Junior Accountant

An exciting new opportunity has risen due to ongoing growth in Clever Accounts for a Junior Accountant. Do you have the drive and ambition to continue your personal and professional development?

If so, we are looking for the right candidate with:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Always aiming to deliver excellent customer service.
• Excellent attention to detail and a good knowledge of accountancy principles.
• Work well with others and confidently communicate challenges and opportunities to clients and colleagues.
• Be self-motivated and work hard to achieve your end goals.

The focus of the role is:

• Building and managing a portfolio of 80 -200 clients with training.
• Communicating with clients, in a timely professional manner via calls and emails.
• Focus of providing excellent customer service
• Assisting clients on the use of our bookkeeping portal
• Providing basic tax planning and ad hoc advice when required.
• Reviewing accounts and approving them to be sent to the client.
• Preparing self-assessment tax returns to send to clients for approval.

Person Specification:

• Good attitude and ability to take ownership of work
• Ambitious and career-orientated.
• A good understanding of accounting principles.
• Good technical ability and experience with limited companies
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to manage own workload effectively & work methodically
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
• A team player
• A commitment to personal development
• Computer literate / IT savvy

Benefits and Outcomes

• Casual dress code -no expensive, stuffy suits
• No need to complete time sheets where you would have to account for every 6 minutes of your day
• Forward thinking, modern business
• Clients use our online bookkeeping portal, so you won’t be working through a bag of receipts
• Gain an all round knowledge of accountancy in a friendly, modern, open plan environment where you won’t be pigeonholed.
• No audit

Full office-based training & development programme