A leading, National Accountancy practice are looking to appoint an Associate Director. This is an exciting opportunity for an established Senior Client Manager striving to achieve Directorship. Alternatively, you may be in a Director role seeking a change of environment.

This opportunity is available as a result of strategic succession planning within the firm. They are seeking an ambitious qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA) to join the team and assist with future growth plans. 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.

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 the practice’s vision, mission and values.

What are we seeking?

To be considered for this opportunity we are seeking a qualified individual (ACA/ACCA) who is accustomed to managing a Client Portfolio, and accustomed to collaborating with Partners and senior leadership. An inspirational leader, who motivates colleagues and enjoys shaping teams whilst instigating best practice.

Associate Director Duties and 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.

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.

What is being offered?

Company Pension Scheme
25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
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

Plus a Flexible Benefits platform with ability to opt-in to various insurances (level of seniority dependent & self-funded at corporate rates) such as:

PMI single or family
Critical Illness Cover
Cash plan
Cycle to work
Eye care
Dental

Hybrid and flexible working also available, please contact me to discuss this excellent opportunity further.

Bowen Eldridge Recruitment is acting as an Accountancy Practice Recruitment Agency on behalf of a client to appoint this vacancy.

If this role is not quite right for you but know someone who might be suitable, be sure to send them this link and make the most of our candidate referral scheme.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £80,000.00-£100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
On-site parking
Work from home

Licence/Certification:

ACCA (required)
ACA (required)

Work Location: In person

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