Audit and Accounts Senior/Semi-Senior

4 weeks ago


Kettering, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Ellacotts Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Accountant to join our Corporate Services team at Ellacotts. As a Senior Accountant, you will play a key role in providing high-quality audit, accounting, and related client services to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support partners and managers in the Corporate Department to deliver quality service to clients with compliance and planning matters.
  • Manage and deliver ad hoc projects and assignments.
  • Review and prepare client accounts, tax or VAT-based work from information supplied by clients to the required standards.
  • Undertake remuneration planning exercises.
  • Complete and supervise Audit assignments at a client site or remotely.
  • Assist with higher-level, technical client audit, accounts, and taxation compliance work for corporate clients.
  • Identify points for Partner to raise with clients and to raise potential areas for additional services including added value services and advice.
  • Finalise paperwork for dispatch to clients and HMRC in a timely manner meeting required deadlines and quality.
  • Liaise with clients to obtain relevant information for their accounts, acting in a proactive way and ensuring attention to details and effective questioning of client.
  • Monitor own job quality and quantity in line with agreed budgets, meeting these targets and exceeding where possible.
  • Record your own chargeable time and ensure maximum recovery.
  • Support trainees by providing on-the-job coaching and supervision and review of trainee assignments.
  • Attend courses that are appropriate to the job role.
  • Use appropriate support networks to clarify knowledge on complex queries such as CCH or software vendors.
  • Review and depending on the size of the assignment prepare client tax returns based on information supplied by the client, advise on tax payable and payment dates, and meet deadlines in line with the firm's standards.
  • Assisting clients with accounts software and other queries as required.
  • Involvement in client seminars including attendance and set up where required.
  • Involvement in networking and business generation under the guidance of more senior team members.

Critical Skills and Knowledge:

  • Excellent problem resolution skills and ideas generation ability.
  • Strong computer literacy.
  • Strong active listening skills.
  • Ability to review and prepare client accounts, tax or VAT quickly and efficiently.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Essential: ACA or ACCA-qualified.
  • Desirable: Degree or equivalent experience.
  • Essential: Minimum of 2 years of proven accounts experience within a practice environment.
  • Desirable: Experience with cloud accounting software such as Xero.

Personal Qualities:

  • Strong presence.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Quickly builds rapport and trust.
  • Highly confidential.
  • Good networker.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Resilient and energetic.
  • Achiever and self-motivated.
  • Organised.
  • Creative.
  • Analytical – quick thinker.

Requirements:

  • Live within commuting distance of Kettering.
  • Work outside normal hours as required.


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