Part Time Accountant

Ref: 221-JH

Role: Part Time Accountant

Salary: £18,863 – £21,234 Per Annum (£44,014 – £49,576 FTE)

Location: Rotherham

Hours: 15 hours Per Week (With Flexibility for Additional Hours)

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday
• Work From Home option
• 5% matched pension
• 3x death in service
• Employee Assistance Programme

The role:

Our client is looking for an experienced Finance Manager/qualified accountant to take professional responsibility for their finance function on a part-time basis.

Working closely with the leadership team, you’ll provide high-quality financial information, analysis and advice while supervising and developing a recently graduated Finance Officer.

Key duties include:

• Overseeing the finance function and ensuring accurate financial reporting
• Preparing budgets, forecasts, cash-flow forecasts and management accounts
• Monitoring income and expenditure and investigating variances
• Providing financial analysis and advice to the leadership team
• Supervising, mentoring and developing the Finance Officer
• Maintaining robust financial controls, reconciliations and procedures
• Overseeing VAT accounting and returns
• Coordinating year-end accounts and the annual external audit
• Preparing audit information and responding to auditor queries
• Ensuring statutory financial requirements and deadlines are met
• Supporting strategic financial planning and long-term sustainability
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes and controls

The successful candidate:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or qualified by experience
• Strong management and financial accounting experience
• Confident overseeing a finance function independently
• Experience supervising or mentoring less-experienced finance colleagues
• Strong knowledge of management accounts, budgets, forecasts and cash flow
• Good understanding of financial controls, reconciliations and governance
• Practical VAT experience
• Experience supporting year-end accounts and external audits
• Able to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Strong Excel and accounting software skills

Experience within education, charities, not-for-profit or publicly funded organisations would be advantageous but isn’t essential.