• Qualified accountant – CA with 7-8 years of relevant experience.
• Previous sector (long term contracts) and client type experience (essential).
• Some experience of group reporting (preferred).
• Experience in managing the audit process, projects or specific assignments.
• Act as a role model setting high standards of quality and demonstrating commitment to self-development.
• Develops and maintains realistic and achievable project plans.
• Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels
• Develops a network of contacts: professional, clients and potential clients
• Communicates team goals with clarity, sets clear objectives for team members that are aligned to business plans and monitors and assesses performance, providing timely feedback and support as necessary.
• Effectively recruits, promotes and develops talent within the team, ensuring equal opportunities and providing feedback.
• Contributes to the development of new initiatives and proposes appropriate approaches to problems.
• Maintains and applies an up-to-date knowledge of the firm’s risk management policies and operational procedures and ensures team adherence to these.
• Ensures client expectations and issues are understood, developing collaborative relationships and taking action to break down ‘silo barriers’.
• Ensures fees are collected in a timely manner, following up with clients as necessary.
• Select, analyses and presents information to enable effective decision making and effectively communication results.
• Demonstrates a commitment to change, implementing and leading change projects within the team, where relevant.
• Promotes the firm’s values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views as necessary.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To develop and manage a portfolio of clients and to carry out work to a high technical standard in a commercially beneficial manner.
• To assist partners in business development activities.
• To be part of the management team and develop the client portfolio.
• To control the financial aspects of a client portfolio; including budgeting, negotiating, billing and recovery.
• To effectively deploy staff on assignments.
• To promote the firm’s values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views as necessary.
• To communicate team goals with clarity and set clear objectives for team members that are aligned to business plans and monitors and assesses performance, providing timely feedback and support as necessary.
• Maintains and applies an up-to-date knowledge of the firm’s risk management policies and operational procedures and ensures team adherence to these.
• To ensure client expectations and issues are understood, developing collaborative relationships.

SKILLS:

• Business
• Accounting
• Communication
• Budgeting
• Business Planning
• Risk Management
• Following Up
• Decision-Making
• Project Plans
• Change Management