Semi Senior Accountant

Semi-Senior Accountant - Practice The role will involve the following: Bookkeeping for a variety of small and large clients – including posting purchase invoices and sales invoices and matching bank transactions to these to various software, and filing documents in a timely manner General client communications (phone calls and emails) requesting records and dealing with general day to day bookkeeping queries From bookkeeping this will lead to preparing the quarterly VAT Returns for each client – for manager review Maintaining own client base for quarterly VAT returns, to ensure records are requested, received and processed in time and the filing deadlines met Preparing year end accounts for limited companies, sole traders and partnerships for manager review, this will include balance sheet reconciliations, for example of bank accounts, PAYE, VAT, corporation tax, directors loan accounts etc.
Preparing self-assessment tax returns for limited company directors, sole traders, clients with rental properties or other reasons for filing a return Managing own workloads, prioritising deadlines and liaising with manager/director of the department Occasional assistance to more junior members of the team Additional ad hoc duties as required, might entail HMRC forms or communicating with HMRC The ideal candidate will have minimum 2+ year's experience working in an accountancy related practice role, and be AAT qualified or coming towards the end of their AAT or starting ACCA.
Experience of accountancy software is highly preferable and confident with spreadsheets/Excel.
The role would suit someone who is proactive and well organised.