Advisory Consulting Director

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations. 

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary. 

What will you be doing?

The Advisory Consulting team is a small, but rapidly growing team in Bristol and London that supports businesses in a range of situations, from companies experiencing underperformance, to successful businesses looking to further optimise and grow.

Our team is new and operates in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. We pride ourselves on being nimble and flexible in the way we work and focus on adding tangible value to our clients through our work. While we expect the usual high standards of intellectual rigour and analytical capacity, we also expect the Associate Director candidate to be a self-starter, someone who can challenge the status quo and has a positive, collaborative attitude. We offer considerably more exposure to senior client stakeholders and the S&W leadership team to accelerate your learning and career development.

As a Director in the Advisory Consulting team, you will be responsible for working with corporate clients, private equity investors and stakeholders on a variety of projects covering business turnaround, remediation, finance transformation and value creation. You will lead engagements and work collaboratively with other S&W teams such as Tax, Restructuring, Transaction services and Corporate Finance. 

As Advisory Consulting Director, your responsibilities will include among others

• Identification and conversion of work opportunities for the team – through internal referrals, external contacts and existing clients 
• Leveraging your own relationships in the market and building new relationships to expand our profile and identify work opportunities. 
• Lead on delivery of complex client engagements – including managing relationships, identifying, and mitigating risks and presenting final deliverables to senior client stakeholders - relentless excellence in deadline and client management and quality of outputs
• Be ready to dive into project delivery and bring a ‘get things done’ attitude
• Own and nurture client relationships at senior stakeholder levels, acting as the main point of contact and trusted advisor during critical business situations.
• Managing engagement economics, including scoping & pricing decisions to ensure we consistently meet our budget and KPIs
• Forging strong relationships with clients and S&W colleagues 
• Manage a team on client engagements, as well as broader coaching and development of more junior team members
• Support development of new service offerings and evolving propositions to drive practice growth
• Promote culture of continuous improvement and learning across the team

To be successful in this role, you should

• Successful track record within a well-established consulting outfit
• Excellent financial and operational acumen with experience in understanding commercial value drivers and analysing financial statements.
• Strong Powerpoint and reporting skills – ability to clearly articulate complexity to executives
• Strong problem solving, business diagnostic and analytical skills
• A strong understanding of business operations and strategic levers
• Practical experience of building and managing a team
• Ability to organise to be able to work on several different assignments at one time
• Inter-personal skills – able to communicate effectively across all levels
• Experience in business development, identification and conversion of work opportunities
• Professional qualifications – ACA, ACCA, CIMA, MBA or equivalent preferred

As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependent)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave
• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care support

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.