Project Accountant (Qualified) - Hybrid - Permanent - £48k

Your new company
One of the largest group of charitable housing associations in London, housing 1 in 10 Londoners and building 1 in 4 new houses in the capital. A housing organisation with a social purpose, with a diverse property portfolio across London and Southern England

Your new role
The successful candidate will be reporting to the Senior Project Accountant for the accounting for all scheme developments. Some key responsibilities:

• Reconciliation of all capital related balance sheet accounts.
• Liaise with project manager on queries and reviewing costs in ledger to ensure correctly allocated.
• Posting journals to correct accounts in the ledger
• Review of cashflow for assigned schemes and regular cashflow meetings.
• Assist in developing, implementing and monitoring control systems policies and procedures.
• Assist in the preparation of capital finance related month end and year end schedules and statutory notes.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of balance sheet and profit and loss account reconciliation.
• Experience of carrying out large volumes of analysis of financial information.
• Fully qualified.
• Desirable - Experience of development accounting in a medium to large housing association.
• Desirable - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and reporting via Atlas.
• Management experience

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

What you need to do now
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My client is a highly rated and ambitious NHS organisation who is looking for some support in the finance team for the next 3-6 months to cover a busy period of time and year end

The main purpose of the role will be to provide managerial support to the Financial Accounts Manager and act as a deputy as and when required, for the operation of the Financial Accounts Department.  You will take individual responsibility for the delivery of the department’s objectives as well as providing support for the team.

You will also be  individually responsibility for managing and delivering complex financial projects, as directed by the Head of Financial Services and Planning and the Financial Accounts Manager and Corporate Accountant.

This is a key role in the finance team and needs someone with varied financial accounting experience as well as a can do attitude and the ability to react and change priorities at short notice

There is the potential for this role to turn in to a permanent opportunity for the right person as there is a lot going on at the Trust at the moment where professional and ambitious candidates would be very much welcomed

Prospectus is delighted to be working with the Big Issue Invest (BII) to support the recruitment of their new Assistant Management Accountant. Big Issue Invest is the social investment arm of The Big Issue. BII helps prevent poverty and creates opportunities for communities by providing finance, from unsecured loans to equity investment, to sustainable social enterprises, charities and ventures.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Assistant Management Accountant will deliver the finance function for Big Issue Invest, and manage accounting for the loans they provide to create social impact. Not only does the Assistant Management Accountant deliver the nuts and bolts of the function, the role is critical in supporting BII's work to build a world that works for everyone.

The post holder will be responsible for assisting with the preparation of month end, balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow management, preparing the management accounts, and preparing board papers. The successful candidate will download bank accounts weekly, prepare the loan asset journal monthly, and prepare the VAT returns quarterly.

The ideal candidate will be a professional with a clear understanding of financial accounting principles, and experience of preparing cash flows and using banking systems. Ideally ACCA or CIMA part qualified, the successful candidate will have experience of working on month end, as well as experience of producing monthly management accounts. You will have excellent Excel skills, and the capability of uploading and downloading data from Excel to an accounting software system. The ideal candidate should have strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to engage with non-finance stakeholders at all levels. It would desirable - but not essential - to have experience of VAT returns.

As a specialist recruitment practice, Prospectus is committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

In order to apply, please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role.

An exciting opportunity has become available within a successful and growing education organisation who are recruiting for a Financial Systems Accountant. This is a permanent full time role working within a hybrid working environment with the offices based in Central London. Reporting into the Head of Finance & Director of Finance & Corporate Governance. The main responsibilities for this role will be covering responsibilities for across 5 difference countries will be to develop systems and process to ensure the effective and processing of finance data and develop management reporting to key stakeholders.

Job duties

• To ensure the accounting systems, management reporting system and CRM system used by the Finance Department are fit for purpose.
• To be the main point of contact for the Finance department and the wider organisation in relation to finance systems and technical issues.
• Enhance reporting to stakeholders within the implementation of new system.
• Provide training for new joiners within the Finance department and wider organisation regarding systems.
• To develop systems and processes as and when required to enhance knowledge
• Month -end and year-end reconciliations and reporting duties for all balance sheets accounts
• Work with budget holders to prepare the department annual budgets
• Summarise the report at month-end highlighting unreconciled and outstanding items.

