Part-time Finance Manager

A qualified or p/q Accountant is required for approximately 20 hours per week, spread over 4-5 days per week. The position involves all aspects of preparing accounts for a small, long established organisation.  Your responsibilities will include preparing monthly financial accounts, payroll, forecasts, and VAT returns; final accounts for audit; annual budget and cash flow.  You will also undertake many of the day to day accounting tasks - purchase ledger, posting up receipts, credit control, cash book and handling queries. At times you will also be expected to handle general queries or ad-hoc tasks.  Importantly, you will be required to improve and simplify accounting processes to improve efficiency and management information.  A detailed knowledge of Sage and Excel is essential.  You should have solid experience within a similar role, preferably gained from working for a small service based company or organisation.  This will suit a person with strong accounting and computer skills who is able to focus on results and bring about change with a diplomatic approach.  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.  Offices are situated in a semi-rural location and therefore own transport is desirable.