Accountant

Role Overview

Managing a portfolio of clients ensuring that they are receiving proactive accountancy & tax advice and that all their statutory deadlines are met within a timely manner. Our aim is to ensure every client receives compliant advice from a friendly and professional accountant.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing your own portfolio of clients, the majority will be PSCs.
• Responding to inbound client queries via telephone and email.
• Assisting team members where required.
• Responsible for preparing some yearend accounts, Self-Assessment Tax Returns and VAT Returns
• Ensuring all VAT returns and Management Accounts are prepared within deadlines.
• Updating IRIS Practice Management to ensure that all jobs are allocated to team members.
• Filing on IRIS opendocs.
• Contacting clients over the phone to ensure they meet their required deadlines.
• Providing proactive outbound advice to clients both new and existing, including tax planning.
• Providing technical support to the organisations limited company/umbrella/sale teams.
• Monitoring clients' deadlines for VAT/Self-Assessment/Yearend accounts through internal reporting tools.
• Processing clients company payroll.
• Advising clients through company closedown/CapitalDistribution/MVLprocessing.
• Assisting with IR35 contract reviews, if required.

Skillset Required

• Experience of working in a practice dealing with small businesses
• Preferable working knowledge of the contracting industry (specifically with regards to IR35 regulations and Managed Service Company legislation)
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Experience in preparing accounts for limited company's.
• Experience in calculating tax liabilities & advising clients (SA, CT & VAT).
• Experience in running a limited company payroll would be beneficial.
• Good computer skills and basic understanding of accounting practice software.
• Experience with IRIS and IRIS opendocs preferable but not essential as full training will be provided.
• Ability to work as part of a team yet self-motivated and target driven.
• Excellent multi-tasking ability.
• Strong organisational skills
• To be already, or planning to study towards an accountancy qualification such as
• AAT / ACCA