Financial Accountant

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - A ROLE WITH REAL IMPACT

Leeds / Remote | £45,000-£55,000

Some finance roles keep you in the engine room. This one lets you redesign the engine.

If you're an ACA/ACCA/CIMA accountant who thrives on improving, modernising and elevating how finance works, this is the kind of opportunity that doesn't come around often. A large, established group is transforming its entire finance function - and they want someone who can bring ideas, challenge the old ways, and help build something better.

This isn't "business as usual." This is your chance to shape what great looks like.

The business is in the middle of a major finance transformation. Reporting, controls, systems, processes - everything is being re-examined with fresh eyes. The appetite for change is real, and it's coming from the top.

You'll join Group Finance as a standalone Financial Accountant, reporting to a Head of Finance who wants someone curious, proactive and ambitious. Someone who doesn't just prepare numbers, but improves how those numbers are created, controlled and communicated.

This is a role where your voice will be heard.

You won't just produce weekly, monthly and annual financial statements - you'll help modernise how they're delivered. You'll bring sharper analysis, clearer commentary, and more meaningful insight to senior management and the Board.

Balance sheet integrity is a priority. You'll take ownership of reconciliations, controls and compliance - and you'll have the freedom to redesign processes that need tightening, simplifying or automating.

Your analysis and commentary will directly support strategic decision-making. This is a role where your work genuinely shapes business direction, not just ticks a statutory box.

You support junior team members, help develop their skills, and play a part in creating a more modern, efficient and forward-thinking finance culture.

You help build a better finance function.

• Improving reporting systems and processes
• Enhancing controls and audit readiness
• Supporting ledger and system changes
• Re-engineering how financial information flows across the group

If you enjoy fixing, improving and modernising, this is your playground.

• Remote-first working
• One day a week in Leeds
• A leadership team that values wellbeing
• No long-hours culture
• Autonomy to work in the way that gets the best out of you

You’ll be judged on impact, not time spent at a desk.

• Is ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (or close)
• Has strong technical accounting knowledge
• Enjoys improving processes, not just following them
• Communicates clearly with non-finance stakeholders
• Can balance accuracy with pace
• Wants to be part of a finance function that’s evolving, not standing still

Experience in professional services, legal or financial services is helpful - but mindset matters more than sector.

Because you’ll leave with more than experience - you’ll leave with impact.

You’ll be able to say you helped modernise a group finance function. You’ll gain visibility with senior leaders. You’ll build a reputation as someone who improves, not just maintains. And you’ll open doors into wider group roles across reporting, FP&A, commercial finance or transformation.

This is the kind of role that accelerates your trajectory.

If you want a Financial Accountant role where your ideas matter, where you can influence change, and where your career can grow in multiple directions, this is your moment.

Your next chapter starts here.