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HASELTINE LAKE KEMPNER LLP
Finance Director/Financial Controller/Head of Finance Job Specification – Maternity cover (title to depend on successful applicant).
This role is all about looking after the firm’s finances and its finance team whilst our FD is on maternity leave. Reporting to the CEO the main responsibilities are:
- Delivering useful insight to the executive and partner groups
- Managing and motivating the finance team (10 people)
- Forward looking analysis, reports, systems, structures
- Stewardship – having their arms around the numbers, pro-actively ensuring the security of the firm’s assets, managing its liabilities, and ensuring that its records are accurate and complete.
This is a wide-ranging role involving significant liaison with the firm’s partner group, fee-earning teams, and Management Team.
Experience and qualifications
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) with prior experience in a senior role in a medium-large company
Experience in managing and motivating a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience in monthly accounts, journals, budgeting, credit control.
The ideal candidate will have experience in:
- LLP accounts
- International operations
- Experience in project management
- Experience of Business Central
Key skills
Articulate, confident, self-starter, with excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
Credible, able to inspire confidence in others, responsive to challenge, collegiate and able to build relationships whilst providing constructive challenge.
Detail orientated, can understand, and communicate economic drivers, and has an intuitive grasp of what outputs should look like.
Able to rapidly understand a business, establish credibility and operate effectively with limited induction.
Responsibilities and aspects of the role
- Maintain robust financial control
- Take overall responsibility for the ledgers overseeing the Management Accountant, Finance Supervisor, Purchase Ledger Supervisor, Credit Control Manager and their respective teams.
- Primary liaison with third-party implementation partner for Finance & Billing system, completing agreed projects already in progress and supporting with ongoing development and projects.
- Deliver accurate reporting and forecasting.
- Managing cash flow and funding
- Lead the preparation of annual statutory accounts.
- Support CEO and Board.
- Liaison with external auditors, tax advisors, and banks, for both the UK and Germany.
- Take overall responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of Members’ profit share calculations, current and capital accounts.
- Maintain momentum on agreed strategic and operational initiatives while safeguarding financial performance and compliance
- Work proactively with the Credit Control Manager, Partners and clients to ensure that cash is collected appropriately and in good time.
- There will be an element of travel to the firm’s other offices.
- Support wider business with ongoing strategies.
- Ensure a smooth handover both into and out of the role.
Synopsis
We are a leading European Intellectual Property law firm providing IP services to clients throughout the world. We are passionate about protecting, defending, enforcing and commercialising our clients’ IP so that their innovation can thrive and be rewarded.
We are looking for a qualified accountant with the ability to keep the Finance team running smoothly whilst our FD is on maternity leave. We need someone who is collegiate and commercial in their approach, able to lead and develop people, and who shares our passion for excellence in everything we do.
We have offices in Bristol, London, Leeds, Glasgow and Munich. Although based in Bristol, the successful candidate will need to travel to other European offices. You will need to be a confident self-starter with an ability to think through issues from both a technical and commercial perspective, gain buy-in to solutions and then work collaboratively to deliver.
Management Accountant
Core3 is supporting a large, multi-entity organisation to appoint a Part Qualified Management Accountant in a broad, hands-on role.
Why join our client
Our client is a well-established, purpose-led organisation with a collaborative and supportive finance team. As Management Accountant, you’ll gain exposure to a varied workload and play a visible role in improving processes and reporting. This hybrid role offers flexibility alongside the opportunity to develop your technical and commercial skills.
How you’ll make an impact
- Post journals and other uploads into ERP systems accurately and on a timely basis
- Prepare reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and identify risk
- Assist with quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting processes
- Identify and resolve issues using sound accounting judgement
- Develop strong knowledge of accounting standards and ERP systems
- Investigate non-standard transactions and deliver clear root cause analysis
- Build trusted relationships with finance stakeholders across the business
- Respond to accounting queries with clear, timely and informative resolution
- Take ownership of all accounting processes for your assigned area
Why you’re a great fit
- Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or equivalent experience
- Experience delivering management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end close
- Strong understanding of financial reporting and accounting principles
- Comfortable working with ERP systems and handling journal postings
- Strong attention to detail with a proactive, problem-solving mindset
- Confident communicator, able to build effective working relationships
What you’ll get in return
As Management Accountant, you’ll join a team that values clarity, development and continuous improvement.
