Below is a selection of our live Accountancy Practice candidates who are currently open to work. For more details about any of these candidates or for more information about other people who have recently become available, please contact our Senior Consultant Ross Wallace who heads up our Accountancy Practice division: ross.wallace@headstar.co.uk
Restructuring Assistant Manager
Candidate 79310
• Service Line: Specialist
• Seniority: Assistant Manager
• Location: Leeds
- ACA qualified (all first-time passes) with over 4 years of experience in audit and over 6 months of experience in corporate insolvency.
- Currently a Restructuring Assistant Manager with a Top 20 practice.
- Has been promised advisory work however, this hasn’t come to fruition so is looking for a new role that can offer better exposure and more development.
- Has gained exposure to SIP 16, report writing, and financial analysis.
- Big 4 trained.
- Personable, confident, enthusiastic, and hungry to learn.
- 3 months’ notice.
Audit Assistant Manager (Big 4)
Candidate 79345
• Service Line: Audit
• Seniority: Assistant Manager
• Location: London
- A Chartered Accountant with 12 years of experience in audit, with the past 5 years spent at Big 4 firms in London.
- Possesses ILR status, eliminating the need for sponsorship.
- Holds particular expertise in asset and wealth management, investment banking, real estate, and level 3 investment analysis.
- Works with clients ranging in turnover from £100k to £billions under IFRS, FRS 102, UK GAAP, PCAOB, and SOX reporting standards.
- Leading a team of 6 on-site and coordinates a global team of 30.
- Reports directly to the Director and has received excellent feedback on communication, project management, mentoring, training, and client satisfaction.
- Additionally, is part of the digital accelerator team introducing Alteryx tools and applying more modern doctrines, and introducing new standards to audits.
- Seeking a Manager or Assistant Manager role that can accelerate their progression to Manager outside the Big 4.
- 3 months’ notice.
Corporate Tax Assistant
Candidate 69015
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Bradford
- An Accounting and Finance graduate with 2 years of corporate tax experience and 2 ACCA exams remaining
- Currently a Tax Assistant with a leading independent practice and has been previously employed by a “magic circle” law firm.
- Has gained experience in the preparation of corporate tax computations, provisions, and tax returns.
- Working on a portfolio of clients ranging in turnover from start-up to £10m+.
- Experienced using IRIS, CCH, and Alphatax.
- Seeking a Semi Senior tax role that will allow them to build on their corporate tax skill while also offering exposure to private/personal tax.
- 1 month’s notice.
Tax Assistant (Big 4)
Candidate 79350
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Manchester
- ATT Level 4 qualified and CTA part qualified.
- Nearly 4 years of tax experience within deal advisory tax.
- Significant experience in both buy-side and sell-side tax structuring and tax due diligence for a range of clients, including PE funds, family investments, sovereign wealth funds, as well as listed and private clients.
- Key member of the transaction engagements team for transactions valued between 7 and 9 figures.
- Extensive experience in project managing both UK and international deals, ensuring effective management across various UK tax streams, including VAT, employment, reward, R&D, and transfer pricing.
- Seeking a mixed compliance and advisory corporate tax role.
- Tech-savvy with excellent communication and reporting skills.
- 1 month’s notice.
Accountant and Tax Adviser
Candidate 79402
• Service Line: Accounts
• Seniority: Senior / Qualified
• Location: Leeds
- ACCA qualified with an MBA and over 25 years of experience working with SME’s and family-owned businesses.
- Experienced in accountancy, tax, tax planning, business strategy, business improvement, and wealth creation.
- Used to working across a wide variety of industries with businesses ranging from start-ups to those with a £4m turnover.
- Offers services including accounts preparation (both year-end and management accounts), taxation (both personal and corporate), VAT, payroll, pensions, and more.
- Also brings with them management experience.
- Experienced with Xero, QuickBooks, and other accounting software.
- 1 month’s notice .
M&A Associate
Candidate 78564
• Service Line: Corporate Finance
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Manchester
- ACCA qualified (all first-time passes) and holds a 1st Class Honors degree in Economics and Finance.
- 3 years of corporate finance experience with 3 years prior experience in insolvency.
- Coming from a boutique lead advisory practice where they’ve been managing deals from the cradle to the grave under the supervision of Directors.
- Has worked on both the buy and sell side and been the lead advisor on 3 deal out of the 7 they’ve been involved with.
- Has experience in modelling, forecasting, and has sat in on deal negotiations.
- Experience working on deals with a transaction value ranging from £5m to £140m.
- Experienced working across a variety of sectors including retail, manufacturing, waste, utilities, and construction.
- Looking to move to a larger practice.
- 3 months’ notice.
Audit Manager (Big 4)
Candidate 76528
• Service Line: Audit
• Seniority: Manager
• Location: Leeds / Manchester / Sheffield
- ACA qualified with over 2 years of experience as an Audit Manager.
- More than 10 years of experience in audit.
- Proven ability to lead audits with teams of up to 15 members and manage a team of 6.
- Extensive experience with both privately owned and listed businesses, with turnovers ranging from £150m to £1bn+.
