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• Prepare and review statutory financial statements and management accounts.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations.
• Develop and maintain robust internal financial controls.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of accounting processes and systems.
• Liaise with auditors, tax advisors, and other external stakeholders.
• Mentor junior members of the finance team.

• Fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Proven experience in financial reporting and accounting within a corporate environment.
• In-depth knowledge of UK GAAP and/or IFRS.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Proficiency in accounting software and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across departments.
• Experience with financial modelling and data analysis tools is advantageous.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a hybrid setting.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional development and staying current with accounting best practices.

• Prepare accurate and timely statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Lead the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring all financial transactions are recorded correctly.
• Perform detailed financial analysis, including variance analysis, trend analysis, and profitability analysis.
• Manage and coordinate the external audit process, liaising with auditors to ensure smooth completion.
• Develop and implement improvements to financial reporting processes and controls to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant financial regulations, company policies, and accounting standards.
• Assist in the preparation of management accounts and financial forecasts.
• Provide financial support and insights to various departments within the organization.
• Stay current with changes in accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Supervise and mentor junior accounting staff, providing guidance and development opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks within the organization.

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years of post-qualification experience in financial reporting.
• Extensive knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP is essential.
• Proven experience in preparing and presenting complex financial statements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Proficiency in accounting software and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with ERP systems is desirable.
• Excellent understanding of financial controls and regulatory compliance.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate financial information clearly.
• Experience in financial services or a related regulated industry is a significant advantage.

• Prepare and review statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Manage the year-end audit process, liaising with external auditors.
• Develop and implement robust internal controls to ensure financial integrity.
• Assist in the preparation of management accounts, budgets, and forecasts.
• Provide technical accounting advice and support to the wider finance function.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within the accounting function.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant tax legislation.
• Reconcile complex balance sheet accounts and investigate discrepancies.

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification is essential.
• Proven experience in financial reporting and statutory accounts preparation.
• In-depth knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines effectively.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information clearly.
• Experience with accounting software (e.g., SAP, Oracle) is advantageous.

• Prepare accurate and timely financial statements, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Manage the month-end and year-end closing processes, ensuring all entries are reconciled.
• Oversee accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards (e.g., GAAP, IFRS) and tax regulations.
• Assist with the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts.
• Conduct financial analysis and provide insights into financial performance.
• Reconcile bank statements and general ledger accounts.
• Develop and implement internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure financial integrity.
• Support external audits by preparing documentation and providing necessary information.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within the accounting function.
• Maintain fixed asset registers and manage depreciation schedules.
• Assist in the preparation of management reports and presentations.
• Supervise and mentor junior accounting staff as required.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of all financial data.
• Liaise with external auditors and tax advisors.

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4-6 years of experience in a similar accounting role.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles and practices.
• Proficiency in accounting software (e.g., Sage, Xero, QuickBooks) and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with financial reporting and month-end/year-end close processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Strong organisational and time-management abilities.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team.
• Knowledge of UK tax regulations is an advantage.
• Ability to work independently and meet strict deadlines.
• Must be authorised to work in the **Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK**.

• Preparing and reviewing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS/UK GAAP.
• Managing and overseeing the general ledger, ensuring accuracy and completeness of all financial transactions.
• Performing detailed account reconciliations and investigating any discrepancies.
• Assisting with the preparation of statutory accounts and regulatory filings.
• Supporting external auditors during interim and year-end audits, providing necessary documentation and explanations.
• Implementing and maintaining robust internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure financial data integrity.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvements within the accounting function and implementing solutions.
• Providing support and guidance to junior members of the finance team.
• Assisting with budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Conducting variance analysis and providing insightful commentary on financial performance.
• Staying up-to-date with changes in accounting standards and regulations and ensuring their implementation.
• Liaising with other departments to ensure accurate financial reporting of operational activities.

Job Description

Finance Assistant

Job Overview:

Reliance Social Housing C.I.C is a not-for-profit registered provider of social housing, regulated by Homes England. Registered in 2013, reliance has expanded and innovated, providing both temporary and general needs accommodation.

You will be responsible to the Head of Procurement & Partnerships for the day-to-day financial administration across the organisation. This will involve providing support with various finance tasks. This role is ideal for someone who is at an early stage in their accounts career or possibly someone returning to work, as on-the-job training will be provided as part of the induction to familiarise you with relevant systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting:

· Undertaking payment queries from Managing Agents.

· Maintain the business decision notices process and procedures.

· Manage and respond to incoming telephone calls in a professional manner.

· Handle complaints efficiently, offering appropriate solutions within set timeframes and ensure follow-up for resolution.

· Responsible for managing tenant conflicts queries.

· Ensure all invoices and expenses are authorised and coded correctly.

· Update financial data across internal systems accurately and promptly.

· Contribute to achieving personal and team targets, including call handling and services delivery goals.

· Keep accurate records of transactions related to remittance payments.

· Undertake remittance payments/clawback manual line matching during remittance week.

