Your newpany
Our well-recognised client is seeking an experiencedmercial Accountant to join their finance team on an interim basis to cover a leave of absence. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a high-impact, operationally focused finance environment where accuracy, controls, and timely reporting directly support business performance.
Your new role
Asmercial Accountant, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity of the general ledger and delivering robust financial reporting. With a strong emphasis on inventory accounting and cost accounting, you’ll support period-end close and provide insight through variance analysis—helping stakeholders understand performance and address anomalies. Key elements of the role include:
• Owning and maintaining the general ledger, ensuring accounting transactions are recorded accurately and on time
• Supporting the month-end/close period, including preparing journals, schedules, and reconciliations
• Leading balance sheet reconciliations and resolving reconciling items to maintain clean, audit-ready accounts
• Preparing P&L, balance sheet, consolidated financial statements, and supporting accounting reports/schedules
• Performing detailed financial analysis, identifying unusual variances and rmending corrective actions
• Responding to queries from management, internal/external auditors, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) stakeholders
• Reviewing and improving internal controls, identifying risk and implementing best-practice procedures
• Contributing to process improvements across accounting procedures and (ideally) systems accounting/ERP activity
• Handling sensitive information with discretion and maintaining strict confidentiality
What you'll need to succeed
You will be qualified or part-qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong core accounting fundamentals and hands-on experience supporting month-end close, journal preparation, and balance sheet reconciliations. You will have proven experience in inventory and cost accounting, ideally within a logistics, manufacturing, or operational environment, along with a solid understanding of UK GAAP and internal controls. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability tomunicate clearly with stakeholders are essential, while experience with systems or ERP accounting would be advantageous.
What you'll get in return
You’ll secure a high-visibility Senior Accountant contract within a substantial UK operation, offering a hybrid working model that supports balance and productivity with three days on site and two days remote. The role provides exposure to meaningful, hands-on finance work across inventory and cost accounting, general ledger ownership, financial reporting, internal controls, and SOX-related activity, alongside the opportunity to make a tangible impact by strengthening reconciliations, improving processes, and supporting informed decision-making during a key cover period.