Accounts Assistant

**Accounts Assistant**

We are looking for a skilled and passionate **Accounts Assistant** to join our team in **Nottingham**

**Our opportunity**

Traditionally accountancy has been all about numbers and commercial considerations; but not here at Haines Watts. We really strive to build lasting, valued relationships and to make a tangible and meaningful impact. It is our clients' success that drives us and we are proactively committed to helping our clients and colleagues achieve their business and life goals in a passionate and authentic way, as these are the key traits that underpin everything we do.

At the heart of our firm is our colleagues, which is why team engagement has become more important than ever before. We have achieved 1-Star recognition from Best Companies for this and we are also one of the Top 10 best accountancy firms to work for in the UK, investing heavily in colleague wellbeing and mindfulness. As the face of the workplace has shifted since the pandemic, we have adapted and challenged what the working environment looks like for our teams, creating an environment fit for the future.

Haines Watts are a top 15 accountancy firm specialising within the owner managed business area nationwide. A well-established firm whose journey goes back over 90 years, we have retained our authentic and dynamic ethos and continue to grow nationally as well as regionally. Our strategic goal is to be the number one advisor to owner managed businesses.

As an Assistant Accountant working in our Nottingham office, you will be assisting the Directors and Senior Managers in the management and delivery of accounts preparation services for our owner managed business client portfolio with the below key tasks being carried out.

**Duties include**:

- Produce straightforward draft financial statements in statutory format using the firm's accounting software;
- Assisting in the preparation of monthly and quarterly management accounts
- Complete disclosure checklists for companies preparing accounts under UK GAAP;
- Complete company statutory books;
- Identify basic tax adjustments arising from accounts production and audit work;
- Prepare simple corporation tax returns using the firm's taxation software;
- Ad hoc administrative duties as needed by the Manager
- Liaising with clients on behalf of Directors & Senior Managers.

**Ideal experience**:

- Assisting in financial reporting
- Experience with using Iris, Sage, Xero and QuickBooks is preferred but not essential.
- Prior knowledge of producing self-assessment tax returns would be an advantage.
- Ideally someone with experience maintaining accounting records
- Experience of incorporating checks to ensure accuracy, standing back from the detail ensuring all tasks are completed to a high standard
- Having to juggle a number of priorities whilst ensuring deadlines are met
- Communicating with all levels within an organisation
- Managing your own workload
- Creative thinking and having to consider the 'bigger picture'

**What you will need to be;**
- Be authentic in every situation and like to be connected to your team, clients and local communities
- Like to listen and understand, to show up every day with passion and to stand up for things that matter to you
- Be driven to succeed, take initiative and want results

**Qualifications**:
You will be ACA/ ACCA nearly or fully qualified

**What you get back from us;**
- Competitive salary
- Study support package if applicable
- Excellent personal development programmes to support career growth opportunities
- Structured development as well as on the job practical training
- Flexible benefits reward package
- Working and learning directly from our Associate Directors & Directors
- Ability to progress all the way to the top

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**: We are looking for a skilled and passionate Accounts Assistant to join our team in Nottingham