Dealership Accountant

Sewell Moorhouse Recruitment; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Dealership Accountant for a 3-month contract in Sheffield. The role involves overseeing financial activities for both the Sheffield and Manchester locations, ensuring the smooth operation of the Kerridge system and providing analytical support during a transitional phase after an acquisition. The ideal candidate will have dealership accounting experience and be ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified. A competitive salary is offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Day rate option available

Opportunity to support major transition

Qualifications

• Immediate availability for a 2-3 month contract.
• Experience in dealership accounting required.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Oversee key financial activities for the Sheffield dealership.
• Ensure Kerridge system alignment and accuracy.
• Conduct detailed analysis and reconciliation of accounts.

Skills

Extensive dealership accounting experience

Strong working knowledge of Kerridge

Proven ability in investigation, analysis, and reconciliations

Immediate availability and commitment

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent experience

Job description

Sewell Wallis is working with a prominent South Yorkshire automotive group as they look to bring on board an experienced, immediately available Dealership Accountant to provide important short-term support during an exciting period of transition following the acquisition of a brand new site.

This is a 3-month contract based primarily at the Sheffield dealership, with responsibility for overseeing key financial activities for the Manchester location as well.

What you'll be doing:

The business has recently migrated its newly acquired site onto Kerridge, and now requires a confident, hands‑on accountant to ensure the system is fully aligned, accurate, and operating smoothly. The Dealership Accountant will play a critical role in tidying up and validating data through:

• Detailed analysis and investigation of previous postings
• Reconciliation of accounts and system clean‑up
• Ensuring accuracy and consistency across both sites

What skills do we need?

• Extensive dealership accounting experience
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (or qualified by experience with extensive experience considered)
• Strong working knowledge of Kerridge
• Proven ability in investigation, analysis, and reconciliations
• Immediate availability and commitment to a 2‑3 month contract

What's on Offer:

• Competitive salary of £45,000 - £55,000
• Day rate option available
• Opportunity to support a major transition within a respected automotive group

Apply below or for more information, contact Lawrie Bacon

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.