To be considered for this role you must be qualified and have a proven track record as a Financial Systems Accountant. To have worked within a not-for-profit organisation would be desirable but isn't essential. It is important to have strong communication skills and can get stuck into a busy role. This is a permanent role working 35 hours a week with a hybrid working environment, the offices are based in Central London. If you have the above background and skillset and keen to know more please apply to TPP Recruitment by sending your CV to [email protected]

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

A healthcare not-for-profit based in central London is seeking an Interim Financial Accountant to support in the upcoming year-end process. This role will be based within their centralised finance team, supporting the Financial Controller and Finance Manager in the run up to March 31st and beyond. 

• Supporting in the preparation of financial statements in line with SORP requirements
• Preparation of monthly financial statement reporting packs
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting in the response to external audit queries
• Supporting in the timely facilitation of the audit schedule 
• Assisting with banking operations on an ad hoc basis when required 
• Ad hoc duties commensurate with supporting the organisation through the year-end period 

This role will suit a qualified accountant, who has previously supported organisations through year-end period (financial statement preparation, dealing with audit queries etc.). The role will be offered on either on a daily rate or up to six months fixed-term contract basis (fixed-term salary on offer to be discussed). Prior knowledge of submitting year-end accounts under Charities SORP (or similar) will be advantageous. 

In return, you will get to work with a well-know healthcare not-for-profit, among a busy but collaborative team. The role will likely be office based up to 2 days a week with the remaining 3 days working from home, although commensurate with this being a year-end based role, this may change to accommodate certain deadlines in certain weeks. 

We are ideally looking for candidates to start in February with interviews in late January so please do not delay in applying!

NHS organisation is looking for some interim support over the next 3 - 6 months in their management accounts team

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing  a high  quality  Management  Accounting  service for the organisation ensuring financial information is processed in a timely and accurate manner and in accordance with procedures and policies of the Finance Directorate.
• Producing monthly variance analysis for review, and investigation for specific budgets. Assisting with monthly I&E reporting. Forecasting pay and non-pay expenditure forward on a regular basis, and assisting with yearend processes and procedures.
• Undertaking  investigations  into  complex  financial  activity  ,  frequently meeting budget holders, undertaking costing reviews , and providing advice as appropriate.
• Support the Finance Managers by providing Management Accounting assistance and advice and assistance to budget holders throughout the Trust

You will need to ideally be part qualified or qualified and have some recent management accounts experience. A can do attitude and the ability to work under pressure and  to deadlines is also essential

Finance Systems Accountant: Flexible Location, Permanent £48,000 - £52,000

For a renowned animal and conservation charity, we are recruiting a permanent Finance Systems Accountant. Reporting to the Director of Finance, this role will provide key systems and user support across the organisations systems to its Finance department as well as the interface with the overseas offices. The Finance Systems Accountant supports the Sun Systems platform as well as QuickBooks, Compleat and other financial process systems. This role can be worked from home and this organisation has a very flexible work-life balance.

Main Duties:

• Manage the day-to-day systems maintenance and stakeholder support across Sun Systems, QuickBooks, Q&A, Compleat and PowerBI
• Coordinate patch and bug updates and software upgrades
• Systems training for new starters as well as access and systems administration for current users
• Oversee the running of the Purchase to Pay system, supporting all users
• Upload budgets, forecasts, bulk journals into Sun ledgers
• Manage all month-end and year-end system processes
• Day-to-day ledger and systems maintenance liaising with 3^rd party providers
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns
• Work with the Director of Finance on system upgrades, migrations, and ad hoc projects

What will you bring to this role?

• Qualified accountant with strong Finance systems skills
• Ideally Sun and Vision experience with QuickBooks and Power BI
• Track record in the maintenance and administration of accounting and reporting systems
• Experience in system processes enhancements or implementations
• Experience from a dynamic, fast moving commercial or non-profit organisation

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Senior Financial Accountant

£400 - £450 per day

Charity

6 months

My charity client are seeking to recruit a Senior Financial Accountant for the next 6 months. This role is 100& remote.

Reporting in to the Head of Finance, you will be accountable for the Finance Supervisor and Financial Accountant. Within the role, you will be expected to ensure all financial accounting is undertaken in an effective and efficient manner and appropriate financial controls exist as well as maintaining and developing the financial systems to meet the growing demands of the charity.

Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• To oversee financial processing for the whole organisation by maintaining policies and procedures and by monitoring activity
• To provide a high level of support to all users of financial systems including employees and volunteers
• To maintain and develop financial IT systems including the core accounting system, on-line accounting modules and on-line banking systems
• To manage the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Neutering Voucher systems

About you:

• Experience in working in the charity retail sector
• Experience of setting and managing income and expenditure targets
• Significant experience of working with volunteers
• Experience of managing employees, including recruitment, retention, performance management and dealing with disciplinary situations
• Excellent people management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation with employees, volunteers and members of the public through excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to build & maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people, both paid & voluntary
• Knowledge of Health & Safety issues in the retail environment
• Knowledge of the issues relating to recruiting and retaining volunteers
• Use of Microsoft based IT programmes including Word, Excel, Outlook and the internet

If this role sounds suited to you, please apply now.

A large Health organisation in Central London is looking for a Assistant Accountant to join the team for 12 months on a project.

Client Details

A large Health organisation in Central London

Description

• Inputting significant numbers of purchase invoices weekly and ensuring appropriately matched to purchase order system
• Regular reconciliation of supplier statements
• Operate weekly payment run for suppliers and staff expenses across 4 entities
• Record cash book payments and receipts
• To perform daily back-up and month end processes of purchase ledger and sales ledger, including running, checking and reconciling reports from computerised accounting system
• Generating sales invoices in line with organisation guidelines
• Assisting with debt recovery procedures, including liaison with budget managers and overdue debtors
• Maintaining filing requirements for purchase and sales invoices
• Assisting with month-end procedures, including posting monthly recharge journals
• Assisting with year-end audit file preparation and audit requests

Profile

• AAT or equivalent
• Strong Excel Skills
• Understanding of double entry
• Experience of inputting and processing payments and sales in line with controls

Job Offer

£28000-£29000

International Project Accountant, Central London – International Development, up to £40,000 plus benefits

After a busy period, a new programme finance role has become available in an international development charity based in Central London. The selected candidate will report directly to the programme finance manager and assist in financial planning, grant management and reporting. This position is perfectly suited to an ACA qualified auditor, looking to make their first step into programme finance or PQ Finalists who have exposure to grant management, donor reporting and international finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design and implementation of effective quality controls to ensure compliance with donor requirements and to maintain appropriate donor stewardship, including through manuals, checklists, templates, and other tools
• Monitor spending and activity implementation and ensure regular scheduling of grants management meetings, alerting the Programme Finance Manager and Programmes/Partnerships team about significant under or overspend on a timely basis
• Maintain internal tools that track active grants, cost recoveries and cash balances and ensure they are kept up-to-date
• Maintain internal tools tracking pipeline and secured funding
• Prepare financial information for internal reporting purposes, including (but not limited to) the quarterly CEO report, monthly dashboard and quarterly cash balances report.
• Maintain the grants management tracker so that grants are properly recorded and monitored, ensuring that input from the Programmes/Partnerships team and the Programme Finance Manager are incorporated on a timely basis
• Undertake administrative tasks related to grants, including setting up of grant codes (pipeline and secured), collecting and forwarding information to different units and executing follow up tasks as required
• Review budgets for concepts/proposals
• Carry out monitoring visits and audits on specific projects as necessary
• Develop and deliver relevant training and reference material on grants management, including procurement, donor regulations, IATI, finance and reporting for Programme, Finance, and other field-based staff; act as a resource for agencies/field units on donor regulations and compliance
• In collaboration with field units, prepare due diligence assessments for potential new partners or donors and ensure these are refreshed periodically
• Troubleshoot financial, donor compliance and procurement-related queries identified through monitoring grants or as raised by management or field units

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Part Qualified/Newly Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• 3 years relevant experience in financial accounting and financial reporting
• Experience in programme finance/donor reporting is essential, whether as an auditor or as part of a charity/as a trustee
• Experience of designing and managing effective administrative systems and procedures
• Experience of budgeting, forecasting and cash-flow management
• Good interpersonal skills with a range of stakeholders

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Senior Project Accountant

3-6 months

£550 per day (inside IR35)

Charity

My client is a leading animal charity and they are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Accountant on a 3-6 month basis.

Reporting into the Head of Finance, the purpose of the role will be to provide strategic and operational financial management advice and guidance across the organisation in relation to projects. 

Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• The Senior Project Accountant will play a pivotal role within the organisation, providing senior finance and accounting support in relation to projects to all eight directorates
• The role will take part in all project related meetings and boards, confidently briefing senior management on the relevant financial position.
• Accountable for monitoring the progress of projects from a financial perspective, investigating and reporting variances.  Drive to resolution and correction as needed.  This will include suggestions of financial mitigations allowing the project to realign to still meet its objectives but get back on financial track. 
• Support the process of gaining the appropriate governance for projects that are likely to overspend when all mitigation has failed to recover the project financially.
• Provide reliable and sound financial advice to facilitate informed decision making, financial management and control on charity and commercial issues orally, in written reports and in presentations.

