Customer Service Specialist

7 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom FreeAgent Full time

**Description**:
**Our Support Team**

We pride ourselves on our exceptional customer support, and to help us continue this we’re looking for accounting graduates or professionals who are interested in a career in fintech, to compliment and grow our experienced team of qualified and part-qualified bookkeepers and accountants. We invest in our people, providing in-house learning and development opportunities as well as support for further studies, to ensure we continue to meet our high standards and have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. Check out this blog for more insight into what life's like in our exceptional Support Team ️

**The roles**

We are currently hiring Customer Support Accountants across a number of levels.

If you join as a Graduate or Assistant Support Accountant this role will allow you to find your feet and establish your career in the fintech industry. Building on your existing accounting knowledge, you’ll receive structured individual training to become an integral part of the Support Team, helping delight FreeAgent customers.

Joining as a mid-level Support Accountant means you’ll bring knowledge and hands on experience of working in the accounting industry to further improve the experience of our customers. You’ll receive structured training and career development, while being able to hit the ground running supporting our customers.

**Day to day you’d be helping users by**:

- providing training to customers by way of outbound calls, both to people who are currently on a free trial, as well as subscribers who request further training
- proactively contacting users to see if they need help
- helping people who are interested in the product, but need more information to decide if it’s right for them
- assisting the product teams by testing new features or upgrades to existing functionality

**You**:
**Ideal skills and experience**
- Demonstrable practical accounting experience. For the junior levels this may be in the form of an accounting qualification or work experience. For mid and senior levels we would be looking for experience working with everything from payroll RTI to VAT and Self Assessment from either an accounts assistant role, working in an accounting practice, bookkeeping role or similar.
- Thorough and robust knowledge of accounting processes, supported by practical experience
- Highly computer-literate and tech-savvy, understanding that online engagement is crucial to the success of our business
- An awareness of the bookkeeping and accounting software packages available to small business owners
- Enjoy providing first-rate customer service and have experience of this from a previous role

Anyone looking to complete their CIMA or ACCA should note that this role will not provide an opportunity to gain the practical experience necessary to complete these qualifications in full.

**Our work life ‍**:
We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out

**Work pattern for this role**

This is a permanent role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) although we're open to discussions on flexibility.

This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, with an initial training period of at least 6 months. However, after this training period is completed there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, with an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 16 years.

**Perks**:
Our salary bands are
**£24,000 - £28,250** (Graduate/Assistant level), or
**£28,250 - £32,450** (Mid-level) per annum.

Salary bands are linked to performance expectations, to help nurture our culture of learning as well as fairness. A starting salary would likely leave some opportunity for growth within the band.

We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, including (but not limited to) the following:

- 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Private health care
- Life assurance
- 5% matched pension contributions
- Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off)
- Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
- Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellness webinars
- Focused learning time and learning budgets
- Volunteering day

**About FreeAgent**:
FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers



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