HaysMac is an award-winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors, with 41 partners, 22 directors and over 600 staff, providing advice and services to entrepreneurs, fast-growing and owner-managed businesses, charities and not for profit organisations across the UK and internationally. From our trainees to our partners, our culture of support and progression means we grow together as one firm to best help our clients.

Established in January 2024, our office in Cape Town is home to 40 of our employees ranging from audit professionals and tax specialists to key members of the firm’s internal functions. We opened this office with one clear objective: to attract and retain the right talent, with the right skills to ensure the high quality of service we offer our clients. We are proud that we have achieved significant growth in the number of colleagues based in Cape Town, welcoming a cohort of graduate trainees for the first time in January 2025. This expansion is testament to our commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in our service offerings.

Our award-winning culture forms the backbone of how we operate and is key to our long-standing client relationships. We have worked hard to maintain that culture as we have grown, forming a cohesive team operating seamlessly across two locations. One of the crucial aspects of this is the integration of tools and systems. Both offices use the same technology platforms, ensuring consistency in operations and communication. Our clients work with our UK and South African colleagues interchangeably. Looking ahead, we remain committed to furthering the growth and integration of our Cape Town office, attracting top talent and offering unrivaled training, development opportunities and career progression.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Manager to build on continuing growth in the Financial Services (FS) sector. The key aspect of the role will be to work closely with the Partners and Directors (RIs) running a portfolio, working with a range of financial services clients including investment and wealth managers, professional services, financial advisory, currency solutions providers and fintech businesses.

You will be expected to manage a client portfolio and be actively involved in helping to drive the Financial Services strategy, whether this is attending and contributing to the market facing (business development) activities of the sector, getting involved in team management, technical support and training, running projects such as efficiency improvements, work phasing or team training.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Your day-to-day responsibilities as outlined below are generalised and in no way exhaustive:

• Audit, statutory and CASS audit:
  • planning, fieldwork and completion review and management;
  • coach and develop staff;
  • lead client meetings;
  • research and propose solutions to accounting queries for discussion with the RI;
  • review and mark up financial statements;
  • monitor budgets and recoveries and where applicable discuss overruns with clients; and
  • manage client and RI expectations.
• Being a key point of contact for your client portfolio throughout the year
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients as well as prospective clients
• Provision of general business advice to clients
• Managing the overall service delivery to clients this includes overseeing the delivery of non audit services to your clients.
• Ad hoc projects
• Client billing
• Line management of staff members in the team
• Coaching and developing team members reporting directly and taking an interest in the career development of others
• Co-ordination with other service line teams to deliver a high quality and cohesive client service
• Reporting directly to the RI and having several direct team members report to you.

The candidate

Behavioral competencies

• Multitask in terms of handling multiple clients simultaneously
• Excellent technical and personal skills to service a portfolio of clients efficiently and effectively
• Demonstration of our core values: Integrity, Collaboration, Empowerment, Dynamism
• Ability to nurture, motivate and develop junior staff and empower them to perform to their best ability
• Excellent communication skills and be confident, articulate and able to communicate at all levels externally and internally
• Ability to produce high quality business style reports for directors and business owners
• A team player with the ability to prioritise work and work to tight deadlines
• Strong organisational skills
• Proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong relationships
• Be able to learn and adapt to new situations or work on new software

Work based competencies

• Understanding of Financial Services specific audit risks
• Working knowledge of the FCA handbook
• CASS audit knowledge
• Strong knowledge of UK GAAP, IFRS and ISAs
• Experience with LLP SORP
• Experience with accounts review
• Working knowledge of Tax (corporate, partnership and personal)
• Experience managing the audit from planning to reviews and completion
• Qualified accountant

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please email recruitment@haysmac.com.