Senior Manager (Professional Services)

This global professional services group are looking to appoint a bright, articulate and numerate finance professional looking for a leadership and transformation challenge. You will thrive on providing best service and development from withing the team and external stakeholders.

Job Specification

Senior Manager operating across a wide portfolio of clients.

• Responsible for managing, leading and developing a team of 6 experienced and qualified managers
• Co-coordinating involvement of other service lines or specialists to meet specific client needs and taking the lead where required
• Brand enhancement and promotion (networking/PR, business development within the group function and attendance at industry seminars)
• Responsibility for on boarding new business and existing client development
• Responsibility for long terms capacity planning and forecasting
• Accountable for service delivery on accounting/financial regulatory matters
• Accountable for ensuring all operational routines take place within accounting teams
• Active involvement, ownership and an advocate for strategic improvement projects
• Technical involvement within strategic improvement projects
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate Accounts resource is provided
• Co-ordinating shared resources with other Senior Managers and our Spartan offices
• Monitoring the contribution and effectiveness of technical resources from other lines of service impacting the accounting work.
• Accountable for billing and debt (emphasis on recovery and net investment)
• Undertaking fee reviews for clients
• Responsible for most senior detailed review of all accounting output
• Managing the development of direct reports and accountable for other accounting staff
• Recruitment
• Managing HR matters
• Identifying client related risks and implement appropriate solutions
• Ensuring accurate and up to date process documentation exists and is disseminated
• Collaborating with other Senior Managers to ensure, identify and implement best practice
• Ensuring processes are adhered to and carried out consistently across your teams with necessary mechanisms in place to identify non-conformity
• Implementing change to control risks

Skills Required

• You will be ACA/ACCA qualified with a strong understanding of accounting and related areas and have in excess of 10 years post qualification experience
• Excellent technical and practical accounting knowledge with the ability to apply it in practical situations
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to build relationships across disciplines to positively influence people at all levels, and to develop staff through motivation and coaching
• Capable of managing a team with diverse experience and views and having the ability and confidence to challenge colleagues to improve performance
• Excellent client management skills, client service and results orientated
• Ability to identify and suggest procedural improvements
• Confidence to walk the floor and understand current state

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