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Position Overview: \n Reporting to the Head-PMO, the Program Manager- Finance will lead the planning and execution of finance related projects across GEDU entities. She/he will coordinate with internal and external stakeholders across various functions and with vendors to ensure timely and within scope delivery of projects, working closely with the UNIT 4 consultants, and implementation and support Teams in Noida. \n JOB DESCRIPTION \n Key Responsibilities: \n\n • Lead end-to-end project management, including planning, execution, and post-implementation support, ensuring timely delivery within scope and budget.\n, • Led Enterprise-scale Finance Transformation programs across multiple entities. ($5M+ budgets), Managed global rollouts across multiple countries/entities\n, • Drive implementations across core finance domains: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets, Cash & Bank Management, Treasury, Taxation, Intercompany Accounting, Costing, Budgeting & Forecasting, Financial Consolidation, Revenue Recognition, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R)\n, • Strong experience in one or more ERP platforms: SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, NetSuite, Workday Financial Management\n, • Deep knowledge of: Financial close, Consolidation, Statutory reporting, Internal controls, Compliance, Multi-entity / multi-currency operations\n, • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into system configurations and workflows and work with IT, any 3rd party vendors and business stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, and deliverables.\n, • Develop and maintain detailed project documentation including plans, risk logs, and status reports. Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.\n, • Prepare and present project status reports to senior leadership.\n, • Ensure alignment with financial regulations / compliance standards and internal controls.\n, • Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources effectively.\n, • Facilitate data migration, system integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).\n, • Provide training and change management support to end-users.\n\n Qualifications: \n\n • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.\n, • PMP or PRINCE2 certification preferred. Agile and Waterfall methodology experience.\n, • Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Asana).\n, • Strong understanding of financial systems and processes.\n, • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.\n, • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.\n\n Preferred Skills: \n\n • Experience on working with UNIT 4 Finance modules.\n, • Experience with ERP implementations or upgrades.\n, • Knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance frameworks.\n

Pear Recruitment Head of Client AccountsLocation - EarlsfieldSalary - £50,000 - £60,000 + Bonus up to 10%Hours MondayFriday 9am6pm (1 day working from home after probation)Our client is a fast-growing independent property business, seeking a Head of Client Accounts to lead their busy Accounts team.This is a senior operational role covering client accounting, ?nancial controls, reconciliations, payments, compliance, reporting, systems and team leadership. Working closely with Directors and Heads of Department, you will provide ?nancial and operational guidance, act as the senior escalation point for complex matters and drive continuous improvement across the function.As Head of Client Accountant, you will take overall responsibility for the accurate, compliant and efficient management of client money.If this role sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!Key ResponsibilitiesClient Accounting & Financial ControlLead the day-to-day Client Accounts function, ensuring accurate and timely processing of all client money transactions.Own Lettings Forecast, staff commissions, supplier commissions, property licensing accounting, agency fees, and ad hoc invoicingMaintain robust controls over client funds, payment processes and ?nancial approvals.Act as the senior escalation point for complex client accounting mattersCompliance, Governance & RiskOwn the Client Accounts control framework and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, Client Money Protection requirements, SafeAgent standards and company policies.Maintain and continuously improve client accounting policies, procedures, controls and audit trails.Monitor ?nancial and operational risks and implement appropriate corrective and preventative controls.Banking, Reporting & AuditsOversee client account banking, payment preparation, approvals and submissions.Take ownership of month-end accounts and reportsTake ownership of business accounts payables and bank payments, including payrollAct as the sole point of contact for external auditors, SafeAgent and other client money assurance reviews + Lead the end -to-end completionSystems & Process ImprovementOwn the accuracy and integrity of client accounting data across Reapit, Xero, 360 and other relevant systems.Identify system, reporting and process weaknesses and implement practical improvements.Lead initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy, automation and ?nancial controls.Support system changes, migrations and new implementations from a client accounting perspective.Team LeadershipLead, manage and develop the Client Accounts team.Provide technical guidance and coaching on accounting, compliance and client matters.Promote a culture of accuracy, accountability, ownership and continuous improvement.Business PartnershipWork closely with Directors, CFO, Lettings, Property Services and Operations to resolve ?nancial and client accounting matters.Provide clear ?nancial guidance to ?nancial and non-?nancial stakeholders.Challenge transactions, processes or decisions where there are ?nancial, client money or compliance concerns.Lead and support projects that strengthen controls, reporting and operational efficiency.What Were Looking for EssentialSigni?cant experience in residential property accounting, client accounting or a similar ?nancial environment.2-year experience using ReapitStrong knowledge of client money, reconciliations, compliance and ?nancial controls.Experience managing or supervising a ?nance or client accounting team.Excellent analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Ability to manage competing priorities, work autonomously and exercise sound professional judgement.DesirableQuali?ed or part quali?ed ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent professional quali?cation.Client Accounts Manager or Finance Manager experience.Experience within a Client Money Protection / SafeAgent environment.Experience managing client money or ?nancial compliance audits.Experience with ?nancial systems implementation, migration or process improvement.If you are interested in this Head of Client Accounts role and would like to know more, please email your CV or telephone us on a strictly private and confidential basis for an informal discussion.Due to the number of applications we receive, we are unfortunately unable to respond to each applicant individually. If you do not hear from us within 7 days, you may assume you have not been selected at this time - but please do apply for anything you feel you are suitable for and thank you for your interest in PEAR Recruitment.Recommend a friend - Do you know someone looking for a position? If you recommend them to us, we have afantasticreferral fee to offer! Please contact us for more information.Confidentiality All communication with us is treated with the upmost confidentiality and you will always be advised if your CV is being submitted to a client.TPBN1_UKTJ

Introduction At Artex, we reimagine what risk management can be and we do it with bold thinking, deep expertise, and an unwavering belief in what’s possible. As part of our global team, you’ll help clients navigate complex risks through creative, forward-looking solutions that go beyond the expected. This is a place where innovation is encouraged, ideas are welcomed, and no two days look the same. We’re a community of confidently curious problem-solvers, opportunity seizers, and collaborative thinkers, working together to challenge convention and shape the future of our industry. Here, you’ll be supported to explore your potential, grow your expertise, and make a meaningful impact on a global scale. Overview The Assistant Vice President, Transaction Operations will report directly to the Vice President, Transaction Operations within Artex Capital Solutions and will have responsibility for all day-to-day operational aspects of a large, sophisticated reinsurance portfolio comprising Insurance Linked Securities companies and segregated account transactions. The role encompasses all aspects of reinsurance contract administration, management of collateral, investor and management reporting and project management. How you'll make an impact • Contribute to a team of Transaction Operations professionals providing the operational support for a large, sophisticated reinsurance portfolio of Insurance Linked Securities companies and segregated account transactions, including the supervision, oversight and training of direct reports., • Contribute to the establishment, maintenance and enhancement of investor, reinsurance trustee and broker relationships., • Contribute to the provision of and strive to constantly improve the structure and quality of reporting to investors and Artex leadership by providing accurate and timely information, leveraging Artex and third-party systems., • Ensure prompt drafting, review, execution and recording in Artex systems of reinsurance, trust and shareholder agreements, including all aspects of reinsurance agreement execution, endorsement, commutation and novation., • Liaise with appropriate internal and external stakeholders such as Artex Financial Reporting, Business Development and Compliance teams, brokers and investors to ensure smooth deal flow., • Document, maintain and support the ongoing refreshment of Underwriting Guidelines, Processes and Procedures., • Review reinsurance trust agreement language, including Reg 114 Trusts, coordinating with brokers and reinsureds as required and oversee trust opening, collateral investment, maintenance, ongoing reporting and account closing processes., • Ensure trust account withdrawal notices are executed promptly and payments made in a smooth, timely manner to investors and/or beneficiaries., • Participate in Business Transformation projects as directed by the EVP, Head of Service & Delivery, • Strive for the highest quality of client service; promptly identifying, escalating and resolving any issues, as required. About You • An accounting designation (CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)., • At least 3 years’ recent (re)insurance experience in financial reporting or accounting with a (re)insurer, Insurance Manager or audit firm., • Technical knowledge of IFRS and U.S. GAAP including an excellent understanding of insurance and investment accounting standards., • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Re/Insurance industry, preferably in the areas of operations, capital management, underwriting, broking, collateral management/treasury, or technical accounting., • University degree and/or Reinsurance designation preferred (CPCU, ARe, ACII or other equivalent professional designations preferred). A professional STEP qualification (TEP designation) would also be considered., • Experience in reinsurance/property catastrophe broking beneficial., • Excellent, professional written and verbal communications skills in client service environment., • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail and ability to produce accurate and complete work to meet tight deadlines., • Enthusiastic and strongly motivated self-starter., • Ability to work independently and collaborate with colleagues within and across departments., • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite with working knowledge of reporting tools such as Power BI or Business Objects is beneficial. Prior experience with underwriting or policy management systems would be beneficial. #LI-SP4 Compensation and benefits At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, _. • Competitive compensation, • Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being, • Career development opportunities and ongoing learning, • A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership, • The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our _ to stay connected to additional career opportunities. Although this role is listed as full-time, if you’re in a job-share partnership, work reduced hours, or have any other flexible arrangement, please still get in touch. We will also offer reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process if required, so please let us know. Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Executive Talent Solutions are working with a leading Business Services group to recruit an experienced Head of Finance. \n The business is a market leading Services group supplying a broad client base in the UK. They have enjoyed significant growth over the past 10 years and have ambitious plans for the next 5. \n The role of Head of Finance is permanent and offers a salary between £70,000 and £80,000 plus benefits. The role is based in Park Royal, London, NW10 and offers hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 WFH. \n Keys responsibilities include: \n\n • Lead month–end close, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.\n, • Manage a team of 6 staff\n, • Control and oversight on finance policies and processes.\n, • Oversee balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, accruals and journals.\n, • Produce and review financial reports for senior leadership team.\n, • Supporting with the budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling activity.\n, • Manage VAT, pensions, fixed assets and statutory financial processes.\n, • Maintain financial policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.\n, • Manage Audit and Compliance requirements\n, • Working closely with the FD on financial planning and risk.\n, • Reporting to internal & external stakeholders as required.\n\n Candidates applying should hold an accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) and have relevant experience in a medium sized business in a similar role.

Title: Senior Financial Accountant \n Location: Central London (Hybrid working – 2/3 days WFH) \n Salary: £75,000 - £90,000 + discretionary bonus & comprehensive benefits package \n Our client is a multinational energy group operating across a complex international footprint. Due to continued growth, they are seeking a Senior Financial Accountant to join their London finance team. \n Reporting directly to the Head of Accounting, this role will play a key part in supporting financial reporting, analysis, and stakeholder reporting requirements across the business. \n Responsibilities \n\n • Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packs\n, • Perform detailed balance sheet and P&L analysis, investigating key variances and trends\n, • Review financial information prepared by external advisers and challenge outputs where appropriate\n, • Support month-end and year-end reporting processes\n, • Prepare reconciliations, reporting schedules, and financial commentary\n, • Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow reporting activities\n, • Support board, lender, and investor reporting requirements\n, • Liaise with external auditors and professional advisers throughout reporting cycles\n, • Identify opportunities to enhance reporting processes, controls, and efficiencies\n, • Partner with stakeholders across finance and the wider business to support decision-making\n\n Requirements \n\n • ACA, ACCA, or equivalent qualified accountant\n, • Trained within a Big 4 or Top 10 accountancy practice with an external audit background\n, • 1-3 years of industry experience gained following qualification\n, • US GAAP experience would be beneficial\n, • Oil & Gas, Energy, Infrastructure, or Natural Resources sector experience would be advantageous\n, • Strong financial reporting, analytical, and review skills\n, • Experience preparing or reviewing management reporting and financial analysis\n, • Advanced Excel skills and strong attention to detail\n, • Confident communicator with the ability to engage stakeholders across the business\n, • Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment\n

Head of Internal Controls - UK \n A leading specialty insurance organisation is seeking a Head of Internal Controls position based in London on a hybrid basis. \n In this role you will be responsible for: \n\n • Leading the UK Internal Controls function with ownership of ICFR framework and annual control testing programme\n, • Partner closely with Finance leadership, Internal Audit, External Audit and senior stakeholders across the business\n, • Lead a team and oversee risk and controls, financial reporting, remediation and technical accounting activity.\n, • Driving the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the internal control framework\n, • Identifying control gaps and overseeing remediation and process improvement initiatives\n\n Required Experience \n\n • ACA/ACCA qualified\n, • 5-10 years of relevant experience in insurance or financial services environment\n, • Strong knowledge of USGAAP, UKGAAP, SOX and internal control frameworks\n, • Experience working with internal and external audit teams\n, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills\n\n \n \n

