Business Services Assistant/Senior Bookkeeper
Hours: Full Time
Salary: Dependent on experience (Ask Recruiter Below)
Company Overview: A top 20 firm across Bristol and Exeter. The practice is part of a larger organisation of approx. 50 offices across the UK.
Duties:
- Using cloud-based accounting software including –Xero, QuickBooks and SAGE50.
- Processing payments, invoices, income and receipts and entering data into accounting software or spreadsheets from client’s physical records
- Reconciliation of clients bank accounts and analysing clients income and expenditure correctly in the profit and loss account and balance sheet.
- Regularly monitoring accounts payable and receivable to ensure it’s as up to date and as accurate as possible within the accounting software.
- Preparation of VAT returns for a range of clients and review client’s bookkeeping and VAT treatment where necessary.
- Manage a portfolio of clients and ensure all VAT records are requested, and returns prepared and submitted within deadlines.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly management accounts for clients of varying sizes, whilst gaining a good understanding of each client worked on.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly accounting journals relating to the management accounts and any additional journals including payroll journals.
- Produce financial statements including P&L accounts, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries.
- Communicate with clients regarding queries.
- Prepare payment runs to pay client’s staff wages and supplier payments
About you:
- Minimum 2-3 years experience within industry or an accounts practice including bookkeeping experience
- AAT qualified
- Must have experience working on Xero software(preferably Xero certified)
- Experience preparing and filing VAT returns through accounting software
- Experience preparing management accounts and being confident analysing data to produce reports and working papers to support the management accounts
- Ability to work both independently, direct liaison with clients, as well as part of a team in both a supporting and supervising capacity
- Positive team player with a “can-do” attitude
- Accurate data entry skills with excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook and good IT skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Passionate about great service in order to provide a high level of client care
- Experience managing a client portfolio would be desirable
For more information, please contact the below:
Joe Henderson
Recruitment Consultant
T: 07842 316631
E: joe@supreme-ss.com