Financial accountant

Are you a qualified accountant with significant post qualified and lsquo;hands-on rsquo; experience? * Do you have experience from within the charity sector? * Have you led, developed and managed a team to deliver results within key deadlines and timescales? * Are you looking for a new challenging interim day-rate assignment? This well-known and high-profile organisation is looking to recruit an experienced interim Financial Accounting Manager/Senior Financial Accountant to lead and develop the financial accounting team with responsibility for the statutory accounts production, VAT and tax compliance and all the external reporting requirements. Reporting to the Head of Finance, your daily duties will include: * Ensuring the annual report and statutory accounts for the charity and all its subsidiaries are prepared in accordance with accounting standards including Charities SORP * Compliance with all the relevant tax regulations, including corporation tax, income tax and VAT * Monitoring and forecasting cash flow whilst maintaining appropriate treasury procedures * Manage and motivate the performance of the team through regular meetings to appraise their performance against targets * Deputise for the Head of Finance when required on all aspects of Financial Accounting The successful candidate will be an ACA/ACCA qualified accountant with post-qualified experience from a complex multi-faceted organisation, with proven experience in the production of consolidated Statutory Accounts to the regulatory standards of SORP, whilst dealing with the external audit requirements. You must possess first class interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and have the ability to convey key financial issues to non-finance staff, with the ability to understand wider stakeholder needs and adapt services appropriately