Accounting Manager

Downey Osborne is looking for a Accounting Manager to join a leading business advisory setting. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll lead complex accounting work across a wide range of portfolios, with autonomy, variety, and the opportunity to shape junior colleagues’ development.

• Modern, collaborative, and supportive team culture
• Bonus
• Enhance maternity leave
• Generous annual leave

• ACA or ACCA qualified (or international equivalent)
• Strong technical accounting skills with ability to work from first principles
• Around 3 years post‑qualification experience
• Confident preparing and reviewing detailed financial statements and management accounts
• Experienced supervising, coaching, and developing junior team members
• Skilled in multiple accounting processes, reconciliations, and reporting
• Highly professional, adaptable, and effective in a remote environment
• Strong working knowledge of local and international accounting standards, with awareness of alternative frameworks. (UK GAAP/US GAAP/ IFRS)

• Lead preparation and review of management accounts and detailed financial statements across multiple portfolios
• Provide meaningful insight and variance analysis to guide decision‑making
• Ensure accounting compliance, financial controls, and reporting standards are consistently applied
• Mentor and support junior colleagues, acting as a senior presence across assignments

• Oversee day‑to‑day bookkeeping, reconciliations, and client‑focused accounting tasks
• Participate in temporary assignments or secondments as required
• Contribute to process improvement, technology adoption, and risk management initiatives
• Maintain budgets, forecasts, and financial models
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders as needed

• Assist with special projects, operational initiatives, or system rollouts
• Advise on proposals, accounting compliance, or workflow enhancements
• Support team development and resourcing decisions

• Lose sight of the story behind the numbers
• Never challenge a spreadsheet to a staring contest.