Senior Bookkeeper

Position Summary
Based in our office in Milton Keynes, the bookkeeper records financial transactions and ensures financial records and statements are accurate and up to date, while also completing other tasks such as monthly reconciliations, VAT returns, confirmation statements and year end accounts. The work involves using specialised software, including accounting programs and spreadsheets.
Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintain a record of the financial transactions within the accounting software - Xero.
• Balance and maintain accurate ledgers and support clients to do so by advising in this respect.
• Adding disbursements and recharges to the accounts.
• Making sure that any prepayments and accruals are correctly accounted for.
• Keep a log of the time spent on client bookkeeping and plan the tasks ahead.
• Adding payroll reports to Xero, and accurately reconciling it with salary and PAYE payments made.
• Reconciling the bank feed in Xero, or other software.
• Creating and reconciling purchase and sales invoices.
• Reconciling general ledger account using credit and debits.
• Completing bank reconciliation and identifying reconciling items on a regular and timely basis.
• Understanding how to comply with reporting requirements in line with statutory requirements
• Answer the client or prospective client phone calls and helping them with their queries
• Contacting clients to request information, or to explain complex topics in simple terms
• Ensure to get back to clients within four hours of their initial communication.
• Complete VAT returns and reconcile the VAT accounts.
• Prepare payment files for vendors, and if needed make payments on their behalf.
• Undertake additional responsibility as and when required

Academic qualifications:

• AAT Qualified to Level 4 minimum . Encourage and support continual study

Skills and behaviours

• Maintain - integrity, objectivity, confidentiality, professional behaviour, professional competence, and due care.
• Able to collaborate with colleagues as part of a team, ensuring that no conflicts arise that would be detrimental to the workplace.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentational skills.
• Capacity to assume responsibility for own professional development.
• Meticulous, logical, and methodological approach to problem solving.
• Flexible, with the ability to work in a highly demanding, stressful environment.
• Good attention to detail to enter correct data into financial records and recognise errors
• Mathematics skills for accurate record-keeping
• Administrative skills for filing financial records
• Computer literacy, especially familiarity with spreadsheets, databases, and accounting software such as Microsoft Office, Excel, and Xero.
• Multi-tasking and organisational skills to manage different financial duties, including the ability to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial matters in accessible terms
• Must be currently working in an accountancy practice.
• Right to work in the UK

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £27,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Milton Keynes