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Vacancy Name: Associate Director
Vacancy No: VN2281
Employment Type: Permanent
Duration: N/A
Location
- City: Shenfield
- Country:
Company Description
Xeinadin was established in 2019 when a number of leading business advisory and accountancy practices across the UK and Ireland came together to re-imagine the future of accountancy. Our collective mission to provide locally forged, trusted business advice to SMEs through forward-thinking, close-knit relationships remains pivotal to our growth. It's our people who drive our business forward, and we offer them future-focused career opportunities whilst supporting individual specialisms. Our regional offices of over 3000 colleagues operate collaboratively, combining collective expertise to maximise potential.
Description
The role of an Associate Director is to grow the client base. They are responsible for the delivery of an outstanding service to clients. This means winning business, providing industry leading advice and creating an organisational culture where people are strongly connected to Xeinadin’s vision, mission and values.
The role requires an influential leader who can build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and who can deliver for the business and for clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Win, manage and grow own portfolio of clients.
- Provide industry leading insights, solutions and advice to build the firm’s reputation and client base.
- Promote the products, services and image of the firm in order to generate new business opportunities and enhance the reputation of the firm.
- Create and maintain strong and long lasting relationships with clients, Directors and staff.
- Contribute to strategic and business planning to deliver an increase in revenue and profits.
- Recruit, develop and manage a high performing team who deliver a great service to clients and meet their billing targets.
- Create a high performing culture where people live the vision, mission and values and take action to improve if not.
- Hold responsibility for client relationships up to £600k of revenue to ensure the best possible value, advice and quality and compliance for clients.
- Ensure client work complies with all legal and ethical standards and statutory regulations.
- Provide leadership and direction to the team to help motivate and inspire people to higher performance.
- Set performance measures, review performance and take effective action to improve when off track.
- Develop workforce planning and workload management processes that ensure the correct staffing levels to process workload.
- Develop people, processes, systems and practices in order to raise productivity and the quality of outputs.
- Be a strong role model for the organisations values and standards to develop a high performance culture.
- Develop and maintain the highest standards of technical knowledge and expertise for self and others.
- Measure the service provided to clients and implement improvements to deliver industry leading service to clients.
- Complete own portfolio of client work to provide industry leading insights and advice.
- Ensure that the team and colleagues live the Xeinadin Values.
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Key Requirements
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All round knowledge of Accounts finalisation, business advisory, personal and corporate tax in the Micro and SME sectors.
Additional Requirements
Fully qualified and with the ability of obtaining a Practising Certificate ICAEW, ACCA or equivalent
Model Office Based
Salary: Competitive
Benefits
- Company Pension Scheme
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional annual leave days from certain levels of seniority
- Ability to buy up to 5 days of annual leave to reach a maximum of 30 days per annum
- Business closure over Christmas*
- Life Assurance x4 annual salary
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay
- Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 support, free and confidential
- Corporate Discounts Platform
Flexible Benefits platform with ability to opt-in to various insurances (level of seniority dependent & self-funded at corporate rates) such as:
- Critical Illness Cover
- Cash plan
- Cycle to work
- Eye care
- Dental
*subject to exceptions and business needs
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