Posted: 21h ago
The role
Job role: Senior Financial Accountant
Pay rate: £28.38 per hour plus holiday pay
Location: Central LondonHybrid working: 1 day per week on site, Wednesdays Working hours: 35 hours per weekContract: 6-month temporary contractAre you a hands-on finance professional who thrives on bringing structure, clarity, and control to busy environments? This is an opportunity to step into a
high-impact interim role within a purpose-driven organisation, where your expertise will directly support the stabilisation and improvement of the finance function during a critical period.
Working closely with senior finance leadership, you will take ownership of strengthening core processes, improving reporting, and helping a stretched team regain control and confidence in their financial operations.
What you will be doing- Provide hands-on support across transactional finance, including AP and AR clean-up
- Take ownership of month-end processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timeliness
- Prepare management accounts and deliver meaningful variance analysis
- Post and review accruals, prepayments, deferred income and journals
- Carry out ledger reconciliations and resolve historic discrepancies
- Work closely with budget holders to improve the quality of financial information
- Document processes and strengthen controls to improve resilience
- Support process improvements within Business Central
- Provide informal guidance and support to finance team members
What will make you successful- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)
- Strong hands-on accounting experience across both transactional and core finance
- Proven experience of month-end close, reconciliations and ledger management
- Experience of cleaning up and improving finance processes
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- A proactive, detail-focused approach with a "completer-finisher" mindset
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to support non-finance colleagues
- Comfortable working in fast-paced or evolving environments
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
