Assistant Accountant

Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 + bonus & benefits

Location: Malmesbury

Duration: Permanent

A well-rounded Assistant Accountant role within a busy, high-performing finance team, supporting a group of private businesses.

This is a replacement hire due to internal promotion, offering strong exposure, structured support, and clear progression.

The Role

Working closely with the Finance Manager and Financial Controller, you’ll support core financial reporting and month-end processes across multiple entities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and posting month-end journals (prepayments, accruals)
• Balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules
• Assisting with management accounts, including analysis and commentary
• Supporting VAT and tax reporting processes
• Assisting with budgets and cash flow forecasting
• Supporting statutory accounts preparation and audit processes
• Ad hoc support across the finance team

The role sits within a fast-paced environment and requires someone comfortable taking ownership of their work.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Studying towards ACCA/CIMA, or recently completed AAT
• Experience with month-end processes (journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations)
• Strong Excel skills
• Able to work independently and manage priorities

Desirable:

• VAT exposure
• Exposure to budgeting or cash flow

Personal attributes:

• Proactive and willing to learn
• Good communication skills
• Adaptable and comfortable in a busy environment

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Enhanced Pension
• Full study support (including study leave and fees)

Additional on-site benefits include gym, free lunch, and other facilities.

If you’re looking for a solid Assistant Accountant role with good exposure and support, this offers a strong next step.

Finance Manager

Salary: £45,000 + benefits

Location: Bristol (Hybrid Working)

Duration: Permanent

 

The Opportunity

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a high-profile organisation in a truly unique environment.

The business is evolving and entering an exciting new phase, and finance sits right at the heart of that journey.

You’ll work closely with a highly experienced CFO, taking ownership of core financial reporting while gaining exposure to a fast-paced, evolving organisation.

 

The Role

This is a hands-on Finance Manager role with real ownership.

You’ll be responsible for delivering accurate financial information, supporting decision-making, and ensuring strong financial controls across the business.

If you enjoy variety, autonomy, and working in a dynamic environment, this one’s for you.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

Financial Reporting & Control

• Full ownership of monthly management accounts
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Maintaining the general ledger and posting journals

Revenue & Transactions

• Raising invoices and managing accounts receivable
• Supporting day-to-day financial processing

Budgeting & Analysis

• Monitoring performance against budgets
• Supporting stakeholders with financial insights
• Producing ad hoc reports for senior leadership

Compliance & Process

• Supporting audit processes
• Maintaining strong financial controls and accurate records

 

What We’re Looking For

• Part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA) or QBE
• Experience in a management accounting role
• Strong Excel skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Confident communicator with a proactive mindset

 

Why Join?

Be part of an organisation going through real growth and transformation

• Work in a vibrant, high-energy environment
• Strong exposure to senior leadership

 

The Culture

This is a business that values:

• Energy
• Collaboration
• Community
• Continuous improvement

You’ll be joining a team that’s passionate about what they do and genuinely enjoys the environment they work in.

 

Interested?

If you’re looking for a role where you can add value, develop, and be part of something exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Management Accountant

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 + benefits

Duration: Permanent

We’re working with a well-established, values-driven organisation operating across multiple entities, looking to appoint a high-calibre Management Accountant into a broad, commercially focused role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys getting under the skin of a business — combining technical reporting with genuine business partnering and involvement in strategic projects.

 

The Role

This is far more than a traditional “numbers” role.

You’ll sit at the heart of the finance function, supporting senior leadership with insight, analysis and decision-making, while ensuring strong financial control across the group.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Production of monthly management accounts, including full month-end processes
• Delivering meaningful variance analysis and commentary to support decision-making
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning
• Acting as a finance business partner to non-finance stakeholders
• Preparing statutory accounts and supporting audit processes
• Ownership/support of VAT compliance and reporting across a group structure
• Monitoring income streams, costs and key performance drivers
• Supporting financial modelling for projects and strategic initiatives
• Driving improvements in systems, processes and financial controls

You’ll also play a key role in ongoing systems development and process improvement projects, helping to enhance reporting and operational efficiency.

