Outsourcing Manager
Employer Location Cambridge, London, Norwich Salary Competitive Closing date 8 Jul 2026 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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At Price Bailey, we provide exciting opportunities for training, personal growth and career engagement. We believe in fostering happiness and fulfilment in your work, whilst supporting and inspiring you to grow. We understand that your life extends beyond the workplace, which is why our Smart Working culture promotes flexibility, allowing you to choose when and where you work, whilst still providing excellent client care.
We are a well-established, independently owned firm of chartered accountants and business advisors, offering a comprehensive range of services including audit, accounting, tax, and corporate finance. We proudly support a diverse client base across the UK and internationally, with a strong focus on entrepreneurial, owner-managed businesses that share our passion for innovation.
What do the team do?
Our Outsourcing department is rapidly evolving and has quadrupled in size over the past two years to meet the needs of its ever growing portfolio of clients, with further expansion plans in place as the team continues to grow. They typically work with moderately sized firms from a plethora of sectors that require our external expertise to help support them with operating their finance functions.
This can be on specific elements, such as data-entry and maintaining their books and records, support with VAT compliance, through to providing them with insightful management accounts. We can also offer a fully outsourced finance solution, which encompasses all aspects of an internal finance function.
We have a relationship centric approach and are trusted advisors to clients of all shapes and sizes, but they are typically owner managed businesses, giving you the opportunity to deal directly with the decision makers and to truly help shape the direction of their firm.
What will I be doing?
As an Outsourcing Manager you will have ownership of the following tasks:
1. Taking ownership for a mixed and demanding portfolio of clients.
2. Managing the delivery of outsourcing assignments to include review of monthly/quarterly management accounting, preparing cash flow reports, budgets and projections, overseeing and review of bookkeeping, review of VAT returns and assisting clients with VAT queries and tax investigations.
3. Acting as the overall engagement manager for a portfolio of clients, including liaising with teams across the firm to deliver annual accounting and corporation tax compliance, payroll, company secretarial and advisory services, alongside responsibility for billing and WIP management, KYC, and AML procedures.
4. Onboarding of new clients, including system set ups and process reviews, advising both new and existing clients on optimum processes and suitable systems to achieve objectives laid out.
5. Managing a team varied in role, from trainee accountants, assistant accountants and management accountants.
6. Being the main contact with your client base, being their ‘go to' advisor and building those relationships. Taking responsibility for fee discussions and billing.
What experience do I need?
Whilst having the following experience is advantageous, we value passion and potential. If you meet the minimum criteria listed below and are eager to develop yourself, we would love to hear from you:
7. ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (minimum criteria).
8. Strong systems knowledge Xero, Dext, QBO, including implementation (minimum criteria).
9. Experience in portfolio management, including overseeing delivery of fully outsourced finance functions, WIP management and billing.
10. Up to date working knowledge of tax including MTD.
11. Experience in fee discussions and pitching to prospective clients.
12. Confident, articulate and an effective communicator at all levels.
13. Team management experience, including line management.
14. Good IT skills.
15. Additional systems and implementation knowledge is desirable.
What's on offer?
In addition to your salary, we also offer the following benefits:
16. 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday)
17. Private medical
18. Contributory pension scheme
19. 4x life assurance
20. All employee share scheme
21. Company car and fuel card via salary sacrifice
22. Family friendly policies paid time off for dependents
23. 2 days paid for volunteering
24. Cycle to work scheme
25. Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including shopping discounts
Price Bailey aspires to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their social background, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We are an equal opportunities employer and place inclusion at the heart of what we do. Our workplace is one where diversity is embraced and where everyone is empowered to be their authentic selves.
Company
We are an award winning, top 30 accountancy and business advisory firm serving private clients and regional, national and international businesses.
Company info Website Telephone 01279 755888 Location Causeway House, 1 Dane Street
Bishop’s Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 3BT
GB
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