22 interim head of finance jobs found

Interim Head of Finance Rate: £550 - £750 per day Contract: Interim, Full-time Location: North East (Hybrid/Remote Working) We are seeking an Interim Head of Finance to join a Local Authority for a six-month assignment. In this role, you will work closely with the Director of Resources to deliver on the Council's financial agenda and strategic objectives. Key Responsibilities: Provide leadership and strategic direction for the Accountancy and Administration functions, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives. Facilitate robust financial management practices to support the authority's operational and strategic goals. Ensure the Council's accounting systems and procedures comply with established standards and those agreed by the Director of Finance Lead and develop a team of 6 Essential Experience: A CCAB qualification and a management qualification, with membership of a relevant accountancy body and evidence of continued professional development (CPD). Proven...

Vivid Resourcing are working with a respected Charity in the North West and are looking to help them find an interim Head of Finance for an initial 6 months. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Leading all financial management, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting • Overseeing statutory accounts and the annual audit process • Acting as Company Secretary and ensuring regulatory compliance • Reporting to the Trustee Board and Finance & Risk Committee • Line managing the IT & Data Systems Manager and driving digital improvements • Supporting the Chief Executive and Trustees with financial insight and analysis IDEAL CANDIDATE • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) • Significant senior finance experience, ideally within the charity, public sector or a values-led organisation • Strong knowledge of financial governance, compliance and charity SORP • Proven experience engaging with Boards or Trustees • A confident communicator who can translate complex...

Head of Corporate Governance & Transition (Contract) 📍 Manchester- 1 Day A Week (Hybrid) 💼 6-Month Contract 💰 £500-£700 per day Lead governance. Drive transition. Make an impact from day one. We're seeking a senior governance professional to step into a critical interim role, leading corporate governance and supporting a high-profile organisational transition within a public sector environment. You'll act as a trusted advisor to the Board and Executive team, ensuring strong governance, compliance and high-quality decision-making. Key responsibilities: Lead and enhance governance and assurance frameworks Advise Board, Committees and Exec on governance, risk and compliance Ensure robust, transparent decision-making processes Oversee Board operations, reporting and governance standards Support delivery of a major organisational transition What we're looking for: Strong legal and/or finance background or experience Proven experience in public sector governance Ability to...

Financial Controller Rate: Equivalent to salary Circa £70,000 DOE Location: Ashbourne (Head Office-based) Contract Type: Interim / Fixed-Term 3-6 Months An established and growing multi-entity business is seeking an experienced Interim Group Financial Controller to lead its finance function during a key period of operational and strategic development. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to a technically strong finance professional who can combine robust financial control with commercial insight and team leadership. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of financial reporting, strengthening controls, and supporting senior leadership with high-quality financial analysis and decision-making support. Key Responsibilities * Lead and manage the finance team, driving performance, development, and accountability * Oversee month-end and year-end close processes across the group * Ensure accurate and timely production of management...

The Opportunity: We are seeking a proactive and empathetic interim Income Manager for a Social Housing provider based at a head office in Leicester. This is a hybrid post with 2-3 days a week in the office. There is an opportunity for this role to get permanent. The primary focus of this role is to support customers in sustaining their tenancies through a customer-focused approach, fostering a culture of early intervention and arrears prevention while robustly managing rent, service charge, and lease fee income. Key Income Manager duties: * Manage a portfolio of arrears cases to ensure debt is consistently reducing across a variety of tenure types. * Handle end-to-end arrears enforcement by issuing legal notices, preparing court documentation, and representing the organisation in court to request appropriate orders. * Lead on the annual rent and service charge setting process, communicating all adjustments clearly to superior landlords, tenants, and...

Hi all, Currently working with a client in the manufacturing space who are looking for an interim 'Head of Finance' with interviews as early as next week! The role is quite hands on and although labelled 'HOF' is more at the Finance Manager/Financial Control level. This is a great opportunity for somone to take a step up and experience directly dealing with the board and managing a team of two beneath them. Key Requirements: - Experience in dealing with management accounts - Experience in managing cashflow - Experience in managing people and overall being a good personable fit - Sage system experience would be a bonus - Manufacturing experience would be a bonus - CIM 50 experience would be a bonus Further Information: - Initial 3 month contract with potential to extend/perm - 3 days onsite with expectation for more onsite presence in the initial stage of the contract - IR35 status not confirmed yet

Interim Systems / Project Accountant (NetSuite) Bristol | 3-6 months | Outside IR35 A high-growth Bristol-based business is approaching a NetSuite go-live and is seeking an experienced Interim Systems / Project Accountant to support a critical implementation phase. This is a key appointment, focused on ensuring a smooth transition, establishing an effective process flow, and delivering a robust finance systems environment from day one. Key responsibilities: * Support the implementation and integration from Xero to NetSuite * Define and embed best-practice processes and controls * Act as the internal systems lead during go-live * Work closely with a small finance team to ensure successful adoption Requirements: * Proven NetSuite experience (essential) * Strong track record in systems implementation or integration projects * Hands-on, delivery-focused approach * Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment The business: * High-growth environment *...

