Our team is growing and we are looking for someone with experience of working in a fast-paced accountancy firm to join our team. If you are a team player fuelled by ambition, then this role might just before you.
As an Accountant in our Accounts Team, you’ll be working with a wide range of SMEs across a variety of sectors. You will be overseeing and assisting in the preparation of year-end accounts and associated submissions for Manager review.
This will include:
- Accounts preparation and submission.
- Tax computations (personal and corporate).
- Bookkeeping on a variety of software packages, predominantly Xero.
- Managing a portfolio of clients.
- Holdings meetings with new and existing clients.
- Plus other ad hoc duties.
What else does your role involve?
- Co-ordinating with other departments of the firm, such as payroll and audit
- Proactively communicating and coordinating with the client.
- Planning your own workload, managing deadlines and effectively prioritising work.
- Ensuring that processes and services undertaken are conducted with a risk-managed approach and to high standards.
- Ensuring integrity and completeness of supporting information on the accounting records and on our internal document storage system, to provide a full audit trail and transparency.
Required qualifications
- ACA / ACCA qualified (or qualified by experience - circa 5 years' experience of working in practice)
Plus, we'd love for you to have experience of:
- Xero cloud software and related apps, accounts production software and tax software.
- Microsoft Excel (including use of pivot tables, Vlookups and SUMIFS).
- Delivering a high level of customer service.
- Building strong client relationships.
- Mentoring and coaching junior colleagues.
Key Skills
- Tech savvy and tech focussed.
- Self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Excellent communication skills and high level of attention to detail.
- Customer focussed - understanding of customer needs and concerns.
- Able to develop relationships with other departments in the firm.
- Risk based approach with clear weighting to areas of significant financial and operational risk.
- Organised with good time management skills and ability to take responsibility for own actions.
- Willing to undertake the mundane as well as the exciting parts of the job – we are a small organisation and everyone has to be willing to get stuck in!
Important information: This job ad is for speculative applications only. Whilst we are not currently recruiting for this role, we are always looking to connect with talented professionals. Your application will be reviewed and will be considered when a suitable opportunity becomes available.