Audit & Accounts Senior Manager / Director

Are you an experienced Audit/Accounts professional looking for a senior opportunity within a growing independent firm, where you can play a genuine role in shaping the future of the business?

Do you enjoy combining technical work with client advisory, team leadership and commercially focused relationship management?

If you're looking to step away from heavily corporate or PE-driven environments into a more entrepreneurial and relationship-led firm, this could be the right move.

What's great about this Senior Manager / Director role?

• Senior leadership opportunity within a growing independent firm
• Long-term progression potential, including future equity partnership potential for the right individual
• Exposure across audit, accounts, advisory and specialist project work
• Broad client base including international groups and entrepreneurial businesses
• Significant client-facing responsibility and autonomy from day one
• Opportunity to get involved in forensic accounting, investigations and expert witness work
• Strong emphasis on quality of service and long-term client relationships
• Collaborative, highly commercial and non-corporate culture

Your role as Senior Manager / Director
You will operate as a key senior figure within the firm, supporting the Partners directly whilst overseeing a varied portfolio of audit and advisory clients.

This is a highly client-facing role, combining technical delivery, relationship management, team oversight and wider commercial involvement within the business.

Day to day, you will:

• Manage a portfolio of larger and more complex clients across audit and advisory
• Lead audits, group consolidations and financial reporting assignments
• Act as a key relationship contact for clients and provide commercial business advice
• Support and mentor junior staff, managers and trainees
• Review work and oversee quality control across assignments
• Assist with business development activity and maintaining long-term client relationships
• Support specialist assignments including forensic accounting and investigations where appropriate
• Work closely with the Partners on wider operational and strategic matters

What you'll need to succeed

• ACA / FCA qualified ideally
• Strong background within accountancy practice at Senior Manager / Director level
• Experience managing larger audits, groups and corporate clients
• Comfortable operating in a client-facing and commercially focused environment
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Relationship-led mindset with a genuine interest in advisory work
• Ambition to play a key role within a growing independent firm

The package

• Open and negotiable depending on experience and bonus structure linked to new business introduced
• Long term progression opportunities including future equity partnership potential for the right individual
• Exposure to varied and high-level client work
• Collaborative and entrepreneurial environment
• Opportunity to play a genuine role in the future growth of the firm

If you're looking for a role where you can combine technical quality, advisory exposure and commercial involvement within a genuinely supportive independent firm, get in touch with Danielle Daymond at Pro Finance directly.

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