Accountant

Cubed Consultancy; Hatching Green; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubed Consultancy is seeking an experienced accountant to manage accounts and tax work across a client portfolio with support from senior colleagues. This role offers ownership of client work and opportunities to lead a team over time.

You’ll prepare statutory accounts, corporation and personal tax returns, VAT, and advise on a client’s full financial position, including AML/compliance improvements and new cloud tools.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in an accountancy practice or similar role.
• AAT qualification or ACA/ACCA part-qualification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare statutory accounts and interpret them into concise management accounts
• Prepare corporation tax and personal tax returns
• Prepare VAT returns
• Review bookkeeping and payroll work
• Advise clients on overall financial and tax positions (corporate, personal, family)
• Assist with client relationships and occasionally lead client meetings
• Support the team with delegated work and training of junior staff
• Contribute to AML/compliance and adopt new tools and cloud accounting practices

Skills

Natural communicator

Analytical

Advisory mindset

Tech-savvy

Excel and cloud accounting

Financial statements & management

Education

AAT qualified, or ACA/ACCA part-qualified

Tools

Cloud accounting software

Job description

You’ll prepare accounts and tax work independently, working across a portfolio of clients with support from senior colleagues. This is a great next step for someone with 2–5 years’ experience looking to build genuine ownership over client work while continuing to develop towards leading a team and a portfolio of clients.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• A natural communicator – comfortable explaining financial information clearly to clients and colleagues alike, and building the kind of rapport that turns routine contact into real client confidence
• Analytically sharp – able to interpret statutory accounts and business data and turn them into concise, informative management accounts that clients can act on
• A rounded adviser – capable of looking beyond a single return to a client’s whole financial and tax position (corporate, personal, and family) and advising accordingly
• Quick to adopt new technology – genuinely curious about technical innovation in accountancy and comfortable bringing new tools and accounting practices into everyday work

What You’ll Be Doing

• Preparing statutory accounts to a standard level, and interpreting them to produce concise, informative management accounts
• Preparing corporation tax and personal tax returns
• Preparing VAT returns
• Reviewing bookkeeping and payroll work
• Advising clients across their whole financial and tax position – corporate, personal, and family
• Assisting with client relationships and, occasionally, leading client meetings
• Supporting the team with delegated work and occasional training of junior staff
• Contributing to AML/compliance administration and process improvement, including adopting new technical tools and cloud accounting practices

About You

Experience: 2–5 years in a similar accountancy practice role

Qualifications: AAT qualified, or ACA/ACCA part-qualified

Skills & knowledge:

• Competent in financial statements, management accounts, corporation tax, personal tax, VAT, and tax advisory
• Competent in bookkeeping, audit support, and corporate finance/business advisory work
• Understanding of payroll and company secretarial work, with compliance services experience
• Intermediate Excel skills and confidence with cloud accounting software, with a genuine interest in adopting new technical tools

You’ll thrive here if you have:

• Excellent communication skills and a natural ability to build client confidence
• Strong attention to detail
• A collaborative approach and the initiative to take on more responsibility over time
• A methodical, analytical approach to problem-solving, with an eye for the bigger picture across a client’s business and finances