- Agile working after 3 months
We have an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful accountancy firm in their busy Insolvency team. This is a varied role and you will enjoy working with a diverse set of clients. You will benefit from a close working relationship with senior members of the team providing you with high quality on the job training. Our client offer a superb environment in which to grow and advance your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join the established and well-respected Turnaround, Restructuring and Insolvency team.
Our client does not expect you to have experience of turnaround or insolvency as detailed training, support and supervision will be given.
The Role:
For turnaround assignments assisting partners, directors and managers with:
- Reviewing and analysing financial performance of entities
- Assisting with the preparation of formal and informal turnaround plans
- Assisting with the implemented and monitoring of turnaround strategies
For formal insolvency appointments assisting partners, directors and managers with;
- The preparation of documents of appointment
- Preparing and delivering notifications of appointment
- Attendance at site to review, log and recover physical and electronic records
- Preparing periodic file reviews
- The preparation of reports to creditors
- The coding of receipts and payment vouchers to maintain our case cashbooks
- Trading administrations including potential attendance at site, dealing with queries from employees, customers and suppliers. Forster relationships with suppliers. Assist managers with the maintenance of the accounting function.
- investigating the conduct of directors and reporting to the Insolvency Service
- Helping employees making claims for arrears of wages, redundancy pay etc
- Enacting strategies for realising assets including book debt collection, liaising with chattels agents, assisting managers with the assignments of patents
- Preparing insurance documentation
- Dealing with creditor queries, then agreeing and paying claims
- Obtaining clearances from HMRC
The Person will:
- Be diligent, tenacious, curious, confident, articulate, numerate, with a healthy dose of common sense!
- Be able to write clear, accurate and concise business letters
- Ideally have some finance experience as you will be expected to help interpret financial statements and review various financial documents
- Have spreadsheet skills with strong numerical ability
- A good communicator who is confident and enquiring
- Have a keen eye for detail
- Work at pace with a good deal of energy and enthusiasm and be comfortable with a dynamic and changing environment
- Be comfortable in delivering high standard work to tight deadlines
- Be resilient in difficult situations e.g. you may be tasked with speaking to creditors who are upset because they have lost money
- Able to work effectively as part of a team
- Have strong IT skills, including Word and Excel, and the ability to adapt to unfamiliar packages.
- Have a flexible and proactive approach
Benefits:
- Life assurance at 2 x salary
- Income protection insurance
- A minimum of 23 days holiday
- Pension
- Critical illness cover
- Dental insurance
- Additional life assurance
- Childcare vouchers
- Purchase of additional holiday (certain levels of staff may also sell holiday)
- Retail vouchers
- Alongside the scheme there is unlimited access to a discount scheme, offering a wide variety of discounts across a whole range of products and services, including discounted gym membership rates
- Free flu jabs