Accountancy Director

Insite Finance; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant autonomy

Established client base

Opportunity to influence future growth

Direct involvement with leadership

Job summary

Insite Finance in Cardiff is seeking an Accountancy Director to build on an already profitable client base. You will manage major client relationships, provide senior technical input, and work with the leadership team on growth strategy.

This role requires ACA or ACCA, current Senior Manager/Associate Director level, and a track record of generating work. You will lead and develop managers, shaping the firm’s next chapter while staying hands-on with client work.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA qualification and current Senior Manager/Associate Director level within a UK practice firm.
• Proven ability to build relationships and generate work.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities

Responsibilities

• Own significant client relationships across entrepreneurial start-ups, growing businesses and owner-managed companies.
• Manage and develop a substantial portfolio of clients.
• Lead and develop face-to-face client relationships and provide senior technical input on complex accounting matters.
• Support business owners with commercially practical accounting advice.
• Lead and develop managers within the team and maintain quality across client delivery.
• Collaborate with existing directors on growth plans and develop new business/referral opportunities.
• Convert opportunities into sustainable fee income and help develop future managers and directors.

Skills

Client relationship management

Business development

Senior accounting expertise

Education

ACA or ACCA qualification

Job description

This is not a Director title bolted onto what is essentially still a Senior Manager job. The firm needs somebody capable of operating as a genuine senior adviser, taking pressure away from an established leadership team and helping build the next stage of the business. The Accountancy Director will join a highly profitable, family-owned firm with an established client base, strong staff retention and significant investment behind its growth plans. There is already plenty working well. The opportunity is to build on it.

Accountancy Director

Cardiff

£90,000-£110,000

This is not a Director title bolted onto what is essentially still a Senior Manager job. The firm needs somebody capable of operating as a genuine senior adviser, taking pressure away from an established leadership team and helping build the next stage of the business. The Accountancy Director will join a highly profitable, family-owned firm with an established client base, strong staff retention and significant investment behind its growth plans. There is already plenty working well. The opportunity is to build on it.

The role

You will take ownership of significant client relationships across entrepreneurial start-ups, growing businesses and established owner-managed companies. That includes:

• Managing and developing a substantial portfolio
• Leading important face-to-face client relationships
• Providing senior technical input on more complex accounting matters
• Supporting business owners with commercially practical advice
• Leading and developing managers within the team
• Maintaining quality and consistency across client delivery
• Working directly with the existing directors on growth plans
• Developing new business and referral relationships
• Converting opportunities into sustainable fee income
• Helping develop future managers and directors internally

The Accountancy Director needs to combine three things that don't always arrive in the same person: technical credibility, strong relationships and commercial instinct. You are likely to be ACA or ACCA qualified and currently operating at Senior Manager, Associate Director or Director level within a UK practice firm. Experience generating work would be particularly valuable. You don't need to arrive dragging an enormous client book behind you, but you should understand how senior advisers build relationships, create opportunities and turn those into fees.

Why this is different

The business has built an unusually loyal team and a number of people have remained for ten years or more. At the same time, it isn't standing still. New investment is creating capacity for further growth, and the Director will have considerably more influence over that direction than they would typically get inside a large national structure. The firm deliberately maintains an in-person model because client relationships are one of its main differentiators. Senior people are visible, accessible and expected to know their clients properly.

Package

• £90,000-£110,000
• Significant autonomy
• Established and profitable client base
• Opportunity to influence future growth
• Direct involvement with the leadership team
• Strong internal progression culture
• Scope to develop towards partnership
• High-quality client-facing work

For a senior practice professional who wants to become more commercially influential without losing the client work they actually enjoy, this Cardiff opportunity offers a strong platform.