The Accountants Recruiter are actively recruiting for a Bookkeeper on an ongoing contractual basis for our Accountancy client based in London. They specialise in finance, accounting and tax services that help ambitious entrepreneurs grow big businesses quickly and achieve their vision. They are part of the UK's tech and start-up economy which makes working with them exciting and rewarding.
The role offers flexibility on a fully remote basis. You must be based in the UK and have experience working within a UK accountancy practice.
Role and responsibilities:
The focus will be working with our bookkeeping clients to keep their bookkeeping up to date on an ongoing basis and close down the books at the end of the financial year.
- General bookkeeping, including bank reconciliations, processing expense, VAT/PAYE reconciliation etc.
- Maintaining Sales and Purchase Ledgers
- Accruals and Deferred Income considerations
- Registering for VAT and preparing returns
- Preparing management accounts
- Rectifying historic bookkeeping issues
- Reconciling Xero financial reports (trial balance) to filed statutory accounts
- Delivering fantastic client service
- Support on PAY or VAT related matters
What we are looking for:
- Experience of working on various software packages (Xero, Quickbooks)
- Experience with payment and sales platforms which link with bookkeeping packages.
- Commitment to client service and team working.
- Experience of providing bookkeeping service to clients through either an accounting or bookkeeping practice or having provided these services to their own clients.
- Good communicator who can build relationships with clients and other team members
Personal attributes that are important:
- Responsive - an excellent communicator over video (particularly), phone and email.
- Proactive - proactive and prepared to ask questions where unsure.
- Collaborative - enjoys working in a collegiate environment, supporting others, and seeking help where required.
- Attention to detail
- Customer focused - Desire to deliver an excellent service to the client
Hours: 15 hours + dependent on individual and allocation of clients. Flexible on how the hours are made up. I.e full days or split across the week.
£20 per hour - invoicing client directly.
If this sounds like the opportunity for you then we would love to see your CV.