Interim Head of Financial Accounts/Senior Financial Accountant

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.

Reporting to the Head of Finance whilst managing and supporting the current finance accounting and operations team, your daily’s duties will include:

• Responsible for the management and leadership of the financial accounts team, including supporting and assisting staff to meet their objectives.
• Possess the ability to manage change and its effects on staff, systems and procedures within the team.
• Responsible for the control of the bank accounts, and the management of short-term investments.
• 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.
• Preparation of the ICR’s quarterly VAT return, ensuring accurate submission and payment.
• Maintenance of VAT-compliant records and working papers.
• Review the balance sheet on a monthly basis as part of the month-end close..
• Supervise other staff within the financial accounting team to provide appropriate working papers and reconciliations as part of the year-end close and timetable.
• Support the team in ensuring that non-Financial colleagues understand the process and importance for financial and transactional accounting activities.

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.

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.

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.