Senior Bookkeeper - Hyrbid/Remote

Location: Letchworth Garden City, SG6

Salary: £32,000

Working Hours: Monday - Friday

Job Code: MJ1707

Senior Bookkeeper - Hyrbid/Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Being a Pod Leader - leading a small group of staff to ensure that the work for a broader client portfolio is completed on time and adheres to our standards and processes.
• Quality Control - reviewing the work of others in the team and giving feedback and support as required
• Problem solving any issues with workflow or handling any client issues which arise
• Completing Xero Healthchecks, Xero set ups and providing Xero support and training for clients doing their own bookkeeping

Pod Leader Responsibilities:

• Leading a weekly team meetings to review progress and identify any issues for resolution
• Ensuring that the practice management system is being updated thoroughly and regularly to record the progress of all work within the pod
• Leading the embedding of any changes in processes within the business
• Highlighting any issues needing resolution or support from the Accounting Services Manager who is the line manager for all members of the bookkeeping team.

Client Management Responsibilities:

• To lead the onboarding of the client and ensure that the client understands our processes and timescales and that the work commences smoothly and as quickly as possible.
• To direct and support the Bookkeeper to get the work completed on time and accurately
• Checking the quality of the work, reviewing month end and year end work and checklists and providing feedback to the Bookkeeper if required.
• Picking up on any issues relating to the Bookkeeping that need to be communicated to the client and ensure this is communicated effectively back to the client.

Bookkeeping Responsibilities:

• Processing sales invoices and other types of income
• Processing purchase invoices, receipts, expenses and other expenditure items
• Ensuring items are correctly coded to the appropriate nominal.
• Ensuring items are correctly coded to the appropriate VAT code as required.
• Matching payments received and paid through the bank accounts
• Bank reconciliations
• Journals
• Maintaining effective bookkeeping files and records
• Processing CIS transactions and submitting CIS returns as required
• VAT reconciliation and preparing and submitting VAT returns
• Month end checks
• Reviewing and providing monthly reporting
• Completing year end checks and liaison with accountant
• If required by the client, to undertake other financial administration on their behalf.
• If required by the client, to provide more pro-active services including budgeting and cashflow forecasting and supporting clients with system or software changes
• Liaising with clients to chase for information or to help them with their queries in a positive, supportive and customer friendly manner.
• Making suggestions to clients as to how they can improve their financial systems and processes as appropriate.
• Planning and managing own time efficiently to enable deadlines and expectations of clients to be met.

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive bookkeeping or accounting experience working with multiple clients
• Accounting or bookkeeping qualification
• Strong understanding of VAT and CIS requirements
• Ability to interpret financial information and highlight issues or trends
• Significant experience of Xero Bookkeeping Software

Benefits:

• 33 Days Holiday (Inc. Bank Holidays)
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical & Dental insurance
• Company Events
• Work from home (Equipment provided)

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy. Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not been successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions become available.