TPH Global is one of the UK's leading Accounting SaaS product and Payroll service providers for the film and TV industries. We work globally with leading brands, such as Netflix, Marvel, Disney and the BBC and the team is driven by delivering quality and value to these clients, with a high level of service. \n With offices in London and Australia, we continue to grow and expand our team. We work in a flexible hybrid model with team members usually in the Twickenham office 3 days per week. \n We're searching for a hands-on Senior Management Accountant to take ownership of the day-to-day running of the UK finance function, leading a small finance team and reporting to the local Head of Operations, with a secondary line to the Australia-based fractional CFO, to keep a busy, high-volume payroll business running accurately and on time. \n The Role \n This is a hands-on role with genuine ownership. You'll run the UK finance operations that keep a busy, high-volume payroll business accurate and on time, from releasing client payments and weekly reconciliations through to month-end, while leading and supporting a finance team of three. We're a service business, and finance is part of what our clients pay for, so being responsive and easy to deal with matters here as much as technical strength. \n We expect this role will see you: \n\n • Own the finance side of the client payroll cycle, releasing payments once invoices are paid and funds reconciled, and making accurate, on-time payments to HMRC, pension providers and industry schemes (including the Directors Guild, Screen Actors Guild and Equity arrangements).\n, • Keep client funds and treasury under close watch across the accounts, making sure client money is in and reconciled before each run goes out, so wages are never released against funds that haven't landed.\n, • Run weekly bank reconciliations across multiple client accounts, resolving discrepancies and keeping everything accurate and complete.\n, • Prepare monthly management accounts, and provide budget-versus-actual and cash-flow analysis with clear, useful commentary for management.\n, • Oversee TPH's own payroll and VAT returns, and keep the weekly cycle running reliably.\n, • Lead and support a finance team of three, allocating and reviewing work, holding regular one-to-ones, and keeping the team organised and delivering to deadline.\n, • Keep core finance procedures documented and current, raising any control gaps early.\n\n Higher-level financial planning, forecasting, strategy, and year-end and audit sit with our fractional CFO, so you can focus on doing the finance work brilliantly rather than being pulled away from it. This is an ideal role for someone who genuinely loves the craft of accounting, thrives on order and accuracy, takes real pride in a clean set of books and a well-run team, and enjoys finding smarter, more automated ways to run a finance function. \n To be effective, we believe you'll need: \n\n • A qualified, finalist or strong qualified-by-experience accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).\n, • Solid experience across management and transactional accounting, reconciliations and month-end.\n, • A good understanding of payroll and related statutory obligations, including HMRC, pensions and VAT.\n, • Experience reconciling high transaction volumes and managing multiple bank accounts.\n, • Experience supervising or managing a small finance team, allocating and reviewing others' work.\n, • A clear communicator who's comfortable dealing directly with clients and stakeholders at all levels.\n, • Advanced Excel, and a commitment to using AI and finance tools to work efficiently.\n\n Experience in payroll services, a bureau environment or financial outsourcing would be a real bonus, as would familiarity with finance systems, integrations and automation tools. \n In return, you'll take a genuinely central role in a growing, global business, with supportive leadership and a fractional CFO. We're a growing, service-led business that backs people who take real ownership and deliver. You'll have the room to do the work you love, and to do it well. \n If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now via the link, including a short note introducing yourself to Rebecca, and we'll be in touch. \n No recruiters, thanks.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Systems Accountant to join a public sector organisation undertaking a significant programme of development and improvement. With investment in its finance systems and operating model, this role offers the chance to take ownership of a new finance platform and play a central role in supporting the organisation's future success. \n Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will take responsibility for the newly implemented Aqilla finance system, acting as the system owner and subject matter expert. You will be responsible for system configuration, user access, workflows, master data, key interfaces with payroll and banking systems, and ensuring the platform continues to support the organisation's evolving needs. Working closely with finance colleagues and wider stakeholders, you will help strengthen controls, improve processes and deliver an effective user experience across the business. \n The successful candidate will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant, or possess comparable accounting knowledge gained through experience. You will have strong finance systems expertise, including experience configuring and administering cloud-based finance platforms, supporting system integrations and managing financial data. A sound understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, reconciliations and period-end processes is essential, alongside strong communication skills and the ability to provide training, guidance and support to users at all levels. \n Experience of Aqilla or a similar cloud accounting system would be advantageous, as would exposure to finance system implementations, public sector organisations or complex governance environments. \n This role offers the opportunity to work on an interesting and high-profile transformation programme. For the right individual, it will be a rewarding and varied assignment, providing the chance to take ownership of a key finance system and help establish the processes, controls and governance that will support the organisation for years to come. \n Hybrid working arrangement with 2-3 days per week in the office.

Your new company \n Working for a world leading, fast growth, global renewable energy investor, developer and operator, this role will be operationally involved with sites and projects on a global scale. \n Your new role \n The purpose of this role is to work with the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis to deliver projects and commercial related accounting, forecasting in the most effective manner to the business and operations. \n Duties \n\n • Business partnering and Financial planning and analysis\n, • Reporting on project performance, working with operational budget holders\n, • Strategic presentation of financial information to investment and senior exec team\n, • Ad hoc project work\n\n What you'll need to succeed \n You will need to be a qualified finance professional with a focused FP&A background gained in the energy, infrastructure or related sectors. \n What you'll get in return \n You will get the opportunity to join a really relevant business at a time when they are experiencing growth in a newly created role, you will therefore work closely with the Head of FP&A so will offer superb training and development from a long term perspective. \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 on 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

Halliday Marx have an exclusive Head of Accounts opportunity in a fantastic Media company \n \n £80,000 - £85,000 \n Hybrid (3-4 days in) \n Central London \n \n Reporting to the Finance Director, this small, tightly knit company need a personality who will work as part of a team. \n This is a varied and hands-on finance role, combining day-to-day management of the Finance team with responsibility for the financial reporting and accounting of productions. \n Working closely with the Finance Director, the role will have visibility across a number of productions as well as regular interaction with investors, directors and royalty earners. \n Production Accounting & Reporting \n\n • Take ownership of the cyclical reporting of production accounts across all UK-based productions, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered on time.\n, • Review production costs to ensure expenditure is captured within the correct reporting periods and cost centres.\n, • Post payroll and reserve journals and review reserve accounts to ensure anticipated production costs are appropriately covered.\n, • Calculate royalty pools and manage the associated reporting to royalty earners, including self-billing where applicable.\n, • Prepare financial reporting for investors and directors where required.\n, • Manage the cyclical reporting of Productions, calculating royalty distributions.\n, • Calculate and distribute production profits on a quarterly basis.\n\n Finance Operations & Team Management \n\n • Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Finance team, supporting them in delivering accurate and timely processing.\n, • Manage key weekly finance activities, including payroll and payment runs.\n, • Review and authorise payments.\n, • Regularly review aged debtors, creditors and cash balances, identifying and following up on any issues.\n\n Year End & Audit \n\n • Prepare year-end schedules, reconciliations and supporting information for the annual audit.\n, • Act as a key point of contact throughout the audit process, responding to queries and coordinating information as required.\n\n Wider Responsibilities \n\n • Work closely with the Finance Director, highlighting any financial issues, risks or areas requiring attention.\n, • Provide support across a small number of HR and IT matters as required, adding further variety to the position.\n\n \n You will be / have: \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMQ or equivalent)\n, • Good all round experience in Financial accounting, tax and payroll.\n, • Strong Excel skills\n, • A thirst for bringing streamlined working practices to the department.\n, • A decent understanding of Corporation tax and relevant tax relief\n, • A team worker that is not afraid of a hands-on accounting as well as managing.\n\n

Salary: £45,000–£55,000 FTE, depending on experience \n Contract: Fixed-term maternity cover (12 month fixed term contract) \n Start date: November 2026 \n Hours: 4 or 5 days per week \n Location: Hybrid – approximately 1 day per week in our London office, with home working \n Reporting to: Fractional Head of Finance \n About the role \n We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Financial Controller to provide maternity cover across two sister companies, Myley Transport and Myley Education (Trading as Boost). \n Both businesses share a purpose: improving the lives of people living and working in care homes. Myley Transport provides fully managed excursions and experiences that help care home residents stay connected with the world around them, while Boost is an AI-enabled education and policy platform helping care organisations equip their teams to deliver exceptional care. \n This is a varied role spanning both businesses, with responsibility for financial control, management information and day-to-day finance leadership. You’ll own the monthly management accounts and core finance operations to help provide the commercial insight that helps our teams make informed decisions. \n You’ll work closely with our Fractional Head of Finance and colleagues across sales, operations and leadership, as well as our outsourced HR provider. \n The role would suit someone who enjoys small, fast-growing, purpose-led businesses, is comfortable working independently and can move easily between detailed finance work and the bigger commercial picture. \n What you’ll be responsible for \n Your responsibilities will include: \n\n • Owning the monthly management accounts and month-end processes across both businesses, including journals, accruals, prepayments, deferred and accrued income, and balance sheet reconciliations.\n, • Supporting budgets and forecasts, producing clear variance analysis and management information to inform commercial decision-making.\n, • Maintaining cash-flow forecasts and identifying potential risks and funding requirements early.\n, • Overseeing accounts payable and receivable, invoicing, payments, receipts, expenses and client billing queries.\n, • Managing the end-to-end payroll process and working with our HR provider on starters, leavers, remuneration and benefits.\n, • Maintaining strong financial controls, accurate general ledgers and high-quality financial records.\n, • Preparing quarterly VAT returns and ensuring PAYE, National Insurance, pensions and other financial obligations are completed accurately and on time.\n, • Supporting year-end close, statutory accounts and other reporting alongside the Fractional Head of Finance.\n, • Maintaining accurate financial information in Xero and improving finance processes, reporting and documentation.\n, • Identifying opportunities to streamline and automate processes and make financial information more accessible to non-finance colleagues.\n, • Providing financial analysis and supporting ad hoc projects as required.\n\n About you \n You’ll be a finance professional with strong technical accounting skills and a practical, commercial approach. You’ll be comfortable taking ownership of a broad finance remit and getting up to speed quickly to provide dependable continuity during the maternity-cover period. \n Ideally, you’ll bring: \n\n • Strong hands-on management accounting experience, including month-end, management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.\n, • Experience across transactional finance, including accounts payable, accounts receivable and reconciliations.\n, • Experience managing a broad finance remit within a small or growing organisation.\n, • A good understanding of financial controls, payroll, VAT and UK accounting and compliance requirements.\n, • Strong Excel and accounting-system skills, with Xero experience strongly preferred.\n, • Experience in an SME, start-up, scale-up or other fast-growing environment.\n, • A recognised accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA is strongly preferred, although we also welcome applications from candidates who are qualified by experience (QBE).\n\n How you work \n You’ll be proactive, hands-on and analytical, comfortable getting into the detail, identifying issues and finding practical solutions without needing significant direction. \n We encourage confidence in working with financial data from varied sources, bringing together information from different systems, reports and operational inputs, and making sense of it to produce accurate, coherent and useful financial information. You’ll be comfortable investigating discrepancies, understanding what sits behind the numbers and ensuring the underlying data is reliable. \n You’ll be accurate and well organised, with the ability to manage deadlines and competing priorities across two businesses while maintaining strong financial controls and attention to detail. You’ll be comfortable working independently and taking ownership, while knowing when to raise issues or seek input. \n The role requires high levels of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive financial and commercial information. \n Role details \n This is a fixed-term maternity-cover position starting in November 2026, available on a 4 or 5-day-per-week basis. We’re happy to discuss the working pattern with the successful candidate. \n The role is hybrid, with approximately one day per week in our London office and the remainder available for home working.

Head of Financial Reporting & ControlLead Financial Excellence in a Global Business \n We are seeking an accomplished and commercially minded Head of Financial Reporting & Control to lead the accounting, reporting, governance, and compliance functions across an international business. This is a strategic leadership opportunity for a qualified finance professional with extensive technical accounting expertise, a passion for process improvement, and a proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams. \n As a key finance leader, you will oversee financial reporting across multiple international entities, ensure compliance with global accounting standards, strengthen financial controls, and drive transformation through automation and continuous improvement. \n Key ResponsibilitiesFinancial Reporting \n\n • Lead all aspects of the accounting function, including month-end close, consolidation, and financial reporting.\n, • Oversee the timely and accurate reporting of monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial results across international entities and subsidiaries.\n, • Review complex commercial contracts and new business arrangements to identify and address accounting implications.\n, • Partner with business units and corporate teams to provide technical accounting guidance on complex and significant transactions, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, UK GAAP, and German GAAP.\n, • Monitor emerging accounting standards and lead the implementation of new reporting requirements.\n\n Controls & Governance \n\n • Develop and maintain scalable financial processes, systems, controls, and policies to support business growth.\n, • Ensure a strong internal control environment that safeguards company assets, minimizes risk, and meets compliance requirements.\n, • Create and maintain comprehensive accounting policies and procedures to promote consistency and best practice.\n, • Champion ethical leadership and ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.\n\n Process Improvement & Transformation \n\n • Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency across finance and the wider organization.\n, • Lead cross-functional finance projects supporting strategic business initiatives and operational change.\n, • Leverage technology to improve reporting capabilities and organizational effectiveness.\n, • Develop and execute effective change management and communication plans.\n\n Audit & Compliance \n\n • Lead statutory audits for international entities and support group audit activities.\n, • Build strong relationships with external auditors, ensuring alignment on financial reporting and accounting matters.\n, • Support external financial audits, SOX compliance, internal audits, and regulatory reviews.\n, • Partner with internal tax specialists to ensure compliance with local tax regulations across multiple jurisdictions.\n\n Leadership \n\n • Inspire and develop high-performing finance teams through coaching, mentoring, and clear strategic direction.\n, • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, accountability, and customer focus.\n, • Design and implement learning and development initiatives that build technical capability and leadership skills.\n, • Create an inclusive, engaging environment that promotes teamwork, innovation, and employee wellbeing.\n, • Develop organizational structures aligned with industry best practice and future business growth.\n\n About You \n You are an experienced finance leader with exceptional technical accounting knowledge and a track record of delivering results within complex, international organizations. \n Essential Requirements \n\n • Fully qualified ACA or ACCA.\n, • 15+ years of accounting experience, ideally across both public practice and industry.\n, • Strong knowledge of US GAAP, UK GAAP\n, • Extensive experience leading financial reporting, consolidation, audit, and governance activities.\n, • Highly proficient with ERP systems (SAP experience is advantageous) and financial reporting tools.\n, • Demonstrated ability to lead change, improve processes, and build high-performing teams.\n, • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.\n, • A collaborative, results-oriented approach with high levels of integrity, accountability, and commercial awareness.\n\n Why Join Us? \n This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a growing international organisation. You'll work alongside senior leaders, influence strategic decisions, lead transformation initiatives, and make a lasting impact while helping shape a world-class finance function. \n Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

