Client Manager - Partner track

Addington Ball; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career progression to Partner

Flexibility for family commitments

Supportive team culture

Parking pass

Personal development opportunities

Job summary

Addington Ball is seeking a Client Manager on a partner-track within a forward-thinking practice. You will own a varied portfolio of owner-managed businesses and provide proactive accounting, tax and advisory support.

You’ll lead an accounts team, review work, and collaborate with business owners on tax planning and strategic decisions, with flexibility and progression toward Partner. The firm highlights a friendly culture, hybrid working, and genuine work-life balance, along with opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong experience in an accountancy practice
• Qualified ACCA or ACA or equivalent
• Able to manage client relationships and provide advisory conversations
• Good working knowledge of tax and accounts for owner-managed businesses
• Able to review work, support colleagues and handle complex matters

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied portfolio of owner-managed businesses
• Build trusted relationships and provide proactive accounting, business and personal tax advice
• Oversee and support a team of accounts staff, reviewing work
• Manage year-end accounts, corporation tax, management accounts and deadlines
• Advise business owners on practical tax planning, including tax-efficient profit extraction
• Get involved in wider assignments such as R&D tax claims with specialists

Skills

Client relationships

Advisory conversations

People management

Accountancy practice experience

Education

ACCA/ACA or equivalent

Tools

TaxCalc

Xero

QuickBooks

Job description

If you've reached the point in practice where you want to spend less time preparing accounts and more time advising clients, leading people and building relationships, this Partner track opportunity could be a very worthwhile move.

As Client Manager, you'll take ownership of a varied portfolio of owner-managed businesses and become someone clients genuinely turn to for advice. There's an established team of accounts staff handling much of the day-to-day preparation, giving you more time to review, solve complex issues and have meaningful conversations with business leaders about their businesses and personal tax positions.

Perhaps you're already a Client Manager / Senior Accountant looking for greater flexibility and longer-term progression. Or you're an Accounts Senior or Assistant Manager who knows you're ready for that next step. Either way, there's scope to build a career all the way through to Partner, while working within a practice where flexibility and life outside work are genuinely valued.

The people already working there talk about genuinely enjoying coming to work. They describe a friendly, cooperative team, senior leaders who support them professionally and personally, and flexibility that allows them to fit work around families, hobbies and commitments outside the office. One employee even describes it as the best accountancy practice they've worked for. That says rather more about the culture than another list of corporate values ever could.

Role Overview

• Manage a varied portfolio of owner-managed businesses across sectors including SaaS technology, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and consultancy
• Build trusted relationships, providing proactive accounting, business and personal tax advice
• Oversee and support a team of accounts staff, reviewing work and assisting with more complex assignments
• Manage year-end accounts, corporation tax, management accounts and associated deadlines
• Advise business owners on practical tax planning, including tax-efficient ways of extracting profits
• Get involved in wider assignments such as R&D tax claims, with specialist colleagues available for higher-level tax matters.

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong experience within an accountancy practice, whether as a Client Manager, Senior Accountant, Assistant Manager or experienced Senior level
• Ideally qualified ACCA, ACA or equivalent
• Comfortable managing client relationships and having advisory conversations with business owners
• Good working knowledge of tax as well as accounts for owner-managed businesses
• Able to review work, support colleagues and confidently handle more complex matters
• Familiarity with accounting software packages such as TaxCalc, Xero, QuickBooks etc.

What's on Offer

• Hybrid working.
• Clear career progression, including a route through to Partner for the right person.
• Genuine flexibility around family and personal commitments.
• A supportive, friendly environment where people are trusted and encouraged to develop.
• Greater opportunity to focus on portfolio relationship management and advisory work.
• Parking pass provided.
• Personal development opportunities and a culture that values life outside work.

Addington Ball is a specialist finance and accounting recruitment consultancy covering the Midlands and Northern Home counties. We are a member of TEAM and are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Job ref - ABJ/(phone number removed) - Client Manager