Senior Bookkeeper

Job description

Company Description

Small specialist chartered accountancy practice providing high quality personalised service to clients.

Role Description

A new vacancy exists for an experienced bookkeeper or part-qualified accountant to support the qualified accountants in providing a wide range of services to our clients. Duties will include, bookkeeping, assisting with VAT return preparation, Self Assessment, payroll and a variety of other tax and accounting activities.

This is a very varied role and you will gain exposure to a lot of different areas of tax and accountancy.

If you are eager to learn, great at multitasking and willing to work hard, you will gain a lot from this role.

The role will be primarily based in our office in London Colney with occasional working from home.

We will consider part-time and flexible hours for the right candidate.

We support study towards AAT, ATT and ACCA and a training package is available.

Qualifications

• AAT, ATT, part qualified ACCA or ACA

• Strong excel skills and proficiency in accounting software, particularly Freeagent and Xero

• Practice experience desirable, but the ability to manage multiple clients' requests at once is essential

• Self motivated, conscientious and able to work unsupervised to meet multiple deadlines simultaneously

• Strong experience in bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, bank and balance sheet reconciliations

• Property accounting experience beneficial but not essential

• Exceptionally strong attention to detail

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Salary £23,000-£28,000