Bookkeeper
Farringdon
£28,000-£32,000
Full-Time Permanent
Benefits:
- Respect for your wellbeing and work-life balance.
- Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for all staff and qualifying family members.
- A fair remuneration package with up to 33 days paid holiday per annum including a Christmas shutdown.
- Company sick pay.
- Death in Service Cover.
- Company share scheme.
- Salary sacrifice scheme.
- Free car parking.
- Subsidised gym membership.
- An annual eye test paid plus contributions towards glasses (within policy).
- Auto-enrolled workplace pension scheme.
- Study support.
- Bonuses for performance, referrals and recruitment.
- Preferential service from the in-house Financial Services team, including mortgages & protection products.
- Attendance at the clients 3-day annual conference event.
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Our client is seeking an experienced Bookkeeper to join their friendly team. You will be responsible for effectively supporting the team, ensuring there is accurate adherence to policies, procedures and regulatory responsibilities.
This role will include building good relationships with clients and internal departments.
Key Responsibilities as Bookkeeper:
- Double entry bookkeeping.
- Preparation of Self Assessment Tax Return's.
- Processing sales invoices; - receipts and payments.
- Preparation of statements showing income and expenditure - completing VAT returns.
- Preparing wages and processing expenses claims.
- Helping prepare P&L accounts and balance sheets.
- Logging in records received by clients and checking the information is relevant and complete
- Communicate and liaise verbally and in writing between clients/visitors/enquirers and staff and interpret and respond clearly and effectively to spoken requests over the phone or in person, and to verbal or written instructions.
- Manage, organise and update relevant data using database applications.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors and the general public.
- Maintain regular consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance and adherence to relevant health and safety procedures.
- Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of equipment and materials for which the role has responsibility.
Key Requirements:
- Minimum three years of bookkeeping experience.
- Able to produce up to trial balance from client receipts and records.
- Self-motivated and able to work to tight deadlines.
- Experience of Receipt Bank, QuickBooks, Xero or TaxCalc is preferential but not essential
- Good IT skills- to navigate a broad range of internal systems, including competent user of Outlook suite.
- Advanced organisation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and advanced communication skills (written and verbal).
- Advanced problem-solving skills.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.