· Undertake any training and professional development as and when required.

· Complete other duties as requested by the Finance Team.

Person specification:

Essential:

· Relevant accounting qualification(s), or the ability to demonstrate appropriate skills and knowledge.

· Knowledge of financial and accounting procedures.

· Excellent numeracy skills & attention to detail.

· Good verbal and written communication skills.

· Good customer service skills.

· Knowledge of the MS Office suite (particularly Word and Excel).

· Experience of maintaining spreadsheets.

· Experience of Sage 50.

Desirable:

· 1-year administrative experience.

Personal qualities:

· Commitment to Reliance Social housing CIC mission and values - desire to make a difference.

· Proactive.

· Team player.

· Flexible, and willing to work in the constantly changing environment of a growing social housing provider which operates across the UK.

· Conscientious and responsible.

· Ability to support and enthuse others and maintain a professional image. Reliance Social housing CIC is committed to promoting equality and diversity.

· Sharp time management skills

· Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data.

How to Apply:

If you are striving for a career in the financial sector within a dynamic and growing company, please apply online.

Job title: Finance Assistant

Location: Birmingham

Salary range: from£24,000 per annum

Contract type: Full-Time

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Responsible to: Head of Procurement & Partnerships

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £24,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Experience:

• Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Flex your finance game. Shape Gymshark's future.

We're hiring for multiple Finance Manager roles across Management Information (MI) and FP&A, and we're looking for commercially minded, qualified finance professionals who are ready to make an impact in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

You'll likely come from a background in professional services or industry, with experience in transaction services, strategy, or financial advisory — ideally from a Big 4 firm or a similar environment — and be ready to apply that expertise in a dynamic, hands-on role.

These roles sit within our Commercial Finance team and report directly into our Head of FP&A. You'll play a key part in helping us make smarter, data-led decisions that fuel our growth journey.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and relevance of financial data.
• Deliver insightful financial analysis and commentary on business performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop and track KPIs to measure profitability and performance.
• Partner with Heads of Departments to support cross-functional decision-making.
• Manage forecasting cycles and collaborate with stakeholders to set achievable financial targets.
• Analyse financial variances and drive corrective actions where needed.
• Continuously improve management accounting processes to support scale and agility.
• Support balance sheet reviews and external audit processes.
• Lead and mentor junior finance team members, fostering development and high performance.
• Champion a collaborative, high-performance culture aligned with Gymshark's values.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential:

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Strong experience in management accounting, ideally within a high-growth or scale-up environment.
• Proven ability to prepare and analyse financial reports, budgets, and forecasts.
• Advanced Excel and ERP system skills (SAP preferred); BI tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau) and SQL/Python knowledge a plus.
• Strong business partnering and communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

Nice to Have:

• Experience managing or mentoring finance professionals.
• Exposure to innovative industries or scale-up environments.
• Commercial mindset with a strategic approach to value creation.
• Ability to balance long-term goals with short-term agility.

This is a hybrid role and would require the successful candidate to attend at least THREE days a week in GSHQ, Solihull, UK.

BELONGING AT GYMSHARK.

Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We're an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We're committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you'd like to request a reasonable adjustment please email

ABOUT US.

We're here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It's what we want for our community, and our team. A team that's growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark's future. Our plans are ambitious, and we're looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

THE PERKS.

Standard benefits include:

• Performance-based Bonus opportunity
• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme – including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
• EV charge points available

About OES

OES partners with world-class universities to deliver innovative, high-quality online education that enables learners to thrive globally. We combine academic expertise, cutting-edge technology, and a student-first approach to create outstanding learning experiences. With operations across the UK, South Africa, and Australia, OES is a fast-growing, international business with a strong track record of collaboration and impact. Our teams are ambitious, agile, and values-driven, united by a belief in the transformative power of education and a commitment to helping universities and students achieve their goals.

The Finance Manager is responsible for the UK finance operations, reporting and compliance (supported by the Finance team in Cape Town), while acting as a strategic partner to UK leadership in driving growth, shaping financial strategy, and supporting long-term business objectives.

This position is a hybrid role based in OES’ Birmingham office 2-3 days per week and the remainder working from home.

This role will report into the Finance Director, International who is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Finance Operations

• Supported by the Finance Operations team in Cape Town where the following processes are run: accounts payable, banking, general ledger, payroll processing
• Manage outsourced providers (where appropriate) and oversee accounting operations: billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, tax compliance, general ledger, cost accounting and revenue recognition
• Treasury Management: Cash flow management, including forecasting and cash collection.
• Improvement of key business processes.
• Key focus on the student revenue cycle, including liaison with university partners to track outstanding student debt

Reporting

• Monthly reporting and analysis on financial performance and KPIs of the UK numbers to the senior management team in the UK, the Finance Director International, and the Group Finance team in Australia.
• Working with heads of departments to identify and explain monthly variances
• Reforecasting the expected performance every month in line with the group’s forecasting methodology
• Providing value adding operational reports
• Assisting in the efficient capture and reporting of inter-company related activities
• Working with external advisors and auditors on the year-end financial statement process

