Business Services Assistant Manager

MHA MacIntyre Hudson are looking for an Assistant Business Services Manager to join the team

This role will involve managing a portfolio of clients and taking a lead on business services work, ensuring deadlines are met in compliance with necessary regulations and reporting directly to Managers, Directors and Partners.

In addition, you will provide assistance with the management of assignments and staff and resources in accordance to client jobs.

Please note the role is likely to involve work on site at clients.

**The Offering**
- Genuine Work Life balance
- Accredited Investor in People
- New and improved programme for Succession planning and supportive management structure to help you realise your potential
- 33 days holiday Inc. bank holidays, plus the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days (28 days on a training contract, with the opportunity to buy 5 days)
- Very competitive salary
- Employee Recognition awards and bonuses
- Amazing employee referral scheme, paying up to £4000 for a successful referral
- Paid CSR time
- Car lease scheme
- And more

In 2020 we won the Best Advisory Services category of the new Business Resilience Awards, organised by Accountancy Age. Previously we won; National Firm of the Year, Tax Team of the Year and Graduate and Non-Graduate programme of the Year at the BritishAccountancy Awards, we internationally re-branded, and we grew substantially with a few high-profile mergers.¿It's¿an exciting time to join the firm

**Responsibilities**

**Technical role**
- Deal with correspondence from clients and respond in a timely manner
- Agree timing of work with clients
- Regularly review statutory accounts ensuring they are in line with accounting standards.
- Regularly review management accounts, VAT returns, CIS returns and other ad hoc work performed by Business Services staff
- Monitor work in progress on all jobs within the portfolio, communicating any potential problems and write offs to the Partners or Managers on a timely basis
- Manage own portfolio of clients (where appropriate)
- Be aware of other MHA MacIntyre Hudson services and products which may be appropriate to the clients
- Monitor filing deadlines and ensure deadlines are achieved, including corporation tax, Companies House filings, VAT, CIS and client set deadlines.
- Ensure knowledge of cloud accounting software (Xero, Sage & Quickbooks) is up to date. As well as have a knowledge of add on apps.
- Have sufficient knowledge to support clients with cloud accounting queries
- Attend meetings with company directors to discuss interim results and give advice on performance (where appropriate)
- Provide advice to clients on systems and accounting software
- Liaise directly with clients to resolve queries or obtain further information

**Supervisory Role**
- Review work and complete staff assessment forms
- Provide technical advice and guidance to more junior staff and give detailed help and training as required, to ensure skills are improved to enhance future effectiveness
- Monitor the performance of staff working on jobs; including giving feedback after files have been reviewed and completing audit review form at the end of each job, noting any training and development needs that have been identified
- Brief staff and allocate tasks and timescales
- Conduct 6 monthly appraisals of trainees (where appropriate)
- Act as point of liaison with client re: information or queries where appropriate
- Complete on site visits to clients
- Act as a conduit between audit, tax & BSD to ensure efficient processes
- Monitor internal processes and make suggestions for improvements

**Portfolio Management (where appropriate)**
- Plan, control and review client work to ensure that the jobs are completed as efficiently and effectively as possible by allocating the resources available
- Review the time budget for each assignment.
- Brief staff on each assignment, ensure they are aware of the scope and budget
- Monitor work in progress on all jobs within the portfolio, communicating any potential problems and write offs to the Partner's attention on a timely basis
- Review work completed and ensure feedback is given promptly
- Ensure all hours worked on any client are recorded correctly, enabling a true reflection of the profitability of the job to be shown
- Prepare fee schedules and bill for Partner review and approval, explaining any extra charges, also identifying and explaining any write offs or profits
- Attend client meetings (where appropriate)

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- ACCA/ACA fully qualified or qualified by experience
- Up-to-date CPE and recent developments in accounting standards
- Experience of OMBs covering a range of industries
- Computer packages - Excel, Word, Sage, Alpha Tax, Caseware, VPM/Central, Xero, Quickbooks, Dext, Auto Entry, Futrli
- Supervisory experience - ability to manage and delegate effectively
- Client focus and commercially aware
- Communication - oral and written, ability to deal with variety of people in different environments
- Organisation skills - the ability to juggle a number of different tasks at once
- Team building skills
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Be positive and committed to MHA MacIntyre Hudson in dealings both with clients and staff