Hybrid Customer Retention Executive – Accounting-as-a-Service

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About the role

  • Customer Retention Executive improving client relationships and reducing churn for small business accounting services. Engage with clients, analyse usage patterns, and collaborate with internal teams for effective solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively engage with at-risk clients to rebuild confidence, resolve concerns, and retain trust
  • Analyse churn and usage patterns to flag disengagement before it becomes a problem
  • Hold positive, outcome-oriented conversations with clients considering cancellation
  • Collaborate with internal teams (Accounting, Customer Service, Success) to ensure clients receive timely and high-quality support
  • Balance customer advocacy with commercial goals, identifying win-win solutions wherever possible
  • Suggest tailored services or account adjustments based on client needs
  • Hold regular check-ins with clients to maintain relationships and surface potential issues early
  • Track customer success metrics and contribute to data-led retention strategy
  • Share client feedback and cancellation themes with the wider business to improve service

Requirements

  • Experience with accounting software (QuickBooks, Xero, Freshboks, Dext) gained in such companies or in medium to large size chartered accountant practices
  • Proven experience in a retention-focused role, where your primary success metric was keeping clients engaged, satisfied, and active
  • Strong understanding of churn indicators, renewal risk, and the tactics used to re-engage at-risk accounts
  • Experience working with account health metrics, such as last login, ticket volume, responsiveness, engagement scores, or similar
  • Practical understanding of retention KPIs
  • Ability to surface cancellation themes or client feedback trends and present them internally to drive strategic improvements
  • Familiarity with working cross-functionally (e.g. with service delivery, onboarding, support) to resolve root issues and unlock retention solutions
  • Clear, professional communicator, confident handling objections, escalations, and value-based discussions

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model
  • Real opportunities for progression as the business scales
  • The chance to influence both customer experience and product development
  • A culture that values ownership, impact, and continuous learning

Job title

Customer Retention Executive – Accounting-as-a-Service

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

£40,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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