Job Title: Senior Management Accountant

Day Rate: Up to £450 a day (Inside IR35 Umbrella)

Contract length: Minimum 3 Months

Location: Manchester City Centre

Working Pattern: Hybrid (Flexible Working)

Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Management Accountant to join their finance team on a 3-month contract basis. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you’ll drive process improvements, mentor team members, and deliver valuable insights to senior management.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tailored learning programmes

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Finance Manager in preparing Group Management Accounts and act as the primary contact for finance team queries.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations, month-end processes, and team project tasks.
• Lead the transformation of Management and Financial Accounts processes to meet accounting standards.
• Standardise processes to ensure compliance with standards and business needs.
• Support the onboarding and integration of Management Accounts for new acquisitions.
• Drive process improvements to enhance efficiency and deliver high-value outputs for senior management.
• Conduct complex adhoc reporting and financial analysis to aid decision-making.
• Collaborate with the Financial Accounts team during audits and the preparation of statutory accounts.
• Line-manage and mentor team members, offering guidance and support.
• Ensure timely production of Group Accounts during month-end with minimal disruption.

Skills & Experience:

• Recognised professional accounting qualification or significant experience in a similar role.
• 2-3 years’ experience as a Management Accountant.
• Extensive knowledge of accounting processes and financial statements.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement and challenge existing methodologies.
• Strong commercial awareness and practical business judgment.
• Management or mentoring experience preferred.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills, with excellent communication abilities.
• Experience in high-volume, fast-paced environments, with creativity to enhance processes.
• Attention to detail and quality focused.
• Proficiency in process mapping and implementation.

If you’re a skilled Senior Management Accountant ready to make an impact, apply now for this rewarding contract role!

A central government client are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can articulate their approach to problem-solving and process improvement.

This will be for a minimum of 6 months. Hybrid working pattern, with London office attendance required.

Daily rate circa £500 per day outside IR35. You must hold a current/valid SC clearance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on AWS.
• Automate infrastructure using AWS tools like Terraform.
• Manage and orchestrate containerised applications using Kubernetes.
• Ensure system reliability and scalability on AWS.
• Collaborate with teams to foster continuous improvement.
• Implement AWS and Kubernetes security best practices.

What They’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in a Senior DevOps role with a focus on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Ability to explain the “how” and “why” behind technical decisions.
• Inquisitive mindset to question current processes.
• Proficiency with AWS services and Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting skills and experience with Git.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Business Analyst

• 10 weeks initial contact – scope to extend
• Remote working with occasional travel to Coventry or London
• Up to £550 per day (inside IR35)

Sanderson have partnered with a leading retail brand to identify a Business analyst to lead a 10 week deep dive discovery on RFID. This person will play a pivotal role in helping the organisation decide if the project will go ahead!

Responsibilities;

• Running workshops
• Partner with stakeholders across the business
• Evaluate, analyse and communicate requirements
• RFID discovery with an Architect and UX designer

If this is of interest, please apply with your updated CV online

Vulnerability Analyst

£450-500/day overall assignment rate to umbrella

Remote working

6 month contract

Looking for a Vulnerability Analyst to join a leading financial services firm, you’ll be working as a key member of the vulnerability management team – you’ll be responsible for research, risk assess and mitigate security vulnerabilities and compliance.

Vulnerability Analyst, key skills:

• Experience managing CSPM solutions – Wiz
• Knowledge of vulnerability attack methodologies
• Knowledge of industry standard risk models
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practises
• Experience of cloud – preferably AWS and Azure

Vulnerability Analyst, AWS, Azure, Wiz, CSPM

Sanderson is working in partnership with its client in the UK. We are currently recruiting Payroll Specialist be Remote based out.

Job Title= Payroll Specialist
Location = Remote
Duration= 4 weeks initially

Job description:
Payroll Specialist for a minimum of 4 weeks, who has experience and knowledge of reviewing T&C contracts looking at the specific pay elements that make up contracts.

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Sanderson are working closely with a Life & Pensions company based in Edinburgh. We are looking for 2 Business Analysts to support on a customer journey programme.

Must haves:

• Life & Pensions experience
• Customer Journeys
• Digital and Front end experience
• Core BA skills – facilitating workshops, process mapping, stakeholder engagement

Hybrid working – 3 days per week in the office in Edinburgh

My client is seeking a skilled Linux Infrastructure Engineer with strong configuration, management, and diagnostic abilities.

This role will be for approximately 3 months.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Proficiency in Linux configuration and troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and client-facing skills.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with Ansible for writing, running, and operating tasks.
• Security awareness, including firewalls, SELinux, LDAP, and PAM.
• Expertise in Vault installation and configuration.
• Familiarity with MS server and PowerShell.
• A DevOps mindset with the technical ability to manage servers directly.

This is a hybrid role, requiring office attendance in the London area. The rate is circa £530 per day Inside IR35.

You must have valid SC clearance. Apply now!

VMWare SME – SDDC and Aria

£550 inside – some flex

SC cleared – must be current and active

Remote with some travel to Warwick

Sanderson Government and Defence are currently working with a large multinational consultancy who have a requirement for an SC cleared VMWare SME/Engineer with experience of SDDC and Aria.

If you have that skillset, or even one or the other, we are happy to consider you for this position so long as you also have the SC clearance.

A central government client is looking for a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer and a Lead platform Infrastructure Engineer with extensive AWS and Terraform experience.

You will design and deploy AWS infrastructure, manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and configure commercial-off-the-shelf applications within AWS. Proficiency in Python for writing AWS Lambda functions is required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy AWS infrastructure and services.
• Use Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Configure commercial-off-the-shelf applications in AWS.
• Write and maintain Python scripts for AWS Lambda.
• Ensure security, scalability, and reliability of cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• Extensive AWS and Terraform experience.
• Proven AWS infrastructure design and deployment skills.
• Proficiency in Python for AWS Lambda.
• Strong cloud security and networking knowledge.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications.
• Experience with other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

This role is fully remote but requires office attendance once every 8 weeks to Leeds.

The rate varies on seniority but will pay circa £450 inside for the Senior and circa £650 inside for the Lead.

Ideally you will have valid SC clearance and be immediately available. Please apply online and I will be in touch.

Jan start
2 month contract
Negotiable rate
Fully remote
Security cleared role (SC)

Python engineer with knowledge and experience of Linux