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 perks

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

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📌 Interim Senior Accountant - Contractor (Toronto)
🏢 Vira Health
📍 Toronto