Interim Finance Manager
Posted on 3 March 2026
£400 likely outside IR35
Interim
London
Accountancy & Finance
31282
Opportunity description
Job Title:
Interim Finance Manager
Stanton House is currently recruiting for an Interim Finance Manager to join a PE-backed Tech Business in London on a 6-9 months Contract (with the potential to be extended). This role offers a day rate of £400 per day (likely to be outside IR35) and a hybrid working model, with 3 days per week in the office in Central London and the rest from home.
As Interim Finance Manager, you will provide hands-on support during global change, team transitions, and finance transformation. This role manages key month-end reporting, organises shifting priorities, and helps the team achieve a smoother, faster month-end process.
Responsibilities:
As Interim Finance Manager, you will provide hands-on support during global change, team transitions, and finance transformation. This role manages key month-end reporting, organises shifting priorities, and helps the team achieve a smoother, faster month-end process.
Responsibilities:
- Lead month-end close, ensuring accurate journals, reconciliations, and reporting within tight timelines.
- Support and guide management accountants, reviewing and approving postings as needed.
- Help embed the post-restructure ways of working, improving UK-US team alignment and clean handovers.
- Own cash flow management and forecasting, adding structure and visibility to Excel-based processes.
- Implement quick-win process improvements to make month-end more efficient and reduce recurring issues.
- Work across multiple systems ensuring consistent, controlled outputs.
- Support audit, compliance, and tax activities, keeping documentation organised and responsive.
- Contribute to wider finance projects across a growing, multi-entity international group.
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with 1–2 years PQE, ready to add immediate interim impact.
- Strong end-to-end month-end experience, confident delivering under pressure and tightening timelines.
- Skilled in preparing, reviewing, and approving journals, supporting and upskilling junior accountants.
- Experienced in cash flow reporting and forecasting, structuring and clarifying Excel-based models.
- Comfortable in fast-changing, PE-backed, international environments, supporting handovers and team alignment.
- Quick to adapt to multiple finance systems and processes.
- Proactive, organised, solutions-focused, identifying quick wins and improving controls during transitions.
- Clear, collaborative communicator, able to build trust with UK and US stakeholders in a hybrid setup.
