Job Description

Main Responsibilities

Accounts & General Practice

• Complete sets of accounts, working from source documents/records to final accounts for review by the appropriate manager/senior

• Prepare and work on a wide range of accounts – Limited Company, Sole Trader, Partnership, Group etc.

• Input data into Iris

• Analyse and reconcile VAT returns, preparation of VAT returns

• Prepare sales and purchase control accounts

• Calculate accruals and prepayments and supporting schedules

• Prepare or check fixed asset registers

• Effectively manage time to ensure that jobs are finished within budget

• Produce management accounts monthly and quarterly for reporting and projection purposes

• Drafting Corporate & Personal Tax computations

• Complete any other duties as requested

• Dealing with general client queries

• Complete company secretarial work

Opportunity to be involved in ad-hoc client projects

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ideally qualified ACA/ACCA Senior part qualified (ACA/ACCA) or experienced QBE may be considered • Strong literacy and numerical skills • Proven double entry bookkeeping skills • Basic tax knowledge – how to do personal and corporate tax computations, PAYE, VAT • Computer experience – Sage, Excel, Word and ideally Iris • Currently working within a practice environment (3+ years’ experience) • Good up-to-date technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting standards • Communication – oral and written, ability to deal with variety of people in different environments • Organised – ability to deal with a variety of tasks and managing a varied workload • Client focused • Commercially aware