Outsourcing Manager – Liverpool – To £55,000

Outsourcing Manager – About the Firm

This is a long-established, multi-office firm of accountants and business advisors in the North West, growing both organically and by carefully selected acquisitions. This growth has created a Manager opening in the Outsourcing Department, as the client base and team expand, with the firm investing heavily in technology and training while retaining a genuinely partner-led, client-first culture.

Outsourcing Manager – Responsibilities

Portfolio Leadership

• Lead and manage a diverse outsourcing portfolio as primary client contact
• Oversee and sign off bookkeeping, VAT returns, management accounts, and month-end close

Client Advisory

• Present management accounts with commentary, insights, and recommendations
• Identify and deliver advisory opportunities such as process enhancement and finance transformation

Team & Leadership Development

• Manage and develop outsourcing seniors and juniors, including capacity planning and performance reviews
• Drive process improvements, standardisation, and automation across the team

Commercial & Process Ownership

• Monitor budgets, WIP, billing, and profitability to ensure commercial performance
• Oversee system implementation and optimisation projects
• Ensure compliance with UK GAAP and HMRC rules across the portfolio

Outsourcing Manager – Requirements

• ACA/ACCA qualified, with strong post-qualification experience in practice
• Demonstrable experience managing an outsourcing or accounts portfolio
• Staff management and mentoring experience
• Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP and HMRC compliance
• Commercially astute, with experience owning WIP and billing
• Confident, advisory-minded communicator

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

Benefits: Join a growing group with significant ongoing investment in technology, training and infrastructure, broader career opportunities as the group expands, and performance-related incentive schemes that reward contribution — alongside genuine stability and local autonomy over client relationships. 

25 days holiday with option to purchase additional days, hybrid working.

Progression: Real opportunity to grow into a senior leadership role across the group as it continues to expand

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

Contact information

Kirsti Vaisto