Group Financial Accountant
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is recruiting for a Group Accountant for a Public Sector organisation in Chesterfield, North Derbyshire, for a 6-month interim contract, looking to start ASAP.
As the Group Accountant, you will be providing technical accounting support, ensuring compliance with accounting regulations, and offering strategic financial advice. Your accounting duties will involve statutory financial reporting, accounting and management of capital programme and financing, Taxation, Insurance, Banking and Cash management, Treasury Management activities, and Asset Management.
What will you be doing?
- Management and preparation of year end processes and the production of the financial statements.
- Lead on the preparation and management of capital accounting, including the accurate recording of all capital transactions.
- Developing and maintaining financial models and business cases.
- Financial reporting, performing reconciliations and producing high-quality working papers.
- Identifying financial risks and developing mitigation strategies, ensuring that financial risks are effectively managed and reported.
- Oversee and manage the treasury function.
What skills are we looking for?
- Qualified Accountant - either ACA, ACCA, CIMA
- Public sector industry experience
- Knowledge of taxation and insurance processes
- Experience working in a Group structure
- Team management experience, ideally a team of 2+
- The ability to travel to Chesterfield for 6 months.
What's on offer?
- Salary of £48,500-£51,500 FTE
- Hybrid working
- Pension contributions
- Can be paid via payroll or limited company
- 6-month interim contract with immediate start
- Opportunity for exposure to the public sector industry
- Central location with good transport links in Chesterfield
Send us your CV below or contact Inci Evcil for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
