Senior Practice Manager – Finance, HR & Operations

Personnel Placements, Company; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days' holiday per year

Life assurance cover of twice your ann

Discretionary six-monthly bonus

Contributory pension, with firm match

Job summary

Personnel Placements is exclusively managing this vacancy for a Chartered Accountancy firm in Salisbury. The Practice Manager will own finance, HR, systems and compliance, reporting to an equity partner and leading the non-fee-earning team.

You will implement consistent ways of working, manage monthly reports, and drive process improvements across administration, office management and practice systems. This on-site role requires UK work eligibility.

Qualifications

• Senior operations or practice management experience in a professional services firm.
• Experience with firm finance, management accounts, budgeting and cash flow.
• Experience managing people and HR processes.
• Strong systems and data skills to turn reports into insights.
• Ability to influence across multiple partners without formal authority.
• Confident in leading change and handling resistance.
• Highly organized and discreet.

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly MI and quarterly management accounts with the partners.
• Own billing and credit control process: billing on completion, WIP conversion and debtor chasing.
• Monitor timesheets, utilisation, WIP and turnaround times using FYI and Power BI.
• Lead the employee journey from recruitment and onboarding to appraisals, salary and bonus reviews, absence and staff welfare.
• Maintain contracts, the staff handbook and HR policies.
• Review overheads, supplier contracts and renewals, including insurance, software and the lease.
• Lead and develop the non-fee-earning team: office management, reception, administration and PA support, finance and credit control support, and marketing support.
• Oversee the firm’s practice management systems, and lead process documentation and improvement.
• Run the new-enquiry and client onboarding process, including AML identification, engagement letters and set-up.
• Run the partners’ meeting cycle, with agendas, minutes and a live action log, and coordinate staff communications.

Skills

Finance management

People management

Systems & data analysis

Change management

Discretion & organisation

Education

Accounting qualification or part-qualified (AAT/ACCA/ACA/CIMA)

Tools

FYI

Power BI

Xero

Job description

Personnel Placements is exclusively managing this vacancy for a Chartered Accountancy firm in Salisbury. The Practice Manager will own finance, HR, systems and compliance, reporting to an equity partner and leading the non-fee-earning team.

You will implement consistent ways of working, manage monthly reports, and drive process improvements across administration, office management and practice systems. This on-site role requires UK work eligibility.