Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Manage the daily operations of the finance department such as payroll, invoicing, VAT and ensuring the team meet critical deadlines
- Responsible for the personal development and overall management of the accounting team
- Managing tax preparation, auditing, banking, investments and financial year end
- Track the company’s financial status and performance to identify areas for potential improvement or potential risk
- Delegating appropriate work to Accounts Seniors and Trainees, providing support and supervision as required and ensuring an overall balance of resource utilization is achieved
- Understand and adhere to financial regulations and legislation
- Delegating appropriate work to Accounts Seniors and Trainees, providing support and supervision as required and ensuring an overall balance of resource utilization is achieved
- Consistently achieve deadlines while understanding the commercial implications of productivity and client service
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ambitious with a clear desire to progress
- Ability to multi-task and service a portfolio of clients effectively and efficiently
- Excellent communication skills at all levels
- Ability to priorities work and work to tight deadlines
- Team player with the ability to keep a sense of humor under pressure
- Strong organizational skills
- Positive ‘can-do’ attitude
- Curious; ability to spot inconsistencies and query as and when
- Relentlessly reliable, keen to go the extra mile
- Self-disciplined and accountable for producing high-quality work
- Good time management and organizational skills in planning own work
- Degree qualified accountant with a professional accounting qualification (Chartered status/ACCA/CIMA) and strong technical accounting skills. Professional accounting qualification
- Minimum 10 years post-qualification experience
- Experience as a Finance or Accounting manager running an accounting department, preferably in waste and construction services or other manpower based service provision company, would be advantageous
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Strong understanding of HMRC, VAT, payroll, month end processes and year end
- Familiar with using Sage 50 Accounts and Xero accounting software
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
- CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified
- Solid background in Accountancy software (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Tax Calc etc)Intermediate MS Excel skills
- Very good spoken and written English
Reference no: 108965