Trainee Accountant + 30- 35k + Sale (Office Based Monday - Friday) + 23 days hol (+BH) + Fantastic Company, great opportunity!
Our client based in Sale are looking for a Trainee Accountant to join their team in a fast paced accountancy firm. You would be joining a 50 strong workforce of a very well established business, that live and breath a very positive culture and have a thriving office environment. You will be working with a wide range of SME'sacross a variety of sectors. you will overseeing and assisting in the preparation of year end accounts and associated submissions for Manager review. This will include:
- Accounts preparation and submission FRS105 and FRS102 (1A)
- Tax computations (Personal and corporate)
- Bookkeeping on a variety of software packages, predominantly Xero.
- Managing a portfolio of clients
- Holdings meetings with new and existing clients.
- Plus other adhoc duties
The Trainee Accountancy role also involves:
- Co-ordinating with other departments of the firm, such as payroll and audit.
- Proactively communicating and coordinating with the client
- Planning your own workload, managing deadlines and effectively prioritising work
- Ensuring that processes and services undertaken are conducted with a risk managed approach and to high standards
- Ensuring integrity and completeness of supporting informationon the accounting records and on our internaldocument storage system, to provide a full audit trail and transparency.
Required qualifications and experience of:
- 4-5 years experience of working in practice (part-qualified or AAT)
- Xero cloud software and related apps, accounts production software and tax software.
- Microsoft Excel (including use of Pivot tables, Vlookups and SUMIFS)
- Delivering a high level of customer service and building strong client relationships.
- Mentoring and coaching junior colleagues.
Key Skills:
- Tech savvy and tech focussed
- Self-starter with a positive, can do attitude
- Excellent communication skills and high level of attention to detail
- Customer focussed - understanding of customer needs and concerns
- Able to develop relationships with other departments in the firm.
- Risk based approach with clear waiting to areas of significant financial and operational risk.
- Organised with good time management skills and ability to take responsibility for own actions
- Willing to undertake the mundane as well as the exciting parts of the job
