£23K/yr to £29K/yr
Leeds, England
Permanent, Variable

Junior Accountant

Posted by Workwell.

An exciting new opportunity has risen due to ongoing growth in Clever Accounts for a Junior Accountant. Do you have the drive and ambition to continue your personal and professional development?

If so, we are looking for the right candidate with:

  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with colleagues and clients.
  • Always aiming to deliver excellent customer service.
  • Excellent attention to detail and a good knowledge of accountancy principles.
  • Work well with others and confidently communicate challenges and opportunities to clients and colleagues.
  • Be self-motivated and work hard to achieve your end goals.

The focus of the role is:

  • Building and managing a portfolio of 80 -200 clients with training.
  • Communicating with clients, in a timely professional manner via calls and emails.
  • Focus of providing excellent customer service
  • Assisting clients on the use of our bookkeeping portal
  • Providing basic tax planning and ad hoc advice when required.
  • Reviewing accounts and approving them to be sent to the client.
  • Preparing self-assessment tax returns to send to clients for approval.

Person Specification:

  • Good attitude and ability to take ownership of work
  • Ambitious and career-orientated.
  • A good understanding of accounting principles.
  • Good technical ability and experience with limited companies
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Able to manage own workload effectively & work methodically
  • Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
  • A team player
  • A commitment to personal development
  • Computer literate / IT savvy

Benefits and Outcomes

  • Casual dress code -no expensive, stuffy suits
  • No need to complete time sheets where you would have to account for every 6 minutes of your day
  • Forward thinking, modern business
  • Clients use our online bookkeeping portal, so you won't be working through a bag of receipts
  • Gain an all round knowledge of accountancy in a friendly, modern, open plan environment where you won't be pigeonholed.
  • No audit

Full office-based training & development programme