Partner Designate/Director - Top 20 Firm of Chartered Accountants - Sheffield

The Role

Barber McLelland are working as exclusive recruitment partners for one of the regions leading Top 20 Firms of Chartered Accountants. Due to experiencing significant growth across all areas of the firm along with future succession planning, the firm are looking to appoint an experienced accounting professional for the role of Partner Designate/Director.

Having experienced exceptional growth through referrals, acquisition and business development, the firm are seeking an individual who demonstrates the ambition, drive and appetite for success to match that which is already seen within the existing Partnership team.

The firm have an excellent working philosophy, they invest heavily in staff well being, providing a great balance of work/lifestyle to all staff members, in addition offering flexible working hours, excellent benefits packages, along with ongoing support and training.

Duties and Responsibilities

The successful individual will become part of the firms Senior Management committee and will play a pivotal role in the long term direction and success of the practice, as well as continuing to develop the high quality provision of accountancy services to both existing and new clients.

The firm have an existing allocation of clients for which the successful applicant will be responsible, this will include smaller growing businesses through to large, well established organisations with audit requirements.

In additional to the management of a portfolio, the firm will also encourage the successful individual to help identify new business opportunities as well as identifying cross selling and value added opportunities within the existing client base.

Skills and Qualities

The ideal candidate will be qualified ACA or ACCA and will be operating at Senior Manager or Partner Designate level with R.I status within a National or well established regional accountancy firm.

Applicants will already have a proven track record of managing a varied portfolio of clients within a General Practice environment with extensive experience within audit, accounting and taxation services.

Ideally candidates would have spent at least 5 years post qualification in practice and developed skills of managing a portfolio of clients and a team of staff.

Individual must also have a strong technical knowledge base where you can provide exceptional levels of client care and added value service.

Salary Package

The firm are looking to attract a high calibre candidate and expect to reward and remunerate accordingly.

The business will also consider opportunities for profit share in the future, further details will be discussed at application stage.

Barber McLelland are a dedicated and niche recruitment consultancy service for the Accountancy Profession. Our area of expertise covers recruitment from part qualified accountants through to Partners and Directors within Big 4, National Accountancy Firms, through to Independent Accountants and Specialist Boutiques across the Yorkshire and East Midlands Region.