Accounts Manager: Lead Client Advisory & Growth

Austin Rose; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance from day one

Buy/sell up to 5 days of annual leave

Life assurance

Season ticket loan

Bike4work

TOIL for extra hours

Job summary

Austin Rose is seeking an Accounts Manager in Leeds to lead a high-value client portfolio and provide strategic financial guidance. You will drive onboarding, migrations, and complex accounting projects while collaborating with Audit, Tax, VAT, and Payroll teams.

You will coach junior staff, manage workloads, and contribute to business development, leveraging modern accounting platforms such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Iplicit, NetSuite, CaseWare Cloud, and Dext.

Qualifications

• Lead client-facing accounting teams within a Top 10 firm.
• Provide high-level financial advisory to key clients.
• Manage onboarding, migrations and complex financial needs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage a high-value client portfolio, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and profitability targets are met.
• Serve as the primary trusted advisor for key clients, delivering strategic financial advice and leading onboarding or system migrations.
• Review management accounts, statutory financial statements, VAT returns, cash flows, and complex consolidations.
• Lead ad-hoc advisory projects including process enhancements, system implementations, financial clean-ups, and secondments.
• Manage portfolio WIP, billing cycles, fee quotes, and overall client profitability while upholding rigorous compliance protocols.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with internal specialist divisions across Audit, Tax, VAT, and Payroll to deliver seamless client service.
• Coach, mentor, and foster the professional progression of junior team members through direct appraisals and structured feedback.
• Allocate and monitor departmental workloads to maintain a collaborative, high-performance environment.
• Drive business development initiatives, participating in client pitch meetings, scoping engagements, and generating fee proposals.
• Champion modern accounting systems including Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Iplicit, NetSuite, CaseWare Cloud, and Dext to streamline client operations.

Skills

Client portfolio management

Financial advisory

Team leadership

Business development

Client relationship management

Project coordination

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks

Sage

Iplicit

NetSuite

CaseWare Cloud

Dext

Job description

Austin Rose is seeking an Accounts Manager in Leeds to lead a high-value client portfolio and provide strategic financial guidance. You will drive onboarding, migrations, and complex accounting projects while collaborating with Audit, Tax, VAT, and Payroll teams.

You will coach junior staff, manage workloads, and contribute to business development, leveraging modern accounting platforms such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Iplicit, NetSuite, CaseWare Cloud, and Dext.