Accountant
Michael Page
- Manchester
- £35,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You will be overseeing and assisting in the preparation of year-end accounts for a wide rage of SME clients
- Accounts preparation and submission.
- Tax computations (personal and corporate).
- Bookkeeping on a variety of software packages, predominantly Xero.
- Managing a portfolio of clients.
- Holdings meetings with new and existing clients.
- Co-ordinating with other departments of the firm, such as payroll and audit.
- Proactively communicating and coordinating with the client.
- Planning your own workload, managing deadlines and effectively prioritising work.
- Ensuring that processes and services undertaken are conducted with a risk-managed approach and to high standards. *
- Ensuring integrity and completeness of supporting information on the accounting records and on our internal document storage system, to provide a full audit trail and transparency.
- ACCA/ACA qualified with at least 5 years UK practice experience. (QBE also welcome to apply)
- Good working knowledge of Xero and Excel.
- Self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Excellent communication skills and high level of attention to detail.
- Customer focussed - understanding of customer needs and concerns.
- Able to develop relationships with other departments in the firm.
- Risk based approach with clear weighting to areas of significant financial and operational risk.
- Organised with good time management skills and ability to take responsibility for own actions.
- Willing to undertake the mundane as well as the exciting parts of the job - we are a small organisation and everyone has to be willing to get stuck in!
- A competitive salary range of £35000 to £40000 per year DOE
- Flexible working options
- Free Parking
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Christmas shut down
- Regular social events