Interim Financial Accountant
Posted Today by Grant Thornton UK
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Interim Financial Accountant at Grant Thornton involves providing strategic finance support through project-focused accounting services. The position requires working alongside client finance teams across various industries, focusing on interim placements during periods of change. Candidates will engage through their own limited company or on inside IR35 terms, with a hybrid working pattern. The role emphasizes flexibility, professional growth, and community connection within the Agile Talent Community.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide on-demand and project-focused accounting services to clients.
- Work alongside client finance teams in diverse organizations.
- Engage in projects involving accounting and audit support, finance function remediation, and finance change programs.
- Prepare half and full-year-end accounts, manage audit liaison, and prepare monthly management accounts.
- Handle group accounts consolidation and intercompany accounting.
- Prepare year-end statutory accounts and audits, and ensure financial reporting compliance under various GAAP standards.
Key Skills:
- Fully qualified member of a professional accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience in a company with an annual turnover of at least £50m, preferably within a listed FTSE business or Top 20 practice.
- Proficient in half and full-year-end accounts preparation and audit liaison.
- Knowledge of group accounts consolidation and intercompany accounting.
- Experience in financial reporting under IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP, or international GAAP.
- Ability to prepare year-end statutory accounts and audits.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Location: Manchester and surrounding area
Working Pattern: Hybrid working, 2-3 Days on-site working
Engagement Route: Personal Services Company / Limited Company (IR35 status to be determined on an 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.
Whilst on a project, you will typically work alongside the finance team of one of our clients in diverse organizations from all industry sectors ranging from larger SMEs to multi-billion corporations and listed entities.
If you’re an experienced Interim Financial Accountant who’s tired of choosing between freedom and meaningful work, there’s another route. Within our CFO Solutions team, 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. These projects are very varied, encompassing a wide range of skills and organisations within the private sector, including accounting and audit support, finance function remediation, and supporting finance change programs.
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.
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.