Bookkeeping Team Leader

You're already good 're just doing it somewhere that's stopped noticing.

We're looking for someone to lead our entire bookkeeping service — running a small bookkeeping team, keeping your own portfolio, and ultimately raising the standard of everything we do. Here, the deadline is the floor, not the target.

You close the books cleanly. You spot the messy reconciliation before it becomes a problem. You've trained more clients on Xero than you can count, and you quietly fix processes nobody else thought to question.

The work is solid — but the role around it has gone flat. No room to lead. No one really watching the standard. No path that points anywhere new.

This is that path.

You want to see where your potential can go, and you don't want to limit what's possible in the next chapter of your life.

You feel like you've got so much more to give — and you're excited by what comes next.

Who you'd be joining

Because we are ones ourselves. You get all the rigour and experience you'd expect from a chartered-certified accountancy practice — but with a modern approach that goes well beyond what traditional accountants do.

We don't stop  add real value, build long‑term relationships, and genuinely set out to change the lives of the people we work with — the owners, their teams, and the customers they serve.

And that includes our own team. If we're helping clients build better businesses and better lives, we should be doing exactly the same for the people who make Gro what it is.

The role

This is your time to shine.

Around 80 regular monthly clients, a team of two or three bookkeepers — two in the Philippines, one local AAT technician — and the standard everything's held to. You'll keep your own portfolio and step in on the complex, trickier work where it counts.

But the real job is bigger than clean ledgers. Bookkeeping done properly is the foundation a business stands on — it's how an owner finally gets the clarity, the tools and the real numbers to make confident decisions instead of guessing.

And that ripples outward. When an owner can see their business clearly, their life changes — which changes life for their team, and for every customer those teams look after. You'd be the person making sure that foundation is rock‑solid: the right work, done to the right standard, comfortably ahead of every deadline.

80 Regular monthly clients in your function 2–3 Bookkeepers you'll lead, UK & Philippines 28th VAT filed by — a week clear of HMRC

Day to day

Less reconciling and moving on. More owning the standard, the workflow and the people.

Plan the jobs, prioritise the team, and spot what's drifting before it slips.

Every VAT return filed by month‑end — ideally the 28th — giving clients a week to ten days' breathing room.

Sense‑check the P&L, review balance sheets, and take things through to draft trial balance where needed.

Hand the accounts team clean, sense‑checked work — not just reconciled and moved on.

Pick up the phone, run a bit of Xero training, keep the relationship warm.

How could this be automated, streamlined, made better? Then go make it so.

You'll keep everyone in sync through our weekly production meeting and the daily 10am huddle — fifteen minutes, no drama, just everyone on the same page.

A modern, automated practice — we tool up to do great work, not tick boxes.

Xero The books Apron Receipts Karbon Practice management Tax Calc Year‑end Xenon Connect Quality Syft Client reporting

Payroll experience (Bright Pay) is a lovely‑to‑have for emergency cover — we've a dedicated payroll manager, so it's a bonus, not a requirement.

Four things we genuinely live by — not a poster on the wall, but how we hire, how we work, and how we show up for each other and our clients every day.

Batteries included

We show up with genuine enthusiasm. Being around us should lift you —…