Digital Accounting Manager

Job title: Digital Accounting Solutions Manager

Reporting to: Head of Cloud Accounting

Hours: Full time Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm (37.5 hours per week)

Location: Cambridge / Suffolk / Essex

Affinia is a UK Top 35 Accounting firm, where we support our clients with everything from day-to-day Accounting, Audit and Tax planning, to strategic business advice, compliance and specialist services such as Cloud Accounting, Payroll and Mergers & Acquisitions across a wide range of sectors. We are committed to delivering excellence in every aspect of our work, adapting to the evolving regulatory landscape while consistently exceeding client expectations.

We focus on building authentic connections, collaboration and growth, both with our clients and colleagues with over 300 years’ experience, bringing together financial experts from across London, East Anglia & Southeast England. We have more than 500 accountancy professionals across our 15 offices and advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across seven principal practice groups: Accountancy & Advisory, Tax and Planning, Audit Services, Corporate Finance, Digital Solutions, Payroll and Financial Planning

We have invested continuously in technology and gained in-depth knowledge across a broad range of markets, growing through acquisitions and private investment. We offer an exceptional service to our clients, with access to our sector experts to develop the strategy that will help them reach their goals. We keep a finger on the industry pulse, so our clients receive the best short to medium and long-term advice.

We can offer flexible and hybrid working and provide access to training providers such as Croner-i, Tolley’s, Mercia and LinkedIn Learning to meet the needs of our people from both a hard and soft skills perspective. We also work with an Apprenticeship provider to offer the combination of paid work and access to professional qualifications.

Purpose Of The Role

Affinia is currently seeking a dynamic individual to come and join the firm as our Digital Accounting Manager. This is an exciting opportunity which offers the chance to make a real impact on the firm and is a newly created role to cope with business demands and the substantial growth Affinia is seeing. The role will see you working alongside our Digital Solutions and Cloud Accounting team to support their requirements as well as supporting the wider business.

Accountabilities

As a Digital Facilitation Expert, we are looking for the following skills to:

• Help drive adoption, optimisation and integration of our Cloud AppStack (Xero, Dext, Fathom etc).
• Act as a subject matter expert for finance technology, supporting both internal teams and clients.
• Serve as a key point of contact for clients on digital finance solutions and service delivery.
• Translate client needs into practical cloud accounting solutions and workflows.
• Support clients with transformation of their finance systems and processes.
• Support the Head of Digital Finance in strategic initiatives and act as deputy where required.
• Assist with other adhoc projects and tasks as required.

Skills/Qualifications

• Proven experience with change management
• Experience supporting clients with Digital Transformation.
• Certification in relevant cloud accounting platforms.
• Ideally the ACA/ACCA qualification or part-qualified beneficial.
• Proven experience working with Xero, Dext and Fathom.

Benefits And Culture

At Affinia, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• Ability to purchase 3 additional days annual leave per year
• Auto enrolment Pension Scheme with True Potential
• Death in Service
• Full study support including tuition fees and paid study days
• Professional membership support
• Paycare – claim money back for Dental / Optical / Professional Therapies
• Agile/Hybrid Working Policy
• Dress for your Diary Policy

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Affinia is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. We welcome applications from people looking for flexible and agile roles and we are happy to explore you preferred working patterns as part of your application.

Affinia is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion, or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity, or sexual orientation. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all, valuing the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.