- £38,000 to £45,000 + study support
- Hybrid working (2–3 days in office)
- Private medical cover
- Pension and wider benefits package
- Ongoing learning and development support
- Exposure to a multi-entity environment
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.
If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact jackie@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.
Financial Accountant
Core3 is delighted to be working with a market-leading global organisation in Maidenhead to recruit a Financial Accountant to join its finance team.
Why join our client
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established global organisation with a strong market position and continued plans for growth. Finance has significant visibility across the business, giving you exposure to complex reporting requirements, senior stakeholders and an international environment.
The role is particularly well suited to someone who has trained within a Top 6 accountancy practice and is looking to make their move into industry, or someone who has already made that transition and wants to continue developing within a large global organisation.
You'll benefit from hybrid working, typically 2–3 days per week in the Maidenhead office, alongside a strong benefits package and clear opportunities to develop your career.
How you'll make an impact
- Deliver accurate monthly group reporting under IFRS
- Prepare statutory accounts under FRS 101 and FRS 102
- Support month-end close and ensure reporting deadlines are consistently achieved
- Manage key treasury activities, including FX exposure and cash deposits
- Review transactions and ensure appropriate accounting treatment
- Work closely with external auditors and internal tax, legal and treasury teams
- Support budgeting and forecasting across group entities
- Provide technical accounting guidance to stakeholders across the business
- Strengthen financial controls and identify opportunities to improve reporting processes
- Support VAT, regulatory submissions and wider financial reporting requirements
Why you're a great fit
- Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA)
- Training gained within a Top 6 accountancy practice
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly around statutory and financial reporting
- A first mover from practice would be well suited, although candidates who have already moved into industry are equally encouraged to apply
- Good understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP
- Confident working with auditors and senior stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage competing reporting deadlines
- Comfortable working within a complex, international organisation
- Proactive approach to improving processes, controls and ways of working
What you'll get in return
As Financial Accountant, you'll join a market-leading global organisation offering the scale and exposure to develop your technical finance career.
- £60,000–£65,000 salary
- Hybrid and flexible working, typically 2–3 days in the Maidenhead office
- Generous pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life cover
- 25+ days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Career progression and professional development opportunities
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.
If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact louis@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.
Senior Management Accountant
Core3 is delighted to be working with an established organisation to recruit a Senior Management Accountant to join its finance team in South Gloucester.
Why join our client
Are you a Management Accountant who is ready for the next step in your career, but hasn’t yet had the opportunity to manage people?
This is an opportunity to change that. As Senior Management Accountant, you’ll build on your existing management accounting experience while taking on your first formal line management responsibilities, supporting and developing a small team of accountants and assistant accountants.
You do not need previous line management experience. The focus is on finding someone with a strong accounting foundation who is ready to take more ownership and wants to develop their people management and leadership skills.
How you’ll make an impact
- Take ownership of monthly management accounts across your assigned areas
- Lead key elements of the month-end close, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
- Review balance sheet reconciliations and identify and resolve financial risks
- Investigate complex accounting queries and provide practical solutions
- Maintain strong financial controls and consistent accounting processes
- Build trusted relationships with finance and operational stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working
- Monitor workloads and help the team deliver against key deadlines
- Provide day-to-day support, coaching and guidance to accountants and assistant accountants
- Develop your own line management skills while supporting the performance and progression of others
Why you’re a great fit
- Qualified or close to completing ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Currently working as a Management Accountant, or in a similar accounting role, and ready for your next step
- No previous line management experience is required
- Genuine interest in taking on your first people management responsibilities
- Strong management accounts and month-end experience
- Good understanding of balance sheet reconciliations and financial controls
- Comfortable investigating accounting issues and taking ownership through to resolution
- Experience working with ERP systems and financial data
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Organised and comfortable balancing your own responsibilities while supporting others
What you’ll get in return
As Senior Management Accountant, you’ll have the opportunity to progress beyond an individual contributor role and start building genuine leadership experience, without needing to have managed a team previously.
