Interim Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant| 12 Months FTC| - Projects & Change | Liverpool | £55k-£65k | Four Days on Site

Founder-owned. Highly profitable. They don't chase headlines. They just build a serious business and get on with it.

• 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.
• There's now a new Group Financial Controller in place. The shape of Finance is changing. But there's a gap
• This role is a 12-month fixed term contract designed as a stopgap backfill with real impact attached
• Initially, you'll steady the ship then, you'll help redesign it

• You’ll 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 isn't firefighting chaos. But it does need someone calm, technically strong and able to hold the line

• Once a permanent hire is made into the BAU gap, your focus shifts.
• You'll help move the business from "it's worked so far" to "it's built for the next decade."
• Bringing Statutory Accounts In-House
• Currently reliant on external advisors the plan is to build capability internally, you'll support that transition
• Implementing new lease accounting under IFRS 102
• Building Real Balance Sheet Reconciliation Discipline
• Some processes are light, some are informal, some don't exist. You'll 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
• There's a new ERP on the horizon

• Lean, commercial and sensible
• There's backing for change
  But no appetite for corporate theatre
• If you need a transformation office, five consultants and a change communications pack, this won't suit you.
• If you like quietly improving foundations so the building stands stronger, you’ll thrive

• 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

• 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 isn't about maintaining the status quo.
  It's about building what Finance should have looked like five years ago and making sure it's 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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