An established and growing organisation is seeking an experienced Interim Finance Manager to support its financial reporting, month-end close activities, annual audit process, and a key finance transformation project.
Reporting directly to the Senior Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering accurate monthly management accounts, supporting group reporting requirements, and ensuring robust financial controls across capitalisation processes. A significant element of the assignment will involve reviewing and redesigning existing capitalisation methodologies and associated accounting policies.
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant with strong technical accounting skills, particularly within project-led or capital-intensive environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and post monthly journals for month-end and quarter-end reporting.
- Support the Finance Manager and Financial Controller with P&L and balance sheet reporting throughout the monthly close process.
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly group reporting submissions.
- Analyse and review capitalisable expenditure, including both external supplier costs and internal project-related time allocation data.
- Investigate existing data quality issues and recommend process improvements to enhance reporting accuracy.
- Support annual external audit requirements, providing timely and accurate audit information and reconciliations.
- Assist with regulatory and statistical reporting submissions.
- Provide broader finance team support, including purchase order management and expense-related processes.
- Contribute to ongoing business-as-usual finance operations as required.
Project Focus
A key deliverable of this contract will be to:
- Review current capitalisation processes and accounting treatments.
- Assess compliance with relevant accounting standards.
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies and control weaknesses.
- Design and implement improved capitalisation procedures, policies and reporting frameworks.
- Enhance supporting data analysis and documentation processes.
- Accurate and timely month-end journal postings.
- High-quality support for monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting.
- Robust analysis of operating expenditure and project costs to support correct capitalisation treatment.
- Improved quality and reliability of financial and project data.
- Effective and timely support for external audit requests and deliverables.
Candidate Profile
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Strong management accounting and financial reporting experience.
- Proven experience preparing journals and supporting month-end close activities.
- Advanced understanding of capital expenditure (Capex) and operating expenditure (Opex) analysis.
- Experience working with project accounting data, including timesheets and project cost allocations.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, particularly IAS 38 – Intangible Assets.
- Excellent Excel skills, including complex data analysis and reconciliation work.
- Experience using ERP/general ledger systems, ideally Workday or a comparable platform.
- Experience within the energy, utilities, infrastructure, technology, engineering, telecoms or other capital-intensive industries.
- Previous audit training or experience working closely with external auditors.
- Experience assisting with group reporting requirements in a multinational environment.
- Track record of identifying and implementing finance process improvements.
What’s on Offer
- High-impact interim assignment with a blend of BAU reporting and finance transformation work.
- Opportunity to influence and improve capitalisation policy and accounting processes.
- Exposure to senior finance stakeholders and group reporting requirements.
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