About our Client \n The Serious Fraud Office is a specialist investigating & prosecuting authority that tackles the top-level of serious or complex fraud, bribery, & corruption in England & Wales, & Northern Ireland. It is independent in making decisions about its cases. It is a civil service organisation that operates within the framework of government accounting & the Green Book. It is subject to government spending review. \n Job Description \n The Head of People is a senior leadership role within the People and Culture function, responsible for leading a broad, high-impact and customer-focused People service. Working closely with the Chief People Officer and Head of Culture, the postholder will lead a team of highly capable functional leads to deliver operational excellence, strategic insight and measurable value across talent acquisition, people operations, employee relations, case management, people data and insights, HR information systems and continuous improvement. \n The role will ensure that managers and leaders receive timely, practical and evidence-based support to resource, manage and develop their services effectively. It will balance the delivery of high-quality transactional HR services with strategic workforce planning, customer-focused service standards and a strong emphasis on data, insight and performance. A key priority will be supporting the development and optimisation of the HR information system (Oracle), so that people data, workflows, reporting and manager self-service enable better decisions and more efficient service delivery. \n This role will deputise on all people management matters in the absence of the Chief People Officer. \n As Head of People you will be responsible for: \n\n • Leadership and Management: Lead, empower and develop a team of highly capable functional leads across talent acquisition, people operations, data and insights, employee relations, case management and HR systems.\n, • People Service Delivery: Ensure the effective delivery of high-quality transactional, advisory and strategic People services across the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, case management, workforce administration, policy application and people data management.\n, • Strategy and Planning: Work with the Chief People Officer, Head of Culture and People Business Partners to translate the People Strategy into practical delivery plans for each business area.\n, • Talent Acquisition and Resourcing: Oversee a proactive talent acquisition and resourcing service that supports managers to plan, attract and secure the capability required to deliver their services effectively.\n, • Data, Insights and Performance: Lead the use of people data, metrics and insight to improve service delivery, workforce planning and organisational decision-making.\n, • Relationship and Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders, ensuring People services are responsive, joined up and aligned to organisational priorities.\n, • Financial Management: Manage relevant operational budgets and resources effectively, ensuring value for money and alignment between investment, service priorities and agreed performance indicators and service standards.\n, • Service Improvement: Lead continuous improvement across People team working practices, processes and service levels.\n, • HR Information System / Oracle: Lead the People function’s contribution to the development and optimisation of the HR information system, including Oracle, ensuring that workflows, data quality, reporting, manager self-service and user experience support efficient service delivery and reliable workforce information.\n, • Policy, Governance and Professional Standards: Develop, govern and apply HR policies, procedures and guidance to promote fairness, consistency, compliance and good people management practice across the SFO.\n, • Subject Expertise and External Engagement: Represent the People function across Civil Service networks, government bodies and external partners.\n\n \n The Successful Applicant \n As part of the application process, you will be required to provide: \n A personal statement of no more than 1000 wordsattached to your CVin one document that explains how your skills & experience meet each of the essential & desirable experience criteria as listed in the job pack. \n Please note, desirable experience will only be taken into account if there is a large volume of applications & there is a need for further shortlisting for interview. \n A supporting CV outlining your job history & qualifications, (including how you meet the essential technical criteria for the role) \n It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage. \n Interview stage \n Behaviours & experience as outlined in the job pack will be tested at interview. \n Closing date is 11:55am on the 12th October 2026 \n Interviews are expected to take place in person at the SFO Offices on 21st October 2026. \n All dates are indicative & subject to change. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. \n \n What’s on Offer \n The salary for this Head of People role is £73,365 – £81,630 (Civil Service Pay Award pending from 1st August 2026) \n Staff applying on promotion within the Civil Service will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or receive a 10% increase on their existing salary. Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing salary. A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% (details open in a new window) \n Security \n Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed - SC Security Check : 5 years residency in the United Kingdom preceding this application. See our Vetting Charter \n People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.

Harper May is working with a founder-led technology business that has built a substantial SaaS platform serving the B2B enterprise market. The company is well-funded, operationally mature, and serving a growing customer base across Europe and North America. As the organisation moves toward its next phase-scaling sales infrastructure, expanding into new verticals, and preparing for external capital-the finance function needs reinforcement at leadership level. They are seeking a Head of Finance to drive financial rigour, build commercial capability, and support strategic decision-making. \n The Role \n You will report to the CEO and partner with the commercial and product leadership teams. The Head of Finance owns all aspects of financial planning, reporting, and analysis. This is a role that balances operational leadership-managing systems, controls, and a small team-with strategic input into pricing, customer economics, market expansion, and capital allocation decisions. \n\n • Own financial planning, forecasting, and monthly management reporting with clear commercial narrative\n, • Build and maintain financial controls, audit readiness, and compliance with accounting standards\n, • Lead analysis of customer unit economics, retention, and lifetime value to inform commercial strategy\n, • Work with leadership on scenario planning, fundraising preparation, and investor communication\n, • Manage the finance team and relationships with external advisers and auditors\n, • Provide insight on product roadmap investment, market entry decisions, and operational spending\n\n What we are looking for \n\n • ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification\n, • Proven experience in a scaling technology or SaaS business, ideally in a finance leadership role\n, • Strong grasp of SaaS metrics, subscription economics, and growth-stage financial management\n, • Comfortable with strategic finance-comfortable advising on business decisions, not just reporting results\n, • Track record managing small teams and building finance processes from the ground up\n, • Collaborative mindset; ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders\n

Job Vacancy: Head of Controls \n An esteemed client in the Insurance industry is actively seeking a dedicated and experienced Head of Controls to join their dynamic finance department. This permanent position offers a significant opportunity to influence financial reporting and control systems at a notable organization. \n Role & Responsibilities: \n\n • Oversee the development and implementation of control systems to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.\n, • Direct the preparation of all financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, reports to shareholders, tax returns, and reports for government regulatory agencies.\n, • Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal budgetary reporting requirements.\n, • Assess and improve processes for streamlining financial practices and enhancing efficiency.\n, • Lead internal and external audits to ensure adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.\n, • Provide leadership and training to the finance department to achieve financial objectives.\n\n Key Skills: \n\n • Profound knowledge of Statutory Reporting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.\n, • Strong leadership abilities to manage and guide the finance team.\n, • Superb analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.\n, • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.\n, • Proactive problem-solving attitude and a continuous improvement mindset.\n, • Ability to work under pressure and meet stringent deadlines.\n

We're working with an international charity to find an Interim Head of Finance who enjoys getting involved in everything from big-picture financial strategy to the detail of day-to-day finance. \n This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced charity finance professional to take ownership of the finance function within a small, purpose-driven organisation doing important work internationally. \n You'll work closely with senior leadership, support the Board of Trustees and play a key role in ensuring the organisation has the financial strength, systems and insight to deliver its work. \n There is the potential for Interim to Perm for the right candidate. \n It's a broad position with plenty of autonomy, combining financial leadership, management accounting, grant management and operational finance. \n You'll be responsible for: \n\n • Leading the finance function, including management accounts, statutory reporting, budgeting and forecasting.\n, • Managing international grants and funding agreements, ensuring compliance with funder requirements.\n, • Producing financial reports, forecasts and cash flow projections for senior management and the Board.\n, • Supporting programme teams with project budgets, financial planning and grant reporting.\n, • Overseeing year-end accounts, audits, financial controls and charity compliance.\n, • Working with senior leadership on financial strategy, sustainability and long-term planning.\n, • Managing and supporting a Senior Finance Officer.\n, • Improving financial systems and processes to make finance accessible and useful across the organisation.\n\n We're looking for someone with substantial experience in charity finance who understands the complexities of international grant funding. \n Ideally, you'll bring: \n\n • Experience in charity or not-for-profit finance.\n, • Strong experience managing the full lifecycle of international grants, including reporting and funder compliance.\n, • A professional accounting qualification or equivalent experience.\n, • Confidence producing budgets, forecasts, management accounts and statutory financial statements.\n, • Experience working with international funders, including governments and charitable foundations.\n, • Strong Excel skills and experience with Sage 50.\n, • The ability to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance colleagues.\n, • A practical, flexible approach — someone equally happy discussing strategy with Trustees or getting stuck into the detail.\n, • Experience leading finance in a small or medium-sized charity would be particularly useful.\n\n Why consider it? \n This is a role where your contribution will be visible and genuinely valued. You'll have the opportunity to shape financial processes, influence strategic decisions and work closely with people committed to making a positive impact. With a four-day working week and a 50/50 split between office and home, it's also an attractive opportunity for someone looking for a senior, meaningful finance role with a better work-life balance.

Interim Head of Group Reporting \n £550-£650 per day | 6 months | Essex / South East - hybrid, c.3 days per week onsite \n We are supporting a c.£60m+ turnover, PE-backed manufacturing business with the appointment of an Interim Head of Group Reporting for an initial six-month assignment. \n The business operates in a high-volume, operationally complex environment and forms part of a larger international group. The finance function is responsible for supporting a fast-paced business with a strong focus on reporting, controls, audit, forecasting and group requirements. \n Key responsibilities \n\n • Lead and coordinate the year-end / external audit process\n, • Own group and management reporting deliverables\n, • Ensure accurate and timely month-end and period-end reporting\n, • Manage balance sheet controls, reconciliations and reporting integrity\n, • Support statutory accounts and wider financial reporting requirements\n, • Work with auditors and senior stakeholders to resolve technical accounting queries\n, • Review existing reporting and control processes and identify opportunities for improvement\n, • Support budgeting, forecasting and wider finance projects where required\n, • Manage and support a small finance team\n, • Liaise with the wider international group finance function\n\n Candidate profile \n\n • Qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent preferred\n, • Strong financial reporting and financial control background\n, • Demonstrable experience leading an external audit\n, • Ideally 5+ years' relevant finance experience\n, • Strong stakeholder management skills\n, • Experience within a group, multi-entity or international business would be advantageous\n, • Sector background is flexible; manufacturing, ecommerce or operationally complex businesses would be useful but are not essential\n\n Assignment details \n\n • Duration: 6 months\n, • Rate: £550-£650 per day\n, • Location: Essex / South East\n, • Working pattern: Ideally 3 days per week onsite, although there may be some flexibility for the right candidate\n\n This would suit an experienced Group Reporting Manager, Head of Group Reporting, Financial Controller or Senior Finance Manager who can quickly take ownership of the reporting and audit agenda within a fast-paced business. \n

Group Accountant with Immediate start. London / Hybrid, Temporary Assignment (approximately 3 months) \n We’re looking for a Group Accountant to join the finance team of a global travel business, supporting consolidated reporting, statutory accounts, financial controls and regulatory compliance. \n \n Group Accountant, Responsibilities \n\n • Supporting the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated accounts and reporting in line with IFRS.\n, • Assisting with the delivery of accurate Group accounts to management, the Board and external stakeholders.\n, • Maintaining and enhancing the Group financial control environment, particularly around consolidation and reporting.\n, • Managing balance sheet reconciliations and monthly variance analysis, investigating movements and identifying potential issues.\n, • Supporting the preparation of Group financial statements, disclosures and regulatory reporting.\n, • Working closely with Treasury to reconcile and explain movements in investments and debt.\n, • Supporting the external audit process and ensuring audit requirements are delivered accurately and on time.\n, • Preparing technical accounting papers and memos in accordance with IFRS and relevant local standards.\n, • Supporting regulatory compliance and the ongoing development of Group finance policies and processes.\n, • Working with the Head of Tax on the implementation and maintenance of the Group's transfer pricing policy.\n, • Contributing to wider finance transformation, process improvement and business priorities.\n\n \n Group Accountant, Skills Required \n\n • You'll ideally be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a strong technical and analytical background. We will also consider those 'qualified by experience'.\n\n\n, • Proven experience in group accounting, financial reporting, audit or financial control.\n, • Strong knowledge of IFRS and statutory reporting requirements.\n, • Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to investigate variances and clearly explain financial movements.\n, • Excellent attention to detail and an understanding of how interconnected finance systems impact reporting.\n, • Experience working within a multinational or international organisation.\n, • The ability to communicate complex accounting matters clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.\n, • Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines.\n, • A technology-focused mindset and the ability to quickly adapt to new systems and processes.\n\n \n Global Accountant, Additional Information \n\n • 3 month Temporary role starting ASAP\n, • Hybrid with the offices in central London\n, • Paying up to £30p/h depending on experience\n, • Working Mon – Fri\n\n To apply for this Group Accountant please either apply online, email your c.v to or call Amy on quoting Ref: AM60978

