Finance Business Partner 

Company & Role Overview

Our clients who is a leading chartered accountancy firm is looking for an experienced Audit Manager to join their busy team. You will be working with organisations of every type and size. Clients cover all divisions of commerce and industry, ranging from large to small businesses. The ideal candidate will be a skilled manager with a specialised services background.
 

Main Responsibilities

• Accountable for a portfolio of corporate clients across a wide-ranging of industries
• Managing client relationship and ensuring that expectations are managed accordingly
• Plan, overseeing, and reviewing audit, accounts, and corporation tax work
• Preparing and reviewing statutory accounts in line with UK GAAP and FRS102
• Supervise junior staff and assisting any queries on technological and professional development, including conducting periodic appraisals
• Performing billing management
• Administration duties
• Ad hoc business consultancy and any duties in line with the role
• Support in producing new business

Requirements

• ACA qualified
• At least 5 year audit experience within a specialised services environment
• Experience of UK GAAP, FRS102, and IFRS
• Experience in managing audits
• Capable technical ability
• Familiarity of corporate tax, personal tax, and indirect tax
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills
• Be able to organise and prioritise workloads
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft packages

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a UK leading Charity. They help to provide crucial support to people with Complex disabilities all across the UK for well over the last 10 years. Our client is looking for an experienced Management Accountant to add to the team. We are looking for the right individual to join now to be part of an exciting future ahead.

This role will provide vital assistance and support across the Finance department.

Main Responsibilities

• To carry out all aspects of the role in a satisfactory manner and within the guidance of the Organisation’s Goals, Values and Strategic aims.
• Work collaboratively with Senior Management and Head of Finance to prepare the Annual Budget & Business Plan
• Create an Annual Budget timetable
• Design Annual Budget setting processes and procedures
• Design Budget modelling processes
• Perform financial modelling for new business contracts
• Work with the Financial Controller on month end closure processes
• Provide training to Managers on managing budgets effectively
• Prepare Monthly Management Accounts
• Perform Monthly Management Accounts meetings with Budget holders to document and explain variances from Budget
• Support the Senior Management Team to take timely action to address deviations from Budget
• Produce Monthly Management information reporting
• Support the work of internal and external audit
• Lead the Business Support to all areas of the organisation

Requirements

• CIMA, ACCA OR ACA qualified, CIMA is preferable 
• At least 3 years’ relevant experience at senior level of Financial Management & Budget Controls
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills

Company & Role Overview

Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a Hearings Team Manager to join their team. This role with involve dealing with leading, motivating and managing a team that often works remotely and is responsible for the delivery of a high volume of hearings. Ensuring, through coaching, support and guidance of individuals, a strong team ethos and collaborative working with colleagues across the department. Be accountable for the quality, volume and timeliness of your team’s work.

Main Responsibilities

• Effectively prioritise and manage work and hearings, ensuring the best use of available resources to meet business needs and identification of future resource requirements.
• Manage a team who works remotely in hearings, being able to coach and support direct reports to problem solve and overcome obstacles or issues that supports the delivery of their work and the smooth running of all hearing types.
• Manage and lead the performance of the team by ensuring sufficient support, guidance and direction is provided and that human resource issues and any poor performance is managed quickly and effectively.
• Control hearing risks through the undertaking of appropriate checks at all stages of the process, making recommendations and escalating high-risk hearings to Operational Managers.
• Support the Operational Manager to promote and embed within the team a culture of continuous improvement and values that are consistent with the company values.
• To continuously monitor, identify, assess, mitigate, remediate, and appropriately escalate risks, not only within their area of responsibility but also across the organisation.
• Manage and motivate direct reports by providing direction and setting clear objectives and behaviours through effective performance reviews. Assure and be accountable for the quality of your team’s work.
• Manage autonomously and through direction, advice and support to individuals or team, any challenges or issues that arise in relation to the scheduling or management of hearings, whether from internal or external source.
• Analyse and recommend improvements to processes and systems in order to address the learning needs identified, then implement agreed actions to increase quality, productivity and efficiency
• Responsible for reviewing and authorising financial claims relating to hearings.
• Assist with the appointment and recruitment
• Responsible for ensuring the public facing Register is accurately updated to reflect the outcome of a hearing.
• Using available data and own analysis, drive the performance and productivity of your team to ensure performance objectives and indicators are consistently achieved.
• Responsible for the adjudicating of postponement requests made in advance of a hearing.
• Review and respond to challenges and complaints about the decisions made and service provided by your or other teams, ensuring that learning for individuals or the team is identified and implemented.
• DS Checks This role may bring you into contact with, or allow access to information relating to children or vulnerable adults.

Requirements

• You will have significant experience of managing a team and resources, including demonstrable ability and understanding of performance management and coaching.
• You will have a high level of written English and verbal communication skills, and an ability to use your initiative to work effectively under pressure.
• Your strong communication skills will enable you to work effectively within a team and with your peers, to build and maintain positive relationships across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• You will be able to work closely with a range of people involved in fitness to practise cases (including our external Partners, external legal services provider and Case Management Team)
• Have a strong understanding of regulation and experience of working with/interpreting legislation.

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a tech start-up company who are based in the heart of London. They are currently recruiting for a Head of Growth role which will be a very hands on position within a small team and will focus on driving growth strategy for the start-up. The individual will need to be willing to get involved with various sides of the marketing responsibilities and will be a real self starter with a passion for start-ups and growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Produce and present growth reporting
• Report directly to the founders
• Running the Growth process to generate and prioritise and turn them into conclusive tests
• Work on new ideas and test them within a timeframe
• Liason with freelancers to produce high quality customer experience
• Working to tight deadlines
• Managing other members of the small team
• Generate and prioritise ideas and turn them into tests
• Be responsible for all growth related tasks

Requirements

• Hands-on experience creating and implementing growth strategy
• B2C experience
• Being able to put strategy into practise
• Well organised
• Great energy

Remote working whilst in lockdown

Competitive salary and equity/shares in the company