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Job Title: Accountant - Client Manager
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000
Benefits: 25 days holiday, plus extra 5 days holiday incentive scheme
Location: Hatfield
Hours: Mon-Fri -9.00am - 5.00pm
***MUST HAVE - Experience in a Accountancy Practise with Managerial responsibilities***
What you want to know about this employer
- Forward thinking Accountancy practise renowned for their ability to help clients plan for the future
- Extremely well organised structured business with a professional yet very down to earth culture
Purpose of role
Ambitious Accountant with exceptional management experience, able to work in a fast moving environment to tight deadlines, as well as a good communicator both internally with Senior Management, and external clients.
Responsibilities:
- Plan the workload for the accounts team using the team planner.
- Contact clients to agree timescales for receiving the information to complete accounts and tax returns.
- Preparing the IRIS accounting records for new clients using opening trial balances, tax computations and other salient information received from previous accountants.
- Preparation of personal tax computations and self-assessment tax returns.
- Preparation of statutory accounts using the IRIS system
- Preparation of management accounts and liaising with clients.
- Preparing larger jobs from SAGE and/or manual records and posting to IRIS, right through to business tax computations.
- Review the bookkeeping, management accounts, annual accounts and tax returns to make sure they are as accurate as possible based upon the information provided by the client, including all notes.
- Prepare the accounts report to be sent to the client upon completion of a job.
- Be the main point of contact for clients within the portfolio.
- Provide necessary support and training to all other team members as required to help them to develop their skills.
- Keeping up to date with relevant legislation and accounting standards
- Supervising the preparation of Management Accounts
- Tailoring the Management Accounts templates to meet individual client needs
- Preparation of budgets and forecasts on behalf of clients
- Preparation of Tax Credit claims and dealing with HMRC queries on behalf of clients
- Attending and running client Board view meetings
Attributes:
· Qualified or Part qualified Accountant
- Minimum of 3 years managing a busy client portfolio
· Management experience essential
· Review more efficient ways of working and implement new processes
· Works with precision, good attention to detail and extremely high standards
· Driven and motivated to support company growth
Crisp Recruitment Ltd is a local recruitment consultancy based in Hatfield. We are working on behalf of our client to find suitable candidates for this opportunity