- £50,000–£55,000 salary
- Bonus
- Private healthcare
- Opportunity to gain your first formal line management experience
- Hands-on coaching and people development responsibility
- Continued technical accounting development
- Opportunity to broaden your leadership and stakeholder management experience
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.
If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact louis@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.
FP&A Analyst
£55,000 to £70,000 + benefits | Central London | Hybrid
A brilliant opportunity to join a high growth, multi site retail business with a genuinely exciting brand, vibrant culture and finance team that sits right at the heart of the business.
This isn't an FP&A role where you'll spend your life buried in spreadsheets.
You'll get true 360 exposure across the business, combining the technical FP&A work with genuine commercial partnering across Sales and Operations. You'll be close to the decisions, working with senior stakeholders and helping turn data into insight that actually influences performance.
What you'll be doing
• Budgeting, forecasting and longer term planning across a complex multi site business
• Building and developing financial models to support commercial decisions
• Manipulating large data sets and turning them into clear, useful insight
• Analysing performance, identifying trends and understanding the story behind the numbers
• Business partnering closely with Sales, Operations and other non finance teams
• Supporting senior leadership with commercial analysis and decision making
• Helping continually improve the quality of FP&A, reporting and processes as the business grows
What we're looking for
You'll be a qualified or finalist ACCA or CIMA accountant who enjoys getting beyond the numbers and working with the wider business.
Multi site and multi entity experience is an absolute must. Retail, leisure, hospitality or another operationally complex multi site environment would translate particularly well.
You'll need strong Excel and modelling skills, confidence working with data and, importantly, the personality to build relationships and challenge stakeholders across the business.
Why it's worth a look
It's an awesome brand with a great culture and an ambitious finance team. Finance is highly visible across the organisation, so you'll get exposure that goes well beyond a traditional analyst position.
For someone looking to develop into a genuinely commercial finance professional, there's a lot to get stuck into.
£55,000 to £70,000 + benefits
Central London
Hybrid working
Finance Systems Accountant
Core3 is delighted to be working with an established organisation in Bristol to recruit a Finance Systems Accountant to join its finance team.
Why join our client
This is an opportunity to join a business investing in how its finance function operates, with a clear focus on better systems, stronger data and more efficient processes. As Finance Systems Accountant, you’ll combine your accounting knowledge with technology, helping improve the tools and processes finance teams rely on every day.
You’ll work closely with colleagues across finance and technology, giving you plenty of exposure to systems projects, reporting improvements and wider finance change. It’s a varied role where you can take ownership, solve problems and see the impact of the improvements you deliver.
How you’ll make an impact
- Identify opportunities to improve finance systems and processes
- Support system upgrades, enhancements, testing and implementation projects
- Review existing processes and introduce more efficient ways of working
- Use SQL to query and analyse financial data
- Improve the quality, accuracy and consistency of finance data
- Develop financial reports and dashboards to support decision-making
- Partner with finance and technology teams to resolve systems issues
- Strengthen controls across finance systems and processes
- Provide guidance and training to colleagues on systems and new processes
- Contribute to wider finance transformation and continuous improvement projects
Why you’re a great fit
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- Experience in finance systems, systems accounting or a similar role
- Experience supporting finance system upgrades, implementations or improvement projects
- Experience using SQL to query, analyse and interpret financial data
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Comfortable working across both finance and technology teams
- Able to identify practical opportunities to improve processes and data quality
- Confident communicating system changes and supporting colleagues through change
What you’ll get in return
As Finance Systems Accountant, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your finance systems expertise while contributing to meaningful improvements across the function.
- £50,000–£60,000 salary
- Hybrid working
- Bonus
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.
If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact louis@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.
