Graduate Accounts Associate

7 days ago

Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom S&W Full time

Company Description At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.
Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

In your role, 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. 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.

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
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

Experience working on statutory accounts preparation, VAT returns, management accounts
Be committed to completing the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification (or ACA where study has already commenced)

Experience of the following software is desired:
Xero
Excel

Competitive salary
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Pension contribution
Generous holiday package
Option to purchase additional holiday
Shared parental leave
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation.

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