Senior Client Manager
About the Opportunity:
Are you an experienced accounting professional ready to step into a key leadership and advisory role? We are a progressive, growing accounting and advisory firm dedicated to making our clients' financial lives easier through smart advice, clarity, and confidence.
Seeking an ambitious
Senior Client Manager to take ownership of a client portfolio, lead a dedicated team, and deliver high-value advisory services. This role offers strong autonomy, direct client relationship management, and a clear path for professional and portfolio growth.
What You’ll Do As a Senior Client Manager, you will lead a team unit (silo) and oversee client service delivery across compliance, structuring, and proactive advisory.
Key responsibilities include:
- Portfolio & Client Management: Initially manage a client portfolio of approximately $900k in business client fees, with a target growth path to $1.3M–$1.5M.
- Strategic Advisory: Serve as a proactive, trusted advisor helping clients understand their numbers, optimise business structures, build cash flow budgets, and plan for growth.
- Team Leadership & Mentoring: Manage, mentor, and develop team members within your silo, fostering high performance and low staff turnover through ongoing support and training.
- Compliance & Technical Oversight: Oversee the accurate production of financial statements, statutory returns (Companies, Trusts, Partnerships), tax planning, and QBCC Minimum Financial Requirement (MFR) reporting where applicable.
- Workflow & Operations: Manage Work in Progress (WIP), lock-up days, and job scheduling to ensure high realisable rates and timely turnaround times.
- Collaboration & Business Growth: Work closely with bookkeeping and client services teams, onboard new clients, and contribute to the firm's growth strategies.
What We Are Looking For:
- Tertiary Business/Commerce Degree.
- Public Practice Experience: Several years of demonstrated experience in a client-facing role within Australian public practice accounting.
- Commercial & Advisory Mindset: Proven ability to spot practical opportunities for clients to improve profitability, manage cash flow, and reduce risk.
- Tech Aptitude: Proficiency in modern cloud accounting ecosystems (e.g., Xero, XPM, FYI, Ignition, MS Office, Adobe).
- Leadership & Communication: Outstanding oral and written communication skills with the ability to manage a team and engage directly with clients autonomously.
Desirable:
- CA or CPA qualification (or actively working towards completion).
- Experience with QBCC reporting for building and construction clients.
Key Personal Values & Behaviours We take pride in our workplace culture and operate around core principles:
- Care: Valuing people as our greatest asset.
- Positivity: Driving better outcomes through positive intent.
- Empowerment: Lifting capability and helping team members succeed.
- Excellence: Striving continuously for improvement and high-quality outcomes.
What We Offer:
- Flexible Working: Work from home one day per week alongside flexible work arrangements.
- Clear Portfolio Growth: Clear progression targets to build and manage a substantial client base.
- Continuous Development: Full support for ongoing CPD hours, technical training, and career progression.
- Collaborative Culture: A supportive environment where ideas are welcomed, communication is transparent, and achievements are recognised.
If you are interested in this opportunity please apply or send your CV to mroache@andersenpartnership.com
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