Job Description

An opportunity has arisen based in Weston-Super-Mare to join a growing firm of accountants , as a key addition around Semi Senior / Senior Accountant / Technician levels, during this key period of the firms growth and development. There is potential to develop and progress in your career, both technically, increasing your technical skills, along with developing more client contact and relationships and a path to progress in levels.

Client Details

A highly successful and positively growing accountancy practice based in Weston-Super-Mare. The business has been undergoing continued and sustained positive growth through referrals and new business generation. Currently the firm has around 450 limited companies, completes circa 600 tax returns, undertakes around 300 payrolls and completes between 100 - 200 VAT returns as approx. numbers. With a main share holding director and team supporting them, with managerial tax and accounts specialists, supported by a team of qualified staff/technicians and trainees the firm provides a superb environment in which to develop and progress in your career. The director has clear growth plans and vision, providing a supportive environment where individuals who are looking to develop themselves professionally will be actively encouraged to progress

Joining as a Semi Senior / Senior Accountant / Technician dependent on the level of background and experience of the right professional, with the genuine potential to mould this to a good degree around the right persons background and motivations, you will take responsibility for the delivery of a wide range of compliance services to the firms clients. The role will be very varied and mixed across accounts preparation, tax, bookkeeping management, with the potential for increasing client management and relationship building as you develop within the firm and role. The business is looking to bring a key addition, who can carve a role in this growing business at a key time in the firms growth, looking to develop, support and train the right person and encourage them to progress in their career, in this firm. You will work on varied clients, mixed in industry range and turnover. Clients are primarily limited company, OMBs, SMEs and family owned concerns with a sweet spot in size across the £150k - £500k range, in turnover size. Alongside this they act for smaller sole traders and larger clients into the millions, with their largest client being around the £3million turnover mark. They act for this client on a key business partnering basis, providing a range of compliance and planning services, along with acting as an outsourced accounting function for this client.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The firm is looking to consider a wide range of backgrounds and experience for this role. For instance, you may be an AAT qualified technician, or studying towards this qualification. Alternatively you may be pursuing ACCA qualification and part way through your studies. Or lastly, you may have developed your career through experience to date only and be looking to build further on this, in a hands on role. Most importantly, as a key requirement to be considered for this role and firm, you will have developed experience, preparing any of accounts, tax, VAT, bookkeeping, tax and any other varied, all round accountancy practice skills, within an accountancy practice firm of any size. You will have at least 2 - 3 years or ideally more experience, developed across any of these areas within an accounting firm and be looking for a career opportunity with genuine potential to develop technically and progress in your career.