Job Description

A leading, Devon and Exeter based firm of Chartered accountants is searching for a qualified, practice professional with direct agricultural knowledge and experience to join them as a key Client Manager / Senior Manager - Agricultural sector specialist. The role provides excellent career progression and development potential.

Joining the firm as Client Manager / Senior Manager - Agricultural sector specialist based at the firms Exeter offices, you will take responsibility for a rural and agricultural focused portfolio, providing all round accounting services and advice. The role has arisen through a combination of positive growth and planning for the future growth within this specialist sector. The firm is therefore looking to attract career focused professionals, with the demonstrable skills and attitude to progress within the firm. Your career path within the firm will be structured and guided, working alongside highly respected specialists in this sector and you will have the full support and backing to progress in your career. They are seeking the right person who has direct agricultural knowledge, experience and a passion for delivering accounting services and advice in this field. The firm and role offers the lifestyle benefits of a Devon based opportunity, along with a strong rural and agricultural heritage. The role offers a superb opportunity for an accounting professional, looking to progress within this field.

Client Manager / Senior Client Manager to join a leading firm in Exeter |Key influential hire within the firms Farming/Rural sector client specialism.

The ideal candidate will be qualified across any of ACA, ACCA and/or CTA, with a career background developed in any of a large, national firm accountancy practice background and/or, a regional independent firm background of any size. You will have either direct, recent and significant expertise in agricultural sector accounting and/or, a clear demonstrable link to the farming/agricultural sector, combined with a background working within the accounting profession and be able to demonstrate a genuine passion and interest in the agricultural sector. The partners are keen to mould this opportunity around the right individual. Therefore the level of experience of the right individual could range from a recently qualified professional, with up to 2 years or more post qualified experience, through to experienced Managers with 4 - 5 years or more, post qualified experience, seeking the right long term, career move. You will be able to demonstrate both the technical expertise in this field along with the additional competencies they will be looking for in the right individual, client facing, business development ability and aptitude to progress in the firm. You will be searching for a role where you can develop and act as a lead for colleagues and other offices as an agricultural expert in a leading firm of chartered accountants.

This Devon and Exeter based accountancy practice is a leading South West firm of chartered accountants, growing and undergoing positive development and planning for the long term future development of the firm. The firm has a wide ranging client base across varied industries, sectors and turnovers, with an excellent reputation in the agricultural sector in particular. The firm and role provides excellent career prospects. The firm offers hybrid working with flexible hours and competitive benefits.

Circa \xc2\xa345000 - \xc2\xa358,000 plus benefits, negotiable, dependent on level, experience and background.

Michael Page