Interim Financial Accountant

January 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Interim Financial Accountant

Gleeson Recruitment Group are supporting an established Coventry based business as they seek to appoint an Interim Financial Accountant for an initial minimum period of 6 Months.

You will be playing a key role in delivering the finance transformation objectives and making sure the benefits of the new ERP/ GL are leveraged as the business migrates critical financial accounting processes. A key focus will be on driving improvements to the period close process. You will also support projects as required and act as a deputy for the Senior Manager, Finance Programmes.

You will take responsibility for the following areas:

- Transact to record processes, including customer transactions and banking

- Record to report, including accounting journals, reconciliation, consolidation, month end close and reporting

- Acquire to retire, including fixed assets, projects and leases

- Compliance with the Group's accounting policy and accounting standards

- Develop and maintain strong working relationship with the programme team and other key stakeholders, including Treasury and Audit

- Liaise and cooperate with Finance Business Partnering, Accounts Payable, FP&A and other areas of the business as required in order to understand and improve accounting processes and controls;

- Proactively seek to improve financial accounting and reporting processes; adopting standard solutions from the new tooling and delivering transformation outcomes

You will be used to preparing detailed financial analysis and communicating the results to stakeholders in a simple and straight forward way. You will have advanced excel skills and enjoy working with others to solve complex technical challenges.


Our client offers a hybrid working routine with an average of two days a week in the office. This position is paying circa £50,000. Experience working within financial accounting/reporting is essential.

Please only apply if you are available at short notice, at most two weeks.

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