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Private Client Tax Manager Cambridge £45,000 - £56,000 \n A top 10 firm is seeking a Private Client Tax Manager to join its Cambridge office. In this role, you will lead the delivery of personal tax services, manage client portfolios, and ensure compliance with UK tax regulations. You will provide expert advice on complex tax planning, oversee junior team members, and develop strong client relationships. Your work will directly contribute to delivering exceptional client service and supporting the growth of the practice. \n Role Responsibilities \n\n • Lead the preparation and review of complex private client tax returns.\n, • Manage a diverse portfolio of clients with complex needs, maintaining excellent client relationships.\n, • Provide expert advice on personal tax planning and compliance.\n, • Supervise, mentor, and delegate work to junior team members, ensuring high-quality output.\n, • Review and approve final tax packs and correspondence before issuing to clients.\n, • Monitor workflow, WIP, and fee recovery to ensure efficiency and profitability.\n, • Support business development activities, including proposals, fee quotes, and client tenders.\n, • Champion the use of new technologies and processes to improve efficiency and service quality.\n, • Actively contribute to departmental development initiatives and maintain up-to-date technical knowledge.\n\n Personal Requirements \n\n • Qualified or part-qualified accountant or tax professional (ATT, CTA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent experience).\n, • Strong client focus with the ability to understand client objectives and provide clear guidance to colleagues.\n, • Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills.\n, • Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.\n, • Committed to developing team members and fostering a collaborative working environment.\n, • Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work.\n\n Benefits \n\n • Study support.\n, • Hybrid and flexible working.\n, • Holiday buy and sell scheme.\n, • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, with additional family support including fertility treatment support.\n, • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).\n, • 24/7 GP access.\n, • Flexible benefits including the option to purchase private medical insurance, dental insurance, health assessments and a health cash plan.\n, • Life assurance.\n, • Free online will-writing service.\n, • Option to purchase critical illness cover.\n, • Cycle to Work scheme.\n, • Electric vehicle scheme.\n, • Tech scheme.\n, • Travel insurance options through the flexible benefits platform.\n, • Ongoing career development, learning programmes and structured progression opportunities.\n\n If you are an experienced private client tax professional looking to take the next step in your career and make a real impact, apply now. \n \n Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. \n

Hi, we’re Penfold - we’re on a mission to help everyone save enough to be comfortable in later life by making pensions accessible and engaging! There’s over a trillion pounds in UK pensions, but the industry is full of traditional providers with outdated products and poor customer service. Penfold is dragging the pension industry out of the dark ages with a platform built on modern technology. We’re demystifying pensions to make pension saving easy, accessible and engaging. We’re a focused team of 70 based primarily across London and Tallinn, and have raised significant funding from some of the most successful FinTech investors in the world. We manage over £1bn of pension assets for over 100,000 savers and thousands of businesses, and we’re growing rapidly every month. Our team is focused on building an amazing pension experience for our customers. As we scale, we’re strengthening our Partner Sales team to unlock significantly more growth from the accounting firms we already work with. As a Partner Sales Manager, you’ll be responsible for educating and growing our channel of accounting partners, with a clear commercial focus on driving new client onboardings from existing firms. This is a quota-carrying, field-oriented role, suited to someone who has sold successfully to accountants before and enjoys building strong relationships that convert into consistent deal flow. You’ll spend significant time meeting accountants face-to-face, attending events, and positioning Penfold as the pension solution that helps firms streamline day-to-day processing and spend more time on high-value client work. This is not a support role. You’ll own revenue targets and be accountable for performance across your partner portfolio. • Own a portfolio of existing accounting firms and grow client onboardings from them, • Increase penetration within firms by placing Penfold with more of their clients, • Consistently hit or