Accounts Assistant - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Si Recruitment

Si Recruitment

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Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

I am working with an established accountancy firm who is continuing to grow.

The firm has a great reputation for being a friendly and supportive place to work who provide staff with challenging and varied roles.

You will be working with a friendly growingteam, working directly with the directors, managing your own portfolio of clients.

From day one you can expect to work on an interesting array of clients from a wide range of industries.

This will be a well-rounded role, providing the chance to get involved in a broad variety of tasks as well as helping to grow and the develop the practice.

As you will be joining the firm at a key time in its growth and development, there is strong potential to demonstrate your potential and be awarded with additional responsibility and career progression.

You will be responsible for;

Preparing statutory and management accounts for clients
Assisting with business development activities to attract new clients
Liaising with other colleagues to ensure all client work is completed accurately, within budget and on time
Work closely with clients to continuously develop their internal systems
Training clients in use of their accounting systems whilst implementing best practice bookkeeping systems
Carry out bespoke system projects agreed with the client
Preparation of VAT returns
A very strong emphasis is put on the advisory side of accountancy and you will be expected to provide value added advice to your clients on a regular basis

Your skills;

Strong statutory accounts experience and sound accounting, corporate and personal tax and VAT technical knowledge
Must have good time management, organisational skills, interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with clients therefore needing a client focused attitude
Ability to work to tight deadlines and flexible in approach Experience in a range of software packages, in particular cloud accounting packages such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage 50 Maintain high professional standards of conduct and practice
Understand need for continuous learning and development