The Role
Manage a diverse client portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of accounting services, mentoring team members, and providing tailored advisory solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
DISCOVER YOUR POTENTIAL. BUILD YOUR CAREER. JOIN US AT AAB.
AAB is a leading professional services firm operating across the UK, Ireland, and the USA. We specialise in the mid-market, supporting individuals, family businesses, and organisations with a full suite of services including audit, tax, corporate finance, payroll, people consultancy, and wealth management. With 1,000+ team members, we deliver expert support to clients all over the world.
EVERYONE HAS THE AABILITY TO SUCCEED- WE’LL HELP YOU GET THERE.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We succeed together as one team, building strong client relationships through passion, empathy, and straightforward advice. That’s what makes AAB different. We invest in brilliant talent across every area of the business, offering tailored training, professional qualifications, and continuous support to help you grow.
Your growth matters to us. We’ll give you the tools, encouragement, and opportunities to lead, learn, and make an impact. Guided by our six core values, we foster a culture where collaboration, trust, and enthusiasm thrive.
AABSOLUTELY DEDICATED TO HELPING YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
At AAB, your career is what you make it. We are here to help you turn ambition into action, whether that’s becoming a technical expert, a future leader, or someone who simply makes a difference every day. If you're ready to be part of a team that’s united by purpose and driven by values, we’d love to hear from you.
AABSOLUTELY DEDICATED TO HELPING YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
At AAB, your career is what you make it. We are here to help you turn ambition into action, whether that’s becoming a technical expert, a future leader, or someone who simply makes a difference every day. If you're ready to be part of a team that’s united by purpose and driven by values, we’d love to hear from you.
ESG COMMITTMENT
We take our responsibility seriously. From reducing our environmental impact, to supporting education through training and talent programmes, to giving back to our local communities with our charitable initiative ABBIE- ESG is part of who we are.
ROLE PURPOSE
Key duties & responsibilities
- Take full ownership of a diverse and complex client portfolio, ensuring all deadlines, deliverables, and service standards are consistently met
- Build and maintain strong, long-term client relationships, acting as a trusted strategic advisor
- Proactively identify opportunities to add value, drive efficiencies, and support clients’ business growth
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of accounting and advisory assignments, ensuring work is completed efficiently, within budget, and to a high standard
- Review and sign-off financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant standards (including FRS 102 1A)
- Provide clear, timely, and commercially focused responses to client queries
- Lead and deliver complex advisory projects, providing practical, commercially driven solutions
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation and accounting standards, interpreting and communicating impacts to clients and the wider team
- Act as a key point of contact for external stakeholders (e.g. legal and financial advisors)
- Lead, coach, and develop team members, fostering a high-performance and collaborative team culture
- Delegate work effectively, ensuring development opportunities are maximised while maintaining delivery quality
- Provide technical guidance and act as a senior escalation point for the team
- Play a key role in the operational leadership of the team, supporting planning, resource allocation, and workflow management
- Drive the achievement of financial targets, including utilisation, recovery, and revenue growth
- Contribute to the strategic development and growth of the department, including process improvement and service innovation
Experience & qualifications
Skills & Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent), operating at a Senior Manager level
- Strong experience managing a client portfolio within a practice environment, including complex or high-value clients
- Proven ability to lead service delivery across accounts, compliance, and advisory work
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at senior levels
- Highly experienced in reviewing accounts and providing technical oversight
- Confident in the use of cloud accounting software (e.g. Xero) and adoption of new technologies
- Demonstrable experience leading, mentoring, and developing teams
- Strong commercial awareness with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
Commitment to continuous professional development and staying ahead of regulatory change
Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent)
- Approximately 3 years PQE
- Experience managing a client portfolio in a practice environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience reviewing accounts and delivering compliance and advisory work
- Familiarity with cloud accounting software (e.g. Xero)
- Previous experience supervising or mentoring junior staff is desirable
- Proactive and solutions-focused mindset
- Commitment to continuous professional development
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The Company
What We Do
AAB delivers Audit, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, HR, Consulting, and Advisory Solutions globally from its offices in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
