Job Description

This is a great opportunity to join an established family run business, with a focus on building strong and honest customer relationships. They pride themselves on providing a high-quality service, expert knowledge and outstanding accuracy for all their clients. They operate as one unified team of accountants, administrators and apprentices to ensure their business support services are efficient and flexible, tailored to client requirements.

They also offer continued development for all members of their team to help support career progression and ambition to learn and progress.

This role will involve ensuring all accounting deadlines are met for all clients, working in an accounts team of 6 and extending to the wider team of 20.

Responsibilities and Tasks include:

• Being able to manage multiple work deadlines, to ensure all external deadlines are met for all clients
• Preparing, completing, and filing self-assessments
• Working with the team, discussing, and planning paperwork is received from clients in a timely manner, to ensure all processing can be completed within the planned timescales
• Assessing all requirements for the practice is always compliant
• Ensuring all training support is provided for the Apprentice
• Completing all Client Due Diligence for new clients
• Completing all AML for new clients
• Producing management and financial accounts
• Completing VAT returns and CT600 returns
• Communicating with all clients via email updates monthly
• Identifying any potential efficiencies for the practice, from a cost, value, or time perspective
• Maintain a high level of CPD training
• Working within a structured manner to provide support to less experienced colleagues
• Providing internal training for team members on key financial information

Salary/package: £21,000 - £26,000K, depending on experience and qualifications. Working Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, with some flexibility.

Work remotely:

• No

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Sanitization, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

FMAAT or equivalent and a minimum of 2 years’ experience. Practice experience would be advantageous AML Certificate. Professional Ethics Certificate. Knowledge of HMRC registration and liaison with HMRC on queries. Experience with Self Assessments and VAT, preparation and filing. Use of Xero Accounting Software and Taxfiler Software would be an advantage. Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational capability. Being able to work to tight deadlines. Good oral and written communication skills. General IT and numerical skills. Experience: accounting: 2 years (Required). License/Certification: FMAAT or equivalent (Required).