Accounts Assistant
Salary: 35k - 41k
Ashtead
Office Based
9am - 5.30pm 37.5 hr week
4 or 5 days a week
I am working with a growing business that are looking for an Accounts Manager to join their team of 10. They deal with a whole range of business and personal clients from start-up to turnover of up to £20M. Ideally the candidate will have the drive and ability to become both a Director and Equity Partner in the future.
Initially, this will be office based and after probation period, we can offer 1 day a week WFH.
Requirements
- Attention to detail
- Leadership & management skills
- Client focused
- Recent relevant experience in an accountancy Practice
- Managing staff
- Managing a client portfolio
- Ideally experience of IRIS and XERO
Skills
- Excellent IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Excellent knowledge of accounting standards/FRSs
- Sound tax working knowledge
Qualifications
-Part or fully qualified ACA or ACCA
Duties
- Liaise with a portfolio of clients to ensure that they are happy with the services provided
- Meet with existing clients to go through final accounts, pre-year-end tax planning meetings
- Bring to clients' attention ways in which we could help them further – demonstrate the benefits of the additional services we provide and issue Extra Work Orders upon agreement for us to undertake extra work
- Maintain billing arrangements
- Control workflow. Review & control impending deadline for Companies House & HMRC
- Maintain & develop systems to ensure consistent delivery of services at the highest standard
- Manage the Accounts Assistants and help with their annual assessments, produce a short review of each assignment, and provide the assistants with training as required
- Deal with emails & client queries as required
- Review accounts for companies (FRS102 and FRS 105), LLPs, partnerships and some sole traders
- Review quarterly VAT returns. This involves working with spreadsheets, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks
- Prepare and review business tax computations to identify the taxable business profits, including correctly claiming tax relief on fixed assets (for all types of business entities)
- Draft & review via Accounts Assistants covering letters & supporting paperwork with the final accounts and business tax computations to client
- Liaise with payroll and tax department
- Prepare and review relatively straightforward personal tax returns for Directors using IRIS
- Tax planning regarding extraction of funds from a company in the most tax efficient manner
- Prepare & review invoices using our software
- Update the CRM system
- Review electronic in-tray and deal with tasks/post in as necessary
- Attend management & weekly team meetings and contribute ideas and opinions
- Renew fixed price agreements and log profit/(loss) on each job
- Control job flow, budgets on jobs, deadlines through the office
- Help with maintaining the database on our website
- Attend both technical and practice management training events (external & internal)
- Meet with potential new clients and quote for our services using our pricing software
- Prepare & review forms P11D (months April to July only)
- Assist the director with various administration and sales and marketing tasks from time to time
- Assist the director with AMLR/GDPR/ICAEW Annual Return matters
- Onboarding new clients
We also operate a bonus scheme where you can share in the company's overall profits
If you are interested in applying the please apply now!