Financial Accountant contract (charity)

Posting date:	01 December 2025
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	31 December 2025
Location:	Bristol, Bristol, BS16AD
Remote working:	Fully remote
Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	4751600_1764595657

Summary

• Interim Financial Accountant opportunity
• Location: Can be 100% remote
• Salary: Paying £58,000- £60,000
• MUST be fully qualified and have experience as a financial accountant within a charity.
• Contract: 6-9 month fixed-term contract
• Start date: ASAP - interviewing from 8th December

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on the review of balance sheet accounts and manage the reconciliation process.
• Work with finance colleagues to establish standardised processes across the charity and group for reconciliations
• Lead on establishing a process for accurate and reconciled reserves and fund accounting and reporting.
• Work with fundraising and CS colleagues to document the current processes and accounting entries, review these for accuracy and make changes where required.
• Work with CS and retail colleagues to improve year-end processes for information gathering and delivery. Work with FBMs to ensure all audit deliverable data produced at the year reconciles to the trial balance.
• Review 24/25 deliverables and identify areas for improvements.
• Work with CS and other colleagues to standardise the delivery of information to the external auditors.
• Work with financial accounting colleagues to prepare for the interim and year-end audit.
• Support colleagues with preparation of information for the audit. Lead on moving year-end information from the content server/one drive to SharePoint.
• Lead on working with financial accounting colleagues to move month-end information from the content server/one drive to SharePoint.
• Lead on working with retail and financial accounting colleagues to establish a process for managing non-retail entries into BTL (previous BDL/BEL entries) to ensure these are reviewed and managed correctly. Involve transactional colleagues in the process where required.
• Work with senior staff towards the successful implementation of the FRS102 IFRS 16 changes to fixed asset accounting. Additional work in other project areas as required.
• Any other ad hoc requests for information and reports as required by senior finance management or the wider organisation.
  
  Experience & Skills:
• Experience of working in large complex organisations with large and geographically spread operational delivery models
• Experience of delivering on objectives within tight deadlines
• Experience of process review and ability to identify new, innovative and best practice ways of working to deliver improvements.
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders, effectively handling challenging relationships and delivering complex messages in a user-friendly manner
• Proven experience in a group accounting structure
• Experience of project management and delivery of change
• Ability to show leadership, make complex decisions and recommendations and champion change
• Proficient use of computerised financial systems (essential) and preferably D365 and Power BI (desirable)
• Proficient use of MS Excel and other standard packages. Ability to use MS Excel pivot tables and formulae essential.
• Ability to plan and organise workloads and manage multiple tasks and demands within deadlines
• Self-starter who can work within overall guidance framework to identify and deliver improvements within your own area and across wider finance and the organisation
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiating

If you think this role looks like a good fit, please hit apply or reach out to Charles Maidment from the Hays Bristol finance team to review further.

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