Practice Accountant - Chelmsford, United Kingdom - Reed Accountancy

Reed Accountancy
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Chelmsford, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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BOOKKEEPER - CHELMSFORD

Full time or part time


A Chartered Accountants are looking for an experienced Client Bookkeeper to further develop their skills in a well-established and ambitious practice assisting our busy professional team with delivering our full range of services to our diverse client base.


Daily responsibilities

  • Complete client bookkeeping both in the office and occasionally at client's premises from
- source documents using Xero and other software.

  • Xero user who can assist the team with queries together with clients as and when required
  • Analyse and reconcile VAT returns, preparation of VAT returns
  • Understanding of accruals and prepayments
  • Assist with the preparation of year end accounts in relation to reconciling all control accounts on bookkeeping software.
  • Prepare or check fixed asset registers
  • Effectively manage time to ensure that jobs are finished within budget
  • Assist with production of management accounts monthly and quarterly for reporting and
- projection purposes

  • Complete any other duties as requested
  • Dealing with general client queries
  • Opportunity to be involved in adhoc client projects

Required skills, experience and attributes

  • Experienced in bookkeeping
  • Strong literacy and numerical skills
  • Proven double entry bookkeeping skills & understanding
  • Software Xero, Sage, Freeagent, Excel, Word
  • Currently working within a practice environment (12 years' experience) with solid Bookkeeping exposure
  • Good uptodate technical knowledge
  • Communication oral and written, ability to deal with variety of people in different environments
  • Organised ability to deal with a variety of tasks and managing a varied workload
  • Client focused
  • Commercially aware
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