You will collaborate with clients to understand their unique business challenges and complexities, providing a tailored range of accounting services and capture their greatest opportunities so they can focus on the areas of activity that matter most. The role will be diverse in nature and we are looking for an individual who can draw upon their previous skills, knowledge, and experience to provide specialist advice to existing finance teams, someone who is able to understand the heart of a finance function, and does what best in class looks like.

Managing teams and clients concurrently and ensuring that the day to day is done on time and accurately whilst also supporting the growth and commercial teams.

The role is client facing and will ideally suit an enthusiastic team player who have both industry (incl secondments) and professional experience. Someone who can apply technical best practice to the realities of industry.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Providing a full range of accountancy services to a portfolio of clients.
• Overseeing preparation of management accounts.
• Managing client relationships.
• Statutory reporting and review.
• Managing one-off projects at the request of the client.
• Taking ownership for the delivery of all aspects of client accounting work from start to finish, on budget, liaising with other departments to agree timescales and plan performance of work and acting to ensure delivery by all agreed deadlines.
• Providing commercial finance insights to clients and team.
• Leading on the delivery of finance functions to clients, new and existing.
• Delivering for client’s one-off finance projects such as system insights, process and control reviews and other financial information remediation exercises.
• Determining resource requirements ensuring that the team has relevant experience, support and skills to ensure an unrivalled client experience.
• Leading, motivating and coaching all members of the team, aiding development of both technical and client management skills and identifying any training needs.
• Building strong and credible relationships to understand the clients’ priorities, providing them with trusted and valued advice, ensuring delivery by all agreed deadlines.
• Collaborating effectively, embrace diverse perspectives, and work holistically with stakeholders including, different business areas, the wider professional network, and the community.
• Developing a detailed knowledge of specialist services and actively identifying opportunities for business development in response to clients' needs.
• Being a vital part the VFF Management Team, involved with the day-to-day operations of the team, ensuring financial targets and deadlines are met and assist with delivering the strategic objectives of the department and wider firm.

Applicants to this role require

• Fully qualified with experience of working within practice or industry.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge across both UK GAAP and IFRS and other local GAAPs.
• Experience delivering one off projects.
• A passionate problem solver, bringing solutions, making recommendations, and driving implementation of agreed approach.
• Experience of handling a client portfolio with strong client engagement.
• Team player with the necessary interpersonal skills to build professional relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• A growth mindset and continuous desire for lifelong learning.
• Experience in utilising technology, cloud accounting software and implementing client-driven solutions.

What’s in it for me?

• Hybrid, agile working practices to enable you to manage your work life alongside your home life
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field and work alongside leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Work with energetic people who like nothing more than having a bit of fun.

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