Interim Accountant

3 Faces Recruitment Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in London is seeking a qualified accountant with 5+ years of experience to assist in the re-implementation of financial IT systems and management accounting. You will handle invoicing, liaise with auditors, and support various financial tasks. Strong Excel skills and professional services experience are preferred. This role requires a degree and relevant accounting qualification.

Qualifications

• 5 years post qualification experience required.
• Private Equity experience is preferable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the invoicing cycle and credit control.
• Manage accounting and provide reporting to management.
• Liaise with auditors for external audit processes.
• Handle cashflow information and banking transactions.
• Work closely with the finance team and IT systems.

Skills

Good Excel skills

Professional Services experience

Understanding of financial IT systems

Education

University Degree

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Sage Finance

Job description

Job Description

JOB OVERVIEW

To work closely with the interim head of finance to ensure that the financial IT systems re-implementation and related transactions are processed in a methodology that is both compliant and externally auditable for the Access Partnership group accounting for 2019 and ongoing months.

YOU WILL ASSIST IN THE FOLLOWING DUTIES

• Assisting with Invoicing cycle - preparation of invoices, approval by senior internal staff, issuance to customers (often via client portals) through to credit control
• Management Accounting - Assist in the detailed reporting for senior management and PE investors
• The External Audit - liaison with Auditors, and providing audit sampling material
• Cashflow information
• AR, AP and banking transactions, including reconciliations
• Intercompany transaction management
• Creating general journals and uploading into Sage Finance
• Tax compliance - VAT and Corporation Tax
• Liaison with Operations staff and senior Geographic/Practice leads
• Balance Sheet reconciliations, and suggesting solutions where appropriate
• Work closely with the finance team - currently UK based staff (CFO, Interim FC, Accounts assistant, Invoicing assistant and assistant accountant) and 2 overseas (US and Singapore) and some involvement with Senegal
• Gaining an understand our IT systems, and staff training if required
• Other duties as and when required

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University Degree
• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• 5 years post qualification experience
• Professional Services (particularly a timesheet billing model) - prior experience would be very beneficial
• Good Excel skills (look-up functions/sum if/pivot tables/graphical presentation of data)
• Private Equity Experience - prior experience would be preferable, but not essential