A job opportunity has arisen for a Semi-Senior to Senior Accountant with a firm of accountants in Kettering.
Full job details can be found below. The salary is negotiable, will of course depend on experience and qualification level and is open within reason.
Responsibilities:
- Taking responsibility and ownership of your own work and deadline management. This feeds into the budgets on compliance work. Constant communication is essential.
- Take responsibility as "Lead staff" for a small portfolio of clients, being their day-to-day point of contact and ensuring the work runs smoothly, being a key link between manager and client and identifying additional work that can be billed.
- Preparation and review of accounts, VAT returns and tax computations from client records, for sole traders, partnerships, and limited companies.
- Assisting clients with their financial record keeping, which is increasingly moving to Cloud-based solutions.
- Preparation of corporation tax returns, personal tax returns, capital gains tax computations, IHT and other specific actions where necessary (additional training will be provided if needed).
- Involvement in networking and business generation under the guidance of more senior team members.
- Supporting managers and partners as part of a focused client service team, which will include responding to client queries in a professional and timely manner and assisting with ad-hoc advisory work.
- Training and mentoring junior members of the team.
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Sociable and friendly firm
- Full training and study support
- Competitive salaries in-line with market rate
- Career progression
- Free parking
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working
- Enhanced Employer Pension Contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity
- Private Medical Insurance, provided by Vitality
- Retail Discount Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Regular fundraising, activities including bake sales, sporting events, and pub quizzes
- Electric Car scheme
- Medical Cash Plan, provided by Health Shield