Role:
Semi-Senior Accountant
Salary: Up to £27,000
Located: Sheffield
Hours: 37.5 hour flexible working week, Monday to Friday
We are currently supporting an impressive business based in Sheffield as they look to recruit a Semi-Senior Accountant into their successful team. They are looking for someone with experience preparing accounts, strong communication skills and at least 2 years of experience within an Accountancy Practice.
In return, you will be joining a forward-thinking team of accountants and looking after a really interesting portfolio of clients!
What’s on offer:
1. Flexible hours
2. Modern office with free parking
3. Private healthcare and pension scheme
4. 25 days holidays + 8 Bank Holidays
Main duties/responsibilities:
5. Bookkeeping for a variety of small and large clients – including posting purchase invoices and sales invoices and matching bank transactions to these to various software, and filing documents in a timely manner
6. General client communications (phone calls and emails) requesting records and dealing with general day to day bookkeeping queries
7. From bookkeeping this will lead to preparing the quarterly VAT Returns for each client – for manager review
8. Maintaining own client base for quarterly VAT returns, to ensure records are requested, received and processed in time and the filing deadlines met
9. Preparing year end accounts for limited companies, sole traders and partnerships for manager review, this will include balance sheet reconciliations, for example of bank accounts, PAYE, VAT, corporation tax, directors loan accounts etc.
10. Preparing self-assessment tax returns for limited company directors, sole traders, clients with rental properties or other reasons for filing a return
11. Managing own workloads, prioritising deadlines and liaising with manager/director of the department
12. Occasional assistance to more junior members of the team
13. Additional ad hoc duties as require
You will have:
14. Previous experience working in an Accountancy Practice
15. Proficiency in Iris, Xero, Sage Business Cloud, Sage 50 and QuickBooks is advantageous
16. Qualified by experience or AAT qualified / part-qualified ACA/ACCA
17. Demonstrate excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and communication abilities