£40000 - £70000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Due to growth in the accountancy side of our multi-disciplinary consulting practice, they are seeking a Senior Accountant to assist our
- Working with our team of accountants, you will be required to complete end to end accounting tasks for a range of SME businesses, using industry leading tools.
- The responsibilities are as below, but are not limited to:
- Maintain records of our clients using accounting software packages including Xero and Sage 50
- Use cloud accounting tools to process transactions, prepare and post journals, update all ledgers, perform bank reconciliations ready for the monthly reporting process
- Liaising with clients on any queries
- Making journal entries for all receipts, payments, and other financial transactions. • Undertake financial close procedures for the month end, including inter-company balance reconciliation
- Preparing management accounts and month end reconciliations
- Running the monthly payroll for clients
- Preparing corporation tax computation calculations and basic tax planning
- Dealing with the preparation and completion of VAT returns,
- Apply and understand the client to ensure transactions are recorded appropriately, under the correct accounting standard and highlight unusual transactions to senior members of the team
- Work as part of a team to provide ad-hoc accounting assistance
- Training and mentoring junior members of staff
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- 3-5 years’ experience within practice
- ACA or ACCA qualified
- Must be highly organized, proactive and a self-starter
- Able to priorities workload and be self-sufficient.
- Can work well under pressure and in a very busy environment
- Xero certified user
- A team player, with active participation in the team, in addition to being able to work on their own as required
- Friendly and helpful with a can-do work ethic
- Flexible and able to priorities a changing to do list.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Intermediate MS Office, including Excel, Word.
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