Interim Senior Accountant - Contractor

The role

You will run the day-to-day finance function while the Head of Finance is on maternity leave. You will manage bookkeeping, sales invoicing, supplier payments, payroll, VAT compliance, and management reporting.

What you will do

• Code and post transactions in Xero accurately and on time
• Reconcile bank accounts, cards and payment platforms across all entities and currencies
• Maintain prepayments, accruals, fixed assets and intercompany balances
• Raise customer and partner invoices and maintain supporting files in excel
• Allocate cash receipts, chase overdue invoices and report on debtors and cash collection
• Process supplier bills, run payment batches and answer supplier queries
• Review and approve employee expense claims and reconcile company cards
• Run monthly UK payroll through a payroll provider
• Prepare and submit VAT returns through Xero
• Prepare monthly management accounts including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow

Required qualifications

• Based in the UK
• Right to work in the UK
• Proven experience running day-to-day finance, ideally as a senior bookkeeper, assistant accountant or finance manager
• Strong Xero skills, including bank reconciliations, multi-currency and month-end close
• Confident with UK tax: VAT returns and PAYE payroll
• Advanced Excel
• Comfortable using AI tools (Claude) in your daily work
• Accurate, organised and able to work independently to deadlines

Nice to have

• AAT, ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified or part-qualified
• Experience in a startup or scale-up, ideally with multi-entity groups including US subsidiaries

About the company

Vira Health is a women's healthcare technology company providing virtual clinical care, educational resources, and support across fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, parenting, perimenopause, menopause, and family health.