Trinity House Group
Loughborough, Leicestershire
Group Financial Accountant - Public Sector Organisation Location: Leicestershire Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 + 44 days hols (including bank hols) Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career and make a real impact across a complex, dynamic organisation? Our client, a leading public sector institution, is seeking a Group Financial Accountant to lead a talented team of financial professionals and drive excellence in accounting, reporting and financial control. About the Role This is a senior finance position with responsibility for managing a small team of accountants, ensuring robust financial policies, processes and controls are in place across the organisation and its subsidiaries. You will lead consolidation processes, deliver insightful reporting and act as the technical accounting expert for the group. Key Responsibilities Lead the preparation of financial statements for the organisation and its subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with UK accounting standards. Act as the technical authority on accounting treatments, proactively monitoring and implementing changes to standards where necessary. Oversee external reporting to regulators, statutory bodies and Companies House, as well as corporation tax submissions. Manage the day-to-day relationship with external auditors, ensuring a smooth audit process. Drive month-end and year-end close processes, delivering accurate financial results and insightful variance analysis. Lead and develop a team of three financial accountants, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth. Work collaboratively across finance teams to ensure efficiency, consistency and integration across all group entities. About You ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with substantial experience in financial accounting. Strong technical knowledge of UK accounting standards and experience with group reporting (FRS 102) Proven leadership experience, capable of motivating and developing a small team. Highly organised with excellent communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset. Comfortable working in a complex public sector environment with multiple stakeholders and subsidiaries.
Group Financial Accountant - Public Sector Organisation Location: Leicestershire Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 + 44 days hols (including bank hols) Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career and make a real impact across a complex, dynamic organisation? Our client, a leading public sector institution, is seeking a Group Financial Accountant to lead a talented team of financial professionals and drive excellence in accounting, reporting and financial control. About the Role This is a senior finance position with responsibility for managing a small team of accountants, ensuring robust financial policies, processes and controls are in place across the organisation and its subsidiaries. You will lead consolidation processes, deliver insightful reporting and act as the technical accounting expert for the group. Key Responsibilities Lead the preparation of financial statements for the organisation and its subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with UK accounting standards. Act as the technical authority on accounting treatments, proactively monitoring and implementing changes to standards where necessary. Oversee external reporting to regulators, statutory bodies and Companies House, as well as corporation tax submissions. Manage the day-to-day relationship with external auditors, ensuring a smooth audit process. Drive month-end and year-end close processes, delivering accurate financial results and insightful variance analysis. Lead and develop a team of three financial accountants, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth. Work collaboratively across finance teams to ensure efficiency, consistency and integration across all group entities. About You ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with substantial experience in financial accounting. Strong technical knowledge of UK accounting standards and experience with group reporting (FRS 102) Proven leadership experience, capable of motivating and developing a small team. Highly organised with excellent communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset. Comfortable working in a complex public sector environment with multiple stakeholders and subsidiaries.
Trinity House Group
Transformation Director (18-Month FTC ) Hybrid London / Remote About Us Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK's leading social impact-led investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK; we do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too. Since 2011, we have helped the social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty. BSC manages £634m of its own investments as well as acting as portfolio manager for the Schroder BSC Social Impact Investment Trust (SBSI), managing its £83m portfolio. As we prepare to launch our strategy, we need a leader to help us transform operations, systems and culture. The Opportunity We are looking for a Transformation Director to lead on our organisational transformation initiative designed to strengthen BSC's operational foundations, modernise our systems and processes, and embed the culture and capabilities needed to deliver our mission at scale. You'll deliver programme execution, lead cultural shift, build teams, align diverse stakeholders, and ensure BSC becomes a technology enabled, mission driven organisation. Key responsibilities: Lead across five workstreams (Data, AI & Automation, Middle Office, IT Stack, People & Culture), refining the strategy, and setting the roadmap and delivery plans. Partner with ExCo and stakeholders to steer direction, decision making, escalation and communication Run robust programme governance - steering committees, decision forums, escalation paths, risk/issue logs, change control processes. Design, monitor and report performance metrics, KPIs and benefits realisation plans - ensuring transformation delivers measurable impact against cost, time, quality and strategic goals. Act as Interim Head of Middle Office, partnering with Heads of Data and Fund Operations to build the function from scratch and embed workflows, controls and accountability. Oversee system selection, implementation and integration - define requirements, manage vendors, lead rollouts, test and refine. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, agility and innovation - ensure feedback loops, iterative adaptation and learning from pilots or failures. Prepare for future transformation phases by institutionalising the foundations - frameworks, standards, methods, and mindsets that persist beyond the contract. Key Competencies You'll Bring Programme Delivery - You'll oversee multiple workstreams, ensure milestones are met, manage interdependencies, and guarantee quality execution (we will have a Project Manager reporting to you). Delivering under Capacity Constraints - You'll own the "what to do next" when capacity is limited and prioritise resources smartly. Cultural Change & Change Leadership - working alongside the People & Talent team, you'll lead the shift in mindsets, behaviours and ways of working across BSC. Stakeholder Engagement - You'll build alignment and trust across senior leadership, workstream leads, staff and external parties. Team Building & Leadership - You'll lead direct reports and mentor workstream leads, creating a culture of ownership, collaboration and high performance. Mission-Driven Approach - You'll bring passion for social impact, and align transformation to BSC's core purpose and values, which are; Purposeful, Pioneering spirit, Openness, Rigorous and Respectful Experience Needed Successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream change programmes, including major IT system implementations Strong leadership presence and influencing skills across senior, cross-functional and hybrid teams and Board Deep expertise in programme governance and structured methodologies Proven record of leading digital/data transformations in modern tech environments Financial Services Operations experience advantageous Strategic thinker who is also comfortable rolling up sleeves and driving hands-on delivery Experience managing organisational change and embedding new processes Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management Ability to navigate ambiguity, clarify direction, and deliver in complex environments AY1 Ability to bring a positive mindset and a strong problem-solving approach to drive meaningful change, Details Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 AY2 Contract: 18-month fixed term Reports to: CFOO Location: Hybrid - London EC1Y / remote Why This Role Matters This is your chance to shape the engine of BSC's next chapter - to embed systems, culture and capabilities that will allow us to scale impact sustainably. If you're energised by transformation in mission-orientated settings, please submit your CV.