Head of Property Finance \n ?? London | Hybrid Working \n £75,000 \n Are you a qualified accountant with strong property finance experience looking for a senior leadership role with broad commercial and strategic responsibility? \n We're seeking a Head of Property Finance to lead the financial management of a diverse property portfolio and associated commercial activities. Reporting to the CFO, you'll oversee budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance, VAT, audits, procurement, and financial controls, while partnering with senior stakeholders to drive performance and support key property projects. \n What you'll do: \n\n • Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting\n, • Oversee property accounting, service charges and commercial tenant invoicing\n, • Ensure strong financial controls, audit readiness and regulatory compliance\n, • Manage VAT and statutory reporting requirements\n, • Support procurement, contract management and major property initiatives\n, • Lead and develop a small finance team\n\n What we're looking for: \n\n • CCAB-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA)\n, • Significant experience in financial management and reporting\n, • Strong understanding of VAT, audit and financial controls\n, • Advanced Excel and accounting systems expertise\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills\n, • Property, real estate, charity or commercial finance experience desirable\n\n This is an excellent opportunity to combine technical finance leadership with commercial influence in a role that offers real variety, visibility and impact. Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

An established and growing international events and entertainment business is seeking an experienced and commercially minded Financial Controller to take responsibility for the financial management and reporting of the business and its associated companies. \n This is a senior, hands-on finance role suited to an individual who is equally comfortable working at a strategic level with the owner of the business and getting into the detail of the day-to-day finance function. \n The successful candidate will take ownership of budgeting, forecasting, management accounting and cash flow, while ensuring the business has robust financial controls, accurate reporting and the information required to support commercial decision-making. \n The business operates internationally across multiple companies and currencies, and the role will therefore suit someone with experience of multi-company, multi-currency and international accounting, together with an understanding of transfer pricing. \n The Head of Finance will work closely with the operational side of the business, developing a strong understanding of how the business operates and ensuring that finance provides meaningful commercial support rather than simply reporting historical results. \n Key Responsibilities \n Financial Management & Reporting \n\n • Take overall responsibility for the day-to-day financial management of the group.\n, • Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts and financial reporting.\n, • Provide meaningful analysis and commentary on financial performance, highlighting trends, variances, risks and opportunities.\n, • Oversee accounting across multiple companies and international operations.\n, • Manage multi-currency transactions, reconciliations and reporting.\n, • Maintain robust financial controls and accounting processes.\n, • Ensure the finance function operates efficiently and financial information is accurate and reliable.\n\n Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning \n\n • Lead the budgeting process across the business.\n, • Prepare regular financial forecasts and reforecasts.\n, • Work closely with operational management to develop realistic budgets and financial plans.\n, • Monitor performance against budget and provide clear explanations of significant variances.\n, • Develop financial models and analysis to support business planning and strategic decisions.\n, • Provide the owner and senior management team with forward-looking financial information.\n\n Cash Flow & Working Capital \n\n • Take ownership of cash flow forecasting and management.\n, • Monitor cash balances, receipts, payments and working capital requirements.\n, • Provide regular visibility of current and projected cash positions.\n, • Identify potential cash flow issues at an early stage and work with the operational team to address them.\n, • Ensure appropriate controls are in place around payments and expenditure.\n\n International & Group Finance \n\n • Manage financial reporting across multiple companies and jurisdictions.\n, • Oversee multi-currency accounting and foreign exchange considerations.\n, • Work with external advisors on international accounting and tax matters.\n, • Maintain an understanding of transfer pricing arrangements and ensure appropriate information is provided to external advisors.\n, • Coordinate financial information across the different businesses and ensure consistency of reporting.\n\n Commercial & Operational Support \n\n • Work closely with operational teams to understand the commercial drivers of the business.\n, • Provide financial insight to support pricing, investment, expenditure and commercial decisions.\n, • Challenge assumptions where appropriate and ensure financial considerations are incorporated into business decisions.\n, • Develop strong working relationships across the business, acting as a trusted financial partner rather than simply a reporting function.\n, • Translate financial information into clear and practical recommendations for non-financial stakeholders.\n\n External Relationships \n\n • Act as the principal finance contact for the company's external accountants and other professional advisors.\n, • Liaise with auditors, tax advisors and other external specialists as required.\n, • Coordinate year-end accounts, tax and other statutory requirements with external advisors.\n, • Ensure external advisors have accurate and timely information.\n, • Manage relationships with external accountants and other professional advisors.\n\n Senior Stakeholder Management \n\n • Work closely with the owner of the business, providing regular financial updates, insight and advice.\n, • Be comfortable discussing financial performance, cash flow, forecasts and commercial issues directly at owner level.\n, • Provide a clear and objective financial perspective on key business decisions.\n, • Have the confidence to challenge constructively when required while maintaining a commercially focused approach.\n\n Experience & Skills \n The successful candidate is likely to be a qualified accountant or qualified by experience with substantial experience in a hands-on senior finance role. \n They should have: \n\n • Strong management accounting and financial reporting experience.\n, • Proven experience of budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.\n, • Strong cash flow management and forecasting skills.\n, • Experience working across multiple companies and international operations.\n, • Experience of multi-currency accounting.\n, • A good understanding of transfer pricing and experience working with external tax/accounting advisors.\n, • Strong practical experience of Xero.\n, • Excellent Excel and financial modelling skills.\n, • The ability to understand the commercial and operational drivers of a business.\n, • Experience of working closely with owners, MDs or senior management.\n, • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.\n, • The confidence to operate at a senior level while remaining prepared to be hands-on.\n\n \n

Mapped Recruitment is partnering with a consumer brand to recruit a Group Financial Controller. \n What started as a DTC brand is now a multi-entity, multi-market, multi-channel group, with subscription, wholesale and retail running side by side. Reporting to the Finance Director, you will build the controls, reporting, and compliance foundations for the next phase of growth. \n The business operates across multiple entities, markets and channels, including D2C, wholesale and retail, so we are looking for someone who has worked in a similarly fast-paced, product-led environment. \n Key Responsibilities: \n\n • Reporting to the Finance Director, overseeing the UK Finance team\n, • Lead the month-end and year-end close across every group entity, owning the timetable, quality, review process and final sign-off.\n, • Lead the month-end and year-end close across every group entity, owning the timetable, quality, review process and final sign-off.\n, • Support the Finance Director with board and investor reporting\n, • Take ownership of balance-sheet integrity across the group\n, • Ensure the accuracy of stock and cost of goods sold by reconciling warehouse systems, 3PL records and the general ledger.\n, • Lead the preparation of statutory financial statements for every group entity and manage the annual audit\n, • Lead the group’s transition to the relevant FRS 102 & IFRS changes\n, • Oversee indirect tax across the group\n, • Key Projects include: ERP systems improvement, replacing manual spreadsheet reconciliations with reliable automated processes, improving warehouse-to-ERP integration\n\n Key Requirements: \n\n • ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified with relevant post-qualification experience\n, • Must have experience within FMCG, consumer, D2C, or retail/stock related environment\n, • Strong Financial Controller, Group Financial Controller or Head of Financial Control experience\n, • Multi-entity and ideally international experience\n, • Group consolidation, statutory accounts and external audit ownership\n, • Strong balance sheet and financial control experience\n, • Inventory, stock and landed cost accounting\n\n \n Central London Hybrid (2 days in, 3 days at home) \n £85,000 - £100,000 depending on experience

Senior Financial Accountant (Retail) | London (hybrid, 3 days in office) | £70,000-£75,000 plus bonus | Global Fashion Brand | 9 month contract \n A Senior Financial Accountant is required to work for a leading global fashion brand based in London (3 days in the office). This is an opportunity to work for a large, internationally recognised business, this is a key role as the business continues to strengthen its presence internationally. \n Reporting to the Head of Accounting, you will be leading financial accounting activities across the UK, Ireland and Nordics. The role will ensure a high-quality and timely month-end close, robust statutory reporting, and effective audit management. \n Responsibilities will include: \n\n • Leading and overseeing the month-end close process for 3 regions (UK, Ireland and Nordics), ensuring accuracy, completeness and adherence to Group deadlines\n, • Reviewing and challenging balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring appropriate controls are in place\n, • Coordinating the preparation and review of statutory accounts across all entities\n, • Acting as a key point of contact for technical accounting matters, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local GAAP requirements\n, • Leading the delivery of interim and year-end audits, acting as primary contact for external auditors\n, • Delivering monthly management accounts for UK Back Office cost centres, including clear and insightful variance analysis\n, • Supporting the preparation of annual budgets and forecasting cycles\n\n What they are looking for: \n\n • Qualified Accountant with 2+ years post qualified experience\n, • Strong technical accounting knowledge across IFRS and statutory reporting\n, • Proven experience managing month-end close, audits and statutory accounts within a multi-entity or international environment\n, • Retail industry experience is strongly preferred\n, • SAP or similar ERP experience is beneficial but not essential\n, • You will be proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented, with excellent stakeholder management skills and a collaborative, continuous improvement mindset\n\n In return for your hard work, you will have the opportunity to work for a prestigious brand in a rewarding culture. For the right candidate, this role could go permanent.

Your new company \n A fast growth Renewables business with European assets in Storage and Solar. The company are projecting significant strides forward in their EMEA operations, so they are looking to bolster their commercial team. \n Your new role \n Acting as Strategic Business Partner across the EMEA business, reporting to the Head of Strategy, this role is highly focused on driving analysis and commercial information into the operational & development decision-making of the business across a project portfolio, as well as owning and developing strategic reporting. \n Duties \n\n • Business partnering with operational budget holders, decision makers and leaders\n, • Financial analysis of information from across groups\n, • Project finance & debt reporting\n, • Financial modelling\n, • Portfolio review\n, • Ownership and collaboration with operational teams\n, • Financial planning and analysis\n\n What you'll need to succeed \n You will need to come from an accounting/ strategic background, in practice or industry and have commercial acumen as well as an understanding of owning process and reporting to commercial/asset teams. The ability to work with senior stakeholders on contracts/projects/assets is essential, where you can interpret commercial information and drive changes in the business. \n What you'll get in return \n You will get to be part of a significant modernisation and change of a business and play a very important part in influencing decision-making. This role would suit someone who enjoys having responsibility and working with the business. The company has a modern work culture and a hybrid model. \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 on 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

Interim Head of Financial Accounts/Senior Financial Accountant \n This high-profile London based not for profit organisation is looking to recruit an interim Head of Financial Accounts/Senior Financial Accountant for this initially a 2-3 month day rate role, to support and take some of the workload strain from their current financial accounting team, whilst they complete and deliver on a key high-profile project, ensuring effective business as usual with the production of the statutory accounts across the organisation. \n Reporting to the Head of Finance whilst managing and supporting the current finance accounting and operations team, your daily’s duties will include: \n\n • Responsible for the management and leadership of the financial accounts team, including supporting and assisting staff to meet their objectives.\n, • Possess the ability to manage change and its effects on staff, systems and procedures within the team.\n, • Responsible for the control of the bank accounts, and the management of short-term investments.\n, • Ensuring the reconciliation of fundraising income on a monthly basis, including making sure that unrestricted and restricted receipts are correctly recorded on the finance systems.\n, • Preparation of the ICR’s quarterly VAT return, ensuring accurate submission and payment.\n, • Maintenance of VAT-compliant records and working papers.\n, • Review the balance sheet on a monthly basis as part of the month-end close..\n, • Supervise other staff within the financial accounting team to provide appropriate working papers and reconciliations as part of the year-end close and timetable.\n, • Support the team in ensuring that non-Financial colleagues understand the process and importance for financial and transactional accounting activities.\n\n The successful candidate will be an ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CIPFA qualified accountant. You must have significant financial accounting, balance sheet control, treasury management and tax experience, whilst supporting key stakeholders within and outside finance with their decision-making processes. \n It will be beneficial if you have experience of working within an organisation going through and implementing a new finance system; where you can offer support with the finance workstream alongside colleagues delivering within this key project implementation. You must be proactive and use your imitative working towards the delivery of the required key tasks, whilst possessing strong supporting and influencing skills and first class written and verbal communication skills. \n For this exciting interim role, it is essential that you have excellent systems skills including being an advanced user of Excel, whilst a working knowledge of Agresso would provide a distinct advantage.

