Accounts Assistant

Accounts & Tax Assistant

Part time or Full time

Salary: £24.5k - 32k

Ashtead

Office Based

9am - 5.30pm (37.5hr week)

I am working with a are a growing business that are looking for an Accounts & Tax Assistant to join their team of 10. They deal with a whole range of business and personal clients from start-up to turnover of up to £20M.

Initially, this will be office based and after a satisfactory probation period, we can offer 1 day a week working from home.

Requirements

- Good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping

- Bright, willing and quick to learn

- Good attention to detail

- Excellent interpersonal skills so able to communicate to the team & clients

- Can work and contribute as part of a team

- Good IT skill – so can deal well with Cloud/Outlook/ Excel /Word

- Good basic understanding of accounting standards /FRSs for accounts

Experience 

- Recent relevant experience in an accountancy Practice is important - Experience of IRIS/Xero is desirable

Qualifications

- Part- or fully qualified AAT (Level 2 minimum), ACCA or ACA

Duties

A. DAILY/WEEKLY

1. Prepare accounts from client’s records for companies, partnerships and sole traders

2. Prepare quarterly VAT returns, mainly for limited companies – this could be standard VAT accounting or Flat Rate Scheme. This involves working with spreadsheets, Sage or Cloud based software in particular Xero

3. Prepare business tax computations to identify the taxable business profits, including correctly claiming tax relief on fixed assets and disallowing relevant items

4. Input data into the Personal Tax Module using a checklist of items to watch for. Then mark sections of the Tax Return programme as complete

5. Draft covering letters enclosing accounts and business tax computations to clients

6. Draft supporting paperwork to go with a set of accounts – e.g. Minutes of meetings of directors/Letter of representation/Invoice/Notes & Recommendations/Fixed Price Agreements

7. Contact with clients to resolve / deal with any queries

8. Some tax planning regarding extraction of funds from a company in the most tax efficient manner. Implement some tax planning strategies for sole traders and partnerships too with appropriate training

9. Prepare invoices using our software and help with the renewal of fixed price agreements and tracking profit on jobs

10. Update the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system

11. Review electronic in-tray and deal with tasks/post-in as necessary

12. Deal with emails in as required

13. Limited help on occasions with social media marketing, the website or mailshots

B. OTHER INTERVALS

1. Attend weekly full team meetings and contribute ideas and opinions 2. Help with maintaining the database on our website.

3. Attend both technical and practice management training sessions (external & internal)

We also operate a bonus scheme where you can share in the company’s overall profits. We can also provide financial assistance for qualifications to the right candidate.

If you are interested in applying please apply now!