Accounts Senior

Our client is one of the fastest growing independent accounting and business advisory firms in the UK and is listed as a Top 100 Accountancy Firm by Accountancy Age. They provide tailored audit, accounting, taxation and business advice across diverse sectors including academy schools, agriculture, landed estates, international, not for profit, property and development and professional services. Working closely with their clients to deliver carefully planned, clever solutions that are bespoke to their circumstances and designed to enable their success.

NO VISA SPONSORSHIP OFFERED - All Candidates must have either a British Passport or Unrestricted Visa with fulltime Right To Work in UK

ROLE REQUIRED FOR MULTIPLE LOCATIONS: Banbury - Oxon and Kettering - Northants

Role Purpose:

Due to expansion our client have an exciting opportunity for and ACA / ACCA fully or part-qualified for an Accounts Senior to join their Agriculture and Property team to provide a high quality service to clients and to contribute to the development of the practice.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility and ownership of your own work and deadline management. This feeds into the budgets on compliance work. Constant communication is essential.
• Take responsibility as Lead staff for a small portfolio of clients, being their day to day point of contact and ensuring the work runs smoothly, being a key link between manager and client and identifying additional work that can be billed.
• Preparation and review of accounts, VAT returns and tax computations from client records, for sole traders, partnerships and limited companies.
• Assisting clients with their financial record keeping, which is increasingly moving to Cloud-based solutions.
• Preparation of corporation tax returns, personal tax returns, capital gains tax computations, IHT and other specific actions where necessary (additional training will be provided if needed).
• Involvement in networking and business generation under the guidance of more senior team members.
• Supporting managers and partners as part of a focused client service team, which will include responding to client queries in a professional and timely manner and assisting with ad-hoc advisory work.
• Training and mentoring junior members of the team.

Benefits:

The true benefit for working with our client is the culture and values driven environment, which promotes sustainable development for all their talented people. This has generated fantastic careers from trainee to partner and everything in between.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Enhanced Employer Pension Contribution
• 23 days holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays (increasing with service)
• Use of our benefits platform
• Life assurance
• Flexible working Structure: Flex-e
• Private Medical Insurance, provided by Vitality
• Medical Cash Plan, provided by Medicash
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Electric car scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Enhanced Maternity

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge we re looking for:

• ACA / ACCA fully or part-qualified, or AAT qualified (or equivalent experience)
• Experience of preparing accounts and related business tax computations
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Willingness to learn and consider the bigger picture
• Proven verbal and written communication skills

Job Requirements

• Live within commuting distance of the office
• Work outside normal hours as required

NO VISA SPONSORSHIP OFFERED - All Candidates must have either a British Passport or Unrestricted Visa with fulltime Right To Work in UK

ROLE REQUIRED FOR MULTIPLE LOCATIONS: Banbury - Oxon and Kettering - Northants

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organisation.

Concerned that you might not perfectly meet all the criteria for this role? At Recruitment Collective, we hold a strong commitment to fostering inclusivity for all and establishing opportunities where individuals from diverse personal and professional backgrounds can excel. Therefore, if you're enthusiastic about this position but find that your previous experiences don't align precisely with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to register with us. You may well be the ideal candidate for another role or opportunity, and our recruitment team is here to assist in evaluating how your skills can be a valuable fit for our clients.