Transformation Director (18-Month FTC ) Hybrid London / Remote About Us Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK's leading social impact-led investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK; we do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too. Since 2011, we have helped the social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty. BSC manages £634m of its own investments as well as acting as portfolio manager for the Schroder BSC Social Impact Investment Trust (SBSI), managing its £83m portfolio. As we prepare to launch our strategy, we need a leader to help us transform operations, systems and culture. The Opportunity We are looking for a Transformation Director to lead on our organisational transformation initiative designed to strengthen BSC's operational foundations, modernise our systems and processes, and embed the culture and capabilities needed to deliver our mission at scale. You'll deliver programme execution, lead cultural shift, build teams, align diverse stakeholders, and ensure BSC becomes a technology enabled, mission driven organisation. Key responsibilities: Lead across five workstreams (Data, AI & Automation, Middle Office, IT Stack, People & Culture), refining the strategy, and setting the roadmap and delivery plans. Partner with ExCo and stakeholders to steer direction, decision making, escalation and communication Run robust programme governance - steering committees, decision forums, escalation paths, risk/issue logs, change control processes. Design, monitor and report performance metrics, KPIs and benefits realisation plans - ensuring transformation delivers measurable impact against cost, time, quality and strategic goals. Act as Interim Head of Middle Office, partnering with Heads of Data and Fund Operations to build the function from scratch and embed workflows, controls and accountability. Oversee system selection, implementation and integration - define requirements, manage vendors, lead rollouts, test and refine. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, agility and innovation - ensure feedback loops, iterative adaptation and learning from pilots or failures. Prepare for future transformation phases by institutionalising the foundations - frameworks, standards, methods, and mindsets that persist beyond the contract. Key Competencies You'll Bring Programme Delivery - You'll oversee multiple workstreams, ensure milestones are met, manage interdependencies, and guarantee quality execution (we will have a Project Manager reporting to you). Delivering under Capacity Constraints - You'll own the "what to do next" when capacity is limited and prioritise resources smartly. Cultural Change & Change Leadership - working alongside the People & Talent team, you'll lead the shift in mindsets, behaviours and ways of working across BSC. Stakeholder Engagement - You'll build alignment and trust across senior leadership, workstream leads, staff and external parties. Team Building & Leadership - You'll lead direct reports and mentor workstream leads, creating a culture of ownership, collaboration and high performance. Mission-Driven Approach - You'll bring passion for social impact, and align transformation to BSC's core purpose and values, which are; Purposeful, Pioneering spirit, Openness, Rigorous and Respectful Experience Needed Successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream change programmes, including major IT system implementations Strong leadership presence and influencing skills across senior, cross-functional and hybrid teams and Board Deep expertise in programme governance and structured methodologies Proven record of leading digital/data transformations in modern tech environments Financial Services Operations experience advantageous Strategic thinker who is also comfortable rolling up sleeves and driving hands-on delivery Experience managing organisational change and embedding new processes Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management Ability to navigate ambiguity, clarify direction, and deliver in complex environments AY1 Ability to bring a positive mindset and a strong problem-solving approach to drive meaningful change, Details Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 AY2 Contract: 18-month fixed term Reports to: CFOO Location: Hybrid - London EC1Y / remote Why This Role Matters This is your chance to shape the engine of BSC's next chapter - to embed systems, culture and capabilities that will allow us to scale impact sustainably. If you're energised by transformation in mission-orientated settings, please submit your CV.
