Accounts Manager

TC Group; Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

TC Group, a leading accountancy firm in the UK, seeks an Accounts Manager to join their Derby office. The role involves managing accounts, ensuring compliance with legislations, mentoring staff, and providing first-class service to clients. Ideal candidates will have an ACA/ACCA qualification, accounting expertise, and strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Group life assurance 4 x salary

Discretionary bonus scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Regular training and development

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2-3 year’s PQE in an accountancy practice.
• Proactive and energetic in every task undertaken.
• Strong desire to exceed expectations.

Responsibilities

• Manage the professional accounting function and contribute towards team culture.
• Provide practical advice and solutions to clients and colleagues.
• Mentor and support less experienced staff.

Skills

Excellent accounting

Excellent VAT & tax knowledge

Excellent interpersonal skills

Education

ACA / ACCA qualification

Tools

Iris

MWP

Job description

Salary – Competitive dependant on experience

Hours - Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week with core hours/flexi-time

Holiday – 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)

About the Accounts Manager role

We are TC Group, the fastest-growing top 20 accountancy firm in the UK. We’re business advisors and accountants, with over 30 years of experience we’ve honed our skills and developed our service offering to deliver a much wider range of bespoke support and advice to ambitious business owners and their businesses.

Due to growth, we have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Manager to join our team in Derby.

This is a key role within the office and an opportunity to work directly with the Directors to manage the professional accounting function and contribute towards our positive team culture. We are looking for ambitious, results orientated individuals who strive to meet the highest standards in their work and provide a first-class service to our clients.You will be technically excellent, a team orientated people person and have a desire to develop the knowledge of yourself and others.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Controlling on an annual basis the professional work required on a range of accounts jobs ensuring that all internal, client and legislative deadlines are met.
• Ensuring the firm’s standard processes are used in the production of accounts work in all aspects
• Ensuring that technical standards are maintained at all times and being technically proficient to answer questions from the team.
• Management of jobs within your portfolio & the staff working on those jobs. You will plan and review work to be undertaken on client matters by staff members and you will be responsible for each jobs review and progress through the practice.
• Ensuring that the work planner is used and that jobs are recorded and staffed using it.
• Ensure that client handling partners are kept fully informed on the monthly progress of the work areas you are responsible for.
• Reviewing the work of others, having a detailed understanding of risks and issues, ensuring complete information is obtained to make effective decisions.
• Provide practical advice and solutions to clients and colleagues in a timely manner.
• Smooth relationships when difficult circumstances prevail. Develop a culture of trust with both the team and with clients.
• Mentor, counsel, coach and support those of less experience, including individuals who are not confident in their area of competence, building morale and personal confidence and generally encouraging others to give their best performance.

About you –

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• ACA / ACCA qualified
• Minimum of 2-3 year’s PQE in an accountancy practice
• Excellent accounting, VAT & tax knowledge, in particular corporation tax.
• Experience with Iris, & MWP beneficial
• Proactive and energetic in every task undertaken
• Seek direction from others when appropriate, achieve objectives, drive feedback, cope well with pressure and show genuine interest
• Strong desire to exceed expectations and drive own career
• Confident when dealing with negative situations and difficult conversations
• Adopts calm and assured approach, makes time for people, shares knowledge
• Ability to juggle a number of jobs, whilst demonstrating excellent time management skills to ensure all deadlines and expectations are met.
• Provides the best possible solution to problem solving and have the courage to make a difficult decision quickly.
• Creates a culture of continuous improvement, convince others to have ideas, as well as encouraging and enthusing them to come up with imaginative solutions to difficult problems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral
• Show initiative, exercise judgement and take ownership of tasks from start to finish

Full benefits available –

• pension scheme
• group life assurance 4 x salary
• group income protection
• car parking
• regular functions and events
• access to our employee benefits portal – cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases
• employee Assistance Programme
• employee Referral Bonus – we’re always looking for talented individuals to join our team
• regular training and development - continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations

About us

TC Group is growing and changing at quite a pace! We’re an ambitious group of people with the same aim – to create a consistent, high-quality experience for our clients. Like us, our client list is growing – we’re supporting more and more of the UK’s ambitious business owners, SME’s and large Corporations and it’s a real team effort. We’re helping them make courageous decisions to grow their businesses.

We always seek the best talent, looking for individuals who are technically brilliant, solution-focused and continually strive to be the best in class. Each member of our team plays an integral part in creating the unique feel and culture of our business, which in turn helps us continue to grow, develop and evolve. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are based in the UK and unfortunately we are unable to provide Sponsorship.

In Short

• Industry Accounting & Finance
• Founded 1992
• Location UK
• Company size 1000 - 4999

Professionals with personality

We’re a highly innovative firm who offer a relaxed friendly working environment. As dynamic leaders, we explore bold new ways of working in a new era of accounting.

Joining us, you’ll benefit from having a supportive employer who promotes within and encourages employees to grow and develop within the company. We provide study support, excellent career development opportunities, and exceptional flexible benefits.

Talent

The most important component of a successful business is the people; within the intelligent, hard-working professionals at TC Group we simply couldn’t function. That’s why we’re constantly on the look-out for talent and pro-actively seek to employ the best people for the job. As one of the fastest-growing Top 20 firms in the UK, we have a continuous need to employ new professionals at every level; from school leavers, to newly-qualified professions, to Partners.

Recruitment process

We’re excited to get to know you better and chat further about the role, as well as what life’s like at TC Group.

Our in-house recruitment team’s here to help support you as well as answer any questions or queries you may have.

So, what’s it like going through the process with our internal recruitment team?

Firstly, we don’t believe formality and process is always needed! We want to get to know you, and the best way to do this is to have a relaxed and informal chat with candidates. The same also goes for our interviews! Understandably, this also applies to those that’ll be conducting your interview too – so each interviewee depending on which office you’re looking to work in, as well as the role you’ve applied for, will all run differently. But don’t worry, we’ll give you everything you need – from interview confirmation, any other relevant information, as well as any preparation you may need to do before (or after) your interview. This can include a presentation or completing a test.

Inclusive & Diverse

At TC Group, we support embracing diversity and inclusivity across our team. Regardless of background, race, religion, age, ability, gender, and LGBTQIA+ identity, we know that having a team that reflects our diversity makes us a stronger business but also a better place to work.

Admittedly, no company’s ever perfect. We’re on a continuous journey by improving at every level through regular assessments, adaptations, and various initiatives to ensure we’re striving for better.

Benefits

We’re proud of the benefits and perks we offer our teams. We’ve placed emphasis on benefits that provide flexibility and personalisation, which also have your career and health in mind.

Below’s a list of the current benefits we offer across all offices, however some of our locations do offer additional perks on top of the Group-wide ones. So make sure you enquire about those!

• Career progression
• A salary that grows with the company
• Holiday
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Perkbox Benefits