Accounting Manager

Deskwork is recruiting on behalf of its client, an established accounting practice, for an experienced Accounting Manager to oversee the day-to-day operational management of the practice.
Role Overview
The role will focus on workflow management, forward planning, client onboarding, billing, team coordination, and ensuring the practice operates efficiently and consistently.
The successful candidate will play a key role in keeping the practice organised and proactive while providing management with clear visibility over workflow, capacity, deadlines, billing, and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
Manage workflow across the accounting team and ensure jobs are allocated, monitored, and completed on time.
Oversee forward planning of annual accounts and recurring client work.
Ensure client information is requested and followed up in advance of deadlines.
Coordinate the onboarding of new clients, including information gathering, Authority to Act forms, AML requirements, and system access.
Oversee billing schedules, work-in-progress, and the timing of invoices for existing and new clients.
Ensure client files, workflows, and internal processes are standardised and consistently followed.
Prepare weekly workflow, capacity, and job costing reports for management.
Monitor team workloads, upcoming deadlines, and potential bottlenecks.
Coordinate regular workflow meetings and help keep the accounting team accountable to agreed priorities and deadlines.
Support the Director with practice reporting, operational planning, and continuous improvement.
Assist with improving systems, procedures, and processes as the accounting division continues to grow.
Ideal Candidate
Deskwork's client is looking for someone who is highly organised, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple clients, jobs, and deadlines.
Ideally, the successful candidate will have experience working within an accounting practice, professional services firm, or a similar workflow-driven environment, with strong experience in practice management, operations, or workflow coordination.
The candidate must also be comfortable using AI platforms, including Claude, to solve problems and improve the way work is managed.
They should be commercially minded, confident dealing with both staff and clients, comfortable using practice management and accounting systems, and capable of identifying issues before they become problems.
Reporting
Reports to Firm Director and Manager
The overall objective of the role is to keep the practice organised, proactive, and efficient while giving the Director clear visibility over workflow, capacity, deadlines, billing, and operational performance.
Deskwork is managing the recruitment process on behalf of its client. Applications will be reviewed by Deskwork, with suitable candidates progressing through the recruitment process for consideration by the client.

Work arrangement
Yes