Accounts/Tax and Client Manager

A highly attractive career role has arisen in Weston-Super-Mare offering a highly experienced Accounts/Tax and Client Manager working within accountancy practice the chance to develop beyond a straight forward portfolio management/delivery role as a key hire, carving an influential and highly valued career move within a successful firm of accountants as an Accounts Manager.

Client Details

Based in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset this well established practice has developed a strong reputation for quality service, with a very wide ranging client based across Somerset, the wider UK and further afield. With around forty people and number of partners/directors, the overall set up has groups of staff working for the partners. However the teams work flexibly right across all the groups in a team focused and collaborative environment. The firm has very wide ranging clients with around 20 audits or so- registered charities/academies and corporate clients, with a focus working with varied sole traders, partnerships and limited companies, up to around £10 million on OMBs, subsidiaries and other clients at the larger end. They are also developing their online services, expanding the Xero and cloud accounting offering across the firm and clients, embracing the changes and developments within the profession.

Description

Joining as an Accounts/Tax and Client Manager you take responsibility for a very varied client portfolio, across a wide range of industry sectors, including sole traders, partnerships and limited companies varying in turnovers, size and complexity delivering a quality service across accounts/tax and wider service delivery. Alongside this whilst this element will involve working as a key right hand support to one of the partners in a managerial capacity, managing the delivery of work reviewing accounts and workflow, having a hands on approach when needed, the firm has also identified a need for the right person to work across the entire firm helping them drive forward their Cloud Accounting/ Xero offering, working with staff/juniors, bringing them forward onto online/cloud accounting systems, upgrading their skills and supporting them in their development. You will streamline and implement the introduction of these systems to staff and clients and play a key role in driving this forward - you will get involved with delivering new systems and processes across the firm and to relevant clients. It therefore offers a very attractive move for someone seeking a managerial move beyond a straight forward portfolio management/delivery role, if interested in the cloud accounting side as well, joining as an additional manager level professional helping mentor, develop and train a successful team, developing client relationships and carving a key role in the development of this firms future, ongoing success.

Profile

You will be ACA/ACCA qualified, or equivalently experienced through your career, with a career background and strength within any of accounts/tax/audit etc and all around, general accountancy practice service delivery to wide ranging sole trade, partnership and limited company clients, developed within an accountancy practice firm environment. You will have developed your career to around Accounts/Tax and Client Manager levels and be looking to take your career forward within a highly regarded firm of accountants.

Job Offer

Circa £35000 - circa £45,000, dependent on the background experience and level of the right professional, plus benefits, negotiable. To find out more please apply on line, or call Mark Bailey on 01179 217452 for a confidential discussion.