Interim Financial Accountant
Posted 1 day ago by Grant Thornton
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The role of Interim Financial Accountant at Grant Thornton involves providing strategic finance consultancy and project-focused accounting services within the CFO Solutions team. The position allows for hybrid working arrangements and offers opportunities for experienced professionals to engage in short- to medium-term projects. Candidates can work through their own limited company or on inside IR35 terms, emphasizing flexibility and meaningful work. The role requires a fully qualified accountant with significant industry experience and expertise in financial reporting and accounts preparation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide on-demand and project-focused accounting services to clients.
- Prepare half and full-year-end accounts and manage audit liaison.
- Consolidate group accounts and handle intercompany accounting.
- Ensure financial reporting compliance under IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP, or international GAAP.
- Prepare year-end statutory accounts and audits.
- Engage with clients to deliver strategic finance consultancy and transformation support.
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified member of a professional accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience in a company with an annual turnover of £50m+, preferably within a listed FTSE business or Top 20 practice.
- Expertise in financial/statutory accounting, including accounts preparation and audit processes.
- Knowledge of group accounts consolidation and intercompany accounting.
- Proficiency in financial reporting under various GAAP standards.
- Experience in preparing year-end statutory accounts and audits.
Salary (Rate): £450.00 Daily
City: Leeds
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Location: Leeds
Working Pattern: Hybrid working, 2-3 Days onsite
Engagement Route: Personal Services Company/Limited Company (IR35 status to be determined per assignment basis)
Day Rate: negotiable
Who we are
At Grant Thornton we're building something bold. We're doing things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity. Our journey from great to exceptional is well underway. With significant investment behind us and a clear strategy for growth, there's real momentum.
Our Agile Talent Community (ATC) brings together experienced contract professionals who want choice without losing connection. You work where you add the most value, alongside teams who treat you as a partner rather than a placeholder.
Joining us in CFO Solutions - Finance Placements
Grant Thornton's CFO Solutions provides strategic, transformation and execution support for CFOs, through multiple services including finance consultancy, finance placements, business process outsourcing and technical accounting advice. The Finance Placements team focuses on providing an on-demand and project-focused accounting service, deploying individuals and teams of interim finance professionals into our clients' finance functions to help them through periods of challenge or change.
If you're an experienced Interim Financial Accountant who's tired of choosing between freedom and meaningful work, there's another route. Within CFO Solutions you'll be given the opportunity to take on short- to medium-term projects that sharpen your expertise, stretch your thinking, and give you a different angle on familiar challenges - all without locking you into a single path.
You can engage with us through your own limited company or on inside IR35 terms - whichever way gives you the freedom you're looking for
Skills we are looking for
- Fully qualified member of a professional accounting body such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
- Experience working within Industry, in a company with an annual turnover of a minimum of £50m+, ideally within a listed FTSE business and/or Top 20 practice within financial/statutory accounting capacity.
- Experience of half and full-year-end accounts preparation, audit liaison and preparation of monthly management accounts.
- Group Accounts Consolidation and Intercompany accounting.
- Financial reporting under IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP, or international GAAP.
- Preparation of year-end statutory accounts and audits.
- You will be an ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified accountant with industry and/or practice experience.
Why Consultants choose the ATC
Work that moves you forward
When a project fits your skills, we'll get in touch, but you choose whether it's right for you. That means working on engagements that genuinely build your portfolio and expand your expertise.
The freedom of contracting without the hidden admin
You're not left to navigate the freelance world alone. Our Agile Talent team helps you understand freelance regulation and connects you with people who broaden your thinking through our teams and clients.
Community you can actually feel
Connection shouldn't disappear just because you're contracting. From market insights to wellbeing sessions to networking events, you'll be part of a community designed to make the independent path less isolated and more impactful.
Our culture and values
We have a culture where talented people thrive - where high performance is not just expected but enabled. It's a culture built on clarity, curiosity, and care. One that challenges us to aim higher, where we're encouraged to make the most of an abundance of resources to fuel our own development, and where we support each other to grow, learn, and succeed.
Our open and accessible culture means you'll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That's why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.
How to join
We keep the process straightforward, because the real work happens once you're here.
- Submit your CV and basic details through our online application.
- If there's a match, a recruiter will reach out to discuss.
- Meet key stakeholders for a focused conversation.
- Complete your background checks, join the Agile Talent Community, and start exploring the opportunities we have to offer.
If you need adjustments at any point in the process, please let us know during the application stage - we aim to make sure our roles are accessible to everyone.