Outsourcing Manager

Accountable Recruitment; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Diverse client portfolio

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Accountable Recruitment is helping a well-established Liverpool practice recruit an Outsourcing Manager. You will lead a diverse portfolio of client finance functions, overseeing bookkeeping, VAT, management accounts and reporting, with a focus on process improvement and automation.

You will mentor juniors, manage workloads, and build trusted partnerships with clients, ensuring timely delivery, statutory compliance, and value-added advisory support in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in an accountancy practice or outsourced finance.
• Strong management accounts skills with ability to interpret data.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.
• Familiar with cloud accounting systems and tech-driven finance improvements.
• Confident presenting financial information to clients.
• Experience supervising junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse outsourcing client portfolio and act as primary contact.
• Sign off bookkeeping, VAT returns, management accounts and month-end close.
• Produce high-quality management accounts with commentary and insights.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and cost control.
• Ensure delivery within SLAs and UK GAAP/HMRC deadlines.
• Develop Outsourcing seniors and juniors, including workload planning.
• Review current finance processes to improve efficiency and controls.
• Drive standardisation and automation across outsourced finance ops.
• Lead or support accounting system implementation and optimisation.
• Monitor portfolio performance: budgets, WIP, billing and profitability.
• Identify opportunities to provide advisory support and process improvement.
• Build strong client relationships as trusted finance partner.

Skills

Outsourcing

Management accounts

Client facing

Budgeting & forecasting

Tools

Cloud accounting

Job description

Are you an experienced Outsourcing, Management Accounts or Business Services professional looking for a role where you can have a genuine impact on how clients run their finance functions?

A well-established and highly respected accountancy practice in Liverpool is looking to appoint an Outsourcing Manager to lead a diverse portfolio of clients and play a key role in the continued development of its growing outsourced finance offering. You'll act as a trusted finance partner to your clients, overseeing everything from bookkeeping and VAT through to management reporting, forecasting, systems implementation and finance function improvement.

Outsourcing Manager Responsibilities:

• Managing a diverse portfolio of outsourcing clients and acting as their primary point of contact.
• Overseeing and signing off bookkeeping, VAT returns, management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end close.
• Producing and presenting high-quality management accounts, providing meaningful commentary, insights and recommendations.
• Supporting clients with budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and cost control.
• Ensuring client work is delivered accurately and on time, in line with agreed SLAs, statutory deadlines, UK GAAP and HMRC requirements.
• Managing and developing Outsourcing Seniors and Juniors, including workload and capacity planning, training and performance reviews.
• Reviewing existing client finance processes and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, controls and reporting.
• Driving greater standardisation and automation across outsourced finance operations.
• Leading or supporting accounting system implementation and optimisation projects.
• Managing portfolio performance, including budgets, WIP, billing, profitability and agreed service scope.
• Identifying opportunities to provide additional advisory support, including reporting improvements, process enhancement and wider finance function transformation.
• Building strong, long-term relationships with clients and becoming a trusted extension of their internal finance team.

Outsourcing Manager Attributes:

• Previous experience within an accountancy practice, outsourced finance function or similar client-facing environment.
• Strong management accounts experience with the ability to interpret financial information rather than simply produce it.
• Confident reviewing bookkeeping, VAT, reconciliations and month-end work completed by others.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.
• Strong knowledge of cloud accounting systems and an interest in using technology to improve finance processes.
• Comfortable presenting financial information and recommendations directly to clients.
• Previous experience supervising, reviewing or managing junior members of a team.
• Commercially aware, with an understanding of budgets, WIP, billing and profitability.
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification would be advantageous, although strong relevant experience will also be considered.

Outsourcing Manager Benefits:

• Hybrid and flexible working.
• The opportunity to manage a varied and interesting client portfolio.
• Genuine scope to influence and improve the firm's outsourcing offering.
• Continued professional development and progression within an established North West accountancy practice.