Featured Candidates

PERMANENT Candidates

GCA-7432 Management Accountant £38,000

ACCA Passed Finalist with extensive management accounting experience within a national leisure business.Excellent communicator who shows solid leadership qualities. Currently responsible for managing the finances of multiple sites, offering support to site managers and regional directors, reviewing processes and procedures and providing advice on training. Key skills - full preparation of monthly management accounts and presenting results to senior managers, preparing accruals and prepayments, preparing P&L reports and identifying key variances as well as participating in annual budget process including the monitoring of performance against budget. Assisted with year end statutory accounts preparation, prepared VAT returns and prepared year end audit files/assists external auditors.

GCA-6572 Management Accountant £32,000

An analytical and methodical thinker who is eager to learn new skills and put them into practice. Possesses excellent numerical, spreadsheet and general computer skills, together with an eye for detail and an ability to solve problems. Experienced in the production of monthly management accounts, maintenance of fixed asset register and depreciation calculations, daily cash reporting, creation of overhead budget reports, full bank and balance sheet reconciliations to nominal ledger and completion of VAT, EC Sales and Intrastat returns. Available from 1^st March due to company relocation. Systems: Sage, Opera, Excel.

GCA-4414 Group FC £60,000

Top 4 trained ACA qualified Financial Controller who is available immediately. Previous roles include Group Financial Controller and Commercial Finance Manager of a £60 million turnover division of a FTSE 100 multinational FMCG organisation. Strengths include excellent business planning and strategic goal setting, combined with core financial accounting abilities including statutory accounting, strong cash management and cashflow control. GCA-4414 is an effective communicator, efficiently driving projects to conclusion. Systems: MS Office (including advanced Excel), Pegasus Opera, Crystal, Cognos and TM1.

GCA-3837 Finance Analyst £35,000

Recently qualified CIMA, and graduate in Accountancy & Finance. Intelligent, professional and ambitious individual keen secure a challenging role within a progressive organisation. Large company multi sector background with key skills: Preparation of monthly management accounts for multiple divisions. Contract reviews and margin analysis, assisting in the preparation of annual budget. Producing monthly board papers and providing commentary on management accounts. Preparation of month end and year end financial accounts, plus assisting with the preparation on Directors’ annual report.

INTERIM Candidates

GCA-7297 Accountant Bookkeeper £17.82 per hour

An adaptable, confident and efficient candidate whose previous experience has been gained within manufacturing, haulage and marketing sectors. Key skills include preparing and completing all month end closures, all bookkeeping functions and inter-company recharges, managing cashflow, bank reconciliations, running payroll and completion of statutory returns including VAT returns, EC Sales Lists, Intrastat, CSO, P35 and P11d’s. Systems: SAP, Sage, TAS, Tetra, Pegasus, MS Office.

GCA-3163 FC/Project Accountant £33.96 per hour

Hands on CIMA qualified accountant with a degree from Oxford University. GCA-3163 is a credible and highly experienced and enthusiastic professional contractor available for short or long term assignments. Having worked up to European FD level in the past he is now looking to secure a more ‘hands on’ interim role and as such offers great value for money. Experience is wide and diverse covering all aspects of management accounting, budgeting forecasting and developing complex business models.

GCA-0552 Finance Director £310 per day

First rate, ACA qualified finance executive with considerable projects and board level directorship gained within Manufacturing. Results driven, thrives under pressure leading from the front and adopting a motivational stance. Adept with systems implementations, designing reporting functions and consolidating functions to a shared central service he is an excellent all rounder.

GCA-5650 Finance Transformation Specialist £400 per day

CIMA qualified with more than 10 years experience in Group FD/FC and Finance Business Partner roles. A commercially focused leader of complex and large scale programmes and project management globally for multinationals. Now a focused interim with experience of process re-engineering, re-structuring, control improvements, major systems refresh, development and enhancement.

News Articles…

AWR - Agency Workers Regulation (AWR):

The AWR is a significant new piece of Employment Legislation which came in to affect in the UK in October 2011. The legislation has been passed by the European Commission and will affect all UK companies who recruit temporary workers. There is no opt-out.

Brief Overview: The aim of the AWR is to ensure that temporary workers have the same basic employment and working conditions as comparable permanent employees who are directly employed by the client hirer. This will not change the employment status of the agency worker who will still not have the right to claim unfair dismissal and redundancy pay. There are two main steps to the AWR giving the temporary worker day 1 and week 12 rights:

Day 1 rights consist of:

Access to shared on site facilities (canteens, child-care facilities) and access to information concerning relevant employment vacancies within the company

12 week rights which match a comparable permanent employee:

Basic pay, overtime and shift premia
Bonuses and commission attributable to workers individual performance
Holiday pay
Right to be paid when attending ante natal appointments and classes
Pregnant workers must be offered suitable alternative work if the current role cannot be fulfilled, or they are entitled to be paid for the remainder of the expected duration of the assignment

This is only a brief overview of the regulations and we urge you to look in to this further. Full guidance can be downloaded in PDF form from www.bis.gov.uk and searching under Agency Workers Regulation. Our additional notes can be provided if requested - please email info@goldhawkassoc.co.uk or call 01622 697750.

New measures announced to boost British business:

Government announces new measures to help small businesses grow and create jobs, export to new markets, secure finance and cut red tape.

The Prime Minister said:

“British SMEs are already doing incredible things, but we urgently need more of them to follow that boldness. We need this to be a country where more people think ‘I can start my own business and I can sell to the world.

“Our determination is to come through these difficult times stronger, to trade our way to growth and jobs. We need to show real optimism about the future, and we need to show real aggression about pursuing Britain’s interests in the world. The markets are there to be tapped; the deals are there to be done, the opportunities are there to be capitalised on. Now together we must seize them.”

Full article see: http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Nov/sme-business-growth

95 million invested in UK Jobs economy:

The second round of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund will help create and safeguard more than 200,000 jobs across England.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said:

"I am delighted to be able to announce this boost to business, which will jump start growth and create jobs that last in the places that really need it.

"The first pot of Regional Growth Fund money is already making a difference across the country - helping to rebalance our economy so that every region and sector benefits."

Full article: http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Nov/regional-growth-fund-to-help-small-businesses

Getting paid on time:

The Government and industry is calling on businesses and public organisations to pay suppliers on time and for small firms to pursue those who put them at risk by delaying.

Prompt payment is vital for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), with many firms not able to survive the cashflow problems that late payments create.

A new guide for small businesses which contains tips and advice from both suppliers and customers, has today been published by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). It contains valuable lessons from small businesses such as advice on invoicing and developing a well-defined credit policy.

Advice and guidance for small businesses to help make sure they are paid on time and can seek redress if they are not part of the Finance Fitness Campaign, which sees government and businesses working together to help SMEs.

Full article: http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2012/Feb/Government-and-business-press-for-prompt-payment