Accountant – Accountancy Practice – London/Remote
About the Company: Our client are modern accountants focused on helping ambitious start-ups grow.
About the Opportunity: This is an exciting time to join a dynamic practice.
There’s no sign of their growth slowing down, so they are on the lookout for a highly motivated, accountant that shares their entrepreneurial mindset.
About the Responsibilities: You will be supporting the team by providing bookkeeping and payroll services to a portfolio of clients operating across various industries.
This role will involve:
- Building and maintaining relationships with clients to ensure the client experience is outstanding
- Bookkeeping for a portfolio of clients
- Assisting the accounts team
- Managing own workflow to meet associated deadlines
- Preparing and distributing all aspects of employee payments
- Maintaining payroll records and calculating taxes
- Ensuring timely submission of data to HMRC and maintaining compliance with GDPR
- Administration of pension contributions and ensuring auto-enrolment rules are being adhered to
- Providing a friendly point of contact to clients for payroll queries
About the Applicant: They are looking for a highly ambitious candidate, someone who thinks outside the box and is willing to go above and beyond the expectations of clients, to help develop profitable long-lasting relationships.
They require someone who:
- Always adopts a positive mindset
- Takes a commercial approach, keeping client’s best interests at the forefront
- Enthusiastic, with a can-do attitude
- Possesses excellent attention to detail
- Enjoys and sees the benefit of developing others
- Capable of building strong relationships internally and externally
- Adaptable and keeps on top of new technology advancing the industry
- Able to remain calm under pressure
- Innovative and willing to challenge the status quo
- AAT/CIPP qualified with experience managing junior team members
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to balance workloads to manage the needs of various clients
- Experience in managing a portfolio of clients with bookkeeping knowledge
- Experience with Xero accounting software is advantageous
About the Benefits: Benefits include:
- Remote working opportunities
- Competitive base salary
- Private medical insurance and life insurance
- Company pension
- Company events & social hours
- Sick pay