exceed monthly and quarterly commercial targets, • Reactivate dormant or underperforming partners and reignite deal flow, • Recruit new stakeholders within accounting firms (partners, managers, payroll teams), • Educate firms on Penfold’s proposition and how it benefits both their practice and clients, • Position Penfold as a solution that streamlines pension processing and reduces admin, • Help firms move away from compliance-heavy workflows towards more efficient processes, • Develop strong relationships with firm owners and senior decision-makers, • Act as a commercial partner and trusted advisor, not just a product contact, • Be highly visible and proactive across your territory, • Represent Penfold confidently within the accounting community, • Spend significant time meeting accountants in person, • Attend and represent Penfold at accounting events, roadshows and conferences, • Organise and host coffees, lunches, drinks and small partner events, • Build a strong personal brand with accountants, • Maintain accurate pipeline management and forecasting in the CRM, • Share insights from partner conversations with Product, Marketing and Sales, • Help refine partner messaging, enablement and go-to-market strategy, • Continuously improve how we work with and sell through accountants This role is ideal for someone who is commercially driven, relationship-oriented, and motivated by winning deals, and who thrives in a field-based role where success is built on trust, presence and persuasion. • Proven experience selling to accounting firms, • Track record of hitting or exceeding commercial targets, • Experience recruiting, educating and growing accounting partners, • Confidence working with senior stakeholders and firm owners, • Comfortable owning a territory and being accountable for results, • Experience selling FinTech, SaaS, payroll, pensions or financial services, • Familiarity with regulated or trust-based products (e.g. Pensions, Investments, Payroll, Financial Services), • Experience working in a scale-up or high-growth environment, • Existing network within the UK accounting community, • You consistently hit or exceed your revenue targets, • Existing accounting partners deliver increased and predictable deal flow, • Dormant partners are reactivated and contributing again, • Accounting firms see Penfold as a trusted, long-term partner, • Penfold grows faster through its accountant channel, • Intro Call – A quick chat to introduce you to Penfold, learn about your experience and aspirations, and answer any questions., • Task – A practical task that we’ll complete together to determine how you’d approach a similar scenario to the role, • Culture Fit Session – Meet one of our Co-Founders and team members to see if we’re a great fit for each other. We’re 100% committed to building a diverse and representative team. Whatever your background, gender, race, age, or ability – we’d love to hear from you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask (even anonymously)! We’re all about giving every candidate the best chance to shine. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the job description, application, or selection process, just let us know — we’d be happy to help. When it comes to hiring, we focus only on your skills, experience, and how you live our values. As part of our hiring process, we may record your interview and use AI tools to generate notes. This helps us capture details accurately and ensures a fair review by our hiring panel. By attending an interview with Penfold, you consent to the use of recording and AI-generated notes for this purpose. If you have any concerns or would prefer not to be recorded, please let us know in advance. We’re working hard to create a workplace where people feel empowered to do their very best work, make a big impact, and enjoy what they do. Here’s what we offer: • Competitive salary – we proactively review salaries to ensure fairness and progression, • Meaningful share options – you’ll own a part of Penfold and share in our success, • 10% pension contribution each month that you don’t need to match (on top of your salary), • Medical insurance – through Vitality, including private GPs, physio, counselling, and great discounts (think 50% off PureGym memberships, free Apple Watches, and more), • Unlimited holidays – we trust you to get the work done and take breaks when needed, • Great office space (https://theministry.com) – our private office is run by the Ministry of Sound!, • Free company lunch every week (think Borough Market and Mercato Metropolitano!), • Top-tier MacBook and WFH equipment to set you up for success, • Cycle to work scheme – buy a bike tax-free and spread the cost, • Learning & professional development – we support courses, events, and coaching to help everyone reach their goals, • Quarterly company socials – plus plenty of regular team meetups! Excited to join us? Apply now!

