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Financial Accountant – Income and Payroll Focus (FPA&A)
Salary: £47,851 - £52,380
Location: National / predominantly remote working
MLC Partners is recruiting a Financial Accountant – Income and Payroll Focus (FPA&A) for a large, highly impactful organisation operating nationally across the UK.
This is a key role responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of income and payroll-related financial information, while working collaboratively with colleagues across Finance and the wider organisation.
This is a great opportunity to join a purpose-led, values-driven organisation in a role that offers plenty of ownership and exposure across the wider finance function.
You'll be joining an organisation committed to investing in its people, creating an inclusive working environment and supporting colleagues to develop and progress in their careers.
The role is predominantly remote, with a national remit and connection to a regional business unit.
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Financial Planning, Analysis & Accounting, you will take responsibility for key areas of income and payroll accounting, supporting robust month-end processes and ensuring financial information is complete, accurate and appropriately controlled.
You will work closely with colleagues across Finance, Payroll, Accounts Receivable and operational teams, providing both technical accounting expertise and practical support.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Taking ownership of income accounting, accruals and adjustments, ensuring they are accurate, complete and compliant with relevant accounting standards.
- Driving the period close process for income and payroll-related areas, reviewing actuals, trends and exceptions and resolving issues promptly.
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, including deferred income and income provisions.
- Working closely with Payroll to ensure salary-related accruals and adjustments are accurately reflected within the accounts.
- Supporting budget holders and Finance colleagues with income and payroll queries, helping to identify root causes and reduce recurring issues.
- Providing cover and support around billing, income processing and cash collection, helping maintain resilient processes across the team.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes, with a focus on getting things right first time and reducing manual entries at month and year-end.
- Supporting the preparation of statutory accounts and year-end audit, producing high-quality working papers and responding to auditor queries.
About you:
You will have a good understanding of income recognition, accruals, deferred income, provisions and payroll-related costs, alongside practical experience of balance sheet reconciliations and period close activities. Previous involvement in audit processes and preparing audit evidence or working papers will also be important.
Beyond your technical expertise, you will be proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to financial accuracy.
You will need:
- Studying towards or already hold a professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Experience across financial accounting, income accounting and/or month-end processes.
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines.
- Strong understanding of income recognition, accruals, deferred income, provisions and payroll-related costs
- Practical experience of balance sheet reconciliations and period close activities.
· Previous involvement in audit processes and preparing audit evidence or working papers will also be important.
- Strong attention to detail and communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Confident using finance systems and excel.
The organisation is open to part-qualified candidates, so this could be particularly attractive to someone progressing through ACA, ACCA or CIMA who already has solid experience within the Financial Accounting function.
If you’re looking for a role where finance is genuinely expected to partner, influence and challenge, please get in touch with Sam at MLC Partners for a confidential conversation.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Strategic Finance Partner
Salary: £52,380 – £55,789
Location: National / predominantly remote working
MLC Partners is recruiting a Strategic Finance Partner for a large, highly impactful organisation operating nationally across the UK.
This is a strong opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys genuine business partnering rather than traditional month-end-focused finance. You’ll work directly with senior operational leaders, providing financial insight, constructive challenge and commercial support to help them make better decisions and identify financial risks early.
The role is predominantly remote, with a national remit and connection to a regional business unit.
The role:
As Strategic Finance Partner, you’ll manage relationships with a portfolio of Operational and Central Directors, providing targeted financial support where it can have the greatest impact. This includes regular strategic reviews, identifying emerging risks and providing financial challenge ahead of key decisions.
- Partner with operational leaders to assess financial performance, risks and opportunities
- Develop financial options and recommendations to support decision-making and service sustainability
- Provide financial input into commissioner and customer discussions, including funding, performance and contract variations
- Support the resolution of significant income and invoicing issues
- Provide finance input into bids, tenders and re-tenders, including pricing, assumptions and sustainability
- Deliver practical financial training and coaching to non-finance colleagues
- Work closely with FP&A, Financial Control and Shared Services to ensure decisions are supported by robust financial information
About you:
You’ll already have experience within finance business partnering or management accounting, with a track record of supporting budget holders and reviewing financial performance. You should be comfortable identifying financial risks, understanding the commercial and operational drivers behind the numbers, and working collaboratively across a wider finance function.
You’ll need:
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- Confidence influencing and challenging senior stakeholders
- Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills
- Good Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems
The organisation is open to part-qualified candidates, so this could be particularly attractive to someone progressing through ACA, ACCA or CIMA who already has solid business partnering experience and is ready for greater senior stakeholder exposure.
If you’re looking for a role where finance is genuinely expected to partner, influence and challenge, please get in touch with Annabelle at MLC Partners for a confidential conversation.
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 pro rata
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week
Location: Remote-based with regular attendance at partner visits, events and meetings in London (approximately 2-3 times per month)
Contract: Permanent
Are you a relationship-focused professional who enjoys building partnerships, managing key accounts and creating engaging experiences for stakeholders?
We are recruiting on behalf of a respected UK membership organisation seeking a Partnerships Executive to join their friendly and collaborative team. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a portfolio of commercial partners, sponsors and supporters, ensuring they receive an exceptional experience whilst helping to identify opportunities for future growth.
Working closely with senior colleagues, you will play a key role in retaining existing partners, supporting sponsorship activity and helping to deliver events, campaigns and engagement initiatives that create value for both partners and members.
This role would suit someone with experience in partnerships, sponsorship, membership, business development, account management, stakeholder engagement or events.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and nurture relationships with commercial partners, sponsors and supporters
- Respond to partnership and sponsorship enquiries via phone, email and virtual meetings
- Ensure partners receive the benefits and services included within their packages
- Gather feedback from partners and identify opportunities to enhance the partnership offering
- Support partner retention and renewal activity
- Work collaboratively with marketing colleagues to deliver partnership campaigns and promotional opportunities
- Source content and opportunities for partner promotion through newsletters, social media and events
- Arrange and attend partner visits and networking events
- Support the delivery of high-profile industry events and sponsorship programmes
- Monitor partnership activity and maintain accurate records and reporting
- Contribute ideas for developing and enhancing partnership products and services
We are looking for someone who enjoys building relationships and delivering excellent stakeholder experiences.
You will bring:
- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills
- Confidence engaging with stakeholders by phone, email and in person
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Experience managing multiple priorities and deadlines
- A proactive and solutions-focused approach
- Commercial awareness and a customer-focused mindset
- Experience working with members, partners, sponsors, clients or supporters
- The ability to work independently whilst contributing positively to a small team
- 23 days annual leave (pro rata), plus birthday leave
- Additional annual leave for long service
- Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection Scheme
- Annual training and development budget
- Monthly co-working allowance
- Time off in lieu for evening and weekend events
- Flexible remote working
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.