Permanent
Outsourcing Accounts Portfolio Manager
Posted on 02 January 24 by Richard Perrott
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- £45000 - £55000 per Year
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Job Description
Perrott Partners Ltd are currently working with a highly progressive firm of accountants in St Albans, Hertfordshire who, as a result of continued growth within the firm, are seeking to recruit an ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified Business Services (non audit) Assistant Manager/ Client Manager to join their team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of clients, predominantly made up of owner managed businesses, and will be responsible for ensuring that all compliance work is completed accurately and efficiently for clients within your designated portfolio.
The ideal candidate will have experience of undertaking an Accounts and Tax focused position within a client facing environment and will have gained significant exposure to a range of clients, particularly those within the SME and OMB markets including :
• Ignite growth by driving outsourcing revenues and unlocking new business horizons.
• Lead and inspire a team, shaping their professional development and amplifying the collective impact.
• Command the realm of software platforms, fostering strategic alliances with vendors to ensure seamless operations.
• Embrace the role of a software champion, pushing boundaries and discovering untapped potential in existing platforms.
• Embrace client ownership, delivering excellence through meticulous bookkeeping, month-end processes, VAT returns, and dynamic management reporting.
• Unlock profound insights, elevating management reporting through astute analysis and strategic foresight.
• Prepare and review annual statutory accounts in collaboration with the Audit & Accounts team, elevating the outsourcing team's expertise to draft first-class accounts for clients.
• Unleash your problem-solving prowess, engaging in exhilarating ad hoc projects spanning budgeting, forecasting, process reviews, and beyond.
Required Qualifications/Experience:
• Accomplished accounting professional (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA) with a proven track record in practice.
• Proficiency in accounting software and applications (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, Dext, Autoentry, and more) that's second nature to you.
Superb benefits include
• Pension Life Insurance at four times basic annual salary Income Protection Insurance
• Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus Statutory Bank Holidays), increasing with length of service
• Professional subscription fees paid
• Benefits platform offering discounts, wellness platform, additional holiday purchase, cycle to work scheme, Flu vaccination
• Generous recruitment referral scheme
• Social committee organising numerous subsidised events
• Hybrid working for most roles and Casual dress policy
• Kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and breakfast items plus hot and cold drinks
This is a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to join an established and forward thinking firm where there will be genuine scope for career development, with scope for progression to Partnership within a couple of years for the right individual.
The candidate would ideally be commuting from in and around the Hertfordshire, Buckingham or Middlesex areas; St Albans, Hertford, Watford, Borehamwood, Berkhamstead, Luton, Harpenden, Ware etc.