Senior Manager - Financial Reporting

S&W; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm seeks a Financial Reporting Senior Manager in Birmingham to manage client portfolios, lead a team, and ensure high-quality service. The role involves liaising with various stakeholders, overseeing staff performance, and contributing to business development efforts, making it pivotal to the firm's operational success.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Option to purchase additional holiday

Fully funded training towards professional qualifications

Qualifications

• Significant experience of large entity statutory accounts in professional services.
• Experience working with entrepreneurial, OMB and SME clients.
• Experience in business development activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of clients and liaise with other departments.
• Support training and development of team members.
• Prepare proposals for new work and develop client opportunities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong organisation skills

Time management

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA)

Job description

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Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

Job Description

What will you be doing?

We're seeking a talented individual to join our Financial Reporting team in Birmingham, which is responsible for accounts preparation services for a wide range of clients.

The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of clients, liaison with other departments and clients, and managing more junior members of staff whilst supporting the wider management group . You will have active involvement in the training and development needs of the team to improve quality and you will also aid the senior leadership team in both client work and in the management of the team.

As Financial Reporting Senior Manager, your responsibilities will include among others

• Review work performed by members of the team, including FRS 102, FRS 101, IFRS and consolidated group accounts.
• Ensure that clients receive an efficient and proactive service and client expectations are exceeded by liaising with Clients, Partners and other S&W staff where appropriate to ensure all are kept up to date with relevant issues.
• Monitoring of billing/lock-up and staffing levels, ensuring WIP provisioning is kept up to date monthly as considered appropriate while supporting management team with various administrative tasks and projects that arise from time to time.
• Providing support and upskilling on technical areas to team members, ultimately improving the quality output.
• Monitoring of staff performance, carrying out appraisals and ensuring feedback given to staff on a timely basis.
• Preparation of proposals for new work and development of opportunities with existing clients.
  
  

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA).
• Significant experience of large entity statutory accounts gained within a professional services environment.
• Experience of working with entrepreneurial, OMB and SME clients.
• Experience of (and appetite for) business development activities such as preparation of proposal documents and demonstrable working knowledge of accounting standards.
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with clients, Directors, Partners, and colleagues with strong organisation and time management skills to ensure needs of all are met.
• Previous experience managing staff to ensure best performance with good working knowledge of skill requirements of staff at various levels to ensure work is undertaken.
  
  

Additional Information

As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependent)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave
• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care support
  
  

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

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