Semi Senior Accountant ( Audit and Accounts)
Job Description
Job title: Semi Senior Accountant ( Audit and Accounts)
Company: Rapid Recruitment Services
Job description: Rapid Recruitment Services is thrilled to collaborate with a prominent professional services firm in Harrow. This firm specialises in providing accountancy, tax, and business advisory services to a diverse clientele throughout the UK. Renowned for their expertise in the field, they are currently expanding and seeking a Senior Accountant/Auditor to join their Harrow team. With a commitment to long-term career development and a tight-knit team culture, this opportunity allows you to become part of a business that values personal growth. If you have experience in accounting within a practice setting and are seeking your next career move, this could be the ideal opportunity for you!
Your main responsibilities as a Semi Senior Accountant will be:
Accounts Preparation
- Small limited companies, LLPs, sole traders and partnerships, pension schemes
- Prepare planning sections of work programme in accordance with office guidelines
- Prepare and monitor budgets
- Liaise with clients for information gathering purposes
- Settle queries with seniors
- Prepare completion section work programme including paper or electronic disclosure checklists
- Review with seniors and complete file including reporting pack
Bookkeeping
- Write up cash books, sales day books, purchase day books for limited companies, LLPs, sole traders and partnerships
- Bank reconciliations
- Prepare accounts from incomplete records or client trial balances (Sage, Xero, Quickbooks, etc)
- Liaise with clients for information gathering purposes
- Settle queries with seniors
- Review with seniors and complete file including reporting pack
Audit
- Internal and external audits
- Fieldwork testing of bank, sales, purchases, including stock take attendance and other site verifications
Qualifications & Skills
- Accounting and finance or other relevant degree preferred but not essential
- ACCA/ACA exam qualified preferred but not essential
- 18 months post membership experience
- Good up-to-date CPE and recent developments in accounting standards
- Experience of OMB’s covering a range of industries
- Computer packages – Excel, Word, Outlook, Sage Line 50, Iris, CCH Pro audit, VT
Person Specification
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
- Technical approach to work and excellent problem solving skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Committed team player
- Attention to detail
- Deadline driven and ability to work under pressure
- Organisation skills – ability to manage a number of different tasks simultaneously
- Client focused and commercially aware
Expected salary: £25000 – 35000 per year
Location: Harrow, Greater London
