Outsourcing Manager

At Price Bailey, we provide exciting opportunities for training, personal growth and career engagement. We believe in fostering happiness and fulfilment in your work, whilst supporting and inspiring you to grow. We understand that your life extends beyond the workplace, which is why our Smart Working culture promotes flexibility, allowing you to choose when and where you work, whilst still providing excellent client care.

A well-established firm of chartered accountants and business advisors, we offer a wide range of services, including auditing, accounting, tax and corporate finance. We proudly serve a diverse client base across the UK and internationally, with a strong focus on entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses that share our passion for innovation.

Our Outsourcing department is rapidly evolving and has quadrupled in size over the past two years to meet the needs of its ever-growing portfolio of clients. They typically work with moderately sized firms from a plethora of sectors that require our external expertise to help support them with operating their finance functions. This can be on specific elements, such as data-entry and maintaining their books and records, support with VAT compliance, through to providing them with insightful management accounts. We can also offer a fully outsourced finance solution, which encompasses all aspects of an internal finance function. We have a relationship centric approach and are trusted advisors to clients of all shapes and sizes, but they are typically owner managed businesses, giving you the opportunity to deal directly with the decision makers and to truly help shape the direction of their firm.

As an Outsourcing Manager you will have ownership of the following tasks:

• Taking ownership for a mixed and demanding portfolio of clients.
• Managing the delivery of outsourcing assignments to include review of monthly / quarterly management accounting, preparing cash flow reports, budgets and projections, overseeing and review of bookkeeping, review of VAT returns and assisting clients with VAT queries and tax investigations.
• Acting as the overall engagement manager for some clients, which will include liaising with other teams across the firm to facilitate the delivery of annual accounting and corporation tax compliance, payroll, company secretarial services and other advisory services.
• Onboarding of new clients, including system set ups and process reviews, advising both new and existing clients on optimum processes and suitable systems to achieve objectives laid out.
• Managing a team varied in role, from trainee accountants, assistant accountants and management accountants.
• Being the main contact with your client base, being their ‘go to' advisor and building those relationships.
• Taking responsibility for fee discussions and billing.

Whilst having the following experience is advantageous, we value passion and potential. If you meet the minimum criteria listed below and are eager to develop yourself, we would love to hear from you:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (minimum criteria).
• Experience in portfolio management, including delivery of outsourcing services (minimum criteria).
• Up to date working knowledge of tax including MTD.
• Team management experience, including line management.
• Strong systems knowledge in Xero, Dext, Approval Max and QBO, including implementation.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and an in-depth knowledge of cloud-based systems is essential.

In addition to your salary, we also offer the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy / sell up to 5 days holiday)
• Private medical
• Contributory pension scheme
• 4x life assurance
• All employee share scheme
• Company car and fuel card via salary sacrifice
• Family friendly policies e.g. paid time off for dependents
• 2 days paid for volunteering
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including shopping discounts

Price Bailey aspires to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their social background, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We are an equal opportunities employer and place inclusion at the heart of what we do. Our workplace is one where diversity is embraced and where everyone is empowered to be their authentic selves.