Assistant Accountant

Q Accountants; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 3% employer contribution

20 days holiday + bank holidays

Travel to Liverpool reimbursed

Flexible working between Sheffield and

Job summary

Q Accountants, with a London base and a small Sheffield branch, is seeking an Assistant Accountant to manage a portfolio of 30+ clients as their main contact. You will handle VAT, payroll, and CIS returns, acting as the go-to advisor for clients and driving timely submissions.

The role combines relationship management with technical work, offering travel to Liverpool one day a week with expenses covered and flexible work between the Sheffield office and home.

Qualifications

• Serious CIS experience at a construction client is essential.
• Comfortable using Xero day to day without handholding.
• Good time management to handle 30+ clients with individual deadlines.
• Willingness to travel, including Liverpool one day a week.

Responsibilities

• Prepare VAT returns and submit for review and approval.
• Run and submit payroll for clients.
• Keep CIS returns filed on time and accurate.

Skills

CIS experience

Xero

Time management

Willing to travel

Education

AAT qualification

Tools

BrightPay

Job description

We're an accountancy practice based in London with a small branch in Sheffield, looking for an Assistant Accountant to take on a portfolio of 30+ clients as their main point of contact.

This is a relationship role as much as a technical one. You'll be the person clients ring when they have a question, the person chasing records when a deadline is close, and the person who notices when something in the numbers doesn't look right. You'll own your clients rather than passing work up a chain.

Day to day that means preparing VAT returns and putting them up for review and approval, running and submitting payroll for your clients, and keeping CIS returns filed on time.

One of those clients is a construction business in Liverpool. They're our largest and they want someone with them in person. At the moment that's Tuesday and Wednesday, but we're reducing it to one day on site and one day working remotely for them. Travel is reimbursed in full. The rest of your week is flexible between our Sheffield office and working from home.

The role

We're an accountancy practice based in London with a small branch in Sheffield, looking for an Assistant Accountant to take on a portfolio of 30+ clients as their main point of contact.

This is a relationship role as much as a technical one. You'll be the person clients ring when they have a question, the person chasing records when a deadline is close, and the person who notices when something in the numbers doesn't look right. You'll own your clients rather than passing work up a chain.

Day to day that means preparing VAT returns and putting them up for review and approval, running and submitting payroll for your clients, and keeping CIS returns filed on time.

One of those clients is a construction business in Liverpool. They're our largest and they want someone with them in person. At the moment that's Tuesday and Wednesday, but we're reducing it to one day on site and one day working remotely for them. Travel is reimbursed in full. The rest of your week is flexible between our Sheffield office and working from home.

What we need from you

Serious CIS experience. This is the one we won't budge on. With a construction client of that size you'll be dealing with subcontractor verifications, monthly returns and deductions constantly. We need someone who has genuinely lived with CIS, not someone who has seen it in passing.

Xero. Comfortable in it day to day, without handholding.

Good time management. Thirty odd clients, all with their own deadlines and their own habits about when they send things in. You'll need to stay on top of that.

Happy to travel. One day a week in Liverpool, expenses covered. The rest is up to you and how you work best.

Helpful, but not essential

• Payroll experience, ideally BrightPay
• AAT qualified or part qualified. We'd take a strong practical background over a qualification any day.

Why here

• Competitive salary plus bonuses
• Travel to Liverpool reimbursed
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension, 3% employer contribution
• Flexible working between the Sheffield office and home
• Study support: we cover the cost of your study materials and exam fees