Dains Accountants & Advisers
Manager - Accounting and Business Advisory
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Manager - Accounting and Business Advisory
Department: Accounts Advisory
Location: Leicester
Description
As a dynamic and growing accountancy firm with over 1,000 employees, we are seeking a Manager to join our innovative and forward-thinking Accounts & Business Advisory team, to support the Dains group.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play a key role in providing strategic financial guidance and advisory services to a diverse portfolio of clients.
You’ll play a key part in people management within the Accounts & Business Advisory team, contributing to and promoting team culture and maintaining good working relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of clients, acting as a trusted business adviser and developing long-term client relationships.
- Provide proactive business, financial and strategic advice, helping clients identify opportunities, address challenges and achieve their growth objectives.
- Use analytical procedures, accounting ratios and other benchmarking techniques to assess the viability of a client’s business and advise the client accordingly
- Identify opportunities to add value through wider advisory services and collaborate with specialist teams across Dains to deliver holistic client solutions.
- Support clients with business planning, cash flow forecasting, profitability improvement and operational decision-making.
- Lead client meetings, presenting financial information in a clear and commercially focused manner to aid decision making.
- Review accounts (unincorporated and incorporated) prepared by team members, ensuring accuracy and quality, before signing off by the Senior Manager/Partner.
- Build a strong understanding of clients' businesses, industries and strategic goals to provide tailored advice throughout the year.
- Manage the financial performance of a client portfolio, including WIP, billing, recoveries and debt management.
- Work closely with Directors and Partners to deliver exceptional client service and identify opportunities for business development.
- Support new business generation through networking, referrals, prospect meetings and converting enquiries into long-term client relationships.
- Advise clients on cloud accounting systems and digital solutions (eg Xero, Sage, Quickbooks etc) helping businesses improve efficiency and reporting capabilities.
- Manage, mentor and develop team members through to Senior level, providing coaching, technical guidance and performance support.
- Liaise with senior leadership regarding resource planning and workload management.
- Maintain strong communication across teams and departments to ensure a collaborative and client-centric approach.
- Achieve chargeable hour and business performance targets whilst delivering a high-quality advisory service.
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Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Education: You will be ACA or ACCA qualified with a full CPD record appropriate to requirement for your qualification.
- Professional Experience: You have a proven track record in supervising a designated client portfolio including managing workflow, preparation, review, meeting the client, invoicing the work, and meeting statutory deadlines.
- Leadership and Management Skills: You possess strong leadership qualities which enable you to mentor, train and develop the team through organisational skills, delegation, and clear guidance of processes, practices and systems / softwares.
- Technical Skills: You have excellent knowledge of the main accounting systems in the marketplace (eg Xero, Sage, Quickbooks etc) in order to assist and advise clients accordingly.
- Communication Skills: Your exceptional communication skills enable you to maintain effective and proactive communication with own team, management, other departments and clients.
- Building relationships: You demonstrate the ability to develop and maintain effective, trusted relationships with clients. Proactively build rapport, deepening understanding of clients’ businesses, and contribute accordingly during prospective client meetings alongside Manager/Partner.
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Job Benefits
At Dains, we are committed to your professional growth and development. We provide a comprehensive suite of training and development opportunities designed to enhance your skills and expand your career possibilities. Our leaders utilise a coaching style and provide on-the-job training.
You will have access to continuing professional development courses. We support every team member in achieving their full potential. Our development programmes are tailored to nurture your unique talents and ambitions, ensuring you not only meet but exceed your professional goals.
We offer a highly competitive salary, and our generous benefits package includes, but is not limited to:
- Flexible working arrangements, with hybrid/smart working options
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service up to 30 days, with the flexibility to buy or sell additional days
- Financial security through life assurance and a competitive pension scheme, with access to private medical insurance through both company-funded and self-funded options
- Greener travel options through our electric car scheme and our cycle to work programme
- A vibrant social culture, with team socials, celebrations and firm-wide events that help build strong connections across the business
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay to help you and your family through life’s important moments
We want our people to feel supported, valued and able to do their best work. Our benefits reflect the different needs of our teams, offering a broad range of support, flexibility and wellbeing provisions that help our people thrive - both professionally and personally.
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