Senior Financial Accountant / Finance Manager • Permanent full time role, • Salary circa £70,000 plus bonus, private medical insurance, excellent pension scheme and more!, • Based in Wembley, North West London, • Hybrid working - 3 days in the office A successful and longstanding company based in Wembley is looking for an experienced Senior Financial Accountant to join their finance function. This role will report into the Finance Director and will cover all aspects of finance for a well known SME business. Responsibilities will include: • Delivering statutory accounts for UK operations, • Partner with business areas to provide solid financial support and information, • Provide financial reporting, budgeting and forecasts, • Manage junior finance members, • Corporation tax and liaising with auditors, • VAT returns, • Posting journals, • Month end, • Sales reports To be considered suitable for this role you will need to be at a senior accountant level and have the following skills and experience: • Relevant industry qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA), • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, • Strong system skills along with proficiency in Excel, • Ability to lead and manage junior members of the team, • Knowledge around corporate taxation, • Management and financial accounts preparation and delivery, • Strong ability to translate financial information to senior management

Our Purpose At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world. How you’ll make an impact Xero is building new AI products and looking for an accounting/bookkeeping product specialist to help in the effort. Xero’s goal is to build beautiful small business software that solves their needs across disparate jobs to be done like bookkeeping, invoicing, bills, payroll, compliance, and more. As we experiment with new AI products, this role is essential for understanding the nuances of core accounting, bookkeeping, and tax, so that they can be translated into beautiful experiences, and ensuring our product solves the core accounting and bookkeeping needs of our small business customers. You'll be embedded with product development teams, and will apply subject matter expertise to enable them and broader Xero to create customer delight and market opportunity. To do this, you’ll leverage your deep understanding of small business and accountant & bookkeeper needs, ensuring our software meets and exceeds customer expectations. As a key member of the Product Management team you'll positively influence culture, and be a key advocate for what products to build. An accounting degree or equivalent experience is required • Be the key subject matter expert for Accounting and Bookkeeping, and apply your broad understanding of Accounting and Bookkeeping standards, customs, user needs, and business realities to support the product strategy & product development process., • Interpret and translate applicable product market fit, legal & regulatory requirements (and assessments from partner SME teams) into digestible recommendations that product leadership teams and their direct reports can consider and prioritize to develop winning strategies, and write effective requirements for Xero’s AI products., • Apply subject matter expertise to support Marketing, Comms, Customer Support and other teams to ensure that customer facing communications are created in an accurate, efficient and fully compliant way., • Work with UX design, UX research, and product teams to craft research activities and gather customer feedback and interpret the results (for both AB and SB behaviours), • Support product teams to implement process and controls that will lead to delivery of accurate and compliant software for our customers, • Work with cross functional partners such as the Product Compliance team to provide insight on upcoming changes (regulatory or otherwise) that will affect Xero and its customers, and ongoing assessments of our product to ensure that our product and small business customers remain compliant with relevant rules, legislation and industry best practices., • Work closely and collaboratively with other subject matter experts from across the business, and externally, such as Risk, Compliance, Legal, Government Relations and Privacy on shared projects and content., • Xero’s AI products achieve product market fit, • Xero’s customers are able to effectively complete core bookkeeping jobs to be done through beautiful product experiences, • Xero’s customer communications are clear, correct, timely, and helpful, • Product development activity is well informed by accurate and clear expertise, • The compliance community within Xero is well informed and engaged with the AI Product team, • Stakeholders feel empowered with comprehensive up to date knowledge about the needs of the market, • Xero creates customer delight and commercial opportunities out of regulatory requirements and market dynamics, • Critical competencies, • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Commerce, Law, Taxation, Finance or similar, • Highly advanced and specialist understanding of regional regulatory requirements that impact or drive data and returns flowing in/out of the tax authorities (broadly around accounting, bookkeeping, income tax, sales tax, payroll and related cyber security and privacy requirements), • Highly advanced and specialist knowledge of requirements around accounting and reporting obligations, • An exceptional communicator (written and verbal) who can translate complex technical regulatory information into clear and simple recommendations for diverse audiences such as product and