Interim Management Accountant / Finance Business Partner

A senior interim opportunity to work directly with the Finance Director, improve financial reporting and help shape a finance function going through a period of change.

Our client is a well-established social enterprise providing urgent medical and dental services. They are looking for an experienced finance professional to join on an interim basis for an initial 3-4 months, with the potential for this to extend.

This is more than a standard Management Accountant position. The successful candidate will work closely with the Finance Director to strengthen management accounts, improve reporting and processes, support the Board and provide additional business partnering and leadership capability across the finance function.

The Role
The business has a significant amount of work to get through, and the Finance Director needs someone experienced who can come in, understand what needs doing and get on with it.

You’ll be involved in:

• Producing and improving monthly management accounts and financial reporting
• Working closely with the Finance Director to strengthen the finance function and improve its infrastructure
• Helping to build and streamline management accounting processes
• Improving the quality, consistency and presentation of financial information
• Supporting the preparation of Board reports and Board-level information
• Providing financial insight and helping to simplify complex information for non-finance stakeholders
• Supporting year-end activity and wider finance projects
• Developing reporting and processes to give the business better visibility of performance
• Providing commercial finance and business partnering support across the organisation
• Helping to assess and develop business cases
• Taking ownership of projects and other areas of work where additional senior finance support is required
• Providing day-to-day support and guidance to the wider finance team
• Line managing and supporting members of the finance team where required

There is a genuine opportunity to leave the finance function in a better place than you found it.

What they’re looking for
This role needs someone who can hit the ground running and operate with a high degree of independence.

You’ll ideally be:

• A fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
• An experienced Management Accountant / Finance Manager / Finance Business Partner
• Strong technically, with a proven understanding of management accounts and financial reporting
• Comfortable working directly with a Finance Director and senior leadership
• Experienced in building or improving finance processes and reporting infrastructure
• Confident presenting financial information to senior stakeholders and ideally Boards
• A strong business partner who can translate financial information into something useful and understandable
• Experienced in line management and developing finance teams
• Highly competent in Excel
• Comfortable working through change, ambiguity and competing priorities
• Someone who can identify what needs doing and simply get on with it

Experience within healthcare, social enterprise or a similar environment would be useful, particularly where you’ve had exposure to business cases and working with a range of non-finance stakeholders, but industry experience isn’t essential.

Power BI experience would also be beneficial.

Most importantly, they’re looking for someone pragmatic, professional and collaborative who can come in, roll their sleeves up and make things happen.

Why consider it?

• Working directly with the Finance Director and Chief Executive
• Genuine opportunity to improve and modernise a finance function
• A role combining management accounts, business partnering and project work
• Scope to influence processes and reporting rather than simply maintaining the status quo
• Senior-level exposure, including Board reporting
• Opportunity to work across different areas of the organisation
• Potential for the assignment to extend beyond the initial 3-4 months
• Flexible approach to working pattern for the right person
• On-site parking

If you’re an experienced finance professional who enjoys coming into a business, understanding what’s needed and leaving things better than you found them, this could be a really interesting interim assignment.

If this sounds like you, and you’re immediately available, hit apply.