Finance Systems Accountant | 9-Month FTC | London | Hybrid | £50,000 - £60,000 | FTSE 100 FMCG | \n A leading global FMCG group is looking for a Group Finance Systems Accountant to join its systems team on a 9-month fixed term contract. Reporting to the Head of Finance Systems, you will manage the process of consolidating subsidiary data into the group's financial results from a systems standpoint. \n It comes at a pivotal time, due to business change and IFRS 18 implementation both feeding into the group's reporting systems. \n The Role \n\n • Prepare the consolidation system for both period-end reporting and budget/forecast cycles\n, • Ensure the completeness and validity of reporting entity submissions into the system\n, • Support the development and testing of complex reporting spreadsheets used to capture entity data for upload into IBM Cognos Controller\n, • Assist with the planning, testing and implementation of technical upgrades to reporting and consolidation systems\n, • Work with the Group Finance Systems team to identify and implement system and process improvements\n, • Support the maintenance of the systems chart of accounts and company structures\n\n About You \n\n • Previous experience with consolidation software\n, • Sound knowledge of IFRS, consolidation and financial reporting\n, • A proactive approach to improving processes and adding value\n, • Qualified accountant and member of a professional accounting body (desirable)\n, • Experience performing consolidations for a complex business, including multi-currency\n, • Month-end close and wider reporting process experience\n\n Benefits \n\n • Pension scheme up to 10%\n, • Life assurance\n, • 25 days holiday annually (pro rata)\n\n

A young, high-growth, ambitious energy business with international operations, focused on markets where it can drive local economic impact and play a strategic role in the energy sector. The company operates across multiple jurisdictions and is scaling its finance function to match its growth trajectory. \n Position Summary \n A newly-shaped Tax Senior Manager role covering Tax Reporting, Compliance, Transfer Pricing and VAT. You'll work closely with the Head of Tax and wider finance function to ensure accurate tax reporting, full regulatory compliance, robust transfer pricing, and efficient VAT management across the group. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Own tax reporting: preparing provisions, disclosures and reports for financial statements across multiple tax jurisdictions\n, • Lead UK tax compliance end-to-end — corporate income tax, VAT, CT61s, P11Ds and PSA returns — ensuring full regulatory compliance\n, • Drive transfer pricing strategy: managing intercompany transactions, mitigating risk, and working with advisers to prepare group TP documentation\n, • Oversee VAT management, including return reviews, reporting, reconciliation, timely submission and VAT recovery processes\n, • Manage tax audits and authority inquiries, coordinating responses to minimise tax exposure\n, • Provide ad hoc tax advice across the business as needed\n\n Candidate Requirements \n\n • 5–10 years' tax experience with strong exposure to reporting, compliance, transfer pricing, and some VAT\n, • Solid UK tax compliance knowledge; international jurisdiction experience preferred\n, • Proficient in tax software and major accounting/ERP platforms, plus strong financial modelling ability\n

About the role \n This is a first Financial Controller role. It would suit a qualified Group Accountant, Management Accountant or Finance Manager who is ready to step up and own the finance function of a multi-entity group. \n We are a privately owned group of around 50 companies across two sectors. The first is an international FMCG business selling in over 120 countries, with entities in the UK, EU and US. The second is a UK property portfolio. \n You will own the group's accounting, reporting directly to the directors, with a team of three handling day-to-day transaction processing. \n The role has a clear path. Your first year is about getting monthly reporting and systems to a high standard. We intend to promote the right person to Head of Finance within 2-3 years, with salary to match. \n \n Requirements \n • ACA or ACCA qualified \n • Trained in an accountancy practice, with hands-on experience preparing statutory accounts, corporation tax returns and VAT returns for a portfolio of companies \n • Experience in an industry role within a multi-entity group, for example as Group Accountant, Management Accountant or Finance Manager \n • Has personally produced monthly management accounts to a deadline, including accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and variance commentary \n • Has prepared group or consolidated accounts, including intercompany reconciliations and eliminations \n • Has set up or improved finance systems and can show it. For example, bank feeds, automated allocation rules, invoice capture and reporting or consolidation tools \n • Strong working knowledge of cloud accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, and advanced Excel \n • Organised and deadline-driven, able to own a filing calendar across many entities without supervision \n • Able to explain numbers clearly to non-finance directors \n \n Nice to have \n • Multi-currency experience (GBP, EUR, USD) \n • E-commerce or marketplace reconciliation experience (Amazon, Shopify and similar platforms) \n • Property accounting experience \n • Exposure to international tax or group structuring, or an interest in studying ATT or CTA \n \n Responsibilities \n • Produce monthly management accounts for the trading and property entities, with commentary for the directors \n • Produce consolidated group accounts and manage intercompany balances \n • Prepare and file VAT returns, statutory accounts and corporation tax returns across the group, and keep every Companies House and HMRC deadline on track \n • Lead the systemisation of the finance function, so income and payments across all entities are captured and allocated automatically wherever possible \n • Oversee the processing team and review and approve payment runs \n • Oversee reconciliation of income across bank accounts, marketplaces and payment platforms \n • Act as the main point of contact for our external accountants and tax advisers in the UK, Czech Republic and US \n • Maintain cash flow forecasts for the main trading entities \n \n What we offer \n • £55,000 - £70,000 depending on experience \n • A written progression path to Group Financial Controller within 18 to 24 months \n • Direct exposure to the directors and real ownership of the finance function \n • Support for further professional study \n \n To apply \n Send your CV with a short note covering your experience of month end and group accounts, and one finance process you have automated.

A growing real estate business is seeking a qualified accountant to join its expanding finance team in a broad and varied Head Office Accountant position. \n Reporting into senior finance leadership, this opportunity is ideally suited to an ACA-qualified accountant looking to make their first move from practice into industry. The role offers significant responsibility from day one, exposure to senior stakeholders, and the chance to play a key role within a high-performing finance function. \n You'll take ownership of key head office accounting activities, helping to ensure accurate financial reporting, supporting budgeting and forecasting processes, and contributing to the continued development of the finance function. Over time, the position is expected to evolve, providing increasing exposure to financial planning and analysis responsibilities. \n What you'll be doing: \n\n • Ownership of the month-end accounting and reporting process for a number of operating entities\n, • Preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations and management reporting\n, • Analysis of operational and head office costs, investigating variances and identifying key trends\n, • Supporting budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities\n, • Partnering with stakeholders across finance and the wider business to provide insight and challenge\n, • Assisting with statutory reporting, audits and compliance requirements\n, • Supporting cash flow reporting and working capital management\n, • Driving process improvements and helping to enhance financial controls and reporting frameworks\n, • Producing ad hoc analysis to support business decision making\n, • Acting as a key finance contact for designated business areas\n\n What we're looking for: \n\n • Qualified Accountant (ACA or ACCA OR equivalent) ideally trained within a Big 4 or leading accountancy practice\n, • 1-3 years' post-qualified experience, either in practice or having recently made the move into industry\n, • Strong technical accounting foundation combined with a commercial mindset\n, • Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of deliverables\n, • Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships across the business\n, • Analytical, inquisitive and naturally proactive in solving problems\n, • Looking for a long-term opportunity with clear progression into FP&A and broader commercial finance responsibilities\n\n What's on Offer: \n\n • Opportunity to join a growing and well-backed real estate organisation\n, • High level of autonomy and ownership from day one\n, • Broad exposure across finance and the wider business\n, • Clear development pathway into FP&A and commercial finance\n, • Collaborative, fast-paced environment with strong career progression opportunities\n\n This role would suit an ambitious ACA looking to leverage a strong practice foundation in a commercial environment and build a long-term career within a growing business. \n \n Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. \n Please note that your personal information will be treated in accordance with our .

We are pleased to be partnering with a large, household-name and extremely important charity to recruit a Finance Manager into its fundraising finance team. \n This is a permanent business partnering role supporting the Individual Giving function, covering areas including cash donations, payroll giving and wider individual giving activity. The role sits within a collaborative fundraising finance team and will work closely with senior stakeholders across fundraising, marketing, strategy and the wider finance function. \n The successful candidate will take ownership of financial planning, reporting and decision support for a substantial area of activity, with a budget of around £85m. \n About the role \n Reporting into the Senior Finance Manager responsible for the wider income generation and fundraising team, you will act as the key finance partner to the Individual Giving function. \n The role will involve: \n\n • Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning\n, • Producing high-quality monthly reporting and analysis\n, • Understanding and explaining variances and emerging trends\n, • Supporting senior stakeholders with financial decision-making\n, • Building and reviewing business cases\n, • Supporting strategy development\n, • Working with income and strategy leads on longer-term planning\n, • Reviewing cost drivers and opportunities for improvement\n, • Supporting the onboarding of new suppliers and relevant contract activity\n\n You will work closely with Management Accountants and the wider finance team to ensure accurate monthly reporting, while providing useful commentary and insight to help stakeholders understand performance and make informed decisions. \n The planning cycle is just beginning, so this is a good time to join and get involved early in the budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning process. \n There will also be exposure to senior stakeholders, including the Director of Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement, senior leaders within Individual Giving, the Group Finance team and, through strategy work, some exposure to Executive and Board-level reporting. \n About you \n A formal accounting qualification would be preferred, although candidates who are qualified by experience will also be considered where they can demonstrate a strong track record across the full range of responsibilities. \n You are likely to have: \n\n • Strong business-partnering experience\n, • Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning cycles\n, • Strong management accounting and month-end experience\n, • Experience of income budgeting\n, • Strong financial modelling skills\n, • Experience supporting strategy and business cases\n, • Confidence working with senior and non-finance stakeholders\n, • Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn financial information into clear insight\n, • A proactive approach to process improvement and continuous improvement\n, • Experience working within a large or complex organisation\n\n Strong charity sector experience is particularly important for this role, alongside an understanding of how income generation and fundraising functions operate. \n The role would suit somebody who enjoys working closely with the business rather than focusing purely on technical accounting. \n Team and culture \n The fundraising finance team includes three Finance Managers and a Finance Analyst and works closely with the Head of Finance for Fundraising. \n The wider finance structure also includes teams supporting Retail, Philanthropy, Marketing and central consolidation. \n The team is described as friendly, collaborative and supportive, with a relatively non-corporate feel. People are trusted to work independently, take ownership and build strong relationships with the areas they support. \n There are also good longer-term progression opportunities across the wider finance function, including potential Senior Finance Manager roles and moves into other areas of Group Finance. \n Salary and working arrangements \n The salary is £57,500-£65,500, depending on experience, with the expectation that most appointments will be made around the middle of the range. \n The role is based in Stratford with a highly flexible hybrid model. Contractually, the expectation is 1-2 days per week in the office, although the fundraising finance team often works more flexibly depending on meetings and business requirements. \n This is a permanent, full-time role working 35 hours per week. \n Recruitment process \n The organisation is looking to move relatively quickly, as the current Finance Manager will be leaving in mid-November. \n The process will consist of two competency-based interviews, with applications reviewed on a rolling basis. \n The first stage is expected to be with the Senior Finance Manager and another Finance Manager, with a second stage to follow shortly afterwards.

Our client is an established UK-based property investment and development business with a substantial portfolio of commercial real estate. We're looking for a financial accountant to join a Group Financial Reporting team on a six-month contract, providing hands-on support during a busy reporting period, including a finance systems project. \n This role will play a key part in delivering high-quality quarterly reporting and assisting with a range of ad-hoc finance tasks as they arise. \n The position will contribute to both management and statutory reporting, including quarterly management accounts and the production of the Annual Report. You'll be joining a collaborative team environment where flexibility, accuracy, and a proactive approach are essential. \n The role reports directly to the Head of Financial Reporting. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • \n Preparation of various sections of the quarterly consolidated management accounts, which could include property expenditure, intercompany, fixed assets, other income, prepayments and accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations. \n • \n Assist in the preparation of the Annual Report, mainly involving the preparation of various disclosures, proofreading, ensuring consistency within reports, and liaising with auditors. \n • \n Provide assistance with day-to-day finance matters and transactional work as and when required. \n • \n Undertake other ad-hoc tasks as required. \n\n Knowledge, Skills and ExperienceDesirable \n\n • \n Experience of working in a finance team within the property or real estate sector. \n • \n Experience with Microsoft Dynamics GP and/or Oracle NetSuite accounting packages. \n • \n Experience of producing management and financial accounts to tight deadlines. \n\n Required \n\n • \n Excellent communication and influencing skills. \n • \n Well-developed organisational skills. \n • \n Good time management. \n • \n Ability to take responsibility for tasks and complete them to a high standard. \n • \n Strong technical accounting skills and an interest in financial reporting. \n • \n 1-4 years post-qualified experience from a recognised accounting qualification, such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA. \n\n Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

