Interim Financial Accountant
  • England,East of England,Bedfordshire
  • Full Time, Permanent
  • £60,000 - £62,000 per annum
Job Description:
*Hybrid working
*Established profitable employer
Financial Accountant
Sandy/ Biggleswade
12 month Fixed term contract
2 days in office/ 3 from home

Broster Buchanan have been engaged to support an established large business, as they look to appoint on a 12 month FTC.

The Financial Accountant is responsible for leading period-end close activities, delivering high-quality financial reporting, and driving robust planning, forecasting, and control across overhead cost centres.

Key Duties
· Lead and take full ownership of the period end process for overhead cost centres, preparation and posting of journals.
· Collaborate with the Shared Service Centre to ensure accruals and prepayments are accurate and well controlled.
· Own the preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations
· Deliver accurate, high quality and insightful management information to budget holders, including detailed variance analysis.
· Act as a trusted business partner to budget holders, providing challenge, insight, and support in understanding financial performance.
· Oversee and control intercompany recharges, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance with approval frameworks.
· Lead the end-to-end budgeting and forecasting process for overhead cost centres, setting clear timelines and ensuring high-quality outputs.
· Provide robust challenge and insight to assumptions, ensuring forecasts are realistic, data-driven, and aligned to strategic objectives.
· Drive continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, automation, and control.
· Work closely with the Finance Manager to strengthen financial policies, procedures, and documentation, enhancing governance and reporting quality.
· Ensure compliance with internal financial controls and procedures to uphold financial integrity.
· Lead or contribute to ad-hoc projects, analysis, and strategic initiatives as required.


Suitable applicants


To be considered for this role you will hold a ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified (or equivalent), with strong technical accounting knowledge
Excel skills will include Pivot Tables and XLOOKUP’s to support data-driven decision-making
Along with a solid understanding of controls, compliance, and best practices, you will also be able to take a collaborative, business-partnering approach with cross-functional teams

April start preferred

Please reach out to for full details
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Job number 3621761

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Company Details:
Broster Buchanan Ltd
Company size: 20–49 employees
Industry: Recruitment Consultancy
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