We are working on behalf of a global financial services client to bring to market a PM position. This is an opportunity for an experienced project manager to join a global organisation working on a review of their trading book. This role will initially run until May 2026 although it is part of a wider long-term program of work, so would have potential to extend beyond this. Key responsibilities include: Lead change and transformation projects in Capital Markets, focusing on regulation, risk, and controls Use knowledge of markets, products, and risk (market/credit) to support initiatives Build strong relationships and collaborate with stakeholders across trading, finance, risk, tech, and operations Gather business requirements and work with technology teams to turn them into solutions Manage risks, dependencies, and updates while keeping stakeholders informed and projects on track Key experience and skills: 5-7 years of experience as a project manager Experience within a capital...

Interim Financial Reporting Manager OUR CLIENT: A leading international real estate investment and development organisation who have a real estate portfolio worth over £25billion globally are looking for an Interim Financial Reporting Manager to join its Finance team. THE ROLE plays a key part in supporting the Finance function, ensuring the timely delivery of statutory accounts, regulatory filings, and audit requirements across a large group structure. The core responsibilities will be to: Prepare annual statutory financial statements for a portfolio of UK entities and make submissions to Companies House. Prepare annual statutory accounts. Be the primary liaison with external auditors, managing audit requests and resolving reporting matters throughout the audit cycle. Support the annual Group Audit and Half-Year Audit processes. Provide technical accounting support to the wider Finance team. THE PERSON: The preferred candidate will: Be ACA/ACCA qualified, with current /...

Interim Band 8A Finance Business Partner NHS Organisation Ideally on-site (flexible / remote considered for the right candidate) 3 months initially (strong likelihood of extension) We are partnering with an NHS organisation to appoint an experienced Band 8A Finance professional to support operational finance leadership within a busy NHS Trust. This is a key interim role, providing strategic financial insight, reporting and business partnering to senior stakeholders during a period of increased demand. Key Responsibilities · Provide proactive financial advice and analysis to senior managers and operational teams · Lead on the production of monthly financial reports, forecasts and variance analysis · Support budget setting processes, monitoring and financial planning across services · Work with budget holders to challenge spend, identify efficiencies and deliver CIP targets · Develop and present business cases and investment appraisals to support decision making · Provide financial...

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst Rate: £450 - £500 per day (Umbrella) Location: Newham (Hybrid working available) Contract: Interim, 6 months initially with view for further extension thereafter (up to 1 year possibly longer) Overview Our client is recruiting for two Senior Business Analysts - one to support the Adult Social Care team and one for the Children's Services team. They are commencing a procurement for a new Social Care Case Management System and are seeking experienced Business Analysts to join the implementation programme. These roles will be critical in shaping processes, capturing requirements, and supporting the successful delivery of the system across both service areas. Key Responsibilities Lead business analysis activity for the Social Care Case Management System implementation, ensuring service requirements are clearly defined, validated and aligned to programme objectives Review current processes and identify areas for improvement to support service...

Your New Company You will be joining a well-established and highly reputable professional services organisation with a strong UK presence and a collaborative, customer-focused culture. Operating within a regulated environment, the business is known for its commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement.Due to a period of change and increased workload, the organisation is seeking an experienced Credit Control Team Leader on an interim basis to support the receivables function and drive short-term performance improvements. Your New Role As Interim Credit Control Team Leader, you will take ownership of the day-to-day management of the credit control function, providing immediate leadership and stability to the team.This is a hands-on role, requiring you to quickly assess current processes, support collections activity, and lead the team to deliver improved cash flow outcomes over the contract period.Key responsibilities will include: Leading and supporting a team of...

Loan Administrator London/Hybrid Contract to December 2026 Day rate £460 via Umbrella Company Our commitment is to provide equal opportunity regardless of, for example, your gender, age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or beliefs. We also engage with employers to develop programmes and pathways that embrace diverse talent and promote more inclusive employment worldwide through partnerships and other initiatives. We recognise and celebrate the value of difference and how it makes us faster, smarter and more innovative than our competition. My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services. They are seeking an experience Loan Administrator to join the team on a contract...