Financial Controller \n Royal Museums Greenwich \n Permanent | Full-Time \n Salary Negotiable \n Hybrid working (typically 3 days per week onsite in Greenwich) \n \n Help shape the future of one of London’s most iconic cultural institutions. Royal Museums Greenwich is home to the National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Cutty Sark, Queen's House, the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre and the Caird Library and Archive. Together, we explore humanity's relationship with the sea, space and our place in the world through world-class collections, pioneering research and engaging public programmes. \n This is a particularly exciting moment to join the organisation. We are delivering one of the most significant investment programmes in our history through the First Light transformation of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, a major capital project designed to improve accessibility, visitor experience and engagement with science for future generations. Alongside this, we continue to strengthen our commercial performance, expand audience reach and build organisational resilience in an increasingly dynamic and challenging funding environment. \n As Financial Controller, you will play a pivotal leadership role in ensuring the organisation has the robust financial stewardship, controls and reporting required to support these ambitions. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will lead the financial accounting team, helping to drive continuous improvement, strengthen governance and provide the foundation for informed decision making across the Museum. \n This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic initiatives, support significant capital investment programmes and contribute to the ongoing modernisation of finance systems and processes. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Lead and develop a high-performing financial accounting and transactions function.\n, • Ensure the integrity of the Museum's financial control environment and compliance framework.\n, • Oversee all aspects of financial accounting, including statutory accounts preparation, balance sheet management and treasury activities.\n, • Lead the annual audit process and maintain strong relationships with internal and external auditors.\n, • Provide expert technical accounting advice across the organisation.\n, • Ensure compliance with VAT and other regulatory requirements.\n, • Support the delivery of finance transformation initiatives, systems improvements and process automation opportunities.\n, • Partner with stakeholders across the organisation to improve financial awareness, governance and decision making.\n, • Contribute to the financial oversight of major capital and heritage projects.\n\n About You \n You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong technical accounting expertise and a proven track record of leading financial control functions. \n We are interested in candidates from the charity, cultural, public sector or commercial environments who can demonstrate: \n\n • Significant experience of financial accounting and financial controls leadership.\n, • Successful management of external audits and statutory reporting processes.\n, • Strong knowledge of VAT and regulatory compliance.\n, • Experience leading and developing teams through change and continuous improvement.\n, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.\n, • The ability to combine attention to detail with a pragmatic and customer-focused approach.\n, • A proactive mindset and a desire to help shape the future of a function and organisation.\n\n Why Join Royal Museums Greenwich? \n This is an opportunity to contribute to an organisation with a unique national and international profile at a time of significant investment and transformation. You will join a collaborative leadership team committed to innovation, inclusion, sustainability and delivering exceptional experiences for visitors, researchers and communities. \n For an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our recruitment partner, Iain Slinn, via the Allen Lane website.

We are partnering with a Multi-Academy Trust in London to recruit an Interim Head of Finance on a 4-6 month contract. The role is paying £50,000 - £60,000 per annum, plus Local Government Pension Scheme. Alternatively, the Trust will also consider a day rate via an umbrella company. \n A London based Multi-Academy Trust who enhance the experiences and life chances to their pupils. This is an excellent opportunity to join an established and growing Trust focused on enhancing the experiences and life chances of its pupils. The Trust operates a collaborative model, with strong central services and a clear focus on educational excellence. \n Interim Head of Finance: \n\n • Work closely with the CEO and assist the Leadership Team to meet the organisation's aims.\n, • Ownership of the organisation's finances, inclusive of cash flow forecasting.\n, • Production of monthly management accounts.\n, • Lead on all budgetary control and compliance requirements for the organisation.\n, • Manage a small team of finance administrators.\n, • Ensure the organisation is in line with government statutory guidelines.\n, • Assist the CEO to prepare the 5 year financial strategy.\n, • Act as key contact for the internal and external auditors.\n, • Maximise income through grants and other activities.\n, • Partner with Operations to create timely and accurate management reports.\n, • Ensure the effective implementation and operation of financial controls.\n\n Interim Head of Finance: \n\n • Fully qualified member of a recognised professional accountancy body (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CGMA).\n, • A minimum of 3 years experience in a senior finance role within a school or academy trust.\n, • Experience operating at a management or leadership level, ideally within an educational setting.\n, • Extensive experience in budgeting, forecasting and financial management.\n, • Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.\n, • A strong working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping and accounting principles.\n, • Full understanding of relevant financial policies, codes of practice, and legislation.\n, • Ability to interpret statutory guidance and professional advice, translating this into effective policy and practice.\n, • Use of Sage finance system is desirable.\n, • Strong time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise complex workloads, delegate appropriately, and work to tight deadlines.\n, • Confident in multitasking while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.\n, • Able to motivate, influence, and negotiate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.\n, • Demonstrates tenacity and resilience, with the ability to resolve complex and challenging problems.\n, • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage positively with staff at all levels.\n, • Consistently demonstrates integrity and ethical behaviour.\n\n Interim Head of Finance: \n\n • £50,000 - £60,000 per annum. (Day rate will also be considered.)\n, • 4-6 month fixed term contract.\n, • Local Government Pension Scheme.\n, • 23 days annual leave, plus public holidays.\n, • Access to their Well-being service (GP Service).\n, • Flexible working patterns.\n, • Free access to an on-site Gym.\n, • Free parking at their London based school.\n, • Employee Assistance Programme.\n\n EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Business for this temporary vacancy.

FRENCH SELECTION (FS) \n Mandarin or Cantonese speaking Assistant Finance Manager \n Location: London \n Hybrid work 1 day a week in the office \n Salary: up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience \n Ref: 4343FC \n To apply using our preferred format, please visit French Selection website, go to the vacancies page, search job reference: 4343FC \n \n The company: A leading international food manufacturer serving retailers, distributors and foodservice partners in international markets \n \n Main duties: Be responsible for driving the day-to-day finance operations, financial reporting, cash flow and controls while supporting the business performance and process improvements \n \n The role: \n • Lead and oversee the Accounts Payable function ensuring accurate and timely invoice processing and payments \n • Manage month-end and year-end reporting including financial and management accounts. \n • Oversee cash flow, banking activities and intercompany transactions ensuring effective financial management. \n • Supervise finance and accounting operations within the business providing guidance and support to the wider team. \n • Support budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis identifying opportunities, risks and areas for improved performance. \n • Maintain strong financial controls, tax compliance and audit processes ensuring adherence to relevant regulations and Group policies. \n • Partner with internal stakeholders and companies Head Office providing clear financial information and supporting business decisions. \n • Lead and support finance projects, system implementations and process improvements to enhance efficiency and drive continuous improvement. \n \n The candidate: \n • Fluent in English and Mandarin OR Cantonese (written and spoken) essential \n • Degree in Finance / Accountancy or similar \n • Professionally qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) necessary \n • Experience working in a finance role is needed \n • Strong experience across financial accounting, reporting, controls and cash flow management \n • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong commercial awareness. \n • Highly organised, proactive and able to take ownership and work to deadlines. \n • Strong Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel. \n • SAP experience is desirable. \n • Must have the right to work in the UK \n \n The salary: up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience \n \n French Selection, leading UK-based consultancy specialising in the recruitment of bilingual and multilingual professionals for international business (industries and services). We are the leading recruitment consultancy for German, French, Italian and Spanish speaking positions. Also recruiting for positions with other languages such as Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian languages, Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic.

Finance Business Partner £60,000 – £70,000 | London | Permanent \n Insight Select is partnering with an established and growing organisation to recruit a Finance Business Partner into its Finance team. \n This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified accountant looking to take the next step in their career and move into a highly commercial, business-facing role. \n Working closely with the Head of Finance and senior stakeholders across the organisation, you will provide high-quality financial analysis, modelling and commercial insight, helping the business make informed strategic and operational decisions. You will also have responsibility for managing and developing a Finance Analyst. \n Key responsibilities will include: \n\n • Partnering with senior stakeholders and budget holders, providing commercial financial advice and insight\n, • Developing financial models and analysis to support strategic decision-making\n, • Producing and improving management reporting, dashboards and KPIs\n, • Analysing business performance and identifying trends, risks and opportunities\n, • Leading budgeting and supporting quarterly forecasting\n, • Providing variance analysis and commentary against budgets and forecasts\n, • Using data to improve financial visibility and support commercial decision-making\n, • Supporting wider strategic projects, investments and new initiatives\n, • Identifying opportunities to improve FP&A, reporting and finance processes\n, • Managing and developing one direct report\n\n The successful candidate will ideally have: \n\n • A recognised accounting qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent\n, • Approximately 1–2 years' post-qualified experience\n, • Ideally at least one year within an industry/commercial environment\n, • Strong financial analysis and modelling capability\n, • Excellent numerical and Excel skills with confidence working with large datasets\n, • Strong commercial acumen and the ability to turn financial information into meaningful business insight\n, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills\n, • Experience of Power BI, dashboards or similar reporting tools would be advantageous\n\n This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious qualified accountant who wants to move beyond traditional reporting and develop their career within a commercial Finance Business Partnering / FP&A environment, with significant exposure across the organisation.

Head of Financial Reporting \n \n Savant is proud to be partnering with a prestigious organisation within the education sector to appoint an outstanding Head of Financial Reporting/ Associate Director of Financial Reporting. \n This is an exceptional opportunity to join a commercially minded, large-scale organisation where finance plays a key role in supporting the wider business. The role offers genuine scope to influence the direction of the team, contribute to the development of the wider Finance Department and further strengthen your leadership experience. \n The successful candidate will bring strong technical accounting expertise, proven management experience and the confidence to operate at a senior level within a complex and evolving organisation. \n \n Key Requirements \n\n • Strong management and leadership experience, with the ability to lead, develop and motivate a high-performing team.\n, • Significant experience across financial reporting, technical accounting, audit and regulatory returns.\n, • Strong tax experience, including VAT and corporation tax.\n, • Confident working with senior stakeholders, auditors and regulatory bodies.\n, • Experience within a large, complex organisation; education, public sector or not-for-profit experience would be advantageous.\n\n Role Highlights \n\n • Lead and develop the financial reporting team, shaping its future direction and supporting wider Finance Department objectives.\n, • Oversee financial accounting, balance sheet control, statutory reporting and year-end processes.\n, • Manage external audit and key tax compliance requirements.\n, • Drive process improvements and contribute to finance strategy, policy and planning.\n, • Work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, providing insight and supporting effective decision-making.\n\n \n This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious finance leader looking to take their management experience to the next level. Joining a prestigious and commercially minded organisation within the education sector, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact, develop your team and play a key role in shaping the future direction of the finance function.

Head of Finance (Property & Commercial) \n London | Hybrid Working | Permanent | £74k to £76k \n A broad senior finance role spanning property, commercial operations and a growing trading business within a highly respected purpose-led organisation. \n We’re working with a well-established organisation looking for a Head of Finance (Property & Commercial) to take ownership of the financial management across a varied portfolio of properties, shared services and commercial activity. Reporting directly to the CFO, you’ll work closely with senior property and operational leaders, providing the financial insight, challenge and support needed to make sound investment and operational decisions. \n What makes this role particularly interesting is the breadth of what sits around it. You’ll be the finance lead across a portfolio that combines property operations, commercial tenants, shared services and a developing trading business, giving you exposure to decisions that go well beyond the numbers. It’s a role for someone who enjoys getting under the skin of how an organisation operates, building relationships with people outside finance and using their expertise to help shape what happens next. \n What you’ll gain: \n\n • \n A genuinely broad portfolio, spanning property, commercial tenants, shared services and a trading subsidiary. \n • \n Direct exposure to senior leadership, reporting to the CFO and working closely with property and operational leaders. \n • \n A mix of financial accounting and business partnering, giving you the opportunity to use both sides of your finance skillset. \n • \n Ownership of meaningful projects, from investment and refurbishment through to budgets, funding models and longer-term property planning. \n • \n Scope to shape and improve, with responsibility for strengthening systems, controls and processes across the portfolio. \n\n What you’ll do: \n\n • \n Take ownership of the financial management and reporting across a diverse property portfolio, ensuring income, expenditure, forecasts and controls are well managed. \n • \n Partner with property and operational teams on budgets, investment decisions, repairs, maintenance and longer-term financial planning. \n • \n Lead the financial management of a trading subsidiary, including budgeting, reporting, audit, compliance and its relationship with the wider organisation. \n • \n Oversee VAT, statutory reporting, audit activity and financial controls, ensuring the organisation remains compliant and well governed. \n • \n Support major property projects, including funding, contracts, capital expenditure and longer-term asset planning. \n • \n Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting and controls, making finance more effective for operational teams. \n\n What you’ll bring: \n\n • \n A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) with strong post-qualified experience. \n • \n Experience across financial accounting, management accounting, reporting and financial controls. \n • \n Some experience of property finance or supporting property/estates teams. \n • \n A confident, clear communicator who can build strong relationships while knowing when to challenge, hold the line or escalate an issue. \n\n Interested? \n If you’re looking for something broader than a traditional property finance role - with exposure to senior leadership, commercial activity, a varied property portfolio and the chance to genuinely shape how finance supports the organisation - this could be a really interesting next step. \n

