Accountant - Assistant Manager to Manager (Audit and Accounts)

A leading accountancy firm, in Leicester are hiring into a key position, an Audit and Accounts Manager to support their teams and increasing client demands.

This is a key leadership role within the firm, overseeing one of their Audit and Accounts teams.

Role Highlights:

• Leading and managing audits from planning through to completion

• Supervising and mentoring junior team members

• Managing a diverse client portfolio

• Preparing statutory accounts

• Acting as a key point of contact for clients, delivering a high standard of service

• Role split: approximately 75% Audit / 25% Accounts

• Most audits are local and completed within standard working hours – no extended travel or late nights

Salary: Dependent on experience and judged by the firm at interview, but generous salary and package on offer.

Benefits include:

• They are office based predominantly, although Assistant Manager and Manager levels can do remote work (such as a day a week, subject to other support being in the office), but it’s not a contractual hybrid option.  
• They offer a salary sacrifice pension scheme which is very useful.  
• F/T  – 36.5 hours. 

Very nice offices, inside and out, strong career development opportunities, flexible hours, firm arranged social events and a friendly team await the successful applicant.  

Work life balance is definitely a key belief in the firm and rarely if ever would staff be in the office past 5.30pm.

Other benefits include:

• Market rate salary or above
• Strong holiday entitlement (dependent on level) per annum Bank Holidays Christmas Closure week
• Professional membership / subscription fees paid
• EAP scheme
• Flexible working – They have a flexi policy – you can flex the start and end times by an hour, on an occasional basis, and likewise lunch can be up to two hours.  You can also request to amend your set working pattern, as usual. 
• Work/life balance (no long-hours culture)
• New client / employee bonus scheme
• Pension – The People’s Pension (based on qualifying earnings)
• 4pm finish Friday

• Dress for your Diary Dress Code (casual dress-code)
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Family-friendly policies (enhanced maternity/paternity/shared parental pay, no qualifying length of service required for parental leave)
• Company sick pay
• Social diary and paid-for events
• Christmas Event

They are a long standing, successful firm of Accountants who are based in stunning offices. This firm have an extremely strong staff retention record and a history of developing their own staff and promoting from within.

The firm’s “happy ship” seems to be down to a number of factors. The firm have a great office environment, a culture which is social but professional, hours are sensible and overtime is very rare and they actively seek to promote people wherever possible.