Small Accountancy Practice Manager (12 months FTC)

We are looking for an experienced AAT Lv4 individual who can help run the day-to-day side of the practice during Craig Dyer’s AAT Presidential year.

Role Responsibilities

• Operations & Workflow Management

• Capacity Planning & Workflow Monitoring: Allocating client workload among staff (tax returns, payroll, bookkeeping, year-end accounts) to prevent bottlenecks and ensure dead-line adherence (HMRC/Companies House).

• Process Improvement: Setting up, documenting, and enforcing standardised operational procedures and checklists to maintain consistency and quality control.

• Practice Software Management: Overseeing and optimizing the firm’s core accounting and management tech stack.

• Client Onboarding & Relationship Operations

• Onboarding New Clients: Supporting the end-to-end client setup, including issuing Engagement Letters, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks, professional clearance requests, and setting up client portals.

• Client Query Routing: Serving as the initial operational contact point for client administrative queries, fee discussions, or service issues.

• Service Scope Control: Tracking active services against agreed contracts to identify scope creep and trigger fee revisions.

• Practice Finance & Billing Operations

• Invoicing & Debtor Control: Preparing monthly billing schedules, issuing fee notes, and managing credit control/chasing unpaid invoices.

• Firm Bookkeeping Support: Managing internal practice accounts, expense tracking, and supplier invoices.

• Performance Reporting: Generating key practice performance indicators (KPIs) such as recoverable hours, write-offs, staff utilization rates, and monthly revenue.

*not limited to

Skills/Experiences

Required

• AAT Level 4 (MAAT or FMAAT)

• 2/3 Years experience in a small accountancy firm

• Quickbooks and Xero Certifications

• Google Workspace

• Excellent communicator

• Process Oriented

• High Attention to detail

• Organisational Skills

• Workload management

• Comfortable

• Hands on approach to work

Desirable

• Management experience in a small firm

• Commutable to Cambridge (remote options available)

• Experience with Engager.app and TaxCalc and BrightPay and Xama

*Part time, hybrid, remote and flexible working arrangements are available for the right candidate.

START DATE – As soon as available.

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