We have a fantastic opportunity for an Interim UK Management Accountant to work with a "Not for Profit" company based in Central London. You will be joining a fast paced, growing team, offering key accounting support for the group. Working closely with senior management across the business and the wider finance team, there is also the opportunity for the position to become permanent. A competitive salary is on offer along with a hybrid working pattern, 2 x days based out of the London Office and WFH, you need to be available to start immediately.

Responsibilities:

• Capture all income and expenditure on an accruals basis into the financial records.
• Identify and record restricted funding and allocate allowable expenditure against this funding.
• Identify and record gift-aided donations for monthly Gift Aid claims.
• Maintain purchase ledger, logging all purchase invoices to be paid from UK.
• Prepare weekly schedule of payments to be made from the UK for approval by Finance Director and CEO.
• Initiate all payments made from UK bank accounts and obtain secondary authorised signature.
• Maintain petty cash records.
• Raise intercompany invoices recharging expenditure paid from the UK on behalf of the country programmes.
• Record intercompany invoices from countries recharging expenditure made in country.
• Report monthly by funding code on cash received into UK bank accounts to Senior Management Team.
• Weekly update of UK Cash Forecast for following twelve months (UK payments only), for incorporation into Group Cashflow by Finance Director.
• Report monthly on actual income and expenditure vs budgeted income and expenditure (to be incorporated into monthly management accounts).
• Assist Group Accountant with the annual preparation of statutory accounts, preparation of supporting schedules for Auditors.
• Co-ordinate and monitor the preparation of rolling budgets (working with the Group Accountant as necessary) and provide monthly summaries of actual income and expenditure vs budget to be incorporated into the monthly management accounts.
• Contribute to the annual budgeting process, identifying core contracted UK costs.
• Prepare a twelve-month rolling UK Payments Forecast based on contracted and anticipated payments.
• Payroll and Pension Contributions Management
• Maintain the UK payroll and file monthly RTI reports to HMRC.
• Calculate and submit monthly employee and employer pension contributions to pension scheme.
• Work with the Finance Director to prepare the company for becoming VAT registered.

Requirements:

• The successful candidate should be working towards a CCAB or AAT accounting qualification.
• Experience of working in a finance team, ideally for at least two years
• Attention to details, and ability to meet deadlines
• Good working knowledge of Excel
• Good working knowledge of accounting software
• Ability to reconcile bank accounts, and control accounts
• Ability to work with colleagues at different levels across the organisation in an assertive but supportive way
• Ability to work with the company''s external auditors, playing a key role in supporting during the annual audit.

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