Outsourcing Manager - Financial Services

Outsourcing Manager - Financial Services

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Are you looking to develop your career within a nurturing environment where you can flourish? Do you want to join an award-winning firm that strives for excellence and success for our clients, our people and our business?

Blick Rothenberg

Blick Rothenberg are a leading tax, accountancy and business advisory firm founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. Our teams work seamlessly to provide advice throughout the life cycle of our clients. Our partner-led approach ensures that our clients receive an excellent service from a team of high-quality people who combine technical expertise with personal integrity. Our ethos is reflected in the way that we work with our clients, taking the time to understand their business and invest in the relationship to ensure that we can provide the best advice possible. We want success for our people, our clients and for our business.

In order to help preserve this winning formula, to bring it to life with our new joiners and to explain it to our clients, we have articulated our approach through the values of Collaboration, Authenticity Respect and being Dynamic. You can read more about our values here.

Blick Rothenberg is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce across all levels by building a culture that’s genuinely inclusive, a culture where everyone can fulfil their potential and can be themselves.
We seek to attract smart talented people from the widest talent pool as well as those that reflect the diversity of the communities we live and work in.
BR supports flexible working (BRighter working) which aims to allow you to balance your life with the needs of colleagues and the high expectations of our clients.

What we offer

We offer a nurturing and collaborative working culture that is caring and protecting of our people, within an environment where they can learn and flourish. In addition to a competitive remuneration package, we offer a range of flexible benefits and flexible hours of work. We have clearly defined career pathways which empower you to manage your own development. We have a number of colleague-led collaborative working groups which help shape our strategy.

The role

As a Manager in the Financial Services Outsourcing team, you will have the primary task of controlling the workflow on a portfolio of clients, dealing with more technical queries as they arise and completing quality control reviews in a timely and accurate fashion.

The Financial Services Outsourcing team exclusively service businesses in the FCA regulated space, primarily Fund and Investment managers and Private Equity or Venture Capital houses. The role entails review of bookkeeping and payment runs, review and production of management accounts, FCA returns, VAT returns and registrations, client billing process, dealing with regular and ad-hoc queries as they arise and provision of these deliverables in an accurate and timely way. The role will include the implementation of new clients with and without the support of senior management, and the management of the staff completing such work both to meet the standards required in the short run, to reduce the support needed to do so over time; and in the longer run to allow staff to progress in their own careers.

The role requires significant interaction with, and leadership of, the BRFS team. In some cases there will be direct line management of more junior staff. You will communicate with these individuals, and others, including outsourcers, regardless of whether you are their direct line manager, on a regular basis to train and develop them from both a technical and personal perspective.

You will have the primary contact with senior client staff, typically Financial Controllers and CFO level staff along with operational staff. As such, you will need to be confident in communicating both in writing and, both more significantly and more often, over the phone with staff of differing level of seniority including at third parties such as auditors and HM Revenue & Customs.

An accountancy qualification such as ACA or ACCA are essential for this role, as is good experience working with FCA regulated firms. As part of the management your journey will continue via mentorship by the senior management team to provide soft skills development to include client and staff management. Personal coaching will also be available as your journey continues beyond formal qualifications tailored to your own individual aspirations and can even help you plot your route to Director/Partner.

A note from the Hiring Manager

"You will be joining a forward-thinking, progressive office with a supportive and friendly atmosphere. The role provides an exciting opportunity for a talented manager to become involved in a diverse and interesting client portfolio. Excellent on-the-job training will be provided, together with the opportunity to advance your career within a dynamic business."

Azets

Blick Rothenberg are a part of Azets, an award-winning firm of Accountants and Business Advisors operating across the UK, Nordics and the USA. Azets are a family of over 6,500 employees and have seen dramatic growth in recent years which has made us the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK. This allows Blick Rothenberg to continue to deliver the high quality, partner-led service, but with greater resource that being part of a larger business provides.

What's in it for you?

Coming up with a strict set of rules that work for every team and individual in a business as diverse as ours isn’t possible. Instead, we have BRighter Working, a framework to find ways of working that give us individually and collectively a great experience, while continuing to provide the highest quality service to our clients when and where they need us. This is inclusive of:
     * Hybrid working– where teams are working together in multiple locations i.e. a BR office, a client site, their home or somewhere else
     * Synchronous/Asynchronous working– using the office or technology to work together at the same time / using technology and different ways of working to work at different times to colleagues.
     * Smarter working– finding simpler, more efficient ways of delivering services to clients and working together as a BR team. These can be tech-enabled but may also be simple changes to our processes
     * Flexible working– a temporary or permanent change to someone’s terms and conditions which fixes a working pattern different to the standard contract

Pension - Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
25 days annual leave + bank holidays – Time to focus on what’s important to you.
Private Medical Insurance – Taking care of your health. One less thing to worry about.
Permanent Health Insurance - Financial protection in the event of illness or injury.
Life Assurance – 4 x times salary, our family is important to us, and so is yours.
Employee Referral Bonus – We’re always looking for talented individuals to join our family.
Employee Benefits Portal – Cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases.
Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities – Continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations, so we can grow together.
Opportunity to attend social events – Time to stop, pause and have fun.
Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.