technology leadership teams, business analysts and developers., • An eye for detail and superb analytical & research skills. You take a methodical approach to your work., • A growth mindset and thirst for learning, • Confident and accurate decision making skills when working on significant and specialist issues, • Thrive on managing your own time and approach to work, with a ruthless prioritization of time and projects, a strong results & delivery attitude and equally happy with independent vs team based work., • Self motivated and team oriented, with strong interpersonal skills, • Ability to discuss technical topics and convey complexity in a concise way, • A methodical and structured approach to analytical problem solving, • The ability to build strong networks, including remotely, • A strong interest in AI, • Creativity for thinking of compelling new AI-powered solutions, • Strong bias for actionExperience, • 7+ years experience in public practice with focus on taxation, compliance or business services, • 5+ years working collaboratively in technology, software or with Tax Agencies, • Qualified accountant or bookkeeper and current member of professional body, • Experienced in writing technical advice addressing complex specialist issues, with in-depth analysis, evaluation and interpretation, often requiring the ability to gain acceptance or change of thinking, • Experience collaborating and working with a broad range of stakeholders including senior leadership, external customers, technical peers, • Experience with risk assessments and product roadmaps is helpful, • Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups.Why Xero?Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Group Accountant Location Kingston, Surrey Hybrid Up to £65,000 Magpie Recruitment is delighted to be recruiting for a Group Accountant role within our client's dynamic and inclusive organisation. They are a global engineering consultancy with a rich heritage, providing innovative solutions in the industry. As the Group Accountant, you will play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy, compliance, and efficiency of the Group's financial statements and reporting processes. Group Accountant Responsibilities: • Prepare consolidated year-end profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, including associated disclosure notes and tax disclosures, while conducting necessary reconciliations., • Review subsidiary packs for technical compliance, accuracy, and completeness at year-end., • Handle defined benefit pension journals and related reconciliations., • Support the preparation of the Group Consolidated Statutory Accounts under UK GAAP FRS102 and all UK subsidiary accounts., • Collaborate with the BIRA team to develop year-end reporting templates, ensuring comprehensive information for the completion and audit of Consolidated Group Statutory Accounts. Group Accountant Person Specification: • Finalist / Newly qualified /Qualified Accountant, preferably ACA, ACCA with experience in multinational companies through practice or industry., • Strong technical accounting skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner. Familiarity with UK GAAP FRS102 and IFRS., • Demonstrated ability to work independently, meet tight deadlines, and pay attention to detail., • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, adapting to different audiences and levels of staff., • Highly organized, positive, and proactive mindset., • Flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment., • Proficiency in Excel, along with good skills in Word and PowerPoint. Knowledge of PowerBI is advantageous but not essential., • Team player capable of collaborating effectively and achieving shared objectives., • Enthusiastic about joining the Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Analysis Team and contributing to the wider Global Finance team. Group Accountant Benefits: • Salary: £60,000 - £70,000, • Pension contribution of up to 10%., • Salary Exchange Scheme., • Permanent Health Insurance., • Life Assurance., • Private Medical Insurance (PMI)., • Wellbeing Fund (£250 per annum)., • Flexible Working arrangements., • Annual Leave of 26 days per annum., • Holiday Trading: Up to 10 days can be bought or sold in any annual leave year., • Career Development opportunities., • Performance Related Bonus Scheme (PRBS)., • Employee Dividend Scheme (EDS)., • This is a full-time or part-time role (4 days per week) offering flexibility and work-life balance. While the role can be performed remotely, you will be required to work in the office full-time during key year-end weeks. What you need to do now: If you're interested in this vacancy, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Magpie Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job, you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at magpierecruitment.com. _

