Job Description Introduction As part of our Business Outsourcing Services team, you will be working with clients and their finance teams or bookkeepers, helping them with their year-end accounts, management accounts, bookkeeping, VAT returns and cloud accounting software support. This means providing services, advice and solutions that really make a difference. You will also have exposure to working with partners gaining invaluable experience and building your confidence with senior members of staff. You’ll build valuable client experience, developing the knowledge and skills needed to be a trusted business adviser. Alongside your work, you will receive first-class professional training as you study for the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification (where an equivalent qualification isn’t already held), followed by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification (or ACA if study has already commenced) which will enable you to gain a full understanding of the technical aspects of audit, accountancy, and additional financial advisory services. What will you be doing? Progression within this team is fast, with responsibility from an early stage. Once studying for your chartered qualifications, you will be taking on a more senior role and helping to supervise the new intake of trainees. As your experience grows, you may have opportunities to experience other ad hoc assignments that our clients request our help with such as: one-off software implementation projects, cloud accounting software ‘health-checks’ or client secondments to assist their finance function. You will also receive internal training from the professional services learning and development team. You will be working in a client-facing, dynamic team, developing the knowledge and skills needed to be a trusted business adviser. Additionally, you will study towards the AAT on a Level 3 and then Level 4 apprenticeship (where an equivalent qualification is not already held), followed by the ACCA (or ACA if study has already commenced) on a Level 7 Apprenticeship qualification, developing essential skills sought out in the professional services sector. Your responsibilities will include: Working as part of a team to provide clients with a range of services including statutory accounts, bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT returns, software implementation and ‘health-checks’ of their systems Developing an understanding of our clients and their businesses Keeping your manager fully informed of any issues and problems, ensuring the work is completed to a level agreed with the manager and recording clearly and concisely the work carried out Becoming familiar with our internal accounting software as well as other cloud accounting technologies Providing advice and solutions to clients in response to their accounting queries Using automation to improve efficiencies for our clients’ finance function Prioritising tasks for your own portfolio of clients, whilst monitoring time against budget