Interim Senior Accountant - Contractor
Vira Health · Remote
About Vira Health
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. We partner with employers and health plans to improve health outcomes and make evidence-based women's healthcare accessible worldwide.
Role Overview
Our Head of Finance is going on maternity leave, and we are looking for an experienced finance professional to run our day-to-day finance function whilst she is away. You will be the main point of contact for finance: keeping the books accurate, making sure suppliers and payroll are paid on time, and getting clear monthly numbers to the leadership team. You will work independently, with our external accountants and Senior Leadership on hand for any issues.
Key details
Engagement: Contractor, up to 2 days a week (days to be agreed, with availability for month-end, payroll and VAT deadlines)
Duration: 6 months, with the possibility of extension
Location: Remote, UK-based
Start date: December 2026, including a handover period with the Head of Finance
Competitive day rate
Flexible scheduling
Responsibilities
Bookkeeping and accounting
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, and hit the month-end close deadlines
Sales invoicing and credit control
Raise customer and partner invoices in line with contract terms, and check them against agreed pricing and usage data. Maintain supporting files in excel to be sent with invoices.
Allocate cash receipts, chase overdue invoices and report on debtors and cash collection
Supplier payments and expenses
Process supplier bills, run payment batches and answer supplier queries
Review and approve employee expense claims against policy, and reconcile company cards (Pleo) including account coding and VAT codes.
Payroll
Run monthly UK payroll through our payroll provider, including starters, leavers, changes, pensions and benefits
Submit payment to the payroll provider on time.
VAT and tax compliance
Prepare and submit VAT returns through Xero, including reverse charge and overseas sales treatment. Comfortable calculating partial claims
Spot and flag VAT issues early, and raise anything unusual
Provide information to our external accountants for year-end accounts and corporation tax
Management accounts and reporting
Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet and cash flow) with clear variance commentary against budget if needed.
Consolidate multi-currency into group accounts
Update the cash flow forecast and highlight cash risks to the leadership team
Ad hoc and wider finance support
Respond to finance queries and data requests from colleagues, customers, partners and suppliers (for example supplier forms, VAT certificates and bank letters)
Work with external accounts to prepare year end accounts and tax returns
About you
Essential
Based in the UK, with the 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, and keen to use them to work faster
Accurate, organised and able to work independently to deadlines, and explain the numbers clearly to non-finance colleagues
Desirable
AAT, ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified or part-qualified
Experience in a startup or scale-up, ideally with multi-entity groups including US subsidiaries