• For this role you must have experience working in a UK Accountancy Firm* How does a 100% REMOTE WORKING Senior Accountant role sound? Are you currently a fully QualifiedACA or ACCA Senior Accountant who is looking for the complete flexibly to work full time from home? We are currently working with a forward thinking, modern Accountancy Practice who are a fully remote Accountancy firm. Our client is seeking a Senior Accountant to work full time 37.5 hours a week, who has experience working within an Accountancy Firm based in the UK. You will join their very dynamic, but small team of individuals who enjoy meeting each other 'virtually' every morning and attending quarterly/yearly events. You will be working with a niche portfolio of clients, with 80% of your client base being clients from the medical, health, well-being sector and 20% being other professionals. You will be required to manage your own portfolio, and will have complete autonomy. The company ethos is that they are very client and relationship focused. It's all about the client experience, and this is something they are always striving to improve. This is the driving force behind everything they do. Client Satisfaction is key, and this firm want to be the best accountants in the world at delivering this for their clientele. What's on offer for you: • £42,000 per annum salary, • 25 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays, • 100% remote working, • IT Equipment provided, • Pension Enrolment, • Private medical insurance, • 37.5 hours a week, • Regular online CPD training, requiring all team members to be available for a minimum of 4 in-person training/team building days per year, • Social events quarterly and yearly and more! For this role you will be working alongside both Senior and Junior team members, and the Partner to provide a high level service to your portfolio of clients. This role will include duties such as personal tax, VAT returns, tax planning, management accounts, statutory accounts preparation and corporation tax returns. Experience in Excel, SAGE, Quickbooks, VT, FreeAgent and Xero is also desired. This is a challenging, demanding and exciting role for a qualified accountant, which includes detailed accountancy and tax work, plus interaction with prospective clients and existing clients. This role requires a special individual who is both very personable, but also has tremendous attention to detail. This is certainly not an opportunity to miss! If you are looking for a prosperous career, to work alongside a growing firm of Accountants and have the enjoyment of flexibility then please apply… You will need to be UK based for this role and be ACA or ACCA Fully Qualified About Spencer Clarke Group: Within the Accountancy & Finance division we work across the whole of the UK and cover Practice, Public and Industry alike with Permanent, Interim or contract positions. Know someone who this role could suit? We offer up to £500* worth of gift vouchers for any successful referrals. *T's & C's apply.

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. L&G Institutional Retirement looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK’s longest-running insurer. Our Institutional Retirement division provides pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit (DB) schemes, and reinsurance solutions from our global hub in Bermuda. We work with companies, DB pension schemes and their advisors to help them secure and protect scheme members’ retirement benefits. Joining us means you’ll support customers’ financial security in retirement; help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses; and enable investment for the long term to back our pension promises. Recruiter: Olivr England (_) Internal Closing Date: 11/07/2025 We’re recruiting for a Model and Financial Controls Team Senior Analyst to join us on a 12 month secondment. . What you'll be doing: • Managing and maintaining the EUC (End User Computing) model inventory, • Supporting the business with EUC-related queries and audit actions, • Producing management information for senior stakeholders and committees, • Conducting deep dives into financial processes and identifying control gaps, • Mapping processes and recommending improvements to reduce operational risk, • Assisting in embedding IFRS 17 into business-as-usual operations, • Engaging with stakeholders to improve risk culture and awareness, • Collaborating with teams across Finance, Investments and Pricing Who we're looking for: • Part-qualified or qualified accountant or equivalent finance professional experience, • Strong organisational and stakeholder engagement skills, • Good understanding of financial reporting and IFRS 17 processes, • Knowledge of financial controls and risk management, • Good communicating skills and can work effectively in a team environment, • Comfortable using tools like Power BI, Alteryx, R or Python (desirable), • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes, • Generous pension contribution, • Life assurance, • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only), • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday, • Competitive family leave, • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only), • There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online, • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

Description Swoon was founded in 2012 to create distinctive designs that owners will want to keep forever and a lofty goal to spark home obsession everywhere. We design original pieces in-house, and our innovative NPD process quickly discovers the next trend. Our testing platform ensures designs sell online at their intended price, and our data-led approach grows sales within families exponentially. Our business model cuts out expensive overheads like shops and overstocked warehouses, making our prices affordable. Our distinctive look unlocks collaborations with leading retailers like John Lewis and many more. This diversified growth strategy is powering our brand to a significant market share. And we’re just getting started… The Head of Finance oversees the entire finance function, from strategic FP&A and long-term planning to day-to-day management accounting, treasury, and reporting. As the financial conscience of the business, you will act as a key gatekeeper for capital allocation and a trusted senior partner to the