Practice - Business Services Assistant/ Senior Bookkeeper

Location Bristol
Discipline: Accounting
Contact name: Carly Dunn

Contact email: carly@supreme-ss.com
Job ref: 4165

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