£ 35000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Supervising a team of juniors/apprentices, allocating resources to new work and prioritizing jobs
- Managing your team’s workflow, billing, and workload
- Onboarding and training team members and apprentices
- Providing reporting and analytics on your team
- Hitting internal utilization and budget targets
- Completing and submitting VAT returns
- Managing a portfolio of clients and working to build that portfolio - including all elements of workflow, billing and quality control
- Maintaining complete and accurate client records
- Prepare management reports including Month End journals and reconciliations
- Accounts preparation for Limited companies, Sole Traders and Partnerships at least to draft stage
- Regular and proactive client contact, building client relationships
- Must be able to organize and manage a portfolio of clients, and work with the wider team to meet internal and external deadlines
- Dealing with external bodies such as HMRC
- Delegating to and supervising junior staff
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- You will need a minimum of three years’ practice experience, preferably an AAT affiliate or part way through ACCA with ambitions to finish them.
- Excellent working knowledge of software, tools and applications within the Accounting Industry, in particular, Xero and TaxCalc would be advantageous.
- Minimum AAT Level 3 or equivalent
- Personal and corporate tax knowledge
- Passionate about delivering exceptional customer service
- A team approach, effective communication with clients and colleagues
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent IT skills, in particular MS Office and accounting software, experience of Xero, TaxCalc and Sage software is an advantage
- Able to work and communicate clearly and regularly with others to achieve goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of managing others an advantage
- It would be ideal, but not essential, for the candidate to have experience with clients in media, creative, fashion, branding/PR and digital/technology industries.
- A problem solver
Reference no: 105034