- Working with a diverse spectrum of industries including manufacturing, construction, hospitality, healthcare, consumer, and industrial sectors.
- 2 months’ notice.
Tax Senior
Candidate 79526
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Senior / Qualified
• Location: Leeds / Bradford
- ATT qualified and is awaiting the results of their final CTA exam which should arrive within the next couple of weeks.
- 4 years of progressive experience in tax compliance.
- Experienced managing a portfolio of personal tax and corporate tax clients- the split of the work depends on the time of year.
- Has gained more advisory experience over the past 6 months and is assisting senior managers on ad hoc projects.
- Looking for either a corporate tax or mixed role offering more exposure to advisory work.
- 3 months’ notice.
Semi Senior
Candidate 77307
• Service Line: Audit and Accounts
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Huddersfield
- Accounting & Economics graduate (2.1)- has 3 ACA exemptions and 4 ACCA exemptions- can go either route.
- Experienced in preparing year-end accounts, management accounts, bookkeeping, payroll, tax return computations, preparing VAT returns, and has some audit exposure.
- Has most recently been working with start-ups and hospitality clients turning over up to £5m.
- Most recently a client manager at a very modern small practice where they were essentially acting as a personalised finance function for small businesses preparing accounts, reports, VAT returns, payroll, forecasts etc.
- Unfortunately, it didn’t work out and their role was made redundant so is now available for an immediate start.
- Has experience using a whole range of tech including Xero, Quickbooks, Sage Line 50, FreeAgent, and many more.
- Very career-driven, a good problem solver, personable, and generally very likable.
- Looking for an accounts preparation or an audit/accounts mixed role where they can settle, increase their knowledge, and gain exposure.
Semi Senior
Candidate 79525
• Service Line: Audit and Accounts
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Leeds
- AAT qualified and part ACCA qualified Accountant with 5 papers remaining (one resit).
- Currently an Audit and Accounts Semi Senior with over 2 years experience (60% accounts, 40% audit).
- Experienced in preparing year-end and management accounts, corporate and personal tax returns, VAT returns, and executing audits from planning through to completion.
- Working with privately owned businesses turning over up to £800m.
- Experienced using Xero, Sage, QuickBooks.
- Looking to move to gain more responsibilities and progression prospects.
- 1 month’s notice.
Semi Senior
Candidate 79508
• Service Line: Audit and Accounts
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Leeds
- Award-winning graduate who’s just been let go from a Top 10 for failing 2 exams (one mark was 52 and the other 53- 55 was the pass mark).
- Has sat 5 ACA exams and has the final certificate level exam booked (happy to switch to ACCA).
- Just under a years experience in practice.
- Currently, a Corporate Audit Assistant working in the FS audit team preparing audit documents but has also gained exposure to tax, general entry testing, and liaising with clients.
- Looking to join a smaller firm that can offer a mixed accounts/audit role.
- Available to start from the 12th of August.
Assistant Accountant/Trainee Accountant
Candidate 75607
• Service Line: Accounts
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Wakefield
- Holds a master’s degree in Accounting & Finance (4 ACCA exemptions).
- Brings over 7 years of experience in retail management, during which time they achieved 3 promotions and gained exposure to cash management and internal audits.
- Possesses excellent communication and people skills.
- Recently returned from traveling and is seeking an entry-level role in an accountancy practice with the goal of becoming chartered.
- Open to any service line and eager to gain practical experience.
- 4-week notice period.
Audit and Corporate Finance Semi Senior
Candidate 79261
• Service Line: Corporate Finance / Audit
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Manchester
- Holds a master’s degree in finance with distinction and a first-class degree in Accounting and Finance, along with ACCA finalist status.
- Award for best dissertation in Corporate Finance, as well as a first-class degree in Accounting and Finance, where they ranked in the top 1%.
- Brings nearly 2 years of diverse experience in corporate finance, including a year within a Big 4 Deal Advisory team.
- Proficient in financial reporting, corporate finance, valuation techniques, financial statement analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and data analysis.
- Currently serving as an Audit and Corporate Finance Semi Senior with a regional practice.
- Demonstrated experience on both the buy and sell sides of deals, ranging in EV up to £25m.
- Seeking a role within a specialised corporate finance team to further their career development and gain additional exposure.
- 3 months’ notice, which could potentially be shortened.
Audit Assistant Manager
Candidate 79413
• Service Line: Audit
• Seniority: Assistant Manager
• Location: Manchester
- Chartered Accountant with over 6 years experience working in Audit.
- Has recently moved across from South Africa and is on a dependent visa so wont need sponsorship.
- Spent 7 months on secondment with a UK Top 30 practice last year working businesses ranging in turnover from £3m to £21m- was promoted during that time.
- Experienced executing audits from planning through to completion and also producing management and year end accounts.
- Has worked across a variety of sectors including IT, Legal, Manufacturing, Retail, Entertainment, Financial Services, non-profit, and public sector.
- Experienced in various accounting frameworks including UK FRS102, GRAP, GAAP, and IFRS.
- Excellent technical and communication skills.
- Seeking an Audit Senior position.
- Available for an immediate start.