About you:

• Significant experience of financial project management along with financial management including but not limited to: drafting financial models, budgeting, analyzing financial information and correction.
• Experience of working in a complex operating environment
• Proven experience of working with multiple stakeholders to drive a robust business case through from approval to implementation, from a financial perspective

If this role sounds suited to you, please apply now.

The Assistant Management Accountant will be principally responsible for providing and processing timely and accurate financial transactions and producing accurate management accounts.

Client Details

A large and well established Not For Profit organisation in London.

Description

Yearly

• Assistance with the preparation of the year end accounts and supporting documentation for audit
• Assistance with the preparation of the annual budget

Quarterly

• Production of the VAT return
• Assistance with quarterly Forecasts

Monthly

• Production of accurate management accounts
• Reconciliation and Balance sheets
• Monthly cashflow forecasts
• Monthly credit card expenses postings

Daily

• Maintenance of cashbooks entering and allocating transactions daily.
• Maintenance and management of the Sales ledger, Direct Debit collection and internal credit control. (excluding sponsorship and partner adhoc renewals).
• Maintenance and management of the purchase ledger including posting and paying invoices.

Profile

The successful Assistant Management Accountant will have good excel skills, ability to work on their own and in a team.

Job Offer

Salary: £38k - £40k

Benefits after probation (three months)

Senior Financial Accountant: up to £50,000 + Fantastic Benefits | 18-month Contract

For a large international organisation with presence in over 120 countries, we are recruiting a Senior Financial Accountant to manage the end-to-end accounting processes across a global transformation programme. The Senior Financial Accountant will ensure consistent, accurate and robust financial accounting processes in line with corporate policies and is a new role embedded in the Transformation team, but will also work with staff across Control, and FP&A

Main Duties:

• Manage monthly global redundancy calculations and payments applying country specific legislation
• Ensure all team costs and payroll spend is accurately reporting for the UK and Overseas
• Review reconciliations and variances, investigating all fully
• Develop and rollout effective finance processes, standards, templates, and systems
• Support the Transformation Finance Director and Corporate Finance Team for the forecast of drawdowns
• Support planning forecasting and monthly reporting for the Transformation programme budgets
• Manage the month-end process. Report to the UK Finance Controller for pre-closing and month-end closing steps
• Ensure P2P process is adhered to and review all accounting transactions and adjustments
• Cash-flow forecasting and reporting
• Review reconciliations for all control accounts to balance sheet accounts and FX issues
• Manage internal audit and NAO audit preparation
• Management of global fee reconciliations including rollout and re-charge processes
• Management of the Shared Service Centre relationships including AP, Intercompany and R2R in the SSC
• Work closely with the Transformation Finance Director, Regional Financial Controllers, Risk and Compliance, SSC, Corporate Finance, Tax and Treasury and External Suppliers
• Point of contact for Corporate Finance for Treasury and Tax

Person Specification:

• Qualified Accountant (CCAB)
• Experience in Financial Control and in meeting deadlines
• Experience of SAP financial control system
• Experience of managing a diverse group of stakeholders in multiple locations
• Experience of ERP systems
• Experience of MS tools including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
• Experience of working in international and multi-cultural organisations
• Experience of redesigning and automating processes

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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Are you a professional Accountant and looking to get an experience in the international development sector? 

Are you available for 4 month from mid-February to mid-June? The International Finance Team at Tearfund are a key part of the organization's vision to ending poverty - we provide high quality support to the International Group and HQ senior management including:

• financial planning and reporting
• financial control and audit management; and
• business process improvement.

We are looking to recruit a proactive and dedicated Senior International Accountant to support in coordinating Tearfund's annual year end process and statutory audit on behalf of International Finance. 

You will be part of a dynamic and supportive team and will have the opportunity to develop in your career and add value to Tearfund's work and mission.

The successful candidate will have a strong academic background, a professional Accountancy Qualification and proven experience in external or internal audit. They will be adaptable, solution-focused and enjoy working across multi-disciplinary teams. 

We are looking for a self-starter with great communication and analytical skills.

If you think your skills match the above we'd love to hear from you!

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.