Senior Client Accounting Manager

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 R35k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧾 Accounting Manager

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Remote Professionals

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • B2B

Remote Professionals is a UK-based company that partners with local accounting firms to drive growth through strategic resourcing. It offers RP Offshoring—deploying dedicated managed accountants and bookkeepers into client teams—and RP Recruit, a bespoke recruitment service that leverages technology and AI to streamline hiring. The company also runs resources and a Growth Club for accounting firms, focusing on helping firms overcome talent shortages, inefficient hiring, and partner bandwidth constraints so they can scale.

📋 Description

• Manage a portfolio of UK accounting clients and act as the primary point of contact. • Build and maintain professional client relationships, conduct regular meetings, provide progress updates, and resolve or escalate queries. • Monitor client satisfaction, retention, risks and service opportunities. • Maintain accurate client activity records in Salesforce or a similar CRM system. • Coordinate bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, management accounts, year-end accounts and audit support services. • Review completed work, ensure quality standards and client requirements are met, and provide feedback and corrections. • Ensure client deadlines and service-level expectations are achieved while minimising errors and rework. • Allocate work, monitor portfolio progress, track budgets and hours, and address delivery bottlenecks. • Coordinate clients, accounting teams and internal departments and communicate priority or deadline changes. • Conduct weekly team and workflow meetings; monitor productivity, workload and service delivery. • Coach and support team members and assist with accounting, bookkeeping, software and client-related queries. • Coordinate new-client onboarding, develop implementation plans, document processes and monitor transition into ongoing service delivery. • Maintain standard operating procedures, training resources and client documentation. • Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax legislation, VAT requirements, payroll regulations and internal procedures. • Identify inefficiencies, recommend improvements, and support automation and workflow-standardisation initiatives. • Review timesheets and Lists of Duties, reconcile hours against budgets, validate billable hours and prepare billing-adjustment notes. • Ensure client-facing reports and billing documentation are accurate and issued on time.

🎯 Requirements

• A diploma or degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field. • At least 3–5 years of experience in accounting, bookkeeping, client services or account management within an accounting practice. • Experience managing multiple client portfolios and deadlines. • Experience coordinating accountants, bookkeepers or outsourced finance teams. • Experience reviewing bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, management accounts or year-end accounts. • Good knowledge of bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, management accounts and annual financial statements. • Familiarity with accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or CaseWare. • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams. • Strong client relationship and communication skills. • Excellent organisation and time-management skills. • High attention to detail. • Strong problem-solving ability. • The ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. • Confidence coordinating remote teams. • A professional, proactive and service-focused approach. • A professional accounting qualification such as SAICA, SAIPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent. (Desirable) • Experience working with UK accounting firms or UK clients. (Desirable) • Experience using Salesforce or another CRM system. (Desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first working • Exposure to international clients • Direct access to leadership • Meaningful operational ownership • A supportive, practical team environment