 Compliance

• Ensuring compliance with all external obligations including, but not limited to, annual returns/filings and quarterly VAT returns
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of both local and OES’s regulatory and audit requirements
• Developing and documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Owning local relationships with the UK advisors (audit, tax, legal)
• Adherence to relevant UK university education compliance , including adhering to requirements from the Office for Students

Forecasting & Commercial Support

• Providing support to produce annual budgets and rolling financial forecasts
• Provide financial leadership and commercial insight to UK leadership and Group Finance, ensuring that financial performance informs strategic decision making. Shape and track business cases for new programmes, growth initiatives, and operational improvements, enabling OES to scale impact across the higher education sector
• Providing financial analysis and advice on existing initiatives, identifying and tracking key KPIs in order to meet targets (initial business/investment case, budget or other)
• Supporting in the preparation of financial business cases for proposed new business offerings such as new degree programmes.
• Identifying and helping deliver operational improvement and efficiencies

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Essential attributes: Motivated, adaptable, outcome-orientated, with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Comfortable and able working in a hybrid environment and with other finance teams in South Africa and Australia – i.e. across various time zones.

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Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Qualified accountant with experience in finance operations, month end reporting, compliance, process improvement and an understanding of local tax compliance requirements. Forecasting and commercial support are desirable. Ability to solve problems using systemic processing and experience with large volume, low value accounts receivable is desirable. You would also have:

• Proven ability to translate financial performance into strategic insights and to influence business decisions at a senior level.
• 3+ years as a Post Qualified (i.e. CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) Experienced Accountant (or equivalent) in a similar role with experience across both financial and management accounting, including tax and audit.
• Evidence of being a hands-on, self-starter and solutions focused attitude and track record
• Team player with the confidence to interact with senior management
• Exceptional communication skills (verbally and in writing), with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and evolving environment
• Experience implementing change in a complex environment (i.e. cross border; cross cultural or cross functional)
• Ability to build robust working relationships at all levels within the OES team
• A strong understanding of financial control and business performance management.
• Understanding of local compliance obligations, including tax obligations.
• Quick learner and ability to consume information and make sense of it
• Experience of the university education sector or a business undertaking B2C sales and marketing would be an advantage.

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The salary for this role is up to £60,000 per annum, dependant on experience.

Benefits

• Global organisation focused on growth with lots of opportunities for our employees
• Engaging & vibrant organisational culture
• 35 hour working week, within a flexible working environment
• OES values driven recruitment principles
• Career-life fit – health & wellbeing focus
• 25 days of annual leave + Bank holidays
• Purchased leave scheme
• OES strategy reflects respect, honesty & diversity
• Continuous improvement through challenging & meaningful work
• Study assistance and leave for eligible employees
• High growth industry & strong partner/shareholder backing
• Genuine focus on student success
• Global mentoring program
• We are proud to support the Living the Wage movement

Here at The Fuel Store, we are transforming the Fleet and Fuel industry for good! We are proud to be one of the best resellers in the UK, through providing unrivalled support to our customers that fuels the lifeblood of Britain’s roadways.

As a family run business and over 8 years’ under our belt, we have always been determined to deliver on our founding principle; fuelling better for our customers. From single-vehicle operators to multi-fleet solutions, our customers are genuinely at the forefront of everything we do. We believe that our services and vehicle management will allow them to reach heights they didn’t even know possible, and we love being part of that journey!

Our significant growth and changes has led us to investing further across the business to increase revenue, partnerships with our customers and in turn, look at different functions within the business. With this comes requirements for an Finance Director to join our Fueller family, with the potential to become permanent.

This will be a critical role in overseeing and managing the financial operations of The Fuel Store. They will provide steady, strategic financial leadership, ensuring the organisation's financial sustainability, compliance with regulatory requirements, and effective financial planning and reporting.

The Finance Director will work closely with senior management, contributing to the organisation's overall mission and strategic objectives.

Brief Overview:

Job Type: Full Time - Permanent or Interim

Remuneration: Negotiable (To be discussed prior to interview)

Bonus: Negotiable (To be discussed prior to interview)

Location: Birmingham, B2 (Hybrid)

Financial Strategy and Planning:

Financial Reporting and Compliance:

Financial Management and Control:

Team Leadership and Development:

Requirements/Qualifications:

As well as having the right experience, a Fueller will have:

A little more for you to know.

We want to be a place where everyone has a sense of belonging. Our team is growing rapidly and that means that we want collaborative, talented Fuellers to help us to invent The Fuel Store’s future. We will support you, nurture you, and give you the best platform to succeed – we just need you to have that drive and willingness to learn!

If you think that you could add value here at The Fuel Store, please apply. Equally, if you think your experience only meets part of the requirements, apply anyway! We’d love to review your application and if successful arrange a chat with you to find out if you could be the next Fueller!

We are also an equal opportunity employer and value diversity across the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, family or parental status, neuro diversity or disability status, marital status, veteran status and national origin.