Join our growing Business Advisory team and play a key role in helping owner-managed businesses make smarter, more informed decisions through insightful financial analysis and practical advice. You’ll gain hands-on experience across a broad range of advisory work, building your understanding of how businesses operate and what drives performance.
Working closely with experienced managers and directors, you’ll develop your commercial awareness while contributing to meaningful client outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is curious, collaborative, and keen to build a career in advisory within a supportive and forward-thinking firm.
About Hall Morrice
Hall Morrice is a well-established independent audit and advisory firm based in Aberdeen. With a dedicated team of over 85 skilled professionals, we have built a strong reputation for excellence, delivering tailored solutions to a diverse client base while maintaining the highest technical standards.
Our success is rooted in our values. We pride ourselves on building strong relationships with our clients and each other, fostering a supportive and inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to grow and succeed. We treat one another with respect, collaborate through true teamwork, and demonstrate a genuine commitment to delivering exceptional service in everything we do.
As a forward-thinking firm, we embrace being innovative—continually improving our processes, adopting new technologies, and encouraging fresh ideas from across the team. Alongside this, we offer personalised development plans to ensure every individual has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
The Opportunity
- Support the delivery of practical advisory work for owner-managed businesses across the North East, helping clients understand their financial position, plan ahead and make better-informed decisions.
- Work closely with managers and directors on a range of advisory assignments, developing your commercial awareness and your understanding of how businesses actually operate.
- Be a reliable, curious and collaborative member of a growing advisory team.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Delivery
- Prepare management information for clients: income statements, balance sheet summaries and cash flow statements in a clear, client-usable format.
- Support forecasting and budgeting assignments: gather data, prepare draft models and update outputs under manager guidance.
- Assist with cash flow analysis and working capital reviews.
- Prepare concise reporting packs and summaries for client meetings.
- Contribute to business review preparation: collate information, draft sections and produce supporting analysis.
- Support advisory pipeline tracking and assignment administration.
- Record time accurately on all assignments.
- Support bookkeeping activities, including preparation and submission of VAT returns, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Technical & Compliance
- Maintain accuracy and consistency in all financial modelling and management information.
- Apply GDPR standards in all client data handling.
- Observe professional conduct and confidentiality standards throughout.
- Sage: day-to-day system management, maintenance, and oversight of Sage processes and functionality within the business.
Client Engagement
- Support managers and directors in client meetings by preparing materials, taking notes and following up on actions.
- Develop genuine curiosity about client businesses — how they operate, what challenges they face and what would actually help them.
- Handle routine client queries and information requests under manager supervision.
Planning & Coordination
- Manage own workload across concurrent assignments and deadlines effectively.
- Track advisory assignment status and maintain documentation accurately.
- Communicate progress and any issues to the manager promptly.
Commercial Awareness
- Develop an early understanding of advisory project economics, time recording and what efficient delivery looks like.
Systems & Digital
- Excel: financial analysis and modelling used in day-to-day advisory work.
- Cloud accounting platforms (Xero, QuickBooks): awareness developing.
- CCH and practice management systems: assignment administration.
- Microsoft 365 and Teams in daily use.
- Sage
Quality & Standards
- Produce management information and supporting analysis that is accurate and clearly presented.
- Take care and ownership of the quality of everything leaving your desk.
Qualifications & Experience
- A relevant degree or equivalent. Strong numerical ability and genuine interest in how businesses work.
- Some prior accounting, finance or business analysis experience is advantageous.
Technical Skills
- Excel: data analysis and financial modelling.
- Financial statements: ability to read, interpret and work with management accounts.
- Cloud accounting platforms: Xero or QuickBooks awareness.
- CCH: developing familiarity.
Communication Skills
- Clear and professional in written and verbal communication.
- Presents information clearly to managers and in support of client meetings.
- Asks questions when uncertain and applies feedback constructively.
Personal Attributes
- Genuinely curious about businesses and the people who run them.
- Accurate and methodical in analytical work.
- Collaborative and reliable within the advisory team.
- Developing commercial awareness and an interest in how owner-managed businesses perform.
Professionalism
- Maintains confidentiality in all client and firm matters.
- Demonstrates integrity and accuracy in all work.
- Committed to ongoing professional development.
- Represents Hall Morrice professionally in all interactions.
Pay: From £1.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