Elevate Search is partnering with an established, fast-paced and project-led organisation to recruit an experienced Financial Controller for an initial six-month fixed term contract. \n This is a hands-on assignment with a clear remit: maintain strong financial control while reviewing and improving the processes, controls and ways of working across the finance function. \n The successful candidate will inherit an established team and will need to quickly build credibility across the business. We are therefore looking for someone confident, pragmatic and resilient who is comfortable challenging existing processes and implementing improvements while bringing colleagues with them. \n Key responsibilities include: \n\n • Leading the month-end close and production of accurate management accounts.\n, • Maintaining balance sheet integrity, including reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and provisions.\n, • Reviewing and strengthening financial controls and existing finance processes.\n, • Managing cash flow forecasting and working capital.\n, • Overseeing WIP, project accounting, accruals and revenue recognition.\n, • Improving reporting, systems, automation and data quality.\n, • Supporting audit requirements and external advisors.\n, • Leading and supporting the existing finance team.\n, • Working closely with operational and senior stakeholders.\n, • Supporting budgeting, forecasting and commercial decision-making.\n\n About you: \n You will ideally have previous experience as a Financial Controller, Head of Finance or in a similarly hands-on senior finance position. \n We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate experience of entering an established finance environment, identifying areas for improvement and successfully implementing change. \n You should be commercially minded, technically strong and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where you may need to challenge existing ways of working. \n Candidates may be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified; however, strong Qualified By Experience (QBE) candidates with the appropriate Financial Controller-level experience are equally encouraged to apply. \n This would particularly suit an experienced interim or contract Financial Controller who enjoys taking ownership, solving problems and leaving a finance function stronger than they found it. \n

Head of Management Accounting | Build, Improve, Then Broaden into FP&A \n \n Head of Management Accounting \n Central London | Hybrid - 2 days office | Performance Bonus up to 15% Quarterly \n \n This is more than an opportunity to lead a management accounting team. \n It's an opportunity to take ownership of a significant finance function within a £700m+ turnover, private equity-backed international professional services group - review how it operates, improve it, and potentially use the role as a platform into FP&A leadership. \n \n The business operates through 26 brands across 24 global locations and is headquartered in Central London. \n \n The opportunity \n Reporting directly to an ambitious and highly regarded Group Financial Controller, you'll inherit a team of 14 Management Accountants, predominantly working remotely overseas. \n \n Your initial mandate is straightforward: \n Understand the management accounting function. Challenge it. Strengthen it. Make it better. \n You'll review existing processes, reporting and controls to ensure the team is producing accurate, timely and genuinely useful financial information. \n This isn't simply about getting the numbers out. \n The business wants someone who can bring greater rigour to the numbers while improving the quality of insight behind them - helping finance engage more effectively with stakeholders across a complex, international organisation. \n Once established, the opportunity becomes broader. \n There is a clear expectation that the successful individual can develop beyond traditional management accounting, gaining increasing exposure to FP&A, commercial finance and forward-looking analysis. \n \n What we're looking for \n You'll already be an accomplished management accounting leader who combines strong technical accounting capability with credible people and stakeholder management skills. \n Ideally, you will be: \n\n • ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified\n, • Practice trained, with a strong technical foundation\n, • Experienced in leading a management accounting function or sizeable team\n, • Rigorous around accuracy, controls, reconciliations and reporting quality\n, • Comfortable reviewing existing processes and identifying opportunities for improvement\n, • An effective business partner who can communicate financial information beyond the finance team\n, • Comfortable operating within a large, fast-moving and commercially ambitious organisation\n\n \n You don't need to arrive with an FP&A leadership background. The opportunity to develop into that space is part of the attraction. \n \n Why consider it? \n There are plenty of Head of Management Accounting roles that offer responsibility for producing the numbers. \n This one offers the opportunity to shape how those numbers are produced, improve what they tell the business and influence what the finance function becomes next. \n Alongside a competitive base salary and extensive health and wellbeing benefits, there is an individual performance-related bonus paying up to 15% quarterly. \n Hybrid working is well established, with typically just two days per week in the Central London office once you're fully embedded in the role. \n The position is available due to a leaver, so someone available at relatively short notice would be welcomed. However, experience, capability and long-term fit take priority over availability. \n \n If you're a technically strong finance leader who enjoys improving a function rather than simply inheriting one - and you'd like your next move to open the door to broader FP&A leadership - this is a conversation worth having. \n \n To be considered for the role you must be eligible to work in the UK without restriction. This role is being advertised by Butler Rose (AGY) and managed by Dave Marchant \n

This opportunity would particularly suit an individual who enjoys the breadth of a Finance Manager position but wants the scope to develop beyond the traditional remit, become increasingly involved in business improvement and ultimately position themselves for progression into a senior finance leadership role. \n Job Title: Finance Manager \n Job Type: Permanent \n Location: Twickenham – Hybrid Working \n Salary: £60,000 - £68,000 \n Reference no: 16136 \n \n Finance Manager – Benefits \n\n • Hybrid working\n, • 35 hour working with\n, • 25 days holiday plus your Birthday off\n, • Pension scheme\n, • Direct exposure to the Head of Finance and wider senior leadership team\n, • Supportive environment with ongoing professional development\n\n \n Finance Manager – About The Role \n Howett Thorpe are delighted to be partnering with an established and successful group to recruit a Finance Manager into its London-based finance team. \n This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional who is comfortable operating at Finance Manager level today but is looking for a role that can genuinely develop with them over the coming years. \n Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you will take ownership of a broad finance remit spanning management accounting, financial control, transactional oversight and team development. Importantly, this is not simply a role focused on maintaining existing processes. The business is looking for someone who will gradually put their own identity on the position, challenge how things are currently done and help shape the future direction of the finance function. \n There will be particular emphasis on change and transformation, including improving processes, increasing automation and exploring how AI and developing technology can be incorporated into day-to-day finance activity to improve efficiency, accuracy and insight. \n For someone with the right ambition and capability, there is also a clear longer-term route towards the Head of Finance position, making this particularly attractive to somebody looking for their next step rather than simply their next job. \n The client is happy to consider both fully qualified accountants and strong finalist candidates who are approaching completion of their professional qualification, providing they can demonstrate the technical grounding, confidence and ambition required to grow into the role. \n Finance Manager – About You \n You will ideally be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, although candidates at the final stages of their professional studies will also be strongly considered. \n You are likely to be someone who already has a solid grounding across management accounting and financial control and is now looking for broader responsibility, greater visibility and the opportunity to influence how a finance function develops. You will be: \n\n • Comfortable taking ownership of month-end and management reporting\n, • Strong across balance sheet control, reconciliations and financial governance\n, • Confident overseeing transactional finance and reviewing the quality of work produced\n, • Able to manage, support and develop a junior member of the finance team\n, • Interested in process improvement, systems, automation and emerging finance technology\n, • Comfortable questioning existing processes and identifying better ways of working\n, • Commercially minded and able to communicate confidently with non-finance stakeholders\n, • Ambitious, with the appetite to take on increasing responsibility as the role develops\n, • Someone who wants to shape a role rather than simply inherit one\n, • Qualified or finalist stage of your active qualification status\n\n \n Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful. \n Refer a Friend \n If this role is not right for you but may suit someone you know, refer them to us and receive a minimum of £100 in vouchers for a successful permanent placement or £25 in vouchers for a temporary placement (terms and conditions apply). \n

Management Accountant – Remote – Up to £60,000 \n About the Client \n Our client is a growing, private equity-backed organisation operating within the Healthcare sector. With a supportive and collaborative working environment, they place great importance on teamwork, professional development and delivering high standards. As the organisation continues to expand, they offer an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to its ongoing success. \n About the Job \n An exciting opportunity has arisen for a newly qualified Management Accountant to join a growing finance team, reporting directly to the Head of FP&A. This is a varied and commercially focused position, offering the chance to take ownership of financial reporting while working closely with operational stakeholders to support business performance and strategic decision-making. \n Duties will include: \n\n • \n Overseeing monthly financial reporting, ensuring accurate accounts and reconciliations are completed within agreed deadlines. \n • \n Taking responsibility for key balance sheet areas, including income deferrals and contractual provisions. \n • \n Analysing revenue streams and ensuring income is accurately recorded across different customer arrangements. \n • \n Preparing operational and financial performance reports, identifying key trends and areas requiring attention. \n • \n Investigating financial variances and providing clear recommendations to support commercial decisions. \n • \n Building strong relationships with operational managers, offering financial guidance and constructive challenge. \n • \n Evaluating profitability and expenditure across different services to identify opportunities for improved efficiency. \n • \n Monitoring employee-related expenditure, including temporary staffing costs and associated liabilities. \n • \n Preparing short-term cash flow projections and assessing movements in working capital. \n • \n Contributing to financial planning activities, including annual budgets and periodic forecasts. \n • \n Supporting the accounting of capital investments and maintaining accurate fixed asset records. \n • \n Coordinating information for external audits and ensuring financial controls are consistently maintained. \n • \n Reviewing existing finance processes and supporting improvements to reporting systems and procedures. \n • \n Undertaking additional financial analysis and projects alongside the Head of FP&A. \n\n About the Successful Applicant \n You will be a newly qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant with at least three years' practical accounting experience. Strong Excel capabilities, analytical thinking and excellent communication skills are essential, alongside the confidence to engage with stakeholders across the business. Exposure to Microsoft Business Central or comparable finance systems would be advantageous, as would experience within Healthcare or another operationally complex environment. \n What You Will Receive in Return \n You will receive a competitive salary of up to £60,000, alongside the flexibility of remote working. This opportunity offers considerable exposure to senior finance leadership, the chance to influence commercial decisions and the ability to develop your skills within a growing, private equity-backed organisation. You will join a welcoming and collaborative team where your contribution is valued, with opportunities to broaden your responsibilities as the business develops.

Portfolio & Operations Accountant - Investment Management \n London - West end £60,000-£65,000 + benefits Permanent | Full-time office based \n An opportunity has arisen for a recently qualified accountant to join a boutique and growing investment management business based near Bond Street. \n This is a broad, hands-on position offering considerably more variety and commercial exposure than a traditional financial accounting role. Working closely with the Head of Finance & Operations and wider investment team, you will gain exposure across portfolio accounting and operations, investment reporting, treasury, management company finance and commercial projects. \n The opportunity would particularly suit an ACA or ACCA qualified accountant coming from practice who has experience working with investment management or financial services clients and is looking to make their first move into industry. \n Candidates who have trained within a smaller or mid-sized accountancy practice and gained hands-on accounts preparation experience alongside audit would be particularly well suited. \n The Role \n You will take responsibility across a broad range of finance and portfolio activities, including: \n\n • \n Preparing management accounts and statutory financial statements for UK and Jersey entities \n • \n Supporting quarterly portfolio performance reporting \n • \n Reviewing and analysing investment and portfolio data \n • \n Performing investment and portfolio reconciliations \n • \n Supporting portfolio monitoring and asset allocation analysis \n • \n Treasury management, including liquidity oversight, cash reporting and foreign exchange \n • \n Bookkeeping, cash management, billing and accounts payable \n • \n Preparing VAT returns and supporting other company tax requirements \n • \n Assisting with budgets and financial planning \n • \n Preparing information for quarterly Board reporting \n • \n Working closely with portfolio administrators and other external service providers \n • \n Improving financial controls, procedures and reporting processes \n • \n Supporting systems implementation, automation and wider business improvement projects \n • \n Undertaking ad hoc analytical and commercial projects alongside the investment and finance teams \n\n About You \n You will ideally be: \n\n • \n ACA or ACCA qualified, preferably practice trained \n • \n Experienced in working with investment management, asset management, funds or broader financial services clients \n • \n Comfortable preparing accounts and financial statements, rather than having solely audit experience \n • \n Strong technically, with a good grounding in financial and management accounting \n • \n Interested in investments and keen to develop your understanding across different asset classes \n • \n Highly capable with Excel and comfortable working with large amounts of financial and investment data \n • \n Commercial, analytical and naturally curious \n • \n Proactive and comfortable taking ownership within a small business \n • \n Interested in improving processes, controls and automation rather than simply maintaining existing processes \n • \n Comfortable working across a broad remit where priorities can change quickly \n\n The Opportunity \n This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified accountant looking to make their first move from practice into investment management and gain considerably broader exposure than would typically be available within a larger finance team. \n You will join a small, high-calibre investment management business and work closely with senior members of the firm, gaining exposure to a diverse investment portfolio spanning public and private markets. \n As the business continues to grow, there is significant scope for the successful candidate to develop their responsibilities and play an increasingly important role across both portfolio operations and finance. \n ed, five days per week \n Inventum Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Brent Council Brent Civic Centre, Wembley Hybrid Working - Minimum 3 Days Per Week in the Office Immediate Start Ongoing Temporary Assignment £650 per day (Inside IR35) 36 Hours per Week \n An Excellent Opportunity... \n An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of London's most diverse and ambitious local authorities as Head of Finance - Neighbourhoods & Regeneration and Finance & Resources. \n The Role \n The Head of Finance forms part of the Council's core senior management group and provides strategic financial leadership across the Neighbourhoods & Regeneration and Finance & Resources directorates. \n This is a high-profile leadership role requiring an accomplished finance professional who can combine technical expertise with commercial awareness, strategic thinking and exceptional stakeholder management skills. \n Key Responsibilities \n Strategic Financial Leadership \n\n • Act as the senior finance lead for the Neighbourhoods & Regeneration and Finance & Resources directorates.\n, • Provide strategic financial advice to Directors, senior managers and elected Members.\n\n Financial Planning & Management \n\n • Lead all aspects of budgeting, forecasting and financial management.\n, • Drive medium-term financial planning and long-term financial sustainability.\n\n Business Partnering \n\n • Provide high-quality financial insight, challenge and support to senior stakeholders.\n, • Identify emerging financial risks, pressures and opportunities.\n, • Support informed decision-making and timely corrective action where required.\n\n Contract & Commercial Management \n\n • Provide financial leadership for major strategically significant contracts.\n, • Lead financial oversight of waste, recycling and street cleansing contracts.\n\n Transformation & Savings \n\n • Support service transformation and modernisation programmes.\n, • Identify and deliver savings opportunities and efficiencies.\n\n Governance & Compliance \n\n • Ensure compliance with statutory accounting requirements and financial regulations.\n, • Maintain effective governance, risk management and internal control arrangements.\n\n About You \n To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate: \n Essential Experience \n\n • Significant senior-level finance leadership experience within a large and complex organisation.\n, • Proven experience providing strategic financial advice to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.\n, • Strong experience managing substantial revenue budgets and financial planning processes.\n, • Experience supporting transformation, savings and service improvement programmes.\n, • Experience managing financial risks within complex service environments.\n, • Strong business partnering skills with Directors, Members and senior leaders.\n, • Experience overseeing major service contracts and commercial arrangements.\n, • Local government finance experience is highly desirable.\n\n Skills & Knowledge \n\n • Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills.\n, • Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking capability.\n, • Excellent financial planning, budgeting and forecasting expertise.\n, • Ability to influence and challenge at senior level.\n, • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.\n, • Strong understanding of financial governance and regulatory compliance.\n, • Ability to lead and develop high-performing finance teams.\n\n Qualifications \n\n • Fully qualified accountant (CIPFA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).\n, • Evidence of continuing professional development.\n\n

