OPEN ROLE – SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Ready to grow into the accountant clients rely on?
Senior Accountant
Hybrid / Dundee
Full-time
Pathway to Account Manager
6-12 month development route
You’ve built the technical foundation. Now you’re ready for more ownership, more client exposure & a clearer path towards advisory work.
As a Senior Accountant at Ashton McGill, you’ll work with ambitious founders, take ownership of meaningful client delivery & build the commercial skills to step into an Account Manager role.
This is a better way to grow: structured, supported, client-facing & designed around real impact.
ROLE PURPOSE
From technically excellent to commercially impactful.
This role is designed for a qualified or recently qualified accountant who’s ready to take the next step.
You’ll support some of our more complex clients, take ownership of performance reporting and year-end work, and work closely with Account Managers to understand how advisory relationships are built in practice.
Over your first 6-12 months, you’ll develop the technical, commercial, and communication skills needed to move towards managing your own client relationships.
You’ll still do excellent accounting work. But the goal is bigger than delivery. You’ll learn how to turn numbers into insight, insight into conversations, and conversations into better decisions for clients.
We’re growing & we need accountants who want to grow with us.
Ashton McGill works with ambitious founders who want more from their accountant than compliance. They want visibility, clarity, and support with the decisions that shape their business.
That means our team needs people who can do more than prepare the numbers. We need accountants who are curious, commercially minded, confident with clients, and ready to build relationships over time.
This role gives you the structure, exposure, and support to become that person.
What makes this a better way to grow?
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You won’t be left guessing what comes next.
This role is the first step on our Account Manager pathway. You’ll know what skills you’re building, what milestones matter, and what support is available to help you progress.
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You’ll work closely with Account Managers in live client conversations, review meetings, and planning sessions.
You won’t learn advisory work in theory. You’ll see how it happens in practice.
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You’ll work on performance reports, forecasts, cashflow, year-end accounts, and decision-support reporting.
The work lands somewhere real. Founders read it, discuss it, and use it to make decisions.
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You’ll work with a modern accounting stack and build skills that matter for where the profession is heading.
That means better systems, better reporting, better conversations, and less time spent on work that doesn’t create value.
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You’ll be supported by people who are invested in your growth.
Through internal support, external coaching, development time, and live client exposure, we’ll help you build the confidence to step up.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
What you’ll be doing.
You’ll play an important role in delivering high-quality accounting, reporting, and advisory support for our clients.
This will include:
Advisory development.
Work closely with Account Managers to understand how advisory services are delivered in practice.
Participate in board-level reporting, planning sessions, and strategy meetings to gain exposure to advisory work.
Learn to interpret financial data to provide meaningful insights and practical recommendations for clients.
Support clients with ad-hoc financial analysis and decision-support reporting.
Supervise junior team members, providing review feedback and guidance.
Client delivery.
Lead on management and performance reporting for complex client portfolios, including budgeting, cash flow forecasting, and variance analysis.
Prepare and review year-end accounts under FRS 102A and FRS 105.
Oversee preparation of personal and corporate tax returns, ensuring accuracy and compliance with UK tax legislation.
Your first 6-12 months.
Your first year will be focused on helping you grow from Senior Accountant into a future Account Manager. That doesn’t happen by accident. We’ll support you through a structured development pathway built around three areas:
COMMERCIAL TRAINING
Pricing, profitability & value-based advisory skills.
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Advanced financial analysis, systems integrations & management reporting.
SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Communication, leadership & relationship management
PROGRESSION
This role is the first step on our Account Manager pathway. With dedicated coaching (internal & external), development time & live client exposure, you’ll move from Senior Accountant to managing your own client relationships within 6-12 months.
About you.
This role could be right for you if you’re technically strong, curious about business, and ready to become more client-facing. You might be newly qualified, recently qualified, or close to qualifying. What matters most is that you’re ready for more ownership and excited by the idea of becoming a trusted advisor to ambitious business owners.
PERSON SPEC:
Recently or newly qualified (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent).
Strong technical grounding across statutory accounts, tax, and management reporting.
Comfortable working with current accounting tech (Xero experience is ideal).
Analytical thinker with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
Keen to develop commercial and interpersonal skills to transition into a client advisory role.
Confident collaborating with a team and communicating financial insights clearly and practically with clients.
What you’ll get.
We’ll give you the trust, support, and exposure to grow properly.
THAT INCUDES:
A clear pathway towards Account Manager
Internal and external coaching
Dedicated development time
Live client exposure
Hybrid working
Flexible hours
Learning budget
Private healthcare
Study support where relevant
A modern office and team environment
Work that genuinely matters to clients
Ready for a better way to grow?
If you’re ready to move beyond technical delivery and start building the kind of accounting career where clients know you, trust you, and rely on your insight, we’d love to hear from you.