Account Support Manager

BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 67,000; Part time

Job summary

Parish Accounting Services Ltd (PAS) is seeking an Account Support Manager to deliver end-to-end user support for OPAS, PAMIS and related software, including onboarding, training and issue resolution. The role combines customer-facing duties with light sales activity and day-to-day management of software engineers and support resources.

The position is part-time, home-based (typically 20 hours per week, 9am–1pm, Mon–Fri) and reports to the Managing Director.

Qualifications

• Essential criteria from job description: customer support or training experience for software systems.
• Experience in account management or client support functions.
• Strong MS Office skills (Teams, Word, Excel).
• Ability to work independently from home with minimal supervision.
• Knowledge of data protection and confidentiality requirements.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers or contractors.

Responsibilities

• Provide remote support to users of OPAS, PAMIS and related software.
• Triage issues and assign to software engineers; escalate complex cases to MD.
• Monitor KPIs, support response times and customer satisfaction.
• Coordinate training and onboarding for diocesan and parish users.
• Handle soft sales enquiries, demonstrations and proposal follow-ups.
• Maintain CRM records and track opportunities.
• Collaborate with MD and staff on service changes and timelines.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Written communications

Verbal communications

Customer support experience

Account management

Microsoft Office

Work from home

Database reporting

Data protection

Third-party management

Data extraction

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Account Support Manager

Organisation: Parish Accounting Services Ltd (PAS)

Reports to: Managing Director

Contract Tenure: Part-time, typically 20 hours per week (usually 9am–1pm, Mon–Fri)

Location: Home Based

FTE Salary: £45k-£50k p.a. (indicative)

Overall Purpose of the Role

To deliver a high quality, end-to-end user experience, including onboarding, training, ongoing support and issue resolution, alongside professional client relationship management, for all Parish Accounting Services Ltd software (i.e. OPAS, PAMIS and related software). This is an operational, customer facing and customer-focused role , but also supports light touch sales activity, including responding to prospective customer enquiries and preparing proposals. The role includes day-to-day management of software engineers and support resources, ensuring the effective triage, resolution and escalation of technical issues and the delivery of agreed service standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Customer Support

Provide remote support to users of OPAS, PAMIS and related software, resolving queries promptly and professionally.

Triage issues and assign technical matters to software engineers, escalating only complex cases to the Managing Director for commercial and/or technical input.

• Assist users with data extraction, report generation and routine system tasks.

Develop and maintain positive relationships with customer contacts, acting as the primary day-to-day relationship manager for existing customers, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and identifying opportunities to improve service delivery and system adoption.

2. Support/Engineering Team Management

Manage and supervise software engineers in carrying out a hybrid role, including technical support, bug fixing, incremental development and system maintenance, ensuring agreed delivery targets are met.

• Allocate workload, monitor issue resolution times and ensure that escalations follow PAS processes.

Manage the operational delivery of software support, maintenance and agreed development work, ensuring priorities set by the Managing Director are delivered effectively.

• Report on resourcing, recurring issues, and technical capacity needs to the Managing Director.

Coordinate and undertake user acceptance testing of software enhancements, bug fixes and system updates before release to customers.

Monitor and report on KPIs, support response times, customer satisfaction and outstanding development issues.

3. Training & Onboarding

• Deliver remote training to diocesan and parish users.
• Support onboarding of new customers and rollout of system upgrades.

4. Sales Support

• Handle soft sales enquiries, demonstrations and follow up conversations.
• Support the preparation of quotations and proposals under the Managing Director’s guidance.
• Maintain CRM records and track opportunities.

5. Coordination & Administration

• Maintain software documentation, FAQs, user guides and training materials.

Collaborate with the Managing Director, staff and contractors to update customers on development timelines or service changes.

• Monitor recurring issues and propose improvements to processes or user experience.

Support compliance with PAS information governance, cyber security and data protection requirements, reporting risks or incidents to the Managing Director.

6. Team Working

Work closely with the Managing Director, staff and contractors to deliver a high-quality experience for all PAS software.

• Support occasional internal projects, such as data cleanses and service resilience testing.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Highly self motivated with excellentinterpersonal and organisational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communicationskills, able to explain system processesclearly.
• Experience delivering customer support ortraining for software systems.
• Experience of account management,customer relationship management and/orclient support functions.
• Strong working knowledge of the MicrosoftOffice suite, particularly Teams, Word andExcel.
• Able to work independently from home withminimal supervision.
• Good understanding of accounting anddatabase systems and the ability totroubleshoot routine user and system issues.
• Able to create database reports/extractdata
• Good understanding of Data Protection andconfidentiality requirements.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers,subcontractors or technical resources.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in project coordination or light-touch project management.
• Knowledge of OPAS, Gift Aid processes andcharity bookkeeping.
• Awareness of safeguarding and DBSchecking processes.
• Good understanding of software testing andrelease management.
• Willingness to travel occasionally within theUK.
• Comfortable drawing up sales agreementsfrom templates.
• Experience working with cloud-hostedsoftware systems.
• Awareness of cyber security best practice.