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The Heidelberg Materials (HM) International Business Service Centre (BSC) provides administrative, transactional and accounting services to in-scope HM companies.
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Leading a team of up to c.10 FTE Providing services to various HM companies and geographies. Consistently meeting personal processing targets – which vary depending on the process area.
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Financial Controller
£70,000 to £80,000 + Benefits | Permanent | Hybrid (3 days in the office) | Central London
A high-growth SaaS platform business is looking to appoint an ambitious Financial Controller to join its growing finance team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ACA-qualified accountant, ideally around 3 years' PQE, who is looking to step into a broad, high-impact role within a technology business that continues to grow.
Reporting directly to an impressive and highly supportive Director of Finance, you'll be given genuine ownership from day one while working alongside someone passionate about developing their team and creating opportunities for people to progress. This is an environment where you'll be trusted, challenged and supported to become a stronger finance leader.
The role is far broader than traditional financial control. You'll take ownership of the month-end close, lead the audit process, oversee key technical accounting areas including revenue recognition, support finance transformation projects and play a key role in strengthening financial reporting and controls as the business continues to scale. You'll also have the opportunity to help shape the future ERP landscape and partner with stakeholders across the wider business.
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly close process and deliver accurate, timely financial reporting.
- Lead the year-end audit and become the main contact for external auditors.
- Take ownership of key accounting areas including revenue recognition, intercompany and statutory reporting.
- Manage UK VAT, R&D tax claims and statutory compliance.
- Support ERP and finance systems improvement projects.
- Prepare board reporting and provide meaningful financial insight.
- Coach and develop junior members of the finance team.
- Drive continuous improvements across finance processes, controls and reporting.
About you
- ACA qualified with around 3 years' post-qualified experience.
- Trained within a Top 10 accountancy practice.
- Strong financial reporting, audit and technical accounting background.
- Experience owning month-end and working closely with auditors.
- A proactive mindset with the confidence to take ownership and improve processes.
- SaaS, technology or listed business experience would be advantageous but isn't essential.
The business is ideally looking for someone who can join within the next few weeks, although they'd absolutely consider the right person on a three-month notice period.
If you're looking for a role where you'll gain exposure, responsibility and the opportunity to work with an outstanding finance leader while helping shape the next stage of a growing SaaS business, this is well worth a conversation.
Senior Finance Business Partner
Why join our client
Are you a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys influencing business decisions and working closely with senior stakeholders? Our client is a growing organisation with ambitious plans, where finance plays a central role in driving performance and supporting strategic growth. Based in Bristol with a flexible hybrid approach, you’ll join a collaborative finance team where your expertise will be valued and your work will make a visible difference across the business.
This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible Senior Finance Business Partner role, using your technical accounting background to shape commercial decisions, improve performance and support the organisation through its next phase of growth.
How you'll make an impact
- Partner with senior business leaders to provide commercial challenge and financial insight
- Analyse business performance, identifying opportunities to improve profitability and support growth
- Develop financial models to support investment decisions, business cases, and strategic initiatives
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning
- Translate financial information into clear, commercially focused recommendations
- Challenge assumptions and influence key business decisions
- Support pricing strategies, commercial proposals, and investment appraisals
- Improve financial reporting and planning processes across the business
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Contribute to finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives
Why you're a great fit
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
- A strong technical accounting background with excellent analytical skills
- Candidates with an ACA qualification and experience gained within audit or a leading accountancy practice are likely to be particularly well suited to this opportunity
- Experience operating at Audit Manager level, or equivalent experience within a commercial finance or business partnering role
- Strong financial modelling and analytical capability
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders
- Commercially minded with the ability to turn financial information into practical business insight
What you'll get in return
As Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll join a business where finance plays a central role in supporting commercial performance and strategic growth.
- £75,000–£85,000 salary
- Performance-related bonus
- Hybrid working, with 2 days per week in the Bristol office
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we'll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.
If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact louis@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
Visit www.core3.co.uk to view all our finance opportunities.