co-founders and leadership team. Leading a capable finance team, you will provide robust control and constructive challenge to operational leads. You will set the budgets within which they operate, approve capital expenditures, and validate the commercial logic of key business decisions to ensure strong financial governance as Swoon continues to scale. Financial Planning, Forecasting and Reporting • Strategy & Planning: Own the annual budget, quarterly reforecasts, and three-year strategic plan. Build robust, ground-up models that connect commercial drivers to financial outcomes., • Reporting: Manage the monthly management accounts, board packs, investor reporting and FP&A reporting., • Trading Cadence: Oversee the weekly trading rhythm with marketing and merchandising; challenge plans and ensure every promotional or marketing spend has a clear business case., • Cash Flow: Maintain weekly direct/operational cash flow forecasts and three-way model. Galvanise the internal team to execute the cash roadmap., • BI & Insights: Develop an FP&A reporting suite within Sigma to ensure the business stays on track against targets. Operational Finance, Treasury and Day-to-Day • Financial Integrity: Oversee the monthly close, balance sheet reconciliations, and the integrity of all board-level data., • Treasury: Run payment run, manage banking relationships, debt facilities, covenant reporting, and lender communication., • Compliance: Oversee VAT, payroll, and statutory filings; manage the year-end and external audit processes., • Operations & HR: Oversee business insurance and annual renewals. Bring financial rigor to people-related decisions, including payroll, compensation, and benefits., • Leadership: Lead, coach, and prioritise the finance team, building capabilities to scale alongside the business., • Payment stack: own statutory reporting and relationship with payment providers Strategic Finance and Business Partnering • Commercial Advisor: Serve as a strategic partner to the co-founders, providing analysis and guidance on major commercial decisions, partnerships, new ventures, and CAPEX investments., • Merchandising Controls: Uphold guardrails for inventory management, including budgets, stock investment, intake margin, clearance pricing, and markdown strategies., • Working Capital: Set and enforce rules-based working capital frameworks, including CM3 floors, discontinuation thresholds, and cash recovery targets., • Margin: partner with the B&M and operations teams to drive continuous improvements in the "Margin Stack" from factory to front door., • Funding: Lead funding discussions with existing and prospective lenders., • CAPEX Governance: Evaluate all tech CAPEX projects against projected ROI and rigorously review the tech roadmap budget. Controls, Governance and Risk • Control Environment: Continuously evolve the financial control environment, including payment authorisation, segregation of duties, and procurement controls., • Planning Cycle: Support the co-founders with the quarterly OKR-based planning cycle to ensure cross-functional alignment with profitability and cash targets., • Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify, model, and mitigate financial risks, such as supply chain disruption, pricing pressure, partner concentration, FX volatility, and working capital seasonality. Requirements Essential • Qualifications: Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with 7+ years of experience., • Breadth: Proven track record leading or working within the full finance function, encompassing FP&A, management accounting, treasury, and statutory reporting., • Commercial Acumen: Strong instincts developed in a consumer-facing, high-growth environment (e-commerce, retail, hospitality, or DTC)., • Controls & Governance: Demonstrable experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust financial controls., • Business Partnering: Ability to build credibility with non-finance functions and challenge leadership constructively., • Technical Proficiency: Advanced financial modelling and forecasting skills; comfortable building complex models from scratch and comfortable with 3 way financial modelling., • Hands-on Leadership: A strategic thinker who is unafraid to "roll up their sleeves" during month-end; comfortable working directly with the numbers. Strongly preferred • Experience in a multi-channel business (Direct-to-Consumer + Wholesale)., • Familiarity with retail / merchandising finance, including stock investment economics and markdown management., • Proficiency with modern BI tools (e.g., Sigma)., • Experience working with or reporting to a strategic board—specifically understanding the standard required by institutional partners., • Prior experience in the furniture, homeware, or interiors sectors. Benefits Compensation & Benefits • Competitive salary, • Share options programme, • Profit share scheme, • Wellbeing allowance, • Pension scheme, • Private medical cover for you and your family Holidays, working environment and other perks • 27 days holiday rising to 30 with tenure, • 4 months of summer hours finishing at 1 PM on a Friday (we’re currently trialling rolling this out permanently!), • Free furniture on each anniversary of employment, • Friends & family discount of 20%, • Remote working 4x days per week

