Accounts Senior - Expiring soon!
Posted 13/08/2024 by MET Recruitment UK LTD
Accounts Senior
Halesowen
Full-time (35-hrs over 5-days), Flexitime working available
£35k - £40k depending on experience
Are you an experienced Accounts Senior with a general practice skill set, looking for a long-term career in a fantastic regional practice?
We are currently searching for an experienced, enthusiastic accounts senior who is either ACA / ACCA qualified with at least 12-months post-qualification experience or part qualified with 5/6 years’ experience join our well established, ever-growing client.
What’s in it for you?
- In-house and externally provided training, including structured CPD
- Salary sacrifice pension
- Optional Medical benefit
- Tech scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Regular staff entertaining / team building events
- Standard hour working day is 9-5 but can flex to work 8-4 or 10-6
- Time off in lieu system for overtime, or paid overtime above certain discretionary thresholds
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for the day-to-day administration of client matters involving, but not limited to –
- Self-employed and partnership accounts
- Personal tax returns and partnership tax returns, including for some high-net-worth individuals
- Statutory accounts preparation (FRS105 and FRS 102(1a) mainly, some IFRS for UK subsidiaries of international groups)
- Corporate tax returns
- Quarter-end VAT reviews and in-year management accounts production
- Tax planning and business development planning around all of the above
- Responsible for overseeing more junior colleagues and assisting with their development.
- Overseeing the client workflow and staff management systems to ensure timely progression of jobs
- Reporting into the director group on practice administration matters
- Practice promotion and networking with clients, targets and intermediaries
- Interacting with colleagues in our financial planning sister business to aid provision of cohesive wealth planning advice by that firm
- Use your own initiative to resolve issues.
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum of 4/5 years practice experience including qualification period, ideally within a general practice environment.
- Iris / Sage 50 / Sage Online / QuickBooks Cloud / Xero / Dext / Excel knowledge is desirable, but training will be given where required.
- An individual who can demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of current tax legislation.
- Good IT skills.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).
- Confident personality, able to mix with a range of client and colleague personalities
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.
- Good numeracy skills.
- Demonstrates attention to detail and a high concern for accuracy.
- A good team player.
- Minimum GCSEs of C plus in Maths and English, with strong further results at GCSE and A-level (degree level education is not mandatory)
- Driving licence
- Ability to work between two offices on a varied client base.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- JOB-3668
- Job ID:
- 222155764
- Applications:
- Less than 10
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