Accountancy Director

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

Benefits offered by this job

Significant autonomy

Established client base

Path to partnership

Leadership exposure

Job summary

Insite Finance in Cardiff is seeking an Accountancy Director to lead high-value client relationships and shape the next growth phase. This is a senior advisory role within a profitable, family-owned firm with an established client base and strong staff retention.

You will own major portfolios, provide senior technical input on complex accounting matters, and develop managers while building new business and referrals.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA qualified and currently operating at Senior Manager, Associate Director or Director level within a UK practice firm.
• Experience generating work and developing client relationships.
• Ability to lead and develop managers within the team.
• Willingness to work in Cardiff on-site and contribute to growth.

Responsibilities

• Managing and developing a substantial portfolio of client relationships.
• Leading important face-to-face client relationships.
• Providing senior technical input on complex accounting matters.
• Supporting business owners with commercially practical advice.
• Leading and developing managers within the team.
• Developing new business and referral relationships.
• Converting opportunities into sustainable fee income.
• Helping develop future managers and directors internally.

Skills

Client relationships

Strategic leadership

Technical accounting

Education

ACA/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 deliveryWorking 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.