Career Opportunities - Business Owner

Bookkeeper / Management Accountant

Location: Across the UK
Salary: £15,000-100,000

The Company:

The Local Bookkeeper is a leading national bookkeeping and financial management firm which is currently offering an exciting opportunity to run your own business as a franchisee of The Local Bookkeeper. 

The Local Bookkeeper’s goal is to revolutionise the bookkeeping industry by creating the UK’s first national brand of bookkeepers.

The Local Bookkeeper will be filling the massive void, where many accountants and existing unqualified bookkeepers are not meeting the expectations and needs of small-to-medium sized businesses across the UK.

The Local Bookkeeper is dedicated to smarter and more intelligent financial management for small businesses. The Local Bookkeeper provides a selection of services including bookkeeping, management accounts, payroll and credit control to provide full financial management of a business’s finances which historically, has never been offered by a national brand to small and medium sized businesses. The revolution has begun!       

The Opportunity: 

This is a truly outstanding opportunity for qualified or/and experienced accounting/financial professionals to be part of the biggest revolution in the bookkeeping industry.

You will be the owner of your own business which will specialise in helping the Small businesses to manage their finances and help grow them grow. You will benefit from having financial security, working to a proven and tested business model and an opportunity to be your own boss with the support of a national expert in this field.   

The Local Bookkeeper will provide you with a full week’s training to teach you the business model which has been developed and tested over the past 12 years. You will also receive over 20 leads (in some cases up to 40+ leads) and full marketing support, on an ongoing basis supporting addition to national marketing campaigns. You will receive ongoing technical and business advice to assist you in developing your business.

You will be responsible for:  

• Delivering bookkeeping, management accounts, managing the provision of payroll, managing the provision of credit control and other services
• Recruiting, inducting, training, coaching and managing your own staff   
• All aspects of running your business   
• Managing client accounts and relationships 
• Delivering a superior service to your clients to provide you with a very profitable business  

About You:    

You will be experienced and/or qualified in an area of finance or accountancy. You will need the desire to succeed in managing a business (with our support) and should be passionate about customer satisfaction.  You will recognise the benefits of being your own boss and the work/life balance you can achieve.         

We have strict recruitment processes to ensure that we recruit only the best technical and experienced franchisees who also have the ability to communicate with clients and their employees.            

We look for franchisees with formal qualifications and/or experience in accounting and bookkeeping, including the following:-       

• Institute of Certified Bookkeepers – ICB
• Association of Accounting Technician's - AAT        
• ACCA's Certified Accounting Technician Qualification – CAT
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants – CIMA
• Any formal accounting qualification - ICAEW and ACCA

We will, of course, speak with any QBE (qualified by experience) candidate.         


The Benefits:  

• You control how much you earn, with no limitations
• You run your own business with the support of a national brand  
• Full launch support including lead generation of over 20 leads to get you started
• Intensive 1 week training course
• Telephone helpline support by technical and qualified staff
• Regular support visits
• The benefit of national marketing and strategic relationships
• Regional workshops
• E-learning tools
• Annual franchise conference with workshops
• Exceptional business support services 
• World-class extranet access
• Central marketing planning support and media buying  
• Holiday and illness support to provide you with a uniquely competitive service
• Corporate literature and a professionally designed website

Applications: 

To Apply please click on the map locations above on select from below:

South East | South West | Midlands | North