Freelance Senior Bookkeeper

**Freelance Senior Bookkeeper required for clients based in the Stoke-on-Trent area**

**About you**:
We are looking for a qualified and experienced Senior Bookkeeper, with strong communication skills, to join our team of freelance accountancy professionals, providing freelance accountancy support to our clients in the Stoke-on-Trent area of the UK.

You will ideally be already self-employed, immediately available and looking to build on your client-base (with at least 2 days a week availability) delivering expertise into SME’s. **If you are not already self-employed but are looking to move into freelance work (and meet the **below criteria) we would love to hear from you too.

You will have gained previous, solid knowledge in the following: double-entry, P&L reports, processing payroll, purchase and sales ledger, credit control, implementing new accounting procedures, coaching colleagues, correcting errors and providing financial information to ensure accurate auditing, cashflow, budgets and forecasting can be obtained.

Often you will be helping clients who require some real hand-holding with their accounts and so you must be a natural problem solver, with lots of patience, tenacity and determination, looking to make a real difference and add value to your clients.

You will be fully or part-qualified (AAT/IAB/ICB) **OR** have at least 3 years of relevant experience under your belt and will be highly computer literate with advanced Excel skills, MS 365, and comfortable in implementing new processes and procedures. Your role will be varied, with the option to work with a variety of clients delivering expertise to help them to improve and implement best practices within their accountancy function. Proficiency in either Xero, Sage Line 50 and/or QuickBooks is required, and you will ideally have a broad level of bookkeeping experience, gained across a variety of SME businesses and/or industry sectors.

**About the role**

In return we will offer you access to new clients (which we will source and engage with for you) flexibility and free membership to our incredible business, providing you with access to industry experts, training, innovation, networking, CPD, frameworks that produce great results and a feeling of togetherness and being a part of something bigger than working alone.

This is a self-employed role.

**About us**:
Established 17 years ago we work with 100’s of clients every week helping business owners to be more successful and feel happier. We professionalise their accounting functions and enable them to access and implement accounting best practice, whilst streamlining their accounting process and preparing and explaining financial information that positively impacts profit and cashflow.

**Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship to overseas workers. You MUST have **a minimum of 2 years of experience gained in the UK to apply. Thank you
- Our values define the working environment we strive to create; diverse, supportive, and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights, and backgrounds to drive innovation and build talented teams; encouraging our people to develop to their full potential._