- 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