The opportunity
Unlike our client-service departments, the Group Finance team carries out finance-function activities for TC Group itself. You will take responsibility for day-to-day finance activities including bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, payroll accounting and month-end processes. You will also support monthly management accounts and provide reliable financial information across the Group. This role suits someone with practical finance-function or bookkeeping experience who is ready to own routine activities and strengthen their reporting experience.
Day-to-day finance
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Xero
- Process purchase invoices, sales invoices, expenses, receipts and payments
- Support accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Respond to supplier, customer and internal finance queries
- Process and reconcile bank and credit-card transactions
- Record and reconcile intercompany transactions
- Maintain complete and organised supporting documentation
- Identify unusual, duplicated or incorrectly recorded transactions and resolve them
Reconciliations and financial control
- Complete monthly bank, supplier and customer reconciliations
- Prepare and maintain balance-sheet reconciliations
- Investigate differences and follow up missing information
- Prepare and post journals and accounting adjustments
- Maintain fixed-asset registers and depreciation schedules
- Review records for completeness and accuracy
- Resolve reconciling items promptly
- Escalate unusual, complex or higher-risk matters appropriately
- Help maintain effective financial controls
Payroll accounting
- Prepare and post payroll journals
- Reconcile payroll reports to the general ledger
- Reconcile payroll-related balance-sheet accounts
- Account for PAYE, National Insurance, workplace pensions, deductions and statutory payments
- Liaise with payroll colleagues, providers and internal stakeholders to resolve differences
- Support payroll-related month-end and year-end reconciliations
- Maintain supporting records and a clear audit trail
This is a payroll-accounting responsibility within Group Finance, rather than responsibility for administering employee payroll.
Month-end and financial reporting
- Support month-end and year-end close
- Prepare and post accruals, prepayments, depreciation and other adjustments
- Assist with monthly management accounts
- Prepare financial statements and supporting reports
- Produce schedules and analysis for monthly reporting
- Review balances and movements for unusual items
- Help investigate variances and provide explanations
- Generate regular and ad hoc financial reports
- Provide supporting information for internal and external review
- Take increasing ownership of balance-sheet areas and month-end procedures
What we are looking for
Essential experience and skills
- At least two years’ relevant experience in a finance function, bookkeeping role or accounting environment
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and double-entry bookkeeping
- Practical experience maintaining records and completing reconciliations
- Experience with accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Ability to investigate differences and resolve routine issues independently
- Experience preparing journals and supporting schedules
- Practical experience using accounting software
- Good Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Good written and verbal English communication
- Ability to organise competing activities and recurring deadlines
- A professional approach to confidential information
- Willingness to take ownership and follow issues through to resolution
Desirable experience
- Hands-on experience using Xero
- Preparing or supporting monthly management accounts
- Month-end and year-end closing procedures
- Accruals, prepayments and depreciation journals
- Payroll and related balance-sheet reconciliations
- Understanding of PAYE, National Insurance and workplace-pension accounting
- Intercompany accounting and reconciliations
- Maintaining fixed-asset registers
- Experience within professional services or an accountancy organisation
Qualifications
- Com, M.Com or another relevant degree in Accounting, Finance or Commerce
- Progress towards ACCA
- CA Intermediate or equivalent progress through the CA qualification
- CMA Intermediate or another relevant equivalent qualification
- AAT or another relevant accounting qualification
- Practical experience demonstrating an equivalent level of accounting knowledge
Excel and systems capability
- PivotTables
- XLOOKUP or similar lookup functions
- SUMIFS and related formulas
- Data validation and data-management tools
- Reconciliation schedules
- Financial reports and basic financial analysis
You do not need to be an Excel specialist, but you should use Excel confidently and be willing to continue developing your systems skills.
Technology, AI and continuous improvement
TC Professional Services aims to lead the profession in the effective use of technology, AI and automation. Previous experience with AI or automation is not essential, but curiosity, adaptability and a willingness to learn are important. You will be expected to:
- Take an interest in how technology can improve finance processes
- Confidently learn and adopt approved systems and tools
- Identify repetitive or inefficient activities that may benefit from improvement or automation
- Contribute practical ideas that improve reporting, controls and workflows
- Support the implementation of new systems and working practices
- Use technology responsibly without compromising accuracy, confidentiality, professional judgement or financial control
What success will look like
- Records are accurate, complete and maintained on time
- Bank, supplier, customer, payroll and other balance-sheet accounts are properly reconciled
- Reconciling items are investigated and resolved promptly
- Payables and receivables activities are completed effectively
- Payroll journals and balances agree with underlying information
- Month-end schedules and journals are accurate and supported
- Financial information is provided within reporting deadlines
- Routine matters are resolved independently with appropriate escalation
- Queries are handled clearly and professionally
- Supporting documentation is complete and well organised
- Review feedback is applied and issues are not repeated
- You progressively take ownership of additional month-end and reporting responsibilities
- You contribute ideas that improve accuracy, control or efficiency
What you will gain
- Broad experience across a Group Finance function
- Responsibility across bookkeeping, payables, receivables, reconciliations and financial control
- Exposure to payroll accounting and intercompany transactions
- Experience supporting monthly management accounts and Group reporting
- Increasing ownership of month-end activities
- Hands-on experience using Xero and Microsoft Excel
- Collaboration with finance and operational colleagues across TC Group
- Experience using modern finance systems and emerging AI-enabled processes
- Scope to progress into more advanced management-accounting, reporting or finance responsibilities
About TC Professional Services
TC Professional Services is part of TC Group, a large and growing UK accountancy and advisory group. Our Group Finance team supports the financial operations of TC Group by maintaining accurate accounting records, supporting effective financial controls and helping provide timely, reliable financial information. We invest in our people, systems and working practices, creating opportunities for capable finance professionals to broaden their experience and take on greater responsibility.
Take the next step in your finance career
If you have sound practical accounting experience, strong attention to detail and the ambition to develop broader finance and reporting responsibilities, we would like to hear from you.
