warehouse to run monthly stock recs, including stock-in-transit and provisions., • Financial controls - strengthen controls and balance-sheet reconciliations across deferred revenue, debtors, accruals and prepayments., • Invoice coding - oversee the coding of invoices by the accounts assistant., • Expense approvals - approve company-wide expenses. Tax, audit & compliance • Year-end & audit - own the year-end process and the full audit, managing all communication with the auditor., • VAT & other returns - produce the quarterly VAT return and plastic packaging tax, liaising with HMRC as required., • Payroll taxes & benefits - run PSA and P11D submissions and all payroll-related returns (P45, P60s, P11Ds)., • EMI share options - run the bi-annual EMI share option process (HMRC valuation and employee contract write-up)., • HMRC - act as the key contact for all HMRC-related matters. Payroll & people • Payroll oversight - manage new-employee payroll setup and oversee the monthly payroll run by our external provider, including pension submissions., • Line management - supervise and develop the accounts assistant. Requirements • Essential, • Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA., • Retail experience - confident with stock reconciliations, stock provisions and inventory controls., • Experience as a full-circle management accountant (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)., • Experience owning the year-end audit process., • Experience preparing month-end accounts in Xero., • Advanced excel / sheets and comfortable reconciling and dealing with large volumes of data, • A genuine enthusiasm for automation, AI and building better processes - and a track record of improving the way things are done., • Ambition to make your mark and progress as the role and business grow., • Able to work independently without supervision., • A great communicator who can explain finance concepts to non-finance colleagues., • Able to travel to London at least once per month, • Management experience, or ready to step up., • Nice to have, • Hands-on experience building dashboards or finance automations (e.g. BI tools, scripting, or AI-assisted workflows)., • Exposure to retail collaborations, marketplaces or multi-channel revenue. Benefits Upbeat, ambitious and collaborative – that’s us. We’re a lean team of 30, so if you relish responsibility and like to impact an outcome, we’re the place for you. We’ve made flexible working a permanent thing. Right now, the team works from home but we’re open to what people might need in the future. We hold weekly day workshops in London and if the team wants to get together in a co-working space, that’s fine too. We have a wide range of perks and benefits including: • Competitive salary, • Share options programme, • Bonus scheme, • Wellbeing allowance, • Pension scheme, • Private medical cover, • Your birthday as an additional day off, • A day off for volunteer/community work, • Friday 1pm finish in summer (now rolled out across the full year as a trial), • Free furniture on each anniversary of employment, • Increasing holiday allowance with tenure, • Study support, • Friends & family discount Liked what you read and keen to join us? 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Financial Accountant - 6 Month Contract Location: Cheshire/ Hybrid/ Remote Accountable Recruitment is delighted to be partnering with a dynamic international, PE-backed organisation seeking to appoint an experienced Financial Accountant on a 6 month contract to help with their year end and audit. Role Overview: This opportunity is perfect for a highly skilled and immediately available Financial Accountant who is eager to join a forward-thinking team. With offices across trhe North West, this role can be office based, hybrid or potentially full time from home. Salary/Benefits: • Competitive salary ranging from £250 - 500 per day, • Flexible working arrangements, • 6 month contract Key Responsibilities: • Assist the Group Financial Controller with the month-end close process and production of monthly management account balance sheet reconciliations., • Ensure the maintenance of a robust financial control environment., • Prepare regulatory and other financial compliance returns, managing any related inquiries., • Handle routine tax compliance returns for VAT, including the weekly review of tax codes., • Support the preparation of year-end group accounts and the audit process., • Aid in the production of year-end group reporting., • Assist external auditors requests as needed. Reporting Line: You will report directly to the Group Financial Controller. Ideal Candidate: • ACA or ACCA Qualified Accountant, • Proven experience in a year-end focused Financial Accountant role, • Advanced Excel skills, capable of handling bulk data/system exports and utilising appropriate formulas., • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills at all levels within the business., • Self-motivated with a strong work ethic., • Highly organised, able to manage a wide variety of tasks and meet continual tight deadlines., • Experience working with external advisers is a plus. Interview Process: Interviews will be conducted as soon as possible. We encourage interested candidates to apply promptly. Join a thriving team and contribute to a growing organisation with bags of flexibility. Apply now to take the next step in your career!

Project Accountant - US GAAP to IFRS Conversion Proeject £450 – £650 per day dependant on experience (Outside IR35) Central London – (Remote working model) Contract: 3 months THE COMPANY Our client is a management consultancy who work with a wide array of clients including house-hold names, FTSE 100 listed companies financial services companies and international groups. They combine extensive technical, practical and commercial advisory expertise with pragmatic experience and solutions. They currently have a contract for a person who has proven experience and has previous experience of working on US GAAP to IFRS conversion projects within the financial service industry. This role is offered on a remote basis and you can be based anywhere in the UK.. Strong communication skills are necessary. SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED • Experience of working on US GAAP to IFRS conversion projects., • Technical Accounting knowledge in relevant accounting areas under IFRS and US GAAP and IFRS 9 within the financial services industry, • US CPA qualified or equivalent qualification, • Experience of reviewing statutory accounts and/ or managing audit services to financial services businesses, • Experience of delivering reports to deadlines, • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage time, prioritise tasks, use initiative and produce deliverables of a high standard., • Ability to build and maintain business relationships and work in a team., • Good understanding of the workings of a finance function THE ROLE The project is already underway and implement accounting standards for the conversion. You will join a team. Your role will be but not confined to: • Writing technical accounting memos and calculate accounting differences on topics, for example, such as:, • Impairment, • Different classification models, • Loan modifications, restructuring and derecognition, • Presentation, covenants and KPIs, • Systems and data, • Income Taxes, • Currency Translations, • Commitment to project timelines, • Own the areas assigned and lead the work in the area., • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to close open points and conclude the conversion work- i.e. in a client facing role

Prepare, reconcile and analyse the monthly management reports; Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.