Deputy Head of Financial Accounts \n Fully Remote | International Development Charity | Up to £75,000 | Permanent \n Lead statutory reporting. Drive audit improvement. Influence financial accounting across a complex international organisation. \n We're partnering with a globally recognised international NGO to recruit a Deputy Head of Financial Accounts. This is an outstanding opportunity to take ownership of statutory financial reporting and external audit within a large, complex international environment. Reporting into the Head of Financial Control, you'll lead a specialist financial accounting team whilst working closely with finance colleagues across multiple countries to strengthen reporting, improve audit readiness and embed best practice. \n This is far more than a traditional financial accounting role. It offers the opportunity to combine technical accounting expertise, leadership, international stakeholder management and change in a genuinely global organisation. \n What you'll gain \n\n • A genuinely global role, partnering with finance teams across multiple countries and influencing how financial reporting is delivered worldwide.\n, • The opportunity to lead a high-profile audit improvement programme, helping reduce audit timelines and improve the quality of information provided by international teams.\n, • Significant exposure to senior finance leaders, giving you the platform to influence decisions and shape the future of the financial accounting function.\n, • The chance to play a key role in a major ERP implementation, acting as the financial accounting subject matter expert.\n, • A varied leadership position combining people management, technical accounting, stakeholder engagement, training and continuous improvement.\n\n What you'll do \n\n • Lead the preparation and review of statutory financial statements, trustee reporting and balance sheet reviews.\n, • Manage the annual external audit, acting as the primary contact for auditors and coordinating activity across global finance teams.\n, • Build strong relationships with country finance teams, improving the quality of financial information submitted and supporting them to meet audit requirements.\n, • Review key financial reporting areas including VAT, tax and statutory returns, ensuring robust governance and compliance.\n, • Coach and develop a small financial accounting team, creating capacity through effective delegation and development.\n, • Support the implementation of a new ERP system by shaping future financial accounting processes and controls.\n\n What you'll need \n\n • ACA or ACCA qualified with experience leading statutory accounts and external audits.\n, • A collaborative leader who enjoys developing people and building relationships across diverse teams.\n, • Experience improving financial reporting, audit processes or controls within a complex organisation.\n, • The confidence to challenge, influence and work with stakeholders across multiple countries and cultures.\n, • Charity or international experience would be advantageous but isn't essential.\n\n Interested? \n If you're looking for a role where you can combine audit leadership, financial accounting, international collaboration and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you. \n

To see more Chinese jobs please follow us on WeChat: teamchinapf AND pfteamchina \n Ref 23468 \n Job Title: Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting-Banking \n The 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. \n Your New Salary: Competitive \n Hybrid:4 days office / 1 day home (initially 5 days until settled) \n Perm \n Start: ASAP \n Location: London \n \n Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting- What You'll be Doing: \n 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). \n 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. \n Your responsibilities will include: \n\n • Leading the Accounting team and providing coaching, development and performance management.\n, • Ensuring accounting treatments comply with IFRS, regulatory requirements and Head Office accounting policies.\n, • Reviewing and maintaining accounting policies, procedures and internal controls to ensure they remain effective and aligned with Head Office standards.\n, • Delivering timely, accurate and complete financial and regulatory reporting to Head Office and other stakeholders.\n, • Strengthening and enhancing the financial control framework across the accounting function.\n, • Leading the annual statutory audit process and managing relationships with external auditors.\n, • Identifying, assessing and mitigating financial and operational risks within the accounting function.\n, • Acting as the key contact for internal audits, Head Office audits and second-line assurance reviews.\n, • Driving continuous improvements across accounting processes, controls and reporting.\n\n \n Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting- The Skills You'll Need to Succeed: \n\n • Native-level Mandarin language skills (spoken and written) are essential.\n, • Full right to work in the UK.\n, • Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline.\n, • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).\n, • Solid accounting experience within banking or the wider financial services sector.\n, • Strong experience managing accounting teams, with previous leadership responsibility for at least 4–5 team members.\n, • Experience managing internal and external audit processes.\n, • Excellent technical accounting knowledge, including IFRS and statutory reporting.\n, • Strong understanding of regulatory reporting requirements within financial services.\n, • Proven leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop teams.\n, • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.\n, • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.\n, • Ability to identify risks, strengthen financial controls and drive continuous improvement.\n, • Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.\n\n \n Please view all our Team China jobs at people-first-recruitment \n Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-china \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 \n

High Growth, High Profile International Entertainment Business - Group Reporting Role \n \n Central London - Hybrid offered - Brand New Refurbished Office \n Central London \n The opportunity \n Newly created Group Reporting position within the Global Head Office finance team of a growing international, PE backed, entertainment business. More details will be given, however this is a genuinely exciting, very high profile, consumer focused business. \n Reporting to the Head of Group Reporting & Control, this role offers broad exposure to group consolidation, financial reporting, IFRS accounting and finance transformation across multiple international markets. \n It's an excellent opportunity for an ACA/ACCA-qualified accountant who has built solid experience in group reporting or financial control and is ready to take on greater responsibility within a complex international environment. \n What you'll be doing \n You'll support the Group Finance team across: \n\n • Group consolidation and reporting\n, • Reviewing intercompany reporting and resolving mismatches\n, • Reviewing market balance sheet submissions\n, • Preparing accounting entries and supporting documentation for group consolidation with a large number of entities.\n, • IFRS accounting, including IFRS 16 and PPA\n, • Supporting technical accounting papers\n, • Supporting preparation of group financial statements\n, • Designing and implementing group consolidation controls\n, • Analysing reporting quality and identifying opportunities for improvement\n, • Supporting finance transformation and process improvement\n, • Acting as a key contact for audit queries relating to group consolidation\n\n About you \n We're looking for an ACA/ACCA-qualified accountant with: \n\n • 2+ years' experience in group reporting, financial control or a similar environment\n, • Experience of IFRS group consolidations\n, • Strong month-end, journal and reconciliation experience\n, • Excellent attention to detail\n, • Strong Excel skills, including PivotTables, XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH\n, • Good stakeholder management and communication skills\n, • A proactive, organised approach and willingness to take ownership\n, • An interest in improving processes and using technology to work more efficiently\n, • A short notice period or immediate availability to start is important - there will be a handover.\n\n Experience with OneStream would be useful but isn't essential. \n The role \n This is a newly created position within a growing international organisation, offering the chance to gain broader group exposure and work closely with senior Group Finance leadership. \n You'll have the opportunity to contribute to reporting improvements, controls and finance transformation, alongside the core consolidation responsibilities.

Group Reporting Manager \n Please to be supporting our long standing, FTSE-listed client in the real estate investment industry with their search for a new Group Reporting Manager to join their team in Central London. Reporting into the Head of Financial Reporting, this is a key role where you will lead the Group reporting function and take ownership of the consolidation process. \n \n Key responsibilities \n\n • Team Leadership: Lead and support the Group Reporting team of five accountants, while contributing to wider leadership across the Finance department.\n, • Group Consolidation: Own the half-yearly Group consolidation process, including reporting and analysis of key financial ratios and performance metrics.\n, • External Reporting: Oversee the preparation of financial statements and accompanying notes for the Annual Report and half-yearly report.\n, • Quarterly Reporting: Partner with senior Finance colleagues to deliver quarterly management reporting, including Underlying Profit.\n, • Audit Management: Act as a key contact for external audit managers, ensuring queries and issues are resolved promptly and effectively.\n, • Corporate Transactions: Collaborate with Tax, Treasury and Capital Markets teams on corporate transactions and restructurings.\n, • Technical Accounting: Resolve complex accounting matters, preparing and presenting technical accounting papers where required.\n, • Statutory Accounts: Take a leading role in the end-to-end preparation of the Group's statutory accounts, excluding joint ventures, using a structured, proactive approach to working with external auditors.\n, • Ad Hoc Analysis: Deliver financial analysis and one-off projects to strengthen management's understanding of the business and support informed decision-making.\n\n \n The ideal candidate will be ACA qualified (3-5 years PQE), with experience in a big 4 or top 6 practice, and experience in an industry role at a large listed or private environment. The candidate will need to be technically very strong, whilst also demonstrating a high level of communicative and collaborative ability. \n \n If you're looking for an exciting new role, for a highly reputable brand in the real estate industry, apply online now! \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.

Senior Investment Analyst Job summary This role is primarily responsible for supporting the management of Chaucer's investment portfolio. This includes investment reporting, manager oversight, portfolio management, investment analysis and risk management. Main duties Investment Reporting • Produce performance and asset allocation reporting to Deputy Head of Investments., • Produce investment related MI reporting including to the following stakeholders: CFO, Exec Team, Finance & Investment Committee, Boards., • Produce investment related reporting to China Re including all regular reporting and ad-hoc request., • Produce regulatory and statutory investment related reporting including Lloyd's returns, group financial statements, local returns., • Ensure all investment related data in the investment accounting software and general ledger is accurate. Investment Strategy • Provide an in-depth macroeconomic view for US, UK and Eurozone markets and related impact on investment products held and potential asset classes., • Carry out analysis and reporting, including scenario analysis, modelling the impact of changes to asset allocations., • Produce relevant papers seeking approval from Boards, Finance & Investment Committee, Execs, parent company as required to approve of any strategy changes. Investment Risk, • Manage the portfolio to the Investment Risk Framework and Appetite and regulatory restrictions., • Produce all investment risk metrics and related reporting., • Ensure all portfolios are compliant with risk and regulatory metrics., • Support the asset liability management process. Third Party Managers, • Support oversight of managers including performance, compliance, execution, and controls., • Support analysis for any changes in mandates/IMAs up to execution., • Support any RFP process as and when required., • Suggest and instruct trade instructions to investment managers or custodians, ensuring trades are completed. Other responsibilities, • Work closely within the Investment & Treasury team to understand future capital and cash flow needs and adjust the investment portfolio accordingly., • Work closely with the Risk Team for all investment related metrics and risk considerations. Our requirements Essential • Minimum 3 years' experience working in investment portfolio management within financial markets, investment or insurance industry, having first-hand experience of Investment analytical reporting Desirable, • Lloyd's of London investment management experience Technical skills, • In depth knowledge of investment markets and products, • Excellent coding, Excel, PowerPoint, report writing, Bloomberg skills Education & Experience • Numerically orientated - P/Q Actuary, Accountant or CFA (long standing experience will be accepted) Personal skills, • Highly motivated and confident individual with positive work ethic., • Excellent at managing own workload and working on own initiative. ABOUT US Chaucer is a leading insurance group at Lloyd's, the world's specialist insurance market. We help protect industries around the world from the risks they face. Our customers include major airlines, energy companies, shipping groups, global manufacturers and property groups. Our headquarters are in London, and we have international offices in Bermuda, Copenhagen, Dubai and Singapore to be closer to our clients across the world. To learn more about us please visit our website. Chaucer is committed to diversity, actively values difference and respects people regardless of the protected characteristics which are outlined in the Equality Act 2010 (UK legislation) as a result of the Equal Treatment Directive 2006 (EU legislation). A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace are core to our success as a business and integral to our winning strategy and culture. We recruit from the widest available pool of talent, and our hiring, assessment and selection process is fair, free from bias and one which ensures we select the right person for the job, based on merit. We are committed to promoting a culture that actively values difference, and recognises that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect throughout their employment. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements for all roles and encourage you to outline your needs during the interview process.

To see more Chinese jobs please follow us on WeChat: teamchinapf AND pfteamchina Any additional information you require for this job can be found in the below text Make sure to read thoroughly, then apply. Ref 23468 Job Title: Mandarin Speaking Vice President Accounting-Banking The 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: Competitive Hybrid:4 days office / 1 day home (initially 5 days until settled) Perm Start: ASAP Location: London Mandarin 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 4–5 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. 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. 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. xrnqpay 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