Management Accountant (6-Month Contract) – Expense Controls Lead

Rhaelm; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

RHAELM is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join the finance team on a six-month fixed-term contract, based in London with three days in the office. You will lead a clean-up of expenses, establish robust controls, and document key finance processes to enable consistent operation after the contract ends.

The role requires strong balance sheet reconciliation, clear process documentation, and knowledge of UK VAT and HMRC rules on employee expenses.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel proficiency is required.
• Independent worker who can prioritise and deliver to deadlines.
• Clear communicator who can collaborate with non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the expense management clean-up, reconciling accruals, prepayments, employee expense control accounts and corporate credit card accounts.
• Investigate and clear aged, unreconciled and unallocated items, proposing write-offs or corrections with supporting evidence.
• Review historic expense claims and card transactions for coding, missing receipts, VAT treatment and policy compliance, and post journals to correct the ledgers.
• Review the expenses policy and expense system set-up (including Revolut workflows, access, card limits and ledger integration) and recommend improvements.
• Work with payroll to ensure taxable expenses and P11D items are captured correctly.
• Design and implement monthly controls, reconciliations and KPIs so the clean-up holds after your contract ends.
• Map and document finance processes, including month-end close, purchase-to-pay, expenses, VAT and management reporting, as clear step-by-step manuals and a month-end close checklist and timetable.
• Walk team members through the new documentation so it is adopted, and flag gaps, duplication and control weaknesses as you go.
• Support month-end close, management accounts, variance analysis, audit preparation and budgeting and forecasting as needed.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Independent worker

Deadline driven

Clear communicator

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification

Tools

Sage Intacct

Revolut

Job description

RHAELM is seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join the finance team on a six-month fixed-term contract, based in London with three days in the office. You will lead a clean-up of expenses, establish robust controls, and document key finance processes to enable consistent operation after the contract ends.

The role requires strong balance sheet reconciliation, clear process documentation, and knowledge of UK VAT and HMRC rules on employee expenses.