Practice Senior Manager

Cooper Lomaz are working with a growing Practice that has experienced excellent growth over the last 12 months. Due to expansion in the General Practice Department, they are seeking to recruit a full/part time senior manager. This is a great opportunity for someone who is ACA/ACCA or QBE qualified and will be responsible for the management of a portfolio of clients, providing high quality compliance services for a range of corporate and specialist clients.

Within this new role, you will be responsible for the provision of general practice services including corporate and special projects for a portfolio of clients with annual fees of £240k. This will include:

• Corporate taxation and finance.
• Company Secretarial duties.
• Provide projections and forecasting information.
• Manage budgets and compliance processes.
• Utilise a variety of paperless software applications.
• Prepare budgets for accounts work.
• Raise bills.
• Liaise with clients for debt recovery as required.
• Consolidations.

Client Management:

• Manage portfolio of clients.
• Manage client relationships and identify opportunities for additional services.
• Introduce new clients to the practice.
• Play an active role in raising the profile of the business.
• Display confident, accurate and reliable accounting knowledge when interacting with clients, presenting ideas and implementing strategies.
• Actively engage with senior staff/partners to gain a good understanding of the business.
• Understand, engage and assist with the marketing activities of the business.
• Attend local networking events.

Tax Compliance / VAT:

• Review completed VAT return forms.
• Communicate with clients when VAT return is complete and submit to HMRC.
• Review VAT returns and provide in-depth knowledge and advice service to clients.
• Review prepared self-assessment tax returns, business and partnership tax returns to include detailed capital gains computations and preparation of schedules of income from property.
• Review information processed on a computerised tax software to produce returns and calculations above.

Payroll:

• Review P11D and other payroll advice and services.
• Review payroll processed on behalf of clients to strict deadlines.
• Review submitted FPS and EPS as required.
• Liaise with clients as required.

Staff / Leadership:

• Review work of staff before passing to partner to sign off, ensuring quality in compliance with professional standards/requirements.
• Delegate tasks effectively.
• Responsible for the recruitment, selection, training and development of direct reports.
• Manage and supervise all workflow controls.
• Collate and follow up on assignment feedback forms.
• Ensure Partner decisions on staff are promptly implemented.
• Ensure staff motivation and loyalty is maintained to minimise staff turnover.
• Ensure effective communication systems between management and staff are established and disseminated to all staff in the company to ensure coherence and a positive team spirit.
• Conduct annual appraisals and quarterly reviews for all direct reports.
• Actively manage direct reports in respect of holiday, sickness and general day-to-day management.
• Monitor and encourage improvements towards standards of work via guidance, coaching and mentoring.
• Highlight and recommend training requirements for direct reports.
• Encourage/foster a culture of continuous development.

Core benefits:

• Generous annual leave.
• Support your continued development including attending training courses, webinars, leadership, management development and continuing professional development programmes.
• Flexible working is encouraged and regularly reviewed.
• Enhanced Maternity Pay.
• Long-term sickness or incapacity, income protection is provided.
• Life assurance.
• Paid study leave.
• Paid professional subscriptions.
• Healthshield cash back plan - for treatments such as dental, optical and physiotherapy etc (a more extensive list is available).
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Tax efficient pension (salary sacrifice).