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Sewell Wallis are working with a Yorkshire Firm of Accountants with a strong presence in the market, who are looking to recruit a Client Manager for their Wakefield office.
Our client is ideally looking for a fully qualified Accountant, ideally, ACA / ACCA or QBE and you will be currently looking to progress your career within Practice.
What will you be doing?
- Overseeing the management and development of the Client Accounts team through effective supervision and training
- Preparing, reviewing and delivering statutory accounts to clients with commercial business analysis
- Taking ownership and responsibility for a portfolio of clients, managing your workflow, deadlines and budgets and ensuring the high quality provision of accounting services
- Achieving billing targets agreed with the Senior Managers
- Contributing to business development and the onboarding of new clients
- Ensuring compliance with accounting standards regulations and policies
- Overseeing service delivery, ensuring client expectations and deadlines are being met
- Attending client meetings and building excellent working relationships
- Managing and supporting a team
- Supporting the firm with other duties as needed
What skills are we looking for?
- Fully qualified Accountant, ideally ACA / ACCA / QBE
- Solid experience working within Practice
- Experience managing a client portfolio, with a result driven approach
- Ability to confidently onboard new clients
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience in managing and developing a team
What's on offer?
- Supportive firm offering ongoing training progression opportunities
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Up to 5% employers pension contribution
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Onsite parking
For further details please contact Emma Dugdale.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
