Accountancy Practice Bookkeeper – Full Time – Shorncliffe Camp

Catering; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parking

Pension

Holiday

Flexible benefits

Job summary

A Folkestone-based accountancy practice is seeking a Bookkeeper to join their team, handling bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT returns and related services for a varied Kent client base.

You will manage your own portfolio, processing payments and invoices, preparing financial statements, and ensuring accuracy across cloud accounting tools. AAT qualification or equivalent experience is expected.

Qualifications

• AAT studying, qualified, or qualified by experience.
• 3–5 years+ bookkeeping experience in a client-facing role.
• Experience with Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Kashflow is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Processing payments, invoices, income and receipts and entering data into accounting software or databases.
• Preparing financial statements showing business income and expenditure.
• Paying vendor invoices and tracking bank account balances.
• Completing VAT returns.
• Verifying the accuracy of business accounts and alerting the accounts team of errors.
• Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets.

Skills

Bookkeeping experience

Client facing

Attention to detail

Education

AAT qualification or studying

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks

Sage

Kashflow

Job description

A fantastic accountancy practice based in Folkestone is searching for a Bookkeeper to join their successful team, in a key role, bookkeeping, preparing management accounts, vat returns and other services to a mixed and varied client base across Kent and the South East. You will carve a key role here, adding value to clients and building relationships, within a growing team and firm.

This very successful firm of accountants, based in Folkestone, East Kent has developed a strong reputation for delivering quality services, along with building strong relationships with its varied client base. The firm offers a very supportive and team focused environment, reflected by a very low staff turnover and long serving staff.

Joining this firm of chartered accountants as a Bookkeeper based from their Folkestone offices, you will carve a key, hands on role, as you develop within this firm and environment. Acting for varied sole trader, partnership and limited company SME’s and OMB’s of varying size and industry sector, you will deliver bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT, and other services to mixed clients.

You will be responsible for your own portfolio of clients ensuring that all of their bookkeeping needs are met such as:

Processing payments, invoices, income and receipts and entering data into accounting software or databases

Preparing financial statements showing business income and expenditure

Paying vendor invoices and tracking bank account balances

Completing VAT returns

Verifying the accuracy of business accounts and alerting the accounts team of errors

Developing monthly financial statements including cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets

Cloud accountingusing Xero, QuickBooks, Sage (Training can be provided)

Requirements

You may be AAT studying, qualified, or qualified by experience.

You will have anything from 3 – 5 years + experience within bookkeeping within a client facing capacity, either in practice, a bureau or self employed.

Experience of software such as Xero, Quickbooks, Sage, Kashflow etc. would be advantageous.

Benefits£26,000- £36,000 plusParking, Pension, Holiday + excellent flexible benefits!

Salary: £25000 – £35000/annum Market Rate

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Folkestone