Description:
To undertake preparation of statutory financial statements, outsourcing functions at clients and preparation of statutory accounts, ensuring deadlines and proper accounting standards are met.
Main Responsibilities:
- Prepare financial statements in accordance with relevant financial reporting standards from books and records maintained by the firm or the client.
- Prepare accounting schedules to support the balances and transactions included in the financial statements.
- Check the work completed, produce review points for junior staff, monitor clearance of queries to ensure it is presentational and technically correct.
- Calculate more complex areas for sets of accounts completed by junior members of staff.
- Prepare accounts from records and produce set of financial statements.
- Produce a short summary on key client issues and the contents of the accounts before passing to the Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager.
- Adhere to proper accounting standards.
- Meet deadlines and time budgets.
- To assist clients to process financial information.
- Provide advice and recommendations to clients in relation to financial reporting matters.
- Complete each assignment as far as possible before passing to the manager for review.
- Develop and maintain good client relations.
- Liaise with clients directly or through relevant manager to resolve queries or obtain further information.
- Ensure a high level of service to meet client’s expectations.
- Ensure that all hours worked on assignments are correctly recorded.
- Make timely and relevant recommendations in relation to accounting matters, financial reporting and accounting systems in use (including software).
Qualification and Skills required:
- Two years + experience in an accounting practice.
- Experience with demonstrable knowledge of producing year-end financial statements, management accounts and completing VAT returns.
- Strong IT skills including Word, Outlook and Excel, to an intermediate level, for the production of letters and spreadsheets.
- Knowledge of cloud-based accounting systems such as Xero preferred but not essential.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Organised and methodical.
- Client focussed.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Carrying out tasks with a high degree of efficiency and accuracy.
- Time management skills.
- Ability to operate strict deadlines and handle conflicting priorities.