Interim Financial Accountant
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Job Summary
Financial Accountant 12 Months FTC Projects & Change Liverpool 55k-65k Four Days on Site
Founder-owned. Highly profitable. They dont chase headlines. They just build a serious business and get on with it.
Why This Role Exists
The First Chapter
The Second Chapter: Proper Financial Accounting
The Environment
What Theyre Looking For
Why This Is Genuinely Interesting
They need someone to start (yesterday) so if this one is for you get in touch at or .
Founder-owned. Highly profitable. They dont chase headlines. They just build a serious business and get on with it.
Why This Role Exists
- Finance is evolving
- For nearly three decades the function was stable loyal and heavily transactional. It worked until the scale of the business demanded something more structured more controlled more future-proof.
- Theres now a new Group Financial Controller in place. The shape of Finance is changing. But theres a gap
- This role is a 12-month fixed term contract designed as a stopgap backfill with real impact attached
- Initially youll steady the ship then youll help redesign it
The First Chapter
- Youll step into a gap within Management Accounts and Financial Accounting.
- Support month-end close
- Oversee core financial reporting
- Provide balance sheet oversight
- Keep things controlled and accurate while the team reshapes
- This isnt firefighting chaos. But it does need someone calm technically strong and able to hold the line
The Second Chapter: Proper Financial Accounting
- Once a permanent hire is made into the BAU gap your focus shifts.
- Youll help move the business from its worked so far to its built for the next decade.
- Bringing Statutory Accounts In-House
- Currently reliant on external advisors the plan is to build capability internally youll support that transition
- Implementing new lease accounting under IFRS 102
- Building Real Balance Sheet Reconciliation Discipline
- Some processes are light some are informal some dont exist. Youll design and embed proper reconciliation frameworks
- Writing Financial Accounting Policies
- Not theoretical documents that sit in a folder
- Resetting Core Accounting Policies
- Stock margin and core revenue recognition mechanics ensuring consistency clarity and defensibility
- ERP Process & capability definition
- Theres a new ERP on the horizon
The Environment
- Lean commercial and sensible
- Theres backing for change
But no appetite for corporate theatre - If you need a transformation office five consultants and a change communications pack this wont suit you.
- If you like quietly improving foundations so the building stands stronger youll thrive
What Theyre Looking For
- A qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent)
- Is technically strong in UK GAAP
- Has hands-on financial accounting experience
- Can build processes from scratch
- Has written (and implemented) accounting policies
- Understands retail stock margin and commercial nuance (ideal not essential)
- Is comfortable moving between BAU and project work
Why This Is Genuinely Interesting
- A 4.5bn business that still feels owner-led
- The chance to shape core financial controls
- Exposure to senior leadership
- Proper change work not PowerPoint transformation
- A business that is profitable stable and ambitious
- This isnt about maintaining the status quo.
Its about building what Finance should have looked like five years ago and making sure its ready for the next ten. - Long-term permanent opportunity if you want it
They need someone to start (yesterday) so if this one is for you get in touch at or .
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