Manager (Business Advisory)

In a nutshell

Are you ready to take the next step in your career with a role that’s as dynamic as it is rewarding? In this hands-on, client-facing position, you’ll be a trusted advisor from day one—building meaningful relationships, delivering strategic insights, and helping entrepreneurial clients thrive.

You’ll help lead and mentor a talented team, contribute to their growth, and work across a diverse portfolio that keeps every day fresh and engaging. With clear career progression, exposure to a wide range of accounting, tax, and commercial challenges, and a supportive, forward-thinking environment, this is more than just a job—it’s a chance to shape your future.

What Makes This Role Special

• Client-Facing from Day One – Build trust and deliver value to a wide range of ambitious clients
• Leadership Opportunity – Inspire and guide junior team members while developing your own leadership style
• Career Growth – Enjoy structured progression, ongoing learning, and the chance to make your mark
• Variety & Impact – No two days are the same. You’ll be solving real problems and making a tangible difference

Why Join Us?

We’re a people-first firm that values initiative, collaboration, and authenticity. You’ll be supported, challenged, and empowered to grow—professionally and personally. If you’re looking for a role where your ideas are heard, your work is valued, and your career can flourish, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing day to day

You’ll work with entrepreneurial clients, providing guidance and support as their trusted advisor. Your key responsibilities include:

• Leading client relationships
• Monitoring budgets, time, and expenses
• Reviewing working papers, accounts, and tax compliance
• Offering tax, accounting, and commercial advice
• Resolving accounting and tax issues
• Ensuring compliance with firm standards
• Maintaining long-term client relationships through effective communication
• Discussing significant findings with the engagement Partner
• Identifying opportunities to offer additional services to clients

About you

• ACA / ACCA qualified (or equivalent) or qualified by experience, with relevant experience in a similar role
• Experience of managing a portfolio of clients and assisting partners in maintaining client relationships
• Strong technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance
• Proven background supervising a team of accounts staff
• Organised, accurate, flexible and able to plan use of time efficiently
• Strong interpersonal skills in dealing with both clients, team members and colleagues, with the aptitude to quickly build rapport
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.