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

Personal Tax Senior
Candidate 79916
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Senior / Qualified
• Location: Leeds
- AAT Level 4 qualified with 8 years of personal tax compliance experience.
- Most recently held the position of Personal Tax Senior at a Top 100 practice for 4 years.
- Managed a personal portfolio of 300–350 clients on a part-time basis.
- Responsibilities included:
- Preparing and completing self-assessment tax returns.
- Capital Gains Tax (CGT) calculations.
- Implementing tax planning strategies.
- Handling client queries and HMRC correspondence.
- Left most recent role in December to start their own business, but is now seeking to return to practice.
- Looking for a part-time opportunity (3 days per week) due to personal commitments (caregiver responsibilities on Mondays and Tuesdays).
- Proficient in CCH, IRIS, BTC, VT Accounts, Sage, and Excel.
- Available for an immediate start.

Corporate Tax Senior Manager
Candidate 79970
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Senior Manager / Associate Director
• Location: Leeds
- ACA qualified with over 17 years of experience in corporate tax advisory, compliance, tax governance, and risk management.
- Most recent role comprised 40% advisory, 40% compliance, and 20% tax assurance, risk management, and strategy reviews.
- Managing their own portfolio of clients ranging in turnover from £100m to £750m including owner managed businesses.
- Seeking either a Manager or Senior Manager position and is open on the size of the practice.
- Award-winning leadership skills.
- Very personable, technical, and a fast learner.
- Will consider locations outside of Leeds.
- Available with 1 week’s notice.
- May require sponsorship (has UK experience).

M&A Manager
Candidate 80000
• Service Line: Corporate Finance
• Seniority: Manager
• Location: Leeds or Manchester
- ACA qualified with 6 years post-qualification experience and a solid academic background.
- Three years of M&A experience, including two years as an M&A and FDD Manager at a Big 4 firm.
- Worked on 10+ M&A transactions, covering sell-side, buy-side, vendor assistance, and refinancing.
- Experienced leading large teams and authored 90% of reports.
- Seeking an experienced M&A Manager role with a clear path to Senior Manager/AD.
- Exceptional technical skills, communication, team management, delivery, coaching, and business development experience—regularly meeting with PE firms to discuss asset sales.
- 3-month notice period.

Audit Manager
Candidate 79976
• Service Line: Audit
• Seniority: Manager
• Location: Manchester
- FCCA qualified Audit Manager at a Top 6 practice with 12 years of experience with 2 years at Manager level.
- Managing multiple engagements from start to end, is the main point of contact for stakeholders, and reporting back to the Partner.
- Managing, coaching, and upskilling a team of 6 including reviewing their work and completing appraisals.
- Portfolio currently consists of 70% NFP organisations and 30% corporates turning over anywhere from £5m – £600m.
- Looking to step up into a Senior Manager position with a Top 15 practice.
- Available to all offices.
- 3 months notice.

Senior Corporate Finance Associate (M&A)
Candidate 79693
• Service Line: Corporate Finance
• Seniority: Senior
• Location: Liverpool
- ACCA Chartered Accountant currently positioned as a Senior Corporate Finance Associate at a national practice.
- Experience includes regulatory and statutory reporting during their time in asset and investment management, specifically with a venture capital firm.
- Over one year of hands-on corporate finance experience, contributing to deals ranging from £3 million to over £20 million.
- Successfully completed three deals to date.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a talent for communicating complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
- Actively seeking corporate finance opportunities in Liverpool.
- Available with three months’ notice (potentially flexible for an earlier start).

Transaction
Services AM/Manager
Candidate 79545
• Service Line: Corporate Finance
• Seniority: Manager
• Location: Manchester
- ACA-qualified Financial Due Diligence Assistant Manager, previously with Big 4 and currently at a Top 10 practice.
- Over six years of post-qualification experience in financial analysis, due diligence, and stakeholder management.
- Expertise in leading complex financial analyses, M&A projects, and cross-functional collaborations across sectors like technology, e-commerce, healthcare, and logistics.
- Extensive experience on both the buy and sell sides of middle-market transactions, managing deals valued from £10 million to £40 million.
- Looking for an Assistant Manager role with clear progression to Manager within the next 6-12 months.
- Personable, highly communicative, and intelligent, with a strong professional presence.
- Available to start in January.

Personal Tax Senior
Candidate 79767
• Service Line: Tax
• Seniority: Senior
• Location: Manchester
- Personal tax specialist with only 2 exams remaining to become ATT qualified.
- Experience working at Top 10 accountancy practices, independent firms, and multinational law firms.
- Specialises in personal tax (both compliance and advisory), including work on trusts (trust accounts, returns, and compliance).
- Also has experience in corporate tax, VAT, and accounts.
- Worked with owner-managed businesses, international clients, and HNW/UHNW individuals.
- Seeking a personal tax opportunity where he can settle, with sufficient work and a good mentor.
- Available to start immediately.

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.

ACCA Finalist
Candidate 79993
• Service Line: Audit
• Seniority: Semi Senior / Part Qualified
• Location: Manchester
- ACCA part qualified, all first-time passes with one exam remaining- will be qualified in Jan 2025.
- Over 15 years of experience in financial reporting, VAT returns, year-end, and management accounts.
- Very good with technology and has worked with developers to adapt software to make them fit for purpose.
- Currently working with businesses turning over up to £8m including clients with bridging loans.
- Also has experience in training staff.
- Seeking a role in audit to gain broad exposure to diverse client industries and further their development.
- Highly intelligent, very well articulated, and has good character.
- Based in Prestwich.
- 3 months notice

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.

Restructuring Associate Director
Candidate 79663
• Service Line: Specialist
• Seniority: Director
• Location: North East
- Currently a Restructuring Associate Director at a Top 10 practice.
- Over 20 years of experience in corporate advisory, restructuring, insolvency, transaction services, and forensic accounting.
- Experienced in managing administrations, receiverships, and liquidations.
- ACA qualified and plans to sit the JIEB next year.
- Has led numerous informal advisory engagements for SMEs to large multinationals on behalf of various stakeholders, including IBRs, solvency reviews, and pre-lending reviews.
- Industry experience spans automotive, building and construction, offshore banking, hospitality, heavy manufacturing, financial services, printing, transport, and retail.
- Actively pursues new business opportunities and has a strong appetite for it.
- Seeking a Director position with a view to progressing to Partner.
- Available with 3 months’ 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.
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