Finance Manager

Ozria Consulting; United States; Remote; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Ozria Consulting is seeking a contracted Finance Manager to deliver month-end management accounts and board packs for multiple clients on a fully remote basis in the UK.

You'll work directly with the Managing Director, own client numbers, manage several engagements, and use Xero, Excel and AI tools to automate drafting and analysis while staying aligned to deadlines.

Qualifications

• Solid hands-on experience in management accounts and year-end.
• Strong Xero skills and confident in Excel.
• Comfortable using AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) day to day for drafting, reconciliation checks and analysis.
• Experience preparing audit files, ideally for groups or multi-entity structures.
• Able to manage several clients at once and pick up untidy books without a set process.
• Clear communicator who can deal with clients directly and knows when to escalate.

Responsibilities

• Monthly management accounts and board packs for multiple clients.
• Year-end working papers and audit files, liaising with auditors through to sign-off.
• Bringing behind-schedule ledgers up to date: reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, intercompany.
• VAT, payroll journals and cash flow reporting.
• Managing client queries and keeping work moving to agreed deadlines.

Skills

Management accounts

Year-end

Xero

Excel

AI tools

Audit files

Tools

Xero

AI platforms

Job description

Contract Finance Manager — Fully Remote (Outside IR35)

Ozria Consulting · Fully remote (UK) · 3-4 days a week · £200-250/day · 3 months initially, with a long-term contract relationship for the right person

Ozria Consulting provides fractional finance and CFO support to a portfolio of clients across creative, PR, health and professional services. We're a small, modern practice built on Xero and utilising AI, and we're growing. We're looking for an experienced accountant or finance manager to work directly alongside our Managing Director across several client engagements.

Why this role

• Real variety: several clients, different sectors, UK and overseas entities. No two months look the same
• Work directly with the MD, not through layers of management
• Genuine autonomy: you'll own your clients' numbers and deadlines
• Fully remote, with hours flexed around client deadlines
• A modern toolkit: Xero, Excel and AI tools that remove repetitive work and let you focus on the numbers

What you’ll do

• Monthly management accounts and board packs for multiple clients
• Year-end working papers and audit files, liaising with auditors through to sign-off
• Bringing behind-schedule ledgers up to date: reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, intercompany
• VAT, payroll journals and cash flow reporting
• Managing client queries and keeping work moving to agreed deadlines

What we’re looking for

• Solid hands-on experience in management accounts and year-end. Qualifications are welcome but not required; what matters is that you know what you’re doing
• Strong Xero skills and confident in Excel
• Comfortable using AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) day to day for drafting, reconciliation checks and analysis
• Experience preparing audit files, ideally for groups or multi-entity structures
• Able to manage several clients at once and pick up untidy books without a set process
• Clear communicator who can deal with clients directly and knows when to escal
• Start as soon as possible
• Fully remote
• Contract through your own limited company only
• Paid monthly