At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead client relationships and provide strategic advice to drive business growth.
- Company: Join a profitable, family-owned firm with a strong team culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, significant autonomy, and opportunities for internal progression.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with a focus on personal relationships and career development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a growing firm while enjoying client-facing work.
- Qualifications: ACA or ACCA qualified with experience in senior advisory roles.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 £ per year.
This is not a Director title bolted onto what is essentially still a Senior Manager job. The firm needs somebody capable of operating as a genuine senior adviser, taking pressure away from an established leadership team and helping build the next stage of the business. The Accountancy Director will join a highly profitable, family-owned firm with an established client base, strong staff retention and significant investment behind its growth plans. There is already plenty working well. The opportunity is to build on it.
The role involves taking ownership of significant client relationships across entrepreneurial start-ups, growing businesses and established owner-managed companies. That includes:
- Managing and developing a substantial portfolio
- Leading important face-to-face client relationships
- Providing senior technical input on more complex accounting matters
- Supporting business owners with commercially practical advice
- Leading and developing managers within the team
- Maintaining quality and consistency across client delivery
- Working directly with the existing directors on growth plans
- Developing new business and referral relationships
- Converting opportunities into sustainable fee income
- Helping develop future managers and directors internally
The Accountancy Director needs to combine three things that don't always arrive in the same person: technical credibility, strong relationships and commercial instinct. You are likely to be ACA or ACCA qualified and currently operating at Senior Manager, Associate Director or Director level within a UK practice firm. Experience generating work would be particularly valuable. You don't need to arrive dragging an enormous client book behind you, but you should understand how senior advisers build relationships, create opportunities and turn those into fees.
Why this is different: The business has built an unusually loyal team and a number of people have remained for ten years or more. At the same time, it isn't standing still. New investment is creating capacity for further growth, and the Director will have considerably more influence over that direction than they would typically get inside a large national structure. The firm deliberately maintains an in-person model because client relationships are one of its main differentiators. Senior people are visible, accessible and expected to know their clients properly.
Package: £90,000-£110,000, Significant autonomy, Established and profitable client base, Opportunity to influence future growth, Direct involvement with the leadership team, Strong internal progression culture, Scope to develop towards partnership, High-quality client-facing work.
For a senior practice professional who wants to become more commercially influential without losing the client work they actually enjoy, this Cardiff opportunity offers a strong platform.
Accountancy Director in Cardiff employer: Insite Finance
Insite Finance is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture in Borehamwood, where innovation and collaboration thrive. Employees benefit from professional growth opportunities, a supportive team environment, and the chance to make a significant impact on the company's financial operations as it scales. With a focus on enhancing processes and controls, this role offers a rewarding experience for those looking to contribute to meaningful change in a growing business.
