Financial Reporting Manager

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join a specialist financial reporting and advisory team within a leading accountancy and business advisory firm.

This is a particularly interesting move for an ACA-qualified accountant who enjoys the technical side of the profession, but wants something broader than a traditional audit or accounts role.

It could equally suit someone who trained in practice and has since moved into industry, but is now missing the variety, technical challenge and team environment that originally attracted them to practice.

This is a genuinely varied role combining technical accounting, client advisory and team leadership.

You'll work with an interesting portfolio of businesses, helping them navigate more complex financial reporting matters and providing practical advice rather than simply delivering a recurring compliance service.

Alongside your own technical work, you'll manage and develop junior members of the team, review their work and help them tackle more complex assignments.

You'll also have plenty of exposure to senior colleagues and clients, making this an excellent next step if you enjoy the technical side of accountancy but don't want to disappear into a purely technical or back-office position.

You'll ideally be ACA or ACCA qualified, with a strong grounding in financial reporting and statutory accounts.

You might currently be in audit, accounts or business services and wondering what the next step looks like without simply moving further up the same ladder.

Alternatively, you may have trained in practice and moved into industry, but be considering a return for the greater variety, client interaction and technical challenge.

You'll be comfortable with UK GAAP and FRS 102, and any exposure to consolidations or IFRS would be useful.

Just as importantly, you'll enjoy working with people. Whether you already formally manage a team or have coached and supported more junior colleagues, you'll want to play an active part in developing others.

This is a great opportunity to use your ACA qualification in a different way.

Rather than choosing between a traditional practice role and another move into industry, you can build a career around technical reporting, advisory work and people management.

You'll continue developing your technical expertise while gaining broader client exposure, leadership responsibility and a clear route for progression.

If you're ACA or ACCA qualified and this sounds like it could make better use of your technical expertise, please get in touch for a confidential conversation.

Maybe you're still in practice and wondering what comes after audit or accounts. Or perhaps you've already moved into industry and discovered that you actually miss the variety and people side of practice. Either way, this could be a very interesting alternative

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