Business Services Manager | Partnership Pathway | WFH Up to 4 Days a Week

A Manager role with a genuine path to partnership Most Manager roles offer more work and a better title. This one offers a stake. The partner of this practice is looking for someone who can take real ownership of a client portfolio now, and who may want to buy into the firm in time. If that's the conversation you've been waiting to have, it's a live one here.

About the firm

This is a boutique chartered accounting and tax practice based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. The team is small, close-knit and genuinely positive at what they do, acting for private business groups, high-net-worth individuals and families, and SMEs across a broad range of industries. Because it's boutique, there's no siloing. You'll see the full picture of a client's affairs and sit alongside the partners rather than three layers below them.

The role

Reporting directly to the partner, you'll manage your own portfolio and hold technical responsibility for the work that leaves the practice:

- Reviewing financial statements and income tax returns for companies, trusts, partnerships, SMSFs and individuals prepared by the wider team
- Acting as the primary contact for your clients, and handling the conversations that matter to them
- Advisory work across tax planning, structuring, succession, acquisitions and business performance
- Mentoring and developing the intermediate and senior accountants,



and taking an active role in their technical training
- Workflow, WIP and billing management across your portfolio
- Contributing to the direction and growth of the practice

Partnership potential

For the right person, there is a genuine pathway to equity. The partner wants someone who will grow a portfolio, build the team beneath them and eventually buy in. If partnership isn't what you're after, this remains an excellent senior role with autonomy, quality work and rare flexibility. If it is, the door is open and the conversation is a real one.

What you'll bring

- CA or CPA qualified
- Substantial business services experience within Australian public practice, including demonstrated review experience
- Confidence dealing directly with clients, including the difficult conversations
- A real interest in advisory work, not just compliance throughput
- Experience mentoring and developing junior staff
- Strong technology skills (Xero and the usual practice suite)
- The self-discipline to lead a portfolio in a role built on trust and autonomy

What's on offer

- Salary up to $150,000 + super, dependent on experience
- A genuine partnership pathway for those who want it
- Work from home up to four days a week once established, with a single day in the office
- Broad, interesting work with direct partner and client contact
- A supportive boutique environment where your contribution is visible

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📌 Business Services Manager | Partnership Pathway | WFH Up to 4 Days a Week (New South Wales)
🏢 Piper Fitzgerald
📍 New South Wales