Outsourcing Finance Manager

The Outsourcing Finance Manager will be responsible for managing and overseeing the outsourcing department and its team members, ensuring that all outsourced accounting functions are completed accurately and on a timely manner. The role involves leading and being accountable for service delivery to clients, including enhancing and building client relationship. The role will also provide the manager an opportunity to be involved in business development activities, attending scoping and pitch meetings with Partners, and supporting the new client on-boarding process.

This role would suit an enthusiastic, diligent and thorough individual who wants to enhance their managerial skills and has a vision to highlight opportunities where you can progress as a team, and the wider firm. Primarily, the candidate would be able to carry out and have a comprehensive understanding of tasks such as bookkeeping, cash flows, budgeting, VAT, management accounts and payroll in order to be able to review tasks carried out by the team and assist clients upon request. Direct supervision would therefore be involved which will include some high level preparation work, reviewing and training individuals.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee a portfolio of clients, which will be completed by a member of the team.
• Ensure and be able to keep client records up to date on a timely basis. This would include bank reconciliations (current accounts as well as any credit card statements, petty cash, etc.), input of sales and purchase invoices and monthly journals.
• Be able to analyse debtor and creditor reports. Request missing information from clients and advise them of any overpayments they have made, etc.
• Be able to process invoices and make payments on the client’s behalf. Ensuring that invoices haven’t been provided previously to reduce risk of overpayments. Limit the risk of paying the wrong beneficiary by checking any bank templates against invoices received.
• Agree timelines with clients in respect of when to receive information to completed bookkeeping and VAT returns. To be able to meet expected deadline for deliverables and able to deliver the VAT return in advance of the deadline.
• Similarly, be able to produce management accounts to a very high standard.
• Ensuring all control accounts in the balance sheet reconcile and be able to explain any abnormalities. In addition, be able to explain to clients any anomalies with P&L items. Maintain schedules of prepayments, accruals, other debtors, etc. and ensure these match back to the main balance sheet and profit and loss.
• Be able to produce VAT returns to a high standard. Checking transactions allocated to the relevant box numbers. In some cases, reporting to a partner for a final review.
• Review bookkeeping, VAT returns, management accounts and quarterly working papers from various team members and communicate constructive feedback on how they done and how they can improve next time.
• Have a desire to work with the team and clients to make environmental reporting part of their processes.
• Ensure working papers prepared for accounts teams are to a high standard.
• Work alongside Payroll manager to ensure delivery of payroll services are to a high standard
• Keep up to date with changing VAT and accounting knowledge. Liaise with the support team to book courses/webinars/etc.

Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in the UK
• ACCA/ACA Qualified
• Experience of managing or overseeing a domestic team
• Property sector experience advantageous

Benefits

• 25 days holiday increasing to 28 after 3 years’ service
• Christmas Closure (don’t work Christmas Eve too)
• Employee Assist Program
• Pension scheme
• Vitality Healthcare
• Childcare vouchers