Location: Leeds
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive
Our client its recruiting for an experienced manager to lead the Digital Finance team in their Leeds office. In this role, you will act as a trusted adviser to businesses, leading a team to provide accounting services to your client base, delivering high quality, team development and proactive client service.
Key Duties:
- Evaluate and mitigate commercial and reputational risk as well as engagement risk
- Consistently manages delivery of high-quality advice aligned to clients' needs
- Take responsibility for the performance management and wellbeing of the team, including carrying out appraisals.
- Deliver training to the wider team or firm based on areas of expertise or specialism
- Dealing with a varied client portfolio (T/O up to £10 million) including OMBs, in ecommerce, manufacturing and construction industry
- Identify opportunities to improve client experience including promotion of BHPs partnered software stacks to drive efficiencies
- Use networking and contacts to keep up-to-date on current business affairs and to contribute to the development of the client base of the firm
- Communicate effectively with clients and influence matters at client meetings, working to understand the needs of the client and the business environment in which they operate
- Regularly contributes to internal projects to improve team/firm financial performance and efficiency
Person Specification:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with at least significant post qualification experience (ideally in Practice)
- Experience of preparing management accounts (to include forecasting and budgeting)
- Effective communication skills, both written and in person, with experience of advising in client meetings
- Experience of leading a team, including line management responsibility
- A strong network in the Leeds business market
- Evidence of a commitment to own continuous professional development and ensuring technical knowledge is current and relevant
- Good IT skills, including experience of using different accounting packages or systems (ideally Xero/Cloud Accounting software) and Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
- Accurate, methodical and organised
For more information please contact the below:
Liam Daly
Lead Associate Recruitment Consultant
T: 07548 836700
E: liam@supreme-ss.com