Bookkeeping Manager

Bookkeeping Manager

If you’re an experienced bookkeeper looking for a role with real challenge and progression potential to fit around other responsibilities, this Bookkeeping Manager role could be ideal.

Reporting to the Director of this modern people-first finance consultancy you’ll take ownership of their growing bookkeeping division. The business are selective about who they work with and only support clients who share their values of mutual respect and flexibility.

As a Bookkeeping Manager, your responsibilities will include:

  • Ownership of the bookkeeping division, managing the two bookkeepers already on the team.
  • Owning a small number of client relationships directly, as the primary point of contact, keeping them warm and commercially healthy.
  • Hands-on bookkeeping work to deal with complex or issues yourself when a deep dive is needed.
  • Supporting the director with delegated pieces of fractional Finance Director project work
  • Keep month-end close running smoothly and consistently across client accounts, using and improving our checklists.
Why this role stands out:
  • Flexibility. We’re looking for a minimum of 26 hours per week (about 3.5 days) but there’s real flexibility about when you work these hours, and the opportunity to work up to full-time if that’s what you’re looking for
  • Progression. If you’re driven to grow your skills and take on more responsibility you’ll have both the support and opportunity to do so
  • Opportunity to step-up to your first line management position – we’re open to people who haven’t held a formal line management role previously
  • Variety. Working with multiple clients, and with some exposure
What we’re looking for:
  • Solid bookkeeping or accounting experience, ideally AAT qualified or partway through ACCA or CIMA.
  • Confident and client-facing, genuinely comfortable owning a relationship rather than working heads-down behind a screen.
  • Self-motivated, with the discipline to manage your own time and workload across several clients at once.
  • Strong technical bookkeeping skills, able to diagnose and fix complex issues without hand-holding.
  • Ambitious and growth-minded, keen to take on more responsibility and earning potential as the role and the business develop.
It’s a bonus if you have
  • Genuine curiosity about AI and new technology, with a real willingness to learn, adopt, and help shape AI-driven tools and processes as we introduce them. No previous AI experience is required
  • Prior experience in managing or coaching bookkeeping staff
This is a great opportunity if you want to continue your career without sacrificing other life priorities. We encourage you to apply asap to learn more, as our client are hiring urgently to support new clients.
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