 

The Person

We’re looking for someone who combines strong technical grounding with commercial awareness and curiosity.

You’ll likely be:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
• Experienced in a management accounting or finance business partnering role
• Confident producing management accounts, forecasts and statutory reporting
• Comfortable working with non-finance stakeholders and influencing decisions
• Strong in Excel and financial modelling
• Ideally experienced with VAT in a multi-entity environment

Just as important is mindset. This role would suit someone who:

• Asks “why?” — not just “what?”
• Enjoys improving processes and challenging the status quo
• Brings energy, ownership and a solutions-focused approach
• Can balance detail with the bigger commercial picture

 

Why Apply?

• Broad, high-impact role with real visibility to senior leadership
• Opportunity to shape process improvements and systems development
• Strong mix of technical, commercial and project exposure
• Collaborative, purpose-driven environment

 

If you’re looking for a role where you can genuinely add value — not just report the numbers — this is well worth a conversation.

Interim Management Accountant (FTC)

Fixed Term Contract until Dec 2026

Bristol

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum

The Opportunity

We’re partnering with a highly diverse, privately owned business in Bristol to appoint a commercially minded Management Accountant.

This is far from a “sit in the corner and produce the numbers” role. You’ll be working closely with budget holders and operational managers, helping them understand performance, challenge assumptions and drive better decision-making across a varied portfolio of activities.

If you enjoy partnering with non-financial stakeholders, thrive in a hands-on environment and want genuine ownership across month-end, reporting and forecasting — this could be for you.

 

The Role 

Reporting into the Head of Finance, you’ll take responsibility for delivering timely, accurate management information and maintaining strong financial controls across the organisation

Key responsibilities include:

• Full ownership of month-end processes (journals, accruals, prepayments, recharges, fixed assets)
• Preparation of monthly Management Accounts with meaningful commentary and variance analysis
• Budgeting and dynamic forecasting, partnering closely with budget holders
• Cashflow reporting and bank reconciliations
• Balance sheet reconciliations with documented investigation of variances
• KPI and project performance reporting (including analysis of overspends and operational metrics)
• Oversight of AP/AR processes, PO controls and credit card programmes
• Payroll review and integrity checks
• VAT and other tax reporting support (including P11D and partnership returns)
• Maintenance of the asset register and alignment with insurance records
• Supporting finance system improvements and change projects

There is also exposure to senior leadership reporting and group-level meetings, giving you visibility and influence beyond finance.

 

About You

You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent) with previous experience in a Management Accountant role

Beyond the technical skills, personality and approach matter here.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Can confidently explain financial performance to non-finance stakeholders
• Is commercially aware and comfortable challenging constructively
• Has strong Excel capability
• Understands VAT and compliance fundamentals
• Operates with discretion and professionalism
• Takes ownership and enjoys improving processes
• Can manage competing priorities and meet deadlines

This environment suits someone pragmatic, solutions-focused and comfortable operating in a changing, multi-stream business setting

 

Why This Role?

• Broad, hands-on exposure across multiple business streams
• Genuine stakeholder interaction — not just reporting in isolation
• Opportunity to influence budgets, forecasts and operational decisions
• Involvement in finance system improvements and process evolution
• A values-led, collaborative working culture

 

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

South West (Hybrid – 1-2 days on-site)
Permanent

Salary: £75,000 - £80,000 per annum

Play a key role in driving commercial insight within a scaling, investment-backed organisation.

Our client is a privately owned UK group operating across essential services and long-term asset-backed projects. With a multi-year growth strategy in place and increasing operational complexity, the business is investing in its commercial finance capability to support the next phase of expansion.

 

Why this role exists

As the organisation scales, leadership requires sharper forward-looking insight, improved commercial evaluation, and stronger performance visibility. This role has been designed to elevate financial analysis beyond reporting, embedding meaningful challenge and strategic thinking into everyday decision-making.

You’ll work closely with operational and executive stakeholders, helping shape pricing, investment, and performance strategy across the group.