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations. Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary. What will you be doing? We’re seeking a talented individual to join our Restructuring & Recover Services team in London. To provide a high level of expert support to partners and directors, including the supervision of restructuring and recovery processes through from planning to review and completion. As Restructuring & Recover Services Senior Manager , your responsibilities will include among others • Maintain a portfolio of insolvency cases and ensure cases are efficiently and proactively progressed., • Participate in independent business review, and other advisory, work as required., • Liaison with appointee and other staff where appropriate to ensure all are kept up to date with relevant issues., • Ensure staff are briefed and motivated in order to complete cases efficiently., • Review and supervise staff work and comment constructively on their performance., • Take a central role in developing staff and self through on-the-job experience., • Ensure all work is reviewed. Ensure files are completed to a state suitable for review., • Identify opportunities where we may be able to provide further services., • To assist the partner/director in ensuring that stakeholder needs are met and that the range of our services is extended., • Where possible, the service level expectations of stakeholders should be exceeded., • Attend marketing events where appropriate and bring/develop own network of potential work sources., • Review statutory documents for compliance with Insolvency regulations and relevant standards., • Prepare case reviews and brief partners on work carried out and business issues., • Manage WIP and debtors on a client by client basis., • Be a positive influence in the team and in embracing and driving change where needed. To be successful in this role, you should • Substantial experience of corporate (administration/liquidation) and property (LPA) insolvencies is necessary., • Knowledge of insolvency legislation and other statutory requirements., • Quick to learn/adapt to new procedures/situations., • Ability to organise and to be able to work on several different assignments at one time. Professional Qualifications and Education • Qualified accountant and/or JIEB. As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include • Competitive salary, • Private medical insurance, • Life assurance, • Pension contribution, • Hybrid working model (role dependent), • Generous holiday package, • Option to purchase additional holiday, • Shared parental leave, • Fully funded training towards professional qualifications, • Cycle to work scheme, • Season ticket loan, • Eye care support We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment. We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations. Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary. Job Description What will you be doing? We're seeking a talented individual to join our Corporate tax team in Tunbridge Wells, which is responsible for tax compliance and advisory services for a wide range of business clients. The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of clients and managing more junior members of staff as necessary. You will also provide assistance to Directors/Partners in both client work and in the management of the group and you will actively be involved in and look to seek out working on special assignments and advisory projects where appropriate. As Corporate Tax Manager, your responsibilities will include among others • Manage portfolio of businesses including OMBs, SMEs and larger corporates, • Undertake corporate tax provisioning, compliance, and advisory work for your portfolio, • Ability to get involved in variety of business tax work (e.g. ad-hoc advisory, international tax matters, R&D tax credits, awareness of VAT and employment tax aspects), • Opportunity to assist with transactional and due diligence work, • Give exceptional client service and be responsible for maintaining regular contact with client team, • Liaison with Partners, demonstrating strong management skills, • Appraisals/monitor staff performance, • On the job training for junior staff on a one-to-one basis, • Ensuring S&W procedures are followed taking account of institute and HMRC guidance, where relevant, • Ensuring department KPIs are met around billing and recovery targets, • Reading; internal meetings; internal and external seminars and courses, • Acute awareness of what other parts of the firm can do, to encourage cross-referrals Qualifications and Experience: • Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA) and/or tax advisor (CTA), • Significant corporate tax experience gained within the profession and or industry, • Technically capable tax adviser who is able to assist in complex client work, • Demonstrable experience of managing people and clients, • Appetite to develop business development skills to assist with the growth of the business Key Competencies: • Client focus - ability to deliver consistently excellent client service, • Commercial awareness - delivers value to client and team profitability, • Teamwork - organises and supports others, • Good communicator - both written and oral, • Problem solving - positive attitude to solving problems and delivering outcomes, • Enthusiastic and keen business developer As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include • Competitive salary, • Private medical insurance, • Life assurance, • Pension contribution, • Hybrid working model (role dependent), • Generous holiday package, • Option to purchase additional holiday, • Shared parental leave, • Fully funded training towards professional qualifications, • Cycle to work scheme, • Season ticket loan, • Eye care support We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment. We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

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