Outsourcing Assistant Manager - #2140173

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – Liverpool – To £46,000

Step Up Into Management – Outsourcing Assistant Manager, Liverpool, Market rate + genuine progression in a growing group

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – Role Overview
This is the right move for a recently qualified accountant ready to go beyond reviewing work into managing a portfolio and a team. You'll get real variety — compliance, budgeting, systems projects — inside a firm putting serious investment behind its people and processes.

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – This role is ideal for an Outsourcing Assistant Manager who:

• Is ready to move beyond review work into managing a portfolio and a team
• Enjoys variety — budgeting, forecasting, and systems projects alongside core compliance
• Wants to join a firm seriously investing in automation and process improvement

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – About the Firm

This is a long-established, multi-office firm of accountants and business advisors in the North West, growing steadily through a mix of organic development and carefully chosen acquisitions. This growth is expanding both the client base and the team, creating this Assistant Manager opening for someone ready to take on broader portfolio and people responsibility as the firm continues modernising how its outsourcing service is delivered.

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – Responsibilities

Portfolio & Review

• Review bookkeeping, VAT returns, management accounts, and reconciliations prepared by juniors and seniors
• Assist with preparing and finalising month-end close and management accounts with commentary

Financial Planning Support

• Deliver budgeting, forecasting, and cost control for outsourced clients
• Track WIP, budgets, and job recoverability, flagging variances to the Outsourcing Manager

Team & Process

• Help manage team workflow and capacity planning, and support training of juniors
• Contribute to process improvements, standardisation, and automation

Systems & Delivery

• Assist with system implementation, migration, and optimisation projects
• Monitor deadlines, SLAs, and compliance requirements, escalating issues early

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – Requirements

• ACA/ACCA/AAT qualified, or close to qualification
• Solid practice-based outsourcing or accounts experience
• Comfortable reviewing others' work and mentoring junior staff
• Strong Excel and cloud accounting systems skills
• Proactive, with a process-improvement mindset
• Experience managing client relationships directly

Outsourcing Assistant Manager – Benefits

Salary: £Market rate – arrange a confidential discussion with Vaisto Recruitment for salary information

Benefits: You will be joining an expanding group with ongoing investment in technology, training and infrastructure, whilst keeping the day-to-day autonomy of a partner-led, client-first culture.

25 days holiday with the option to purchase additional days, hybrid and flexi-working.

The above vacancy is only one of many that I am handling. Vaisto Recruitment specialises in contract and permanent vacancies within the practice market, including:

• Audit Partner / Audit Director / Audit Associate Director / Audit Manager / Audit Senior / Audit Associate / Audit Semi Senior
• Business Services Partner / Business Services Director / Business Services Manager / Business Services Associate / Accounts Senior / Accounts Associate
• Tax Partner / Tax Director / Tax Manager / Tax Senior Manager / Tax Senior / Tax Semi Senior
• Accounts Partner / Accounts Director / Accounts Manager / Accounts Senior / Accounts Semi Senior
• Corporate Finance Partner / Corporate Finance Director / Corporate Finance Manager / Corporate Finance Executive / Corporate Finance Senior M&A
• Payroll Bureau
• Practice Managers