 

What you’ll be doing

You’ll own and lead the full FP&A agenda, ensuring the organisation has a clear, accurate, and insight-driven view of its performance and trajectory:

• Lead the group-wide reforecasting and rolling planning cycles.
• Partner with operational leads to analyse performance drivers and identify opportunities for margin enhancement.
• Develop scenario analysis to support capital allocation, contract evaluations, and commercial bids.
• Enhance reporting frameworks, introducing clearer KPI dashboards and data visualisation tools.
• Support long-range planning and funding discussions with robust financial insight.
• Provide commercial input into new initiatives, cost optimisation programmes, and investment appraisals.
• Deliver concise and impactful reporting packs for the executive team.
• Act as a trusted advisor to non-finance stakeholders — translating complex data into practical recommendations.

 

What you’ll bring

You’ll combine strong technical capability with commercial curiosity and confidence.

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or equivalent experience.
• Proven background in commercial finance, business partnering, or FP&A within a dynamic environment.
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills.
• Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions constructively.
• Experience improving reporting processes and leveraging BI tools.
• Naturally inquisitive with a focus on continuous improvement.

 

How success is measured

Your impact will be felt both in the numbers and in the decisions they inform. Success in this role means:

• Clearer commercial visibility across divisions.
• Forward-looking insight that influences investment and operational decisions.
• Improved forecasting accuracy and enhanced KPI reporting.
• Strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Measurable impact on profitability and strategic outcomes.

About The Business

We're supporting a fantastic, Bristol-based professional services SME with the search for a new Financial Controller. The business sits at ~£10m revenue, and has experienced steady growth in recent years in particular.

Now undertaking a strategic shift in optimising a broad range of processes across the company, advancing their cross-departmental integrations, and tapping further into AI and the advantages it can bring to their industry.

 

About The Role

This is a number one finance position, reporting to the MD and Board.

The role will assume total responsibility for financial operations & controls, financial leadership and people management, transactional finance processes, cashflow and reporting, and budgeting and commercial support to the SLT and wider business Heads.

The role offers hybrid working in central Bristol, ideally at a minimum of 2 days on site.

 

About The Candidate

We're looking for a fully qualified accountant who is experienced in an SME environment. The role will be dynamic, "no two days the same", requiring the Financial Controller to be confident in reaching out to your peers to find out what you don't know.

Ideally, you shall have experience in a number one role, but we are also very much open to someone making the step up from a 2ic position.

 

A services background is strongly preferred but not an essential requirement. Your ability to be a trusted leader to the MD and Board, showing confidence in delivering key reporting and presentations, will be highly advantageous.

Are you ready to take the next step in your corporate tax career?

Our client, a fast-growing independent tax practice, is expanding its Corporate Tax – M&A & Transactions team and looking for ambitious Managers and Assistant Managers to join their Bristol office. This is your chance to work on high-quality M&A, restructuring, and international projects while building your career in a collaborative and supportive environment.

What You’ll Do

• Advise clients on M&A, reorganisations, due diligence, demergers, and structuring.

• Manage a portfolio of corporate tax compliance and advisory work.

• Work directly with clients and intermediaries, becoming a trusted advisor.

• Develop your leadership skills by supporting and mentoring junior team members.

What We’re Looking For

• CTA / ACA (or equivalent) qualified (part-qualified considered for AM).

• 3+ years’ corporate tax experience (Assistant Manager) / 4+ years (Manager).

• Strong technical knowledge of corporate tax compliance and accounting (loss relief, corporate interest restrictions, deferred tax, CFCs, exceptional items).

• Great communication skills and a proactive approach.

• Alphatax experience is a plus but not essential.

Why Apply?

• Competitive salary benchmarked against Big 4 (up to £80k depending on level)

• Flexible hybrid working

• Career progression in a fast-growing, ambitious firm

• Exposure to complex, high-value corporate transactions

Full-time preferred, but flexible arrangements will be considered. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and relevant UK tax experience.

Ready to accelerate your career in Corporate Tax M&A & Transactions? Apply now and be part of something exciting.