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You won’t just be demonstrating software; you will have a dual pre-sales technical and post-sales implementation focus, acting as a trusted consultant who helps complex, large-scale organisations understand how FreeAgent can transform their workflows.\n\nPre-sales, working side-by-side with our sales executives, you will act as the trusted technical specialist. You will support with solution scoping, workflow design, and tailor product demonstrations to win large-scale practice opportunities and enterprise deals.\n\nDuring implementation you’ll have the oversight required to ensure those firms move seamlessly from \"prospect\" to \"onboarded” and continue on their way to becoming happy and successful long-standing customers. You will project manage the end-to-end practice onboarding experience, design standard operating procedures (SOPs), deliver high-impact staff training, and oversee large-scale client migrations to FreeAgent.\n\nThis is a pivotal role bringing Sales, Account Management and Product Engineering together to nurture seamless software adoption by our large/ national Practice Partners, enabling long-term partner success.\n\nDay to day your role will involve:\nPre-Sales & Technical Scoping\nTechnical Discovery & Solution Design: Partner with sales team to conduct deep-dive operational discovery, mapping out a practice’s current software ecosystem, workflow hurdles, and mapping FreeAgent capabilities to their specific operational needs.\nTailored Product Demonstrations: Deliver compelling, solution-led product demonstrations to senior practice partners, IT directors, and heads of department to articulate FreeAgent’s technical and commercial value.\nObjection Handling & Scoping: Overcome complex technical, security or operational objections during the sales cycle, providing definitive guidance on integrations, data flows, and workflow feasibility.\nPost-Sales Onboarding & Practice Integration \nPractice Workflow Architecture: Design and embed standardised \"FreeAgent in-practice\" operational processes, helping firms with their workflow, compliance routines, and client management practices.\nImplementation Project Management: Manage the end-to-end onboarding lifecycle for large practices, maintaining project plans, managing risks, setting milestones, and keeping key internal/external stakeholders aligned through to go-live.\nClient Migration Strategy: Guide practice teams through bulk data migration activities-defining data extraction templates, validation routines, reconciliation standards, and sign-off procedures to move clients smoothly onto FreeAgent.\nTraining & Capability Building \n Structured Onboarding & Upskilling: Design and deliver tailored training sessions (workshops, webinars) for practice staff, bookkeepers, and client managers to build confidence and self-sufficiency.\nBest-Practice Toolkits: Build repeatable onboarding frameworks, migration playbooks, and training assets to accelerate time-to-value for newly signed practices.\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Product Advocacy\nInternal Voice of the Practice: Capture recurring technical requirements, migration bottlenecks, and product enhancements from large and national accounting firms, delivering structured feedback to the sales, Product and Engineering teams.\nContinuous improvement: Providing regular updates on wins and lessons learned to both the Implementation and wider sales teams to facilitate knowledge sharing, process improvements and continuous upskilling.\nYou\n Ideally you'll have:\nExperience as a qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience accountant or bookkeeper \nOperational familiarity with how large national UK accounting practices operate \nHigh level of computer-literacy and familiarity with SaaS software\nHands-on experience with data migrations \nExperience working in an accounting practice environment is preferable\nOur work life\nWe believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.\n\nAt FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!\nWork pattern for this role\n\nThis is a permanent, full time role (Monday to Friday).\nThis is a UK-based remote role, combining field-based work with home working. Although nationwide travel is required, travel will be most often across England. There will be regular contact and trips to head office sited at Edinburgh Quay (convenient for Haymarket train station and airport links).\n\nOne last thing, FreeAgent is moving house!\nNext year we’ll be moving to our swanky new pad to the west of Edinburgh, with superb employee facilities and close to multiple transport links. We’ll share more details with you as you go through the hiring process.\nPerks\n Annual starting salary of £37,500 - £43,000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress to £46,500 within the band. (Details on London weighting and car allowance can be provided at phone interview)\nOur starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.\n\nWe pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:\n33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)\nFlexible/hybrid working\nPrivate health care\nLife assurance\n5% matched pension contributions\nSummer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)\nBuy-as-you-earn share schemes\nSabbatical leave (unpaid)\nCycle to work scheme\nWellness webinars\nFocused learning time and learning budgets\nVolunteering day\nFind out more about our benefits package here!\nTempted to apply? 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