The Role
As a Manager at Azets, you will be responsible for managing client relationships, overseeing project delivery, and ensuring high-quality outputs. You will lead and develop your team, drive business development, and maintain technical excellence in your specialist area.
Core Skills
Client Focus
- Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others.
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly.
- Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business.
- Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines
- Reviews WIP on a monthly basis to ensure that fees are raised for any work that is completed or at a billable stage and that any doubtful time that may not be recovered is adequately provided, by updating CCH with the required provision.
- Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.
Technical Excellence
- Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members.
- Delivers departmental training and development initiatives.
- Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business
Commitment
- Identifies skills and knowledge gaps in department and actively makes suggestions to resolve.
- Aware of their unconscious bias and ensures this is appropriately considered throughout the candidate selection and recruitment process. Considers whether candidates fit within the wider Azets values, doesn’t solely focus on technical skills.
- Takes responsibility for actioning departmental development initiatives.
- Checking on a weekly basis all staff timesheets ensuring work is posted to correct matter and any unusual non chargeable entries challenged.
- Takes responsibility for the work flow planning of the team.
- Demonstrates real enthusiasm and motivation at work and engages in team/corporate activities beyond core role.
- Identifies, agrees, and delivers personally challenging objectives.
Key accountabilities
Attention to Detail
- Demonstrates ability to review multiple ongoing assignments without compromising on quality or timescales giving appropriate and constructive feedback to team throughout.
- Takes the lead in ensuring output of wider team is of the highest quality and presentation through providing appropriate feedback and training.
Decision Making
- Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary.
- Empowers team members to think independently.
- Is able to make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular.
- Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.
Efficiency
- Challenges and assesses client fee levels against job recovery trends.
- Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising of quality of output.
- Champions new technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.
Living Our Values
Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values.
Technical Skills
Project Management
- Ensures project is completed in-line with budget.
- Ensures junior staff have sufficient support to complete tasks.
- Has a broad understanding of the asset realisation process and manages asset relations across a portfolio of cases.
Risk & Compliance
- Ensures no compliance breaches.
- Refers risk matters to compliance at the earliest opportunity.
- Is able to prepare risk applications prior to litigation.
- Ensures NDA’s are used appropriately
Business Report Writing
- Scopes and manages the production of high-quality documents/presentations that are capable of meeting stakeholder expectations.
Business Development
- Articulate and understands the key routes to market and how work is won.
- Proactively develops professional relationships.
Legal and Technical Framework
- Has a strong awareness of current case law and is able to apply this to project work.
Analytical Skills
- Performs detailed and complex analytical reviews.
- Ability to interrogate and discuss financial models with clients and stakeholders.
Qualifications
Fully qualified (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CA).
Essential Experience
Significant experience in an accountancy practice, demonstrating the core and technical skills required for the role.
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Job Reference: AZ04974