The Opportunity This role will lead a focused programme of financial recovery and transformation across adult social care commissioning. The client has identified significant outstanding debt linked to commissioned services delivered on behalf of health partners and requires a clear plan to recover this income while strengthening the systems and processes that underpin financial management. This is not a traditional finance role. The Council is seeking a leader with a strong commissioning-led transformation background who can shape and deliver a system-wide approach to financial recovery and improvement. While support is available from the in-house finance team on technical areas such as accountancy, debt recovery and financial controls, the postholder will be expected to operate independently in driving change. Key Responsibilities You will take ownership of: • Developing the overall policy and approach to financial recovery and financial management within commissioning •...

Interim Housing Finance / Rent & Valuations Specialist Rate of pay: £27.81 PAYE or £36.62 Umbrella per hour Job Type: Temp till end of December with possibility to extend Location: Wembley HA9Overview We are seeking an experienced Housing Finance / Rent & Valuations Specialist to support an ongoing programme of work focused on rent compliance, service charge restructuring, and valuation consistency across a large residential portfolio. For the first 3 months, the appointed candidate will take a lead role on a key project centred around affordable rent compliance, rent validation, and valuation rationalisation. This role will then transition into broader ongoing requirements aligned with housing finance and asset management objectives. Key Responsibilities (Initial Project Focus - First 3 Months) Undertake a full reconciliation of affordable rent agreements, ensuring accuracy and compliance Confirm GLA approvals for all affordable rent units Review service charges...

Interim Financial Transformation Lead – Adults Commissioning Walsall £550–£650/day Inside IR35 (flexibility for exceptional candidates) Interim Contract The role An exciting opportunity for an experienced transformation leader to drive financial recovery and improvement across Adult Social Care commissioning. You’ll lead a focused programme to recover outstanding debt linked to commissioned services delivered with health partners, while strengthening the systems, processes and operational approach that underpin financial management and performance. This is not a traditional finance role. We’re looking for someone with a strong commissioning and transformation background who can work across organisational boundaries, build effective relationships with health partners and operational teams, and deliver sustainable system-wide change. Key areas of focus include debt recovery, process improvement, financial oversight, stakeholder engagement and embedding long-term operational...

The Portfolio Group are proudly partnered with a global business specialising within the Media industry, and we are looking for a Business Operations Coordinator to support their business goals. You will have minimum 2 years' experience in business operations, analytical, project experienced and thrive working in a fast-paced environment. This is a 12-month contract. The Business Coordinator will act as a business advisor, ensuring efficient and prudent use of resources. The primary goal is to manage business related functions, enabling executive management, department heads, and production staff to focus on editorial responsibilities. Additional or modified responsibilities may be assigned as needed, provided they remain within the scope of business operations and strategic support. This role does not extend to providing personal or executive assistant support to leadership. This is a 12-month contract Key Responsibilities Partner with management and colleagues to establish...

Yolk Recruitment are proud to be supporting a respected social housing organisation in their search for an Assistant Finance Business Partner to join their Finance team, initially on a 4 month fixed-term contract with the possibility of extension. This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional with strong management accounting and business partnering experience to join a values-driven organisation making a real difference within local communities. The Opportunity Reporting to the Finance Manager - Partnering, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality financial support across the organisation. You'll work closely with budget holders, Heads of Service and senior leadership to provide insightful financial analysis, budgeting support and management information that supports strategic decision-making. This role offers a varied workload across management accounts, financial reporting, budgeting, fixed asset accounting, project costing and business partnering....

The Portfolio Group are proudly partnered with a global business specialising within the Media industry, and we are looking for a Business Operations Coordinator to support their business goals. You will have minimum 2 years' experience in business operations, analytical, project experienced and thrive working in a fast-paced environment. This is a 12-month contract. The Business Coordinator will act as a business advisor, ensuring efficient and prudent use of resources. The primary goal is to manage business related functions, enabling executive management, department heads, and production staff to focus on editorial responsibilities. Additional or modified responsibilities may be assigned as needed, provided they remain within the scope of business operations and strategic support. This role does not extend to providing personal or executive assistant support to leadership. This is a 12-month contract Key Responsibilities Partner with management and colleagues to establish...

Interim Finance Control & Reconciliations Lead Location: Leeds - Onsite Duration: 3-6 months (Interim) Start Date: ASAP Role Purpose To provide short-term senior finance support to strengthen our clients finance control environment during a period of transition. This role will focus on reviewing reconciliations, applying independent challenge, supporting the sign-off of key finance controls, and improving overall process discipline. A key objective will be ensuring finance outputs are accurate, well evidenced, and fully audit ready. This is a senior, hands-on role requiring strong technical judgement, attention to detail, and the ability to operate with a high degree of independence. Key Responsibilities of the Interim Finance Control & Reconciliations Lead: 1. Reconciliation Review & Sign-Off Review daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations across key finance processes Validate that all reconciling items are clearly understood, evidenced and appropriately...