Job Description

Sewell Wallis are working with a well-established business as they look to bring in a Finance Manager to support with their year-end accounting process.

This is an urgent requirement for an initial 4-week contract, with the potential for extension. You will be joining a collaborative and high-performing finance team, helping to deliver a robust set of year-end accounts while liaising with key stakeholders both internally and externally.

What will you be doing?

• Supporting the preparation and delivery of year-end accounts.
• Reviewing accruals and prepayments, ensuring all expenses and revenues are correctly accounted for in the right periods.
• Conducting Profit & Loss (P&L) analysis, identifying anomalies, and explaining variances.
• Performing balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring key accounts (e.g., bank, debtors, creditors, fixed assets) are fully reconciled and justified.
• Implementing necessary year-end adjustments
• Liaising with auditors and internal teams to ensure a smooth audit process
• Assisting with year-end schedules and reporting structures (beneficial but not essential).

What skills are we looking for?

• Proven experience in year-end accounting.
• Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with auditors and senior stakeholders.
• Previous experience leading a year-end process would be beneficial but not essential.

What's on offer?

• (Apply online only)/day (DOE)
• Hybrid working - 2 days per week on-site
• Opportunity to broaden industry experience
• Immediate start - ideally w/c 10th March

If you're available at short notice and have the right experience, send us your CV below, or contact Becky for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.