Overview

Interim Financial Accountant - High profile large charity - 4 month contract - Fully Remote - Day RateClient Details

The organisation is a respected not-for-profit entity committed to making a meaningful impact in its field.Description

The role has arisen due to internal promotion opportunities against the general backdrop of a finance transformation programme and a rapidly growing overall organisation. The financial accounting team works very closely with the rest of finance, notably Financial Partnering, Planning and Analysis and Systems and Data, to be a true enabler to the organisation as it strives to end the devastation of dementia.Within financial accounting, whilst we are very close to completing the previous year end activities, work continues on ensuring that we are in a good position for the next year end and making further steps towards the vision of finance being the charity''s single point of truth.Responsibilities in this period will include the delivery of certain projects (notably new SORP planning and implementation) as well as more business-as-usual activities. (e.g balance sheet reconciliations). The application of the principles of IFRS15 to a portfolio of contracts and IFRS16 to our lease arrangements will be key steps driven by this role to ensure our readiness for the new SORPThe position has no line management responsibilities, but we would expect the role to have lots of interaction across the finance teams and Society more widelyProfile

A successful Interim Financial Accountant:Technically strong qualified accountant, likely ACA. Direct experience of implementing major accounting standard changes (e.g IFRS15, IFRS16) would be highly beneficialExposure to a larger corporate or charity environment - whether through audit or working in industrySome experience working in industry - charity experience is a definite positive but not essentialUnderstanding of what a good control framework should be and demonstrable experience of improving processesStrong communication / influencing skills with the ability to see and articulate the bigger picture, but equally happy to get stuck into the detail and possesses the skills to do soTeam player, able to work readily across departmental and hierarchical boundaries and comfortable operating in an environment where ambiguity is the norm as undergoing significant business changeJob Offer

Competitive daily rate4 month interim role to start 1 October (or as near as possible to that)Fully remote working arrangement for enhanced flexibility.Opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause in the not-for-profit sector.Collaborative environment focused on achieving organisational goals